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| John Anthony McGuckin
Union Theological Seminary
AD 416
3041 Broadway
NY, NY 10027
office hours by appointment
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university: (212) 280-1391
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John Anthony McGuckin
Professor of Early Church History
Union Theological Seminary |
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Biography
John Anthony McGuckin, a priest of the (Romanian) Orthodox Church, was formerly a Reader in Patristic and Byzantine Theology at the University of Leeds, England. He studied Philosophical Theology at Heythrop College, a Pontifical Athenaeum, from 1970-72, and from there read for a Divinity degree at the University of London, graduating with First Class Honours in 1975. To earn his Ph.D. from Durham University (1980), he researched the politics and theology of the early Constantinian era, with a thesis on the thought of Lucius Caecilius Lactantius, the Emperor Constantine's Christian tutor and later political advisor. In 1979 Dr. McGuckin was awarded a Certificate in Education from Newcastle University. An M.A. in Educational Studies followed later, in 1986, from Southampton University. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts in 1986, and a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society in 1996.
Dr. McGuckin is the author of sixteen books of historical theology including, "The Transfiguration of Christ in Scripture and Tradition" (1986), "St. Cyril of Alexandria: The Christological Controversy" (1994), "At the Lighting of the Lamps: Hymns from the Ancient Church" (1995, and repr. 1997), and "St. Gregory of Nazianzus: An Intellectual Biography"(2000; Nominated for the 2002 Pollock Biography Prize), "Standing in God's Holy Fire: The Spiritual Tradition of Byzantium" (Orbis, 2001), and "The Book of Mystical Chapters" (Shambhala, 2002). Most recently he has published "The Westminster Handbook to Patristic Theology" (Westminster. 2004). He has published more than 80 scholarly articles, ranging in subject matter from New Testament Exegesis to Byzantine Iconography, though mainly centered on the thought of Origen of Alexandria, and the Fourth to Fifth Century Greek Christian theologians. In 1994, he published a small volume of poetry, Byzantium and Other Poems. He has served as visiting professor and guest lecturer in many universities and colleges in England, Ireland,Greece, Romania, Ukraine, Italy, and the United States. He is also a faculty member of Columbia’s Harriman Institute.
In 2002 Professor McGuckin was selected by the Royal Norwegian Academy, as a Fellow, of the Center For Higher Studies in Oslo. In 2005 he was nominated by the Luce Foundation as its Henry Luce III Fellow for research in historical theology. His current research interests range between the Christian writers and poets of Late Antiquity, to the Greek literature of the Middle Byzantine period.
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