Andrew Louth is Professor Emeritus of Patristic and Byzantine Studies at the University of Durham, UK. Primarily a (Greek) patristic scholar, early on he published Origins of the Christian Mystical Tradition: from Plato to Denys (1981), later on his interests moved into the later Greek tradition with monographs on Denys the Areopagite (1989), Maximos the Confessor (1996), and John Damascene (2002), as well as a history of the Church from the seventh to the eleventh century, Greek East and Latin West: the Church AD 681–1071 (2007). His latest book is Modern Orthodox Thinkers: from the Philokalia to the present (2015). He is also an archpriest of the Russian Orthodox Church, and a Fellow of the British Academy.
