BA, BD, MA, MTh, PhD

Fr Dr Jacob Joseph lectures in Missiology and Systematic Theology. He received a Ph.D. from the University of Divinity and was awarded the University Medal for his doctoral thesis titled “The Christ Who Embraces: An Orthodox Theology of Margins in India (Christology of St. Severus and Social Margins).”

With his particular interest in mission among the socially marginalised and youth, he served in various dioceses in India, America, and New Zealand before taking up his current priestly vocation in the Malankara Archdiocese of the Syrian Orthodox Church in Australia.

His research interests include Orthodox Mission Theology, Patristic and Contextual Theology, Syriac Theology and History, Indian Theology, and Mission History.

(28 Nov. 2024) “The Christ Who Embraces: An Orthodox Theology of Margins”. Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004703629 (2025 – in press).

(2023) “Malankara Jacobite Syrian Church.” In Christianity. Encyclopedia of Indian Religions. Springer, Dordrecht, Chathanatt, J. ed. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-024-2241-2_33.

(2021) “Orthodox and Contextual Theology: A Liturgical-Missional Reading.” In Quilling Our Vision, Weaving Our Stories: A Festschrift to Dr. Rini Ralte, Vinod Victor ed. (Noida, Delhi: ISPCK), pp.  149-161 . ISBN: 9789390569618.

(2020) “The Christ Who Embraces: An Orthodox Theology of Margins in India.” Ph.D. thesis, University of Divinity, Melbourne.

(2019) “Youth, Spirituality, Orthodox Faith and Public Square.” Hekamtho: Syrian Orthodox Theological Journal 4, no.1 (July), pp. 17-24.  ISSN 2325 – 4426.

(2017) “Church Amidst Diversity: The Liturgy, Exclusion, and the Embrace.” Hekamtho: Syrian Orthodox Theological Journal 2, no. 2 (March), pp. 77-87. ISSN 2325 – 4426.