Ken Parry is Honorary Senior Research Fellow in the Department of History and Archaeology at Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia. He researches and publishes in the fields of Late Antiquity, Byzantine Studies, and Eastern Christianity. He is the author of Depicting the Word: Byzantine Iconophile Thought of the Eighth and Ninth Centuries (1996), and editor of The Church of the East: Life and Thought (1996), The Blackwell Dictionary of Eastern Christianity (1999), The Blackwell Companion to Eastern Christianity (2007), The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Patristics (2015), and founding editor (2012) of Brill’s Texts and Studies in Eastern Christianity series. He has recently contributed to The Cambridge Intellectual History of Byzantium (2017), Brill’s Companion to Byzantine Iconoclasm (2021), and Brill’s Companion to Byzantine Philosophy (forthcoming). He is currently editing and contributing to Brill’s Companion to John of Damascus.