The Rev. Dr. Gabrielle Thomas joined the Candler faculty after serving as a lecturer in early Christianity and Anglican studies at Yale Divinity School. Prior to that, she spent two years as a post-doctoral research associate at Durham University in the United Kingdom. An ordained priest in the Church of England, she has served churches as both a lay and an ordained leader. She completed her PhD in Historical Theology at the University of Nottingham while working in full-time parish ministry. Thomas is a keen ecumenist and served as the first woman on the Anglican-Oriental Orthodox International Commission (AOOIC).

In addition to authoring a significant number of journal articles, book chapters, and reviews, she has published three books: The Image of God in the Theology of Gregory Nazianzus (monograph, Cambridge, 2019), Women and Ordination in the Orthodox Church: Explorations in Theology and Practice (co-edited, Cascade, 2020), and For the Good of the Church: Unity, Theology and Women (monograph, SCM Press, 2021).

Thomas’s current research explores the role of the devil in Christian theology. Her forthcoming monograph is entitled The Problem of the Devil in Cappadocian Thought (Cambridge University Press, 2026). Taking angelology as its point of departure, the book investigates how the Cappadocians negotiate theological and practical problems with the devil. Thomas argues that for the Cappadocians, the devil is not simply a strategy for explaining the so-called “problem of evil.” Instead, the devil himself is the problem.

Thomas is a reviewer for Religious Education and SCM Press. She is a member of the American Academy of Religion and the Society of Biblical Literature, among others.