Brian Leftow is a contemporary analytic philosopher of religion, formerly Nolloth Professor of the Philosophy of the Christian Religion at Oxford University. He is best known for his defense of divine timelessness and his influential 'Latin Trinity' account, which grounds Trinitarian theology in a single divine life from which the three Persons emerge rather than in three distinct divine centers of consciousness.
Developed the 'Latin Trinity' model arguing for one God who is three Persons without numerical plurality of divine beings
Authored 'Time and Eternity' (1991), a landmark defense of divine timelessness in analytic theology
Authored 'God and Necessity' (2012), arguing that God is the source of all modal facts
Held the Nolloth Chair in Philosophy of the Christian Religion at Oxford, one of the most prominent chairs in analytic theology
Contributed to debates on divine simplicity, omnipotence, and the metaphysics of theism