Christopher Villiers is a British Catholic theologian and poet with a Master's degree in Theology from Durham University and specialization in the history of Christian doctrine. His postgraduate thesis addressed the Divine impassibility in the theology of Saint Cyril of Alexandria, referring to modern theological debates on the subject derived from biblical, historical, and philosophical scholarship. He also holds an interest in ecumenism, in particular with the Eastern Orthodox churches, and writes regularly for the ecumenical theological journal Sobornost. Villiers is the winner of the 2008 Jean Cowling Prize in Theology, the first prize-winner of the 2015 Sonnets for Shakespeare Poetry Award, and the author of the illustrated book of biblical poetry Sonnets From the Spirit (2015).
