Professor Paul Gavrilyuk

Professor Gavrilyuk joins Oxford from the University of St. Thomas, Minnesota, where he served as the Aquinas Chair in Theology and Philosophy. An internationally respected Orthodox theologian and historian, his research spans the fields of twentieth-century Orthodox theology, systematic theology, historical theology, Greek patristics, philosophy of religion, theological anthropology, political theology, ecumenical relations, and the relationship between Eastern and Western Christian traditions. His publications, translated into thirteen languages, include The Suffering of the Impassible God: The Dialectics of Patristic Thought (Oxford, 2004), Georges Florovsky and the Russian Religious Renaissance (Oxford, 2013) and, most recently, The Oxford Handbook of Deification (Oxford, 2024), which has established the concept of deification as a major locus of ecumenical encounter between the Christian East and West. He is also the founding President of the International Orthodox Theological Association (IOTA), the world's largest scholarly association within the worldwide communion of Orthodox Churches, and founder of the humanitarian organisation Rebuild Ukraine.