Balázs M. Mezei is Professor of Philosophy at Budapest Corvinus University. He is regular member of the Saint Stephen Academy of Sciences, a receiver of the Order of Merit of Hungary in 2019 and the Stephanus Prize in 2025. He acted as president of the Hungarian Society for the Study of Religion between 2016 and 2022. He published more than 50 books and 250 scholarly articles on philosophy of religion, phenomenology, political and literary criticism. He has been a Senior Fulbright Fellow at the University of Notre Dame in 2015. He published Religion and Revelation after Auschwitz (2013); he authored Illuminating Faith and Christian Wisdom Meets Modernity (with Francesca Murphy and Kenneth Oakes, 2015 and 2016). His Radical Revelation: A Philosophical Approach was published in 2017. He is the main editor of The Oxford Handbook of Divine Revelation (2021) and editor of Divine Revelation and the Sciences (2024). His Apocalyptic Phenomenology: Essays on the Philosophy of Divine Revelation appeared in 2026. He is also editor-in-chief of the Hungarian Encyclopedia of Philosophy, a three-volume compendium of contemporary philosophy to be published next year.
