Professor Pratt studied philosophy and theology in New Zealand and gained his PhD in Divinity from the University of St Andrews, Scotland (1984) and a Doctor of Theology from the Melbourne College of Divinity, Australia (2009).
Professor Pratt taught religious studies at the University of Waikato, New Zealand, for 30 years and is now an Honorary Professor at the University of Auckland, New Zealand where he was previously, from 1991 to 2003m, an Honorary lecturer in Theology. He has held Visiting and Honorary positions at the Universities of Heidelberg (Germany) and Oxford and Birmingham (England). In 2010 he spent a semester at Georgetown University as a Fulbright scholar and teacher and a semester in 2011 as a Guest Professor in the Dept. for Old Catholic Theology at the University of Bern. Since then he has been an Adjunct Professor.
Professor Pratt is a Research Team Leader, since 2012, for the University of Birmingham based ‘Christian-Muslim Relations: A bibliographical history 600-1900’ international research project which is funded by the UK Arts and Humanities’ Research Council. (See: www.birmingham.ac.uk/cmr190)
Professor Pratt is also an Anglican priest and Canon Theologian emeritus in New Zealand and holds a licence to officiate within the Church of England Diocese of Europe.
