Sarah Emily Griffin-Troutner is a doctoral student in the History of Christianity with a minor in Systematic Theology. Her primary interests lie in the philosophical-theology of the patristic and medieval period, with a special interest in Christian Platonism.

Sarah wrote her M.A .Thesis (Memorial University) on the Augustinian-Platonic structure of Charles Williams’ Theology of Romantic Love in Dante’s Paradiso. Sarah then wrote her M.T.S. thesis (University of Toronto) on the relationship between nature and scripture in Clement of Alexandria and Origen of Alexandria. She studied, particularly, how παιδεία emerges as an interpretive theme for Origen as he considers how the natural world may function as a teacher to the soul.

Beyond this particular network of interests, Sarah has a broad and underlying passion for themes of Mystical Theology, Theology and Literature, Deification, Theological Anthropology, Environmental Humanities, and Contemplative Ecology.

Sarah has won numerous conference-awards over her graduate studies thus far, including the Young Weilianne Award (American Weil Society) and the Outstanding Graduate Student Paper Award (North American Patristics Society).

After completing her Great-Books undergraduate degree, Sarah worked for nearly three years as the Director of a Non-Profit Youth Organization, St. George’s YouthNet, in Halifax, Nova Scotia before moving to graduate study.