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Paul J. Griffiths

Paul J. Griffiths

Paul Griffiths has a unique perspective on the challenges of being an intentional Christian scholar in the secular university today. He has training in Theology and Sanskrit from Oxford University and received his Ph.D. in Buddhist thought from the University of Wisconsin in Madison. In the fall of 2000, he became Schmitt Professor of Catholic Studies at the University of Illinois at Chicago and was hired to develop an undergraduate program in Catholic Studies at UIC. In addition, he has a part-time appointment in the Department of Classics and Mediterranean Studies. Prior to going to UIC Griffiths taught at the University of Notre Dame and the University of Chicago.

During his time at the University of Chicago, Professor Griffiths was a founding member of the Roman Catholic study center, the Lumen Christi Institute, located there. The Lumen Christi Institute sets out to encourage and strengthen Roman Catholic engagement with the academic world generally and with the Unviersity of Chicago in particular.

Among his publications are:

  • Problems of Religious Diversity (Oxford: Blackwell 2001 )
  • Philosophy of Religion: An Anthology. Co-edited with Charles Taliaferro (Oxford: Blackwell, 2003)
  • Lying: An Augustinian Theology of Duplicity (Grand Rapids: Brazos, 2004)

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