6/19/2023 0 Comments Protestants by Alec Ryrie![]() He completed a three-year Leverhulme Major Research Fellowship in 2018. ![]() ![]() From 2012 to 2015 he was head of the Department of Theology and Religion. Career įrom 1999 to 2006, he taught in the Department of Modern History at the University of Birmingham, and is Professor of the History of Christianity at Durham University, where he has worked since 2007. He has been a reader in the Church of England since 1997, and is licensed to the parish of Shotley St John in the diocese of Newcastle. Ryrie lives in the Pennines with his wife Victoria (married 1995) and their two children. His doctoral work, examining how early English evangelical reformers operated within the political atmosphere of Henry VIII's reign, was published as The Gospel and Henry VIII. After teaching for a year at a school in rural Zimbabwe, Ryrie read history as an undergraduate at Trinity Hall, Cambridge ( BA 1993, MA 1997), completed a master's in Reformation studies at the University of St Andrews, and in 2000 took a DPhil in theology at St Cross College, Oxford. ![]() ![]() Ryrie was born in London, and raised in Washington, DC. He was elected a Fellow of the British Academy in 2019. He was appointed Professor of Divinity at Gresham College in 2018. Alexander Gray Ryrie FBA (born 20 August 1971), is a British historian of Protestant Christianity, specializing in the history of England and Scotland in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. ![]()
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