Alexis Torrance
Heiden Family College Associate Professor of Byzantine History
Primary Area: History of Christianity
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Biography
Alexis Torrance received his undergraduate and graduate training in Theology at the University of Oxford. He has held research fellowships at the Notre Dame Institute for Advanced Study, the Seeger Center for Hellenic Studies at Princeton University, the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, and Dumbarton Oaks in Washington DC. He has been a member of the faculty at Notre Dame since 2014. His research interests gravitate around the fields of Greek Patristic, Byzantine, and Orthodox Theology, with a special focus on the areas of Christology, theological anthropology, ascetic thought, and East-West relations. He is currently developing a project on the nature and practice of Orthodox theology. Professor Torrance co-chairs the Byzantine Studies program housed in the Medieval Institute at Notre Dame. He is an Orthodox priest of the Archdiocese of Constantinople, and serves as the Orthodox Co-Secretary of the Joint International Commission for Dialogue between the Orthodox and Roman Catholic Churches.
Research Interests
Byzantine Theology, Christology, Theological Anthropology, Greek Patristics, Orthodox Theology, East-West relations
Selected Publications
Human Perfection in Byzantine Theology: Attaining the Fullness of Christ (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020).
Repentance in Late Antiquity: Eastern Asceticism and the Framing of the Christian Life, c. 400-650 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013).
Image as Theology (co-edited with C. Strine and M. McInroy) (Turnhout: Brepols, 2022).
Personhood in the Byzantine Christian Tradition: Early, Medieval, and Modern Perspectives (co-edited with S. Paschalides) (London: Routledge, 2018).
Individuality in Late Antiquity (co-edited with J. Zachhuber) (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2014).
Education
- BA/MA, MSt, DPhil, University of Oxford