Christian Lange (PhD in Theology and Religion 2001, Wolfson College Oxford) is Associate Professor and Deputy Director of the Bavarian Research Centre for Interreligious Discourse at Friedrich Alexander University of Erlangen-Nuremberg. His research focuses on Patristics, the history of the early Church, and Eastern Christianity, with a particular emphasis on Syriac Christianity.

In the Winter Term 2025/26, he was a POLY Writing Fellow in the Writing Group "Seeking Salvation." During the group's meetings at Forschungskolleg Humanwissenschaften Bad Homburg in November 2025 and April 2026, he developed his contribution to the first volume of POLY's forthcoming three-volume book project, Doing Christianity: A Praxeological Guide to Polycentricity and Plurality of Premodern Christianities.