 | Bryan Spinks |
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.
T H I S
Spinks appointed to Goddard Professorship
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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