Bryan D. Spinks
Goddard Professor of Liturgical Studies and Pastoral Theology, and chair of the program in liturgical
studies; Fellow of Morse College.
Professor Spinks is known internationally for the breadth of his learning. He works on Syriac traditions of liturgy, placing his scholarship in the context of patristics and the early sources of Christian liturgy. A priest in the Anglican tradition, Professor Spinks also works on a range of Reformation topics, with publications on Luther, Calvin, Richard Hooker and William Perkins. His most recent publications are two volumes on Rituals and Theologies of Baptism. He is currently completing a book on Worship in the Age of Reason in England and Scotland. Before coming to Yale, he taught Religious Education at St. Peter’s Comprehensive School in Huntingdon, and Liturgy at the University of Cambridge, where he was also chaplain of Churchill College. He served on the Church of England Liturgical Commission from 1986 to 2000, and was involved in the compilation of Common Worship 2000. He is a fellow of the Royal Historical Society. B.A., St. Chad’s College, University of Durham; Dip.Theol., University of Durham; Cert.Ed., University of Cambridge; M.Th., King’s College, University of London; B.D., D.D., University of Durham.