The Reverend Canon Mark McIntosh |
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Born |
Mark Allen McIntosh 2 February 1960 Evanston, Illinois, United States |
Nationality | American |
Occupation | Clergyman and theologian |
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Alma mater |
Yale University St Stephen's House, Oxford University of Oxford General Theological Seminary |
Academic work | |
Discipline | Theology |
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Mark Allen McIntosh (born 2 February 1960) is an American Episcopal priest, theologian, and academic. He specialises in systematic theology, historical theology, and the history of Christian spirituality, engaging especially with Christian Mysticism. Since 2014, he has been Professor of Christian Spirituality at Loyola University Chicago. He was previously, from 2009 to 2014, the Van Mildert Professor of Divinity at Durham University and a Canon Residentiary of Durham Cathedral.
McIntosh was born on 2 February 1960 in Evanston, Illinois, United States. He studied history at Yale University, writing his senior thesis under the supervision of Christian historian Jaroslav Pelikan, and graduating with a magna cum laude Bachelor of Arts (BA) degree in 1982. He then moved to England where he trained for Holy Orders at St Stephen's House, Oxford, an Anglo-Catholic theological college, and studied theology at the University of Oxford. He graduated with a further BA degree in theology 1985. He then returned to the United States to study at the General Theological Seminary, a seminary of the Episcopal Church in New York City; he completed a Master of Divinity (MDiv) degree in 1986. Studying with several experts in systematic and mystical theology, including Bernard McGinn, he completed his Ph.D. in 1993 at the University of Chicago, where he focused on the mystical aspects of Hans Urs von Balthasar's Christology.