Paul Burns

picture of Paul Burns
Title: 
Faculty - Graduate Program
Discipline: 
Early Christian Thought
Email: 
pcburns@interchange.ubc.ca

"Grace does not repress or ignore nature but rather builds on it and expands it."

Paul Burns teaches for both St. Mark's College and Corpus Christi College. He also teaches in the Religion, Literature and the Arts program that he helped  start at UBC, and is a founding professor in Humanities at the new Quest University in Garibaldi Highlands.

"After studying Catholicism at St. Michael's College at the University of Toronto and History of Christian Thought at Oxford, I think that this field of study can be very stimulating and challenging."

Degrees: 
PhD in Classics (University of Toronto)
B.Litt. in History of Christian Thought (Oxford)
S.T.B. in Theology (University iof St. Michael's College)
MA in Classics (University of Toronto)
Recent Publications: 
Burns, P.C., Hilary of Poitiers' Tractatus super Psalmos: A Modle of the Christian Life within a Commentary (Washington: Catholic University of America, approved for publication)
Burns, P.C., "Hilary of Poitiers," Die Religion in Geschichte und Gegenwart (Tuebingen: J.C.B. Mohr, 2007).
Burns, P.C.,editor, Jesus in Twentieth-Century Literature, Art and Movies (New York: Continuum, 2007).
Burns, P.C., "Augustine's use of Varro's Antiquitates Rerum Divinorum in his De Civitate Dei," Augustinian Studies 32 (2001): 37-64
Burns, P.C., The Christology of Hilary of Poitiers' Commentary on Matthew (Rome: Augustinianum, 1981.