Ian A. McFarland

Ian A. McFarland
Born Ian Alexander McFarland
1963 (age 54–55)
Nationality American
Academic background
Alma mater
Thesis Teaching with Authority[1] (1995)
Doctoral advisor Kathryn Tanner
Academic work
Discipline Theology
Sub-discipline Systematic theology
School or tradition Lutheranism
Institutions

Ian Alexander McFarland (born 1963) is an American Lutheran theologian. Since 2015, he has been Regius Professor of Divinity at the University of Cambridge. He holds degrees from Trinity College (Hartford), Union Theological Seminary (New York), the Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago, and Yale University. He previously taught at the University of Aberdeen (1998–2005) and the Candler School of Theology (2005–2015), where he was the inaugural holder of the Bishop Mack B. and Rose Stokes Chair of Theology and served as Associate Dean of Faculty and Academic Affairs.[2]

McFarland is editor of the Scottish Journal of Theology, a fellow of Selwyn College, and a member of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA). He currently serves as an ELCA representative on round 12 of the US Lutheran–Catholic Dialogue. His books include From Nothing: A Theology of Creation (2014), In Adam's Fall: A Meditation on the Christian Doctrine of Original Sin (2010), and The Divine Image: Envisioning the Invisible God (2005).

References

  1. ↑ McFarland, Ian A. (1995). Teaching with Authority: Communal Practice and the Logic of Accountability in Christian Belief (PhD thesis). New Haven, Connecticut: Yale University.
  2. ↑ "Professor Ian A. McFarland". University of Cambridge. Retrieved 17 January 2016.
Academic offices
Preceded by
David F. Ford		 Regius Professor of Divinity
at the University of Cambridge
2015–present		 Incumbent


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