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Dr Brendan N. Wolfe

Principal Editor of the 58³Ô¹Ï Encyclopaedia of Theology

Phone

+44 (0)1334 46 2836

Email

brendan.wolfe@st-andrews.ac.uk

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Biography

Brendan Wolfe is theÌýPrincipal Editor of theÌý, an international research project building a free, online encyclopaedia covering theology from an internal perspective.

He is also the Principal Investigator of the project, which investigates the cognitive effects of text on religious visual art and sponsors the collaboration between artists and theologians.

Dr Wolfe's research into the history of Christianity in Fife has led to the , examining the local coasts as a landscape of faith, and improvements to the St Mary's College archive.

Another significant element of his scholarship has been fostering and strengthening academic engagement with J.R.R. Tolkien, C. S. Lewis, and others in their circle, known as the Inklings. He has co-edited three collections of essays on the Inklings and is a co-founder of the .

He came to St Mary’s in 2014, having previouslyÌýstudied and taught at Oxford from 2004ÌýtoÌý2009 and 2011ÌýtoÌý2014, and researched and taught in Berlin from 2009ÌýtoÌý2011.Ìý

Teaching

Because of Encyclopaedia responsibilities,ÌýDr Wolfe is not currently inviting applications for post-graduate supervision, with possible exceptions only for theses treating the Gothic Bible or encyclopaedic theology.

He has previously taught post-Classical Latin and supervised in Patristics at St Mary’s.

Research areas

Dr Wolfe is an historical theologian and philologist with wide research interests, including the encyclopaedic representation of theological concepts, the cognitive psychology of religious art, the history of Christianity in Fife, and the Gothic Bible's role in the Christianization of the Germanic peoples of Late Antiquity.

Selected publications

• Open access
  Wolfe, B. N., Jul 2019, In: Transactions of the Philological Society. 117, 2, p. 256-265

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Wolfe, B. N., 23 Jul 2024, Studies in Gothic. Klein, J. S. & Ratkus, A. (eds.). Oxford: Oxford University Press, p. 43–74

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

• Open access
  Wolfe, B. N., 1 Sept 2018, In: NOWELE | North-Western European Language Evolution. 71, 2, p. 249-256

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Open access
  Wolfe, B. N., 14 Dec 2017, In: Studia Patristica. 92, p. 205-208

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Open access
  Wolfe, B., 2016, Le palimpseste gotique de Bologne: Etudes philologiques et linguistiques. Auer, A. & de Vaan, M. (eds.). Lausanne: Centre de linguistique et des sciences du langage, Université de Lausanne , Vol. 50. p. 99-109 (Les Cahiers de l'Institut de Linguistique et des Sciences du Langage; vol. 50).

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (peer-reviewed) › peer-review

• Wolfe, J. (Editor), White, R. (Editor) & Wolfe, B. N. (Editor), 2 Jul 2015, Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press. 288 p.

  Research output: Book/Report › Anthology

• Open access
  Wolfe, B., 2014, Arianism: Roman Heresy & Barbarian Creed. Steinacher, R. & Berndt, G. (eds.). Routledge Taylor & Francis Group, p. 193-200

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (peer-reviewed) › peer-review

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