Lightfoot Professor of Divinity

The Lightfoot Professor of Divinity is a professorship or chair in the Department of Theology and Religion at Durham University. The chair is named after the former Bishop of Durham J. B. Lightfoot. The current holder is John M. G. Barclay.[1]

Since 1832 the chair in Greek and Classical Literature at the university was also a canon professorship. This canonry was transferred to the Lightfoot Professor of Divinity in 1943.[2] The professorship was attached to the canonry until 1985,[3] when the non-Anglican James Dunn was appointed.

Lightfoot Professor of Divinity

• The Rev Canon Professor Stanley Lawrence Greenslade (1943–1950)[4]
• The Rev Canon Professor Hugh Turner (1950–1958)[5]
• The Rev Canon Professor Christopher Evans (1959–1962)[6][7]
• The Rev Canon Professor R. P. C. Hanson (1962–1964)
• The Rev Canon Professor Douglas Rawlinson Jones, Old Testament (1964–1985)[8][9][10]
• Vacant (1985 - 1990)
• James D. G. Dunn, New Testament (1990–2003)[11][12]
• John M. G. Barclay, New Testament (2003–present)[13]

See also

• Bede Professor of Catholic Theology
• Van Mildert Professor of Divinity

References

1. "Early Christian specialist is new Lightfoot Professor - Durham University". www.dur.ac.uk.
2. The Universities Review, Volumes 13-17. 1940. p. 37.
3. "The Rev Professor Douglas Jones". The Independent. 2 December 2005.
4. "British Academy Fellows, Record for: Greenslade, Revd Professor (14/05/1905-08/12/1977)". British Academy for the Humanities and Social Sciences. Archived from the original on 13 November 2013. Retrieved 13 November 2013.
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8. "The Rev Professor Douglas Jones". The Independent. 3 December 2005. Archived from the original on 14 June 2022.
9. "Catalogue of Durham Cathedral Library Additional Manuscripts". reed.dur.ac.uk.
10. "(p17) Title of Professor Emeritus, (p19) Notes from Faculties and Departments, Faculty of Divinity", University of Durham Gazette, vol. III (Combined Series), no. 1984–85, pp. 17, 19, retrieved 16 December 2019
11. "Professor James Dunn FBA", The British Academy, retrieved 11 December 2019
12. Metts, Michael; Wiesner, Robert (9 February 2016), "A Brief Literary Biography of James D. G. Dunn", Jesus and Paul and the New Testament
13. "Professor John Barclay, Lightfoot Professor of Divinity in the Department of Theology and Religion", Durham University, retrieved 11 December 2019