NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY RESEARCH INITIATIVE IN RUSSIAN PHILOSOPHY, LITERATURE, AND RELIGIOUS THOUGHT

Paul Valliere is Emeritus Professor of Religion at Butler University in Indianapolis, and a fellow of the Center for the Study of Law and Religion at Emory University in Atlanta. He is the author of Modern Russian Theology: Bukharev, Soloviev, Bulgakov: Orthodox Theology in a New Key (T&T Clark, 2000), Conciliarism: A History of Decision-Making in the Church (Cambridge University Press, 2012), editor, with Randall A. Poole, of Law and the Christian Tradition in Modern Russia (Routledge, 2022), and author of many articles and book chapters on Russian Orthodoxy and Russian religious thought. On several occasions, he has presented his work at the Moscow Patriarchate, and from 2004 to 2016 he taught regularly at the Kiev Summer Theological Institute. He holds M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in religion from Columbia University and a B.A. in English from Williams College.