Jonathan Stanfill, PhD

Jon Stanfill has taught at the University of Portland since 2016. He specializes in the history of Christianity in late antiquity (250-750 CE) and, more specifically, the life and works of Saint John Chrysostom, a fifth-century bishop of Constantinople (above he's standing in Chrysostom’s pulpit outside of Hagia Sophia, Istanbul). He is currently working on his first book which examines the interplay between ethnicity, alterity, and religious identity in Chrysostom's efforts to promote the Christianization of the Goths. Jon received his BA in Pastoral Ministries from Northwest University (2003), an MA in Church History from Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary (2007), and a PhD in Theology (History of Christianity) from Fordham University (2015). At UP, he has taught Introduction to Theology as well as The Bible: Past and Present, and will be teaching Violence in Ancient Christianity next fall (2018). He is married to Joy Stanfill. After living in the Bronx for six years and Istanbul for another, they are excited to return home to the Pacific Northwest and reside in beautiful Kalama, WA with their two cats, Arlo and Becket (named, of course, after Archbishop of Canterbury Thomas Becket). 

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