Mark Durie


Mark Durie is an Australian pastor and scholar in linguistics and theology.

Life and career

Mark Durie was educated at Canberra Grammar School in Canberra, Australia,
and studied Pure Mathematics, Germanic Languages and Linguistics at the Australian National University.
He was awarded a PhD at the Australian National University in 1984. Subsequently he held visiting scholarships and fellowships at the University of Leiden, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the University of California, Los Angeles, Stanford University and the University of California, Santa Cruz. From 1987 to 1997 he held positions of postdoctoral fellow, lecturer, senior lecturer, reader and associate professor at the University of Melbourne. Ordained an Anglican deacon and priest at St Paul's Cathedral, Melbourne in 1999, he has served on the staff of St Mark's Camberwell, St Hilary's Kew and Oaktree Anglican Church. He holds a BTh, and DipTh from the Australian College of Theology and in 2016 completed a ThD with the Australian College of Theology and Melbourne School of Theology.
Durie has published articles and books on the Acehnese language of Aceh, Indonesia, linguistics, the genesis of the Quran and interfaith relations. He was elected to the Australian Academy of the Humanities in 1992.

Works

Journal articles

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