Articles

Peer-Reviewed

“St Irenaeus of Lyons and the School of John,” Phronema 34.2 (2019), 1–34.

“Synchronic and Diachronic Harmony: St Irenaeus on Divine Simplicity,” Modern Theology, 35.3 (2019), 428–41 .

From Adam to Christ: From Male and Female to Being Human,” The Wheel (2018)

Unveiling the Pathos of Life: The Phenomenology of Michel Henry and the Theology of John the Evangelist,” in Journal of French and Francophone Philosophy, 26.2 (2018), 104–26.

One God Father Almighty,” Modern Theology 34:4 (2018), 320–30.

“Nature, Wounded and Healed in Early Patristic Thought,” Toronto Journal of Theology 29.1 (2013), 85–100.

Italian translation: “La natura ferita e risanata nell”antico pensiero patristico,” in L”uomo custode del creato. Atti del XX Convegno Ecumenico Internazionale di Spiritualità Ortodossa, Monastero di Bose, 5–8 settembre 2012, (Bose: Edizioni Qiqajon, 2013).

“With Boldness and Without Condemnation,” St Vladimir’s Theological Quarterly 51.4 (2007), 359–69.

“Response to Ayres: The Legacies of Nicaea, East and West,” Harvard Theological Review, 100.2 (2007), 145–52, 173.

The Trinitarian Being of the Church,” St Vladimir’s Theological Quarterly 48:1 (2004), 67–88.

Russian translation in Tserkov i Vremya 3 (28) (2004), 164–185.

Reprinted in: Khaled Anatolios ed., The Holy Trinity in the Life of the Church, Holy Cross Studies in Patristic Theology and History (Baker Acadmic, 2014).

“Irenaeus on the Word of God,” Studia Patristica 36 (Leuven: Peeters, 2001), 163–7.

The Paschal Foundations of Christian Theology,” St Vladimir’s Theological Quarterly 45:2 (2001), 115–36.

“The Word of God in the Second Century,” Pro Ecclesia 9:1 (2000), 85–107.

“Scripture, the Gospel, and Orthodoxy,” St Vladimir’s Theological Quarterly 43 (1999), 223–48.

“The Rational Animal: A Rereading of Gregory of Nyssa’s De hominis opificio,” Journal of Early Christian Studies 7:2 (1999), 219–247.

“A Note on the Ontology of Gender,” St Vladimir’s Theological Quarterly 42:3–4 (1998), 363–72.

Romanian translation in Studii Theologice, Seria A III–A, 2.4 (2006), 170–7.

Colossians 1:13–20: A Chiastic Reading,” St Vladimir’s Theological Quarterly 40:4 (1996), 247–65.

“Translating theology,” St Vladimir’s Theological Quarterly 38:2 (1994), 235–40.

“Irenaeus and the Ascetic Ideal,” St Vladimir’s Theological Quarterly 37:4 (1993), 305–13.

“Shifting Sands: Foucault, Brown and the Framework of Christian Asceticism,” Heythrop Journal 34:1 (1993), 1–22.

“Reflections on the Question of Episcopal Celibacy,” St Vladimir’s Theological Quarterly 36:1–2 (1992), 141–9.

Essays in Books

‘Learning Spiritual Discernment’, forthcoming in Discernimento e Vita Cristiana, Atti XXVI Convegno ecumenico internazionale di spiritualità ortodossa Monastero di Bose, 5-8 settembre 2018 (Bose: Edizioni Qiqajon).

“The Apocalyptic Origen,” forthcoming in Festschrift for John McGuckin (CUA Press).

“Flesh Invested with the Paternal Light: St Irenaeus on the Transfiguration of the Body” (In Russian), forthcoming in proceedings of the Fifth Moscow International Patristics Conference, April 2018.

Forthcoming in English in Festschrift (Brill).

‘The Glory of God: A Living Human Being’, in Elie Ayroulet, ed., Saint Irénée et l’Humanité Illuminée (Paris: Cerf, 2018), 93–116.

“The Holy and Great Council 2016,” in Synodality: A Forgotten and Misapprehended Vision: Reflections on the Holy and Great Council of 2016, in Maxim Vasiljevic and Andrej Jeftic eds., (Alhambra CA: Sebastian Press, 2017), 13–22.

“John 18:28–19:16: Witnessing Truth,” in Chad Raith II, ed. The Gospel of John: Theological-Ecumenical Readings (Eugene, OR: Cascade, 2017), 178–91.

“Patristic Humanism: The Beginnings of Christian Paideia,” in Jens Zimmerman, ed., Re-Envisioning Christian Humanism: Education and the Restoration of Humanity (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017), 19–32.

