Alexis Torrance
Archbishop Demetrios Associate Professor of Byzantine Theology
Primary Field of Study: History of Christianity
Education
DPhil. University of Oxford
Research and Training Interests
Greek Patristic, Byzantine, and Orthodox Theology, in particular Christology, ascetic thought, and theological anthropology.
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, ca. 400–650. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013.
Image as Theology. Co-edited with C. Strine and M. McInroy. Turnhout: Brepols, 2021.
Personhood in the Byzantine Christian Tradition: Early, Medieval, and Modern Perspectives. Co-edited with Symeon Paschalidis. London: Routledge, 2018.
Individuality in Late Antiquity. Co-edited with Johannes Zachhuber. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2014.
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 theology in the middle and late Byzantine periods, with a view to bringing the findings into conversation with modern Orthodox thought. He was ordained to the priesthood in the Patriarchate of Constantinople in 2020, and is a Protopresbyter of the Ecumenical Throne.
Contact
339 Malloy
(574) 631-0755
atorran1@nd.edu