Alexander Hurtsellers
Postgraduate Researcher
Theology and Religion
About me:
I am a third year PhD student in Theology and Religion, where I focus on the thought of Georges Florovsky (1893-1979) and Henri de Lubac (1896-1991). In particular, I am looking at the methodological priority of Christocentrism in the thought of Florovsky and de Lubac as a way in which these figures respectively proclaim Orthodoxy and Catholicism in modernity. My academic work is informed by my own ecclesial commitments. I am presently working towards ordination to the priesthood in the American Carptho-Russian Orthodox tradition (Ecumenical Patriarchate). My research, therefore, has implications for my own ministerial efforts to seek ecumenical dialogue, understanding, and unity in an increasingly pluralistic world.
Research Supervisory team:
Brandon Gallaher
Morwenna Ludlow
Research Wider Research Interests:
20th Century Orthodox and Catholic Thought and Spirituality
Comparative Spirituality and the Christian East
Orthodoxy and Catholicism in the United States
Russian Religious Philosophy
Ecumenism and the Orthodox Church
Pastoral Theology
