Griffiths, P.

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Full Name

Paul J. Griffiths

Affiliation

Warren Professor of Catholic Thought, Duke University

Education

Ph.D., University of Wisconsin–Madison

Other Information

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.