Donald Fairbairn

Fairbairn graduated summa cum laude from Princeton University with an A.B. in English literature.{{citation|url=http://www.etf.edu/en/academic-programs/teachers/dr-donald-m-fairbairn-jr|title=Prof. Dr. Donald M. Fairbairn, Jr. -Evangelical Theological Faculty, Leuven|accessdate=25 January 2014}} During his time at Princeton he was awarded the "Class of 1859 Prize" which was awarded to the student in the English department with the highest graduating GPA. He then began an M.Div program at Erskine Theological Seminary in Due West, South Carolina where he was awarded the Kenneth Fitzhugh Morris Award for excellence in Biblical studies. After two years of study at Erskine he transferred to Denver Seminary where he graduated with honors, having been awarded the Scholarship Award for being the M.Div graduate with the highest GPA. In 1999 Fairbairn was awarded the Ph.D. in Patristics from the University of Cambridge, where he completed a dissertation titledGrace and Christology in Cyril of Alexandria and John Cassian under Lionel Wickham.{{citation|last=Fairbairn|first=Donald|authorlink=Donald Fairbairn|title=Donald Fairbairn Curriculum Vitae|url=http://www.gordonconwell.edu/_application/media/faculty/FairbairnCV.pdf}}{{Dead link|date=November 2019 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}

Despite being nearly completely deaf,{{cite speech|title=The Worst and the Best of Eastern Orthodoxy|last=Fairbairn|first=Donald|authorlink=Donald Fairbairn|event=European Leadership Forum|date=2010|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LIk1So-DAZU|time=1:10}} Fairbairn has taught at various institutions, including adjunct roles at the Cambridge Summer School of Theology, Denver Seminary, the Greek Biblce Institute, Haddington House, IFES Eurasia, North Caucaus Bible College, the REALIS Institute in Kyiv and Union School of Theology. While still a PhD student at Cambridge he was teaching multiple courses and provided academic leadership at Donetsk Christian University in Donetsk (Ukraine), during the institution's formative years, and he continued there as a visiting professor of theology later on. He also teaches part-time as a professor of Historical Theology at Evangelische Theologische Faculteit in Leuven. He is currently the Robert E. Cooley Professor of Early Christianity at Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary in Charlotte, North Carolina (where he also serves as the Academic Dean{{Cite web|url=http://www.gordonconwell.edu/academics/view-faculty-member.cfm?faculty_id=57841&grp_id=8947|title = Dr. Donald Fairbairn}}) and previously taught full-time at Erskine Theological Seminary.{{cite web|url=http://www.gordonconwell.edu/academics/view-faculty-member.cfm?faculty_id=57841&grp_id=8947|title=Dr. Donald Fairbairn|accessdate=29 August 2017}}

