Dr. Simon Burton

Biography

Simon Burton is a historical theologian and church historian focusing on the period of the Long Reformation (circa 1400-1700), with a particular interest in Protestant scholasticism and the history of Christian reform. He began his academic career at the University of Cambridge with a degree in Natural Sciences, later shifting to postgraduate studies in theology, specifically the church history of the Reformation era. He completed his PhD at the University of Edinburgh with a dissertation on the Trinitarian method of the seventeenth-century English Reformed theologian Richard Baxter, which was published by Brill in 2012. After serving as a Canadian Commonwealth CREOR postdoctoral fellow at McGill University, where he studied the Augustinian Thomist influence of the sixteenth-century Florentine Reformer Peter Martyr Vermigli, he held a postdoctoral position as an assistant professor at the Faculty of “Artes Liberales” at the University of Warsaw. In 2017, he returned to New College, Edinburgh, to take his current post as Senior Lecturer. He has contributed articles to journals like Reformation Renaissance Review and Ecclesiology, as well as numerous chapters in edited volumes, and is currently engaged in several edited book projects centered on the broader theme of reform.

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