Ian A. McFarland
Ian A. McFarland | |
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| Born | Ian Alexander McFarland 1963 (age 57–58) |
| Nationality | American |
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| Alma mater | |
| Thesis | Teaching with Authority[1] (1995) |
| Doctoral advisor | Kathryn Tanner |
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| Discipline | Theology |
| Sub-discipline | Systematic theology |
| School or tradition | Lutheranism |
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Ian Alexander McFarland (born 1963) is an American Lutheran theologian and has since 2019 served as Robert W. Woodruff Professor of Theology at Emory University's Candler School of Theology, where he also taught from 2005 to 2015. From 2015 to 2019 he was the Regius Professor of Divinity at the University of Cambridge. He holds degrees from Trinity College (Hartford), Union Theological Seminary (New York), the Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago, the University of Cambridge and Yale University. He also taught at the University of Aberdeen from 1998 to 2005.[2]
McFarland is editor of the Scottish Journal of Theology, a former fellow of Selwyn College, and a member of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA). He served as an ELCA representative on round 12 of the US Lutheran–Catholic Dialogue. His books include The Word Made Flesh: A Theology of the Incarnation (2019), From Nothing: A Theology of Creation (2014), In Adam's Fall: A Meditation on the Christian Doctrine of Original Sin (2010), and The Divine Image: Envisioning the Invisible God (2005).
References[]
- ^ McFarland, Ian A. (1995). Teaching with Authority: Communal Practice and the Logic of Accountability in Christian Belief (PhD thesis). New Haven, Connecticut: Yale University.
- ^ "Professor Ian A. McFarland". University of Cambridge. Retrieved 17 January 2016.
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