• {{cite book|author1-last=Fairbairn |author1-first=Donald |title=Eastern Orthodoxy Through Western Eyes |year=2002 |location=Louisville, KY |publisher=Westminster, John Knox Press |isbn=978-0-664-22497-4 |oclc=50796507 }}{{cite book|title=Eastern Orthodoxy Through Western Eyes|isbn = 9780664224974|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=eKYM6FVxYKIC|accessdate=April 6, 2016|last1 = Fairbairn|first1 = Donald|date = January 2002}}
• {{cite book|author1-last=Fairbairn |author1-first=Donald |author-mask=3 |title=Grace and Christology in the Early Church |series=Oxford early Christian studies |year=2006 |location=Oxford; New York |publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=978-0-19-929710-8 |oclc=50774358 }}{{cite book|title=Grace and Christology in the Early Church|isbn = 978-0-19-929710-8|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qwd4KZnnTHsC|accessdate=April 6, 2016|last1 = Fairbairn|first1 = Donald|year = 2006}}
• {{cite book|author1-last=Fairbairn |author1-first=Donald |author-mask=3 |title=Life in the Trinity: an introduction to theology with the help of the church fathers |date=2009 |location=Downers Grove, IL |publisher=InterVarsity Press |isbn=978-0-8308-3873-8 |oclc=421949576 }}{{cite book|title=Life in the Trinity|isbn = 9780830838738|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=13jIWO-6LgYC|accessdate=April 6, 2016|last1 = Fairbairn|first1 = Donald|date = 28 September 2009}}
• {{cite book|author1-last=Fairbairn |author1-first=Donald |author-mask=3 |title=Understanding Language: a guide for beginning students of Greek and Latin |date=2011 |location=Washington, DC |publisher=Catholic University of America Press |isbn=978-0-8132-1866-3 |oclc=690585354 }}{{cite book|title=Understanding Language|isbn = 9780813218663|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=n-6dWmYqVBgC|accessdate=April 6, 2016|last1 = Fairbairn|first1 = Donald|date = 20 July 2011}}
• {{cite book|author1-last=Fairbairn |author1-first=Donald |author-mask=3 |title=Correspondence on Christology and Grace |series=Fathers of the Church |volume=126 |year=2013 |location=Washington, DC |publisher=Catholic University of America Press |isbn=978-0-8132-0126-9 |oclc=818292783 }}{{cite book|title=Correspondence on Christology and Grace|isbn = 9780813201269|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=itgBPW0qq8wC|accessdate=April 6, 2016|author1 = Fulgentius|year = 2013}}

