Meredith Riedel
A teacher interested in the significance of truth, beauty, and goodness for human flourishing, Dr. Riedel begins by discovering the questions students are asking, and then leads them to ask better ones. This involves close reading of texts, exploring the worldviews presented, and interrogating the values presented by the author against the plumb line of biblical revelation.
Dr. Riedel is an historian of Middle Eastern Christianity. As a professor of church history at Duke Divinity School, she previously taught courses on Orthodoxy, Crusades, Islam, icons, heretics, the Bible in Byzantium, and the doctrine of hell. At her Church in Durham NC, she has taught children and adults on topics such as systematic theology, hermeneutics, Christianity and Islam, the Minor Prophets, the Heidelberg Confession, and the Apostles’ Creed.
She holds a doctorate in Byzantine history from the University of Oxford, a ThM in Old Testament from Princeton, and an M.Div from Westminster Theological Seminary. Above all she is most grateful for the marvelous grace of God and the enduring love of her husband Chris.