James R. Payton, Jr.

James R. Payton, Jr., is Professor of History at Redeemer University College (Ancaster, Ontario). He and his wife Sharon have four children, six grandchildren—and three Bengal cats! Jim began his scholarly career in late medieval/Reformation-era studies, but his interests have increasingly moved eastward, to the history of Eastern Europe and of Orthodoxy. He has taught at McMaster Divinity College (Hamilton, Ontario); at Evangelical Theological Seminary (Osijek, Croatia); and at Matthias Flacius Illyricus Faculty of Theology (Zagreb, Croatia). He has lectured in the liberal arts program at Crimean Medical University (Simferopol, Crimea, Ukraine); at St. Clement of Ohrid Orthodox Theological Seminary (Skopje, Macedonia); and has delivered the "Annual Lectures in Christian Thought" for the Department of Religious Studies in the University of Calgary.

Bio last updated April 30th, 2018.

James R. Payton, Jr.

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