Prof. Dr. Christine Abbt
Humanities, Social and behavioural sciences
Humanities
Intellectual esp. Religious History of the Early Modern Period
G. W. Leibniz and Protestantism
History of Reception of Christian Antiquity in the Early Modern Era
History of biblical exegesis
The supernatural in the 16th and 17th centuries
Visiting professor at Ecole pratique des Hautes Etudes, Paris, 1994 and 2003
Various visiting sholarships and fellowships held at the Warburg Institute, London, Herzog-August-Bibliothek, Wolfenbütttel, Henry E. Huntington Library, San Marino, Ca., USA etc.
ancient Greek, English, French, German, Greek, Latin, Polish
Backus, Irena (2014): Leibniz as Protestant Theologian and Religious Thinker
Backus, Irena (2008): Life Writing in Reformation Europe. Aldershot, Ashgate.
Backus, Irena (2003): Historical Method and Confessional Identity in the era of the Reformation. Leiden, Brill.
Backus, Irena (2003): Reformation Readings of the Apocalypse, Oxford, Oxford University Press
Backus Irena (editor): Reception of the Church Fathers in the West, from the Carolingians to the Maurists, Leiden, Brill, 1997.
Backus Irena (editor): Martini Buceri Enarratio in Evangelion Johannis, Leiden, Brill , 1988.
Revue des Etudes Augustiniennes, Oxford Studies in Historical Theology, Renaissance Quarterly, Brill Studies in Intellectual History
associate editor: Oxford Guide to the Historical Reception to Augustine, OUP, 2013
D. D. (Doctor of Divinity), University of Oxford, 2006
D. D. hon. causa (doctor honoris causa), University of Edinburgh, 2001
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Humanities, Social and behavioural sciences
Humanities, Social and behavioural sciences
Languages, Humanities, Formal semantics and pragmatics, philosophy of language, logic
Humanities, Early Christianity and Late Antiquity