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by John Behr

John Behr

The V. Rev. John Behr is the Regius Professor of Humanity at the University of Aberdeen. He served as Dean of St Vladimir’s Seminary in New York from 2007 to 2017. He is writing a series of books on the formation of Christian theology. He has published an edition of the fragments of Diodore of Tarsus and Theodore of Mopsuestia and a new translation of Origen’s On First Principles, together with an extensive introduction. He is the author of Becoming Human: Theological Anthropology in Word and Image, St Irenaeus of Lyons: Identifying Christianity, and John the Theologian and His Paschal Gospel: A Prologue to Theology.

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