• {{cite journal |author1-last=Fairbairn |author1-first=Donald |author-mask=3 |date=June 1998|title=Salvation as Theosis: The Teaching of Eastern Orthodoxy|journal=Themelios|volume=23|issue=2|pages=42–54}}
• {{cite book|author1-last=Fairbairn |author1-first=Donald |author-mask=3 |chapter=Orthodox Supremacy in Russia: Is There a Place for Evangelicalism? |title=God in Russia: the Challenge of Freedom |date=1999|publisher=University Press of America|location=Lanham|isbn=978-0-7618-1548-8|pages=288–314|editor-first=Sharon|editor-last=Linzey|editor2-first=Ken|editor2-last=Kaisch}}{{cite book|title=God in Russia: the Challenge of Freedom|isbn = 9780761815488|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=pYAlAQAAIAAJ|accessdate=April 6, 2016|last1 = Linzey|first1 = Sharon|last2 = Kaisch|first2 = Ken|year = 1999}}
• {{cite book|author1-last=Fairbairn |author1-first=Donald |author-mask=3 |chapter=John Cassian |editor-last=Hart|editor-first=Trevor A|editor2-last=Bauckham|editor2-first=Richard|editor2-link=Richard Bauckham|title=The Dictionary of Historical Theology |year=2000|publisher=Paternoster Press|isbn=978-1-84227-002-8}}{{cite book|title=The Dictionary of Historical Theology|isbn = 9781842270028|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=feMpAQAAMAAJ|accessdate=April 6, 2016|last1 = Hart|first1 = Trevor A.|last2 = Bauckham|first2 = Richard|year = 2000}}
• {{cite book|author1-last=Fairbairn |author1-first=Donald |author-mask=3 |chapter=Eastern Orthodox Mystical Theology|title=Mysticisms East and West: studies in mystical experience|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=eUcvAAAAYAAJ|year=2003|publisher=Paternoster|isbn=978-1-84227-092-9|editor-last=Partridge|editor-first=Christopher Hugh|editor2-last=Gabriel|editor2-first=Theodore P C}}{{cite book|title=Mysticisms East and West: studies in mystical experience|isbn = 9781842270929|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=eUcvAAAAYAAJ|accessdate=April 6, 2016|last1 = Partridge|first1 = Christopher Hugh|last2 = Gabriel|first2 = Theodore P. C.|year = 2003}}
• {{cite journal |author1-last=Fairbairn |author1-first=Donald |author-mask=3 |year=2005|title=The Puzzle of Theodoret's Christology: A Modest Suggestion|journal=The Journal of Theological Studies|volume=58|issue=1|pages=100–133|issn=0022-5185|doi=10.1093/jts/fll159}}
• {{cite journal |author1-last=Fairbairn |author1-first=Donald |author-mask=3 |year=2006|title=Is the Early Church Relevant to the Scottish Reformation?|journal=Haddington House Journal|volume=8|issue=Supplemental Issue|pages=7–28}}
• {{cite journal|author1-last=Fairbairn |author1-first=Donald |author-mask=3 |year=2007|title=Patristic Exegesis and Theology: the Cart and the Horse|journal=Westminster Theological Journal|volume=69|issue=1|pages=1–19|issn=0043-4388}}{{cite web|title=Patristic Exegesis and Theology: the Cart and the Horse|url=http://files.wts.edu/uploads/images/files/69.1.Fairbairn.Patristic%20Exegesis%20and%20Theology.pdf|accessdate=April 6, 2016}}
• {{cite journal|author1-last=Fairbairn |author1-first=Donald |author-mask=3 |year=2007|title=Allies or Merely Friends? John of Antioch and Nestorius in the Christological Controversy|journal=The Journal of Ecclesiastical History|volume=58|issue=3|page=383|issn=0022-0469|doi=10.1017/S0022046907001558|s2cid=170303363 }}
• {{cite journal|author1-last=Fairbairn |author1-first=Donald |author-mask=3 |date=June 2007|title=Patristic Soteriology: Three Trajectories|journal=Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society|volume=50|issue=2|pages=289–301|issn=0360-8808}}{{cite web|title=Patristic Soteriology: Three Trajectories|url=http://www.etsjets.org/files/JETS-PDFs/50/50-2/JETS_50-2_289-310_Fairbairn.pdf~|accessdate=April 6, 2016}}
• {{cite book|author1-last=Fairbairn |author1-first=Donald |author-mask=3 |chapter=The One Person Who Is Jesus Christ: The Patristic Perspective|editor-last=Sanders|editor-first=Fred|editor2-last=Issler|editor2-first=Klaus|title=Jesus in Trinitarian Perspective|year=2007|publisher=B&H Publishing Group|isbn=978-0-8054-4422-3|pages=80–113}}{{cite book|title=Jesus in Trinitarian Perspective|isbn = 9780805444223|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qkWPkbi0NhoC|accessdate=April 6, 2016|last1 = Sanders|first1 = Fred|last2 = Issler|first2 = Klaus|year = 2007}}
• {{cite book|author1-last=Fairbairn |author1-first=Donald |author-mask=3 |chapter=Contemporary Millennial/Tribulational Debates: Whose Side Was the Early Church On?|editor-last=Blomberg|editor-first=Craig L.|editor-link=Craig Blomberg|editor2=Sung Wook Chung|title=Case for Historic Premillennialism, A: An Alternative to "Left Behind" Eschatology|date=2009|publisher=Baker Publishing Group|location=Grand Rapids|isbn=978-0-8010-3596-8|pages=105–132}}{{cite book|title=Case for Historic Premillennialism, A: An Alternative to "Left Behind" Eschatology|isbn = 9780801035968|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=iWILmQEACAAJ|accessdate=April 6, 2016|last1 = Blomberg|first1 = Craig L.|last2 = Chung|first2 = Sung Wook|date = February 2009}}
• {{cite journal|author1-last=Fairbairn |author1-first=Donald |author-mask=3 |year=2013|title=Justification in St. Cyril of Alexandria, with Some Implications for Ecumenical Dialogue|journal=Participatio: Journal of the Thomas F. Torrance Theological Fellowship|publisher=T F Torrance Theological Fellowship|volume=4|pages=123–146}}{{cite web|title=Justification in St. Cyril of Alexandria, with Some Implications for Ecumenical Dialogue|url=http://www.tftorrance.org/journal/participatio_vol_4_2013.pdf|accessdate=April 6, 2016}}

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