Christopher Bryan: Anglican priest, New Testament Scholar and Theologian.
Christopher Bryan was born in London, England, on January 24th 1935, the only son of William Joseph Bryan, a British soldier, and Amy May Bryan. He was educated at St. Marylebone Grammar School in London (1948-54), at Wadham College, Oxford (1954-59), where he was a Woodward (Forest of Dean) Open Scholar, and at Ripon Hall Theological College. Subsequently he earned a PhD from the University of Exeter (1983). He was ordained deacon in the diocese of Southwark on Trinity Sunday in 1960, and priest in 1961. Fr. Bryan served his first curacy in St. Mark’s Church, Reigate, in the Diocese of Southwark. He is currently C. K. Benedict Professor of New Testament in the School of Theology at the University of the South in Sewanee, Tennessee, in the United States, and is also editor of the Sewanee Theological Review, one of only two Anglican quarterly journals of theology currently published in the United States. His publications include A Preface to Mark: Notes on the Gospel in Its Literary and Cultural Settings (Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 1993; paperback edition, 1997), A Preface to Romans: Notes on the Letter in Its Literary and Cultural Setting (Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2000); And God Spoke: The Authority of the Bible for the Church Today (Cambridge, Mass.: Cowley Publications, 2002); and Render to Caesar: Jesus, the Early Church, and the Roman Superpower (Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2005). For a complete list of publications, for articles and papers available on line, and for a fuller Curriculum Vitae, see further at http://theology.sewanee.edu/faculty/bryan%2C%20christopher