Rev. Dr. John Behr
Fr John Behr teaches courses in patristics, dogmatics and scriptural exegesis at St. Vladimir’s Orthodox Seminary. After completing a degree in Philosophy in London in 1987, he spent a year studying in Greece. He finished an M.Phil. in Eastern Christian Studies at Oxford University, under Bishop Kallistos (Ware), who subsequently supervised his doctoral work. While finishing his studies, he was invited to be a Visiting Lecturer at St Vladimir’s Seminary in 1993, where he has been a permanent faculty member since 1995, tenured in 2000, and ordained in 2001. He is currently the editor of St Vladimir’s Theological Quarterly and the Popular Patristics Series, the faculty supervisor for the Inter-Seminary Dialogue, and, as “resident alien,” the advisor for foreign students at the Seminary. His particular interests lie in the early church, especially the development of theological reflection, asceticism and anthropology, areas in which he has published a number of books.
You can read a transcript of Fr. Behr’s lecture here.
Major works:
The Mystery of Christ: Life in Death (SVSP, 2006)
The Nicene Faith, vol. 2 of The Formation of Christian Theology (SVSP, 2004)
The Way to Nicaea, vol. 1 of The Formation of Christian Theology (SVSP, 2001)
