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September 28, 2007|Volume 36, Number 4


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Bryan Spinks



Spinks appointed to Goddard Professorship

Bryan Spinks, the newly appointed Bishop F. Percy Goddard Professor of Liturgical Studies and Pastoral Theology, is a specialist on Syriac traditions of liturgy as well as Reformation worship traditions.

His other teaching and research interests include marriage liturgy, the Eucharistic prayer and theology, Christology, the liturgy of Eastern churches and worship in a postmodern age. His current work focuses on sacramental theology and liturgy in England and Scotland, 1689-1790. He is a priest in the Anglican tradition and serves as chair of the University’s program in liturgical studies.

Spinks’ most recent publications are two volumes on “Rituals and Theologies of Baptism” and “Two Faces of Elizabethan Anglican Theology: Sacraments and Salvation in the Thought of William Perkins and Richard Hooker,” “Mar Nestorius and Mar Theodore the Interpreter: The Forgotten Eucharistic Prayers of East Syria” and “Sacraments, Ceremonies and the Stuart Divines: Sacramental Theology and Liturgy in England and Scotland, 1603-1662.” He is currently completing a book on “Worship in the Age of Reason in England and Scotland.”

Before coming to Yale in 1998, Spinks taught religious education at St. Peter’s Comprehensive School in Huntingdon, England, 1980-1997, and during that time also served as chaplain of Churchill College at the University of Cambridge, England. He also taught liturgy at the University of Cambridge.

A native of England, Spinks earned his B.A., B.D. and D.D. at the University of Durham and his M.Th. at the University of London. At Yale, he is affiliated with the Institute of Sacred Music (ISM), the Divinity School and the Berkeley Divinity School, and was acting director of ISM in the spring of 2002. Spinks is a fellow of the Royal Historical Society, among other professional affiliations.


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Workshops to explore global issues . . .

World Fellows share in a night of ‘intercultural understanding’

Beinecke show examines the Italian festival book tradition

Center’s events to feature internationally known architects

Issues of spirituality to be explored in exhibit, poetry reading

Scavenger hunt orients new graduate students to the campus and Elm City

United Way Days of Caring brings out volunteers from the Yale community

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