Paul Blowers joined the faculty of Emmanuel Christian Seminary in 1989, and is the Dean E. Walker Professor of Church History. He is a scholar of patristics and early Christianity, and has of late written on patristic biblical interpretation, on the relation between human emotions and Christian moral formation in patristic thought, and on the early history of the doctrine of creation. He also teaches and researches the Stone-Campbell heritage.

Dr. Blowers holds the B.A. magna cum laude from Milligan College, the M.Div. from Emmanuel, and the M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Notre Dame, where he was a John O’Brien Fellow. He is a member of the North American Patristics Society (and President in 2008-09), the American Society of Church History, and the Disciples of Christ Historical Society. He authored Exegesis and Spiritual Pedagogy in Maximus the Confessor (1991) and translated On the Cosmic Mystery of Jesus Christ:Selected Writings of St. Maximus the Confessor (2003). Paul also has articles in Vigiliae Christianae, Studia Patristica, Pro Ecclesia, Church History, Modern Theology, and The Oxford Handbook of Early Christian Studies, and the Cambridge History of Christianity. He edited The Bible in Greek Christian Antiquity (1997) and was general editor of The Encyclopedia of the Stone-Campbell Movement (2004). Paul has presented for the North American Patristics Society, Oxford Patristics Conference, International Colloquium on Origen, and the Pascal Centre for Advanced Studies in Faith and Science.

Before coming to Emmanuel, Paul ministered in Indiana and taught theology part-time at Notre Dame. Beyond the classroom, he volunteers with the Interfaith Hospitality Network and in hospital chaplaincy. He and his wife Sandy, a hospice nurse, have four children and four grandchildren.

Stephen  Richardson