Professor Brandon Gallaher
Associate Professor
Theology and Religion
I am an Associate Professor of Systematic Theology at the Department of Classics, Ancient History, Religion and Theology, University of Exeter teaching in Exeter since 2015. I studied literature, philosophy, religious studies and theology in Vancouver, Montreal, New York and Oxford. I am known as one of the world’s leading scholars of Eastern Orthodox Christianity. I am particularly interested in ecumenical, inter-religious and inter-cultural dialogue and how it has the potential to renew Christianity and Christian theology: between Christianity in East and West, between different religious traditions and between pre-modern traditions and modernity. My most recent research is on the dialogue between world religions, ecumenism, the renewal of eucharistic ecclesiology and the future of the episcopate in modernity.
My academic research moves freely across academic, ecclesial and religious borders.
Major book publications:
Freedom and Necessity in Modern Trinitarian Theology, Oxford Theological Monographs Series,
Foreword by Rowan Williams (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016). pp. xx, 1-298.
[with Christopher Hays, Julia Konstantinovsky, Richard Ounsworth and Casey Strine] When the Son of Man Didn’t Come: A Constructive Proposal Regarding the “Delay of the Parousia” (collaborative monograph—was lead author on 3 chapters). (Minneapolis, MN: Fortress Press, 2016). pp.1-240.
The Patristic Witness of Georges Florovsky: Essential Writings, co-edited with Paul Ladouceur,
Academic Introduction by Gallaher and Ladouceur and a Preface by Kallistos Ware.
(London: T & T Clark/Bloomsbury, 2019). pp. i-xix,m 1-371.
Romanian translation: Scrieri Esențiale, trans. Dragoș Dâscâ and Octavian-Adrian
Negoițâ (Iași: Doxologia, 2021). pp.1-615.
The Living Christ: The Theological Legacy of Georges Florovsky, co-edited with John
Chryssavgis, Academic introduction by Gallaher and Chryssavgis (London: T & T
Clark/Bloomsbury, 2021). pp. i-xv, 1-494.
Kallistos Ware of Oxford: A Life in Pilgrimage
(Boston: The Wheel Library, 2026). pp.1-100
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Forthcoming Publications
Orthodoxy and World Religions: Eastern Christian Theology and the Practice of Inter-Religious
Encounter, co-edited with Thomas Cattoi, Main introduction by myself and Editorial Introduction with Thomas Cattoi.
(Leiden: Brill Publishers, Forthcoming 2027) (The Brill series Currents of
Encounter: Studies in Interreligious and Interrcultural Relations). (contracted). (Total:
221, 805 Words; Two Introductions: 43, 989 Words).
[Editorial Introduction, Detailed Academic Introduction by myself with first ever
theological and historical overview, 20 critical essays (including one by myself) on inter-
religious dialogue, theology of religions and comparative theology in Eastern Christianity,
Preface by Archbishop Anastasios Yannoulatos, Appendix of key Historical Texts in the
Area and Afterword by Francis X Clooney]. [final target date to press August 2026;
excellent peer reviewers’ reports]
Reenvisioning Ecumenism: Apocalypse and Christian Reunion in Sergii Bulgakov
[This monograph has been discussed with a Commissioning Editor for a university academic
Press where it will be under review, over half of it is drafted]
(target date for completion: 2027/8).
I welcome research enquiries from students.
I regularly teach a popular introductory course on the history of Christianity and teach extremely popular optional courses on modern religious thought; poetry and theology; religion, politics and violence; and inter-religious dialogue and comparative theology and spirituality.