
Dănuț Mănăstireanu
Alumnus 2013
Dănuț Mănăstireanu is a Romanian Anglican theologian living currently in Glasgow, Scotland. He received his first degree, a BA in Economics, from Iași University, in 1978 and worked for ten years in that field during the communist regime. After losing his job because of conflicts with the secret police, he worked as an unqualified worker and then as a translator and editor-in-chief of Logos Publishers. He received his MA in theology at London School of Theology, in 1998, and holds a PhD in theology from Brunel University London, UK, with a thesis titled A Perichoretic Model of the Church. The Trinitarian Ecclesiology of Dumitru Staniloae, published in 2012 by Lambert, in Saarbrucken, Germany. He taught theology and spirituality at: Eastern University in St. Davids, Penn., US; Emanuel University in Oradea, Cluj University and Oradea University, in Romania; the Evangelical Theological Seminary in Osijek, Croatia; and the International Baptist Theological Seminary in Prague, Czech Republic. He was for thirteen years a Board member of World Vision Romania and served from 199 to 2016 as Director for Faith & Development for the Middle East and the Eastern Europe Region of World Vision International. He is retired now, but continues to do research, write, and mentor younger theologians. He has been involved for over thirty years in promoting dialogue and cooperation between Evangelicals and the Orthodox in Romania and beyond. He is a member of the Board of Lausanne-Orthodox Initiative (www.loimission.net) and Research Associate of the Institute for Orthodox Christian Studies (IOCS), at Cambridge University (https://www.iocs.cam.ac.uk/about/academic-faculty/).






