Bryan Spinks

Bishop F. Percy Goddard Professor of Liturgical Studies and Pastoral Theology
203-432-5186
409 Prospect St
Fields of interest : 

East Syrian rites, Reformed rites, issues in theology and liturgy, and worship in a postmodern age

Bryan Spinks is the Bishop F. Percy Goddard Professor of Liturgical Studies and Pastoral Theology at the Yale Divinity School. His research interests include East Syrian rites, Reformed rites, issues in theology and liturgy, and worship in a postmodern age. He teaches courses on marriage liturgy, English Reformation worship traditions, the eucharistic prayer and theology, Christology, and liturgy of the Eastern churches. His most recent books are The Worship Mall: Liturgical Initiatives and Responses in a Postmodern Global World, published by SPCK (London 2010; New York 2011), and Do This in Remembrance of Me: The Eucharist from the Early Church to the Present Day, SCM Press (London 2013). He coedited, with Teresa Berger, The Spirit in Worship—Worship in the Spirit (2009). Other recent publications “Durham House and the Chapels Royal: their liturgical impact on the Church of Scotland”, in Scottish Journal of Theology 63 (2014) and “Much Ado about Nothing (on): Nudity and Baptism in Ravenna Revisited” in Anaphora 7 (2014). He is currently writing two essays for the Oxford History of Anglicanism, and another on the revival of liturgical forms in the nineteenth-century Church of Scotland. He has been invited to write the 2017 volume for the Alcuin Club on The Book of Common Prayer from Elizabeth I to the 19th century. Professor Spinks is the current president of the Society for Oriental Liturgy, former coeditor of the Scottish Journal of Theology, a former member and consultant to the Church of England Liturgical Commission, president emeritus of the Church Service Society of the Church of Scotland, and a fellow of the Royal Historical Society and of Churchill College, Cambridge. He is a regular Sunday Presbyter in the Middlesex Area Cluster Ministry. Professor Spinks is a fellow of Morse College.