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AUTHORS/ Spinks, Bryan D.
Bryan D. Spinks is Bishop F. Percy Goddard Professor of Liturgical Studies and Pastoral Theology, and chair of the program in liturgical studies at Yale Divinity School and a 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 of the Church of England, 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 (Ashgate 2006) and Liturgy in the Age of Reason: Worship and Sacraments in England and Scotland, 1662-c.1800 (Ashgate 2008). 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 also president emeritus of the Church Service Society of the Church of Scotland, and was a consultant to the worship committee of the United Reformed Church.
Professor Spinks is co-editor of the Scottish Journal of Theology, a former 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 overseas fellow, Churchill College, Cambridge.
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