Dr Zachary Purvis (BS MA DPhil FRHistS)
Honorary Fellow
Contact details
- Email: zpurvis@ets.ac.uk
- Web: Institutional web page
Address
- Street
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Edinburgh Theological Seminary
15 North Bank Street - City
- Edinburgh
- Post code
- EH1 2LS
Background
Zachary Purvis teaches church history and theology at Edinburgh Theological Seminary.
He received his MA in Historical Theology from Westminster Seminary California and his DPhil from the University of Oxford in 2014. He was Alexander von Humboldt Fellow at the University of Göttingen in 2019–21, Kingdon Fellow at the Institute for Research in the Humanities at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2018–19, and Leverhulme Early Career Fellow in the School of Divinity, University of Edinburgh, in 2015–18. He has also been a US Fulbright Fellow in Switzerland, recipient of German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) research awards, and Fellow of the Leibniz-Institute for European History in Mainz. He is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society.
His first book, Theology and the University in Nineteenth-Century Germany (Oxford University Press, 2016), earned the inaugural Best Book Prize from the Ecclesiastical History Society.
Some of his recent articles and book chapters have appeared in such journals as Archive for Reformation History, Church History, Journal of Ecclesiastical History, Journal of the History of Ideas, Journal for the History of Modern Theology, History of European Ideas, Reformation & Renaissance Review, Sixteenth Century Journal, and Modern Reformation; and in such volumes as The Oxford Encyclopedia of Martin Luther, The Oxford Handbook of Nineteenth-Century Christian Thought, The Oxford Handbook of Friedrich Schleiermacher, and The Oxford History of Modern German Theology, among others.
Qualifications
BS MA DPhil FRHistS