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Revision as of 12:28, 6 September 2018
Full Name[edit]
Paul J. Griffiths
Affiliation[edit]
Warren Professor of Catholic Thought, Duke University
Education[edit]
Ph.D., University of Wisconsin–Madison
Other Information[edit]
Paul J. Griffiths was born in 1955 in England, raised Anglican, and educated at Oxford, where he read Theology as an undergraduate, and then Sanskrit as a graduate student. He received a doctoral degree in Buddhist Studies in 1983 from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and has since held academic appointments at the University of Notre Dame and the University of Chicago. Since 2000 he has held the Schmitt Chair of Catholic Studies at the University of Illinois in Chicago. He has published eight books and many articles and essays. His most recent book is: Lying: an Augustinian Theology of Duplicity (Brazos Press, 2004). He married Judith Heyhoe in 1975, and they have two children, Amy and John. In 1996 Paul was received, together with his family, into the Catholic Church.