Amy Brown Hughes

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Dr. Amy Brown Hughes received her Ph.D. in historical theology with an emphasis in early Christianity from Wheaton College and is the author (with Lynn H. Cohick, Houston Baptist Seminary) of Christian Women in the Patristic World: Their Influence, Authority, and Legacy in the Second Through Fifth Centuries (Baker Academic, 2017).  Dr. Hughes also received a M.A. in history of Christianity from Wheaton College and her B.A. in theology and historical studies from Oral Roberts University. While at Wheaton, she worked with the Wheaton Center for Early Christian Studies, which encourages dialogue about the interplay between our modern world and early Christian texts. The overarching theme of Dr. Hughes’s work as a historical theologian is that early Christian writers continue to be fruitful interlocutors in modern discussions of theology. Her research interests include Eastern Christianity, trinitarian and christological thought, Christian asceticism, theological anthropology, the intersection of philosophy and theology, and highlighting the contributions of minority voices to theology, especially those of women. 

Recently, Dr. Hughes authored an entry on Virginity in the Christian Tradition. for the St Andrews Encyclopedia of Theology (2023), contributed chapters with (with Shawn Wilhite) to On Classical Trinitarianism: Retrieving the Nicene Doctrine of the Triune God. (IVP, 2024), Patristic Spirituality: Classical Perspectives on Ascent in the Journey to God (Brill 2022), and Trinity without Hierarchy: Reclaiming Nicene Orthodoxy in Evangelical Theology. (Kregel, 2019). Dr. Hughes also co-authored a series of essays about early Christian writers with George Kalantzis (Wheaton College) for the early Christianity section of the volume Reading Christian Theology in the Protestant Tradition. (T&T Clark, 2018), and contributed to an edited volume from a symposium on Methodius of Olympus at Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Germany, Methodius of Olympus: State of the Art and New Perspectives. (De Gruyter, 2017). She is also a co-host for the theology stream of the biblical studies and theology podcast OnScript.