Dr Jonathan E Soyars
Tutor in New Testament Language, Literature and Theology
Director of Postgraduate Studies

Email: jes229@westminster.cam.ac.uk
Phone: +44 (0) 1223 330627

Jonathan E Soyars lectures and supervises broadly in the field of New Testament studies in the Cambridge Theological Federation and the Faculty of Divinity of the University of Cambridge. His current research analyses the transmission and transformation of authoritative traditions in texts produced by the earliest Christ-followers, particularly the so-called Apostolic Fathers. Recent major publications include The Shepherd of Hermas and the Pauline Legacy (Novum Testamentum Supplements 176; Leiden: Brill, 2019).

Additionally, Jonathan is Programme Leader of the Common Awards MA in theology, ministry and mission at CTF; Director of the Cheshunt Foundation, a charitable trust affiliated with Westminster that supports theological education for ministry in the United Kingdom and around the globe; and a member of Westminster’s Management Committee. 

He earned a PhD in New Testament and early Christian literature at the University of Chicago and previously studied at Princeton Theological Seminary. 

Jonathan is a priest of the Episcopal Church, a province of the worldwide Anglican Communion, currently assisting at St Bene’t’s, Cambridge.