Don W. Springer

Dr. Springer is a graduate of McMaster Divinity College (PhD, 2019) and joined the patristics faculty in 2021. In 2022, he and Dr. James Payton launched and now co-direct MDC’s Centre for Patristics and Early Christianity.

He was previously an instructor at the Pappas Patristic Institute’s summer patristics program for three years, currently serves on the executive of the Canadian Society for Patristic Studies, and helped launch New Horizons in Early Christian Studies, an independent group established to organize conferences (held in 2021 & 2023).

Specializing in the study of early Christian spirituality and St. Irenaeus of Lyons, Dr. Springer has offered courses in systematic theology, patristics, and spirituality, and has lectured elsewhere on a variety of topics related to historical theology.