Michael Foat

Professor of Religion and Humanities

Email | 503-517-7316

Christianity.

BA 1986 Reed College.
MTS 1989 Harvard Divinity School.
PhD 1996 Brown University.
Reed College 1996–.

Research Interests

The church in late antiquity
Christian ascetic and contemplative practice
Eastern Orthodox intellectual and social history
General and biblical hermeneutics

Courses

Rel 141 – Christianity: The First Seven Centuries
Rel 201 – Theories and Methods in the Study of Religion
Rel 242 – Christianity: Between the Ancient and the Modern
Rel 341 – Ascesis in the Benedictine and Orthodoxe Monastic Traditions
Rel 345 – The New Testament
Rel 348 – Works of Mercy in the Roman Catholic and Eastern Christian Traditions
Rel 349 – Christian Mysticism: Foundations
Rel 365 – Understanding Religion