“Irenaeus on Atonement,” T&T Clark Companion to the Atonement, in A. J. Johnson ed., Bloomsbury Companions 5 (London: T&T Clark, 2017), 569–77.

Plundering the Egyptians: The Use of Classical Paideia in the Early Church,” in A. Bezzerides and E. H. Prodromou, eds., Orthodox Christianity and Higher Education: Theological, Historical, and Contemporary Reflections (Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame, 2017), 140–54.

“Diodore of Tarsus and his Exegesis,” Handbuch der Bibelhermeneutiken, in Oda Wischmeyer ed. (Berlin: De Gruyter, 2016), 35–46.

“Patristic Texts as Icons,” in Andreas Andreopoulos and Graham Speak eds., Rightly Dividing the Word of Truth: Studies in Honour of Metropolitan Kallistos of Diokleia (Oxford: Peter Lang, 2016), 151–69.

“Scripture and Gospel: Intertextuality in Irenaeus,” in D. Jeffrey Bingham and Clayton N. Jefford, eds., Intertextuality in the Second Century (Leiden: Brill, 2016), 179–94.

“Learning through Experience: The Pedagogy of Suffering and Death in St Irenaeus,” in Nonna Verna Harrison and David G. Hunter eds., Evil and Suffering in Early Christian Thought (Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Academic, 2016), 33–47.

“Il Nome Del Signore Dio Misericordioso E Pietoso,” in Misericordia e Perdono, Atti del XXIII Convegno Ecumenico Internazionale di Spiritualità Ortodossa, Monastero di Bose, settembre 2015, (Bose: Edizioni Qiqajon, 2016), 83–99.

The Apocalypse of the Cross,” in Studies in Orthodox Hermeneutics: A Festschrift in Honor of Theodore G. Stylianopoulos, in Eugen Pentiuc, John Fotopoulos, and Bruce Beck eds. (Brookline MA: Holy Cross Orthodox Press, 2016), 313–47.

“La Pace tra la Chiese: Sant’ Ireneo di Leone,” in Atti del XXII Convegno Ecumenico Internazionale di Spiritualità Ortodossa, Monastero di Bose, settembre 2014, (Bose: Edizioni Qiqajon, 2015), 165–85.

“St Isaac of Nineveh on the Cross of Christ,” in Hilarion Alfeyev ed., St Isaac the Syrian and his Spiritual Legacy (Crestwood NY: St Vladimir’s Seminary Press, 2015), 87–95.

The Role of Death in Life,” in J. Behr and C. Cunningham, eds, The Role of Life in Death: A Multidisciplinary Examination of Issues pertaining to Life and Death (Eugene, OR: Wipf and Stock, 2015), 79–95.

“La Sfida della Morte,” in Marco Vergottini ed., Gesù Cristo e il Nuovo Umanesimo (Milan: Centro Ambrosiano, 2015), 326–38.

“‘Search the Scriptures for they Speak of Me’: Reading the Scriptures with the Early Fathers,” in T. Grdzelidze, ed., Sources of Authority, vol. 1, The Early Church, Faith and Order Paper 217 (Geneva: World Council of Churches, 2014), 1–16.

“St Athanasius on ‘Incarnation,’” in N. H. Gregerson ed., Incarnation: On the Scope and Depth of Christology (Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2015), 79–98.

“Let us Return to the Word Delivered in the Beginning,” in A. Min, ed., The Task of Theology: Leading Theologians on the Most Compelling Questions for Today, proceedings of the Third International Conference of the Whitehead Research Project, Claremont Graduate University (New York: Orbis, 2014), 1–20.

Reading the Fathers Today,” in J. Mihoc and S. Aldea eds. A Celebration of Living Theology: Festschrift for Fr Andrew Louth, (London: T&T Clark, 2014), 7–19.

The Promise of the Image,” in Thomas Albert Howard ed., Imago Dei: Human Dignity in Ecumenical Perspective (Washington DC: Catholic University of America Press, June 2013), 15–37.

“‘Let there be Light!’ A Byzantine Theology of Light,” in Gerald O’Collins and Mary Ann Meyers eds., Light from Light: Scientists and Theologians in Dialogue (Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 2012), 183–194.

“Returning to First Principles: Articulating Orthodox Theology in a Post-Modern Context,” in Thinking Modernity, in A. E. Kattan and F. A. Georgi eds., Balamand theological Conferences 1 (St John of Damascus Institute of Theology, University of Balamand; Westphalian Wilhelm’s University, Center for Religious Studies, 2010), 21–35.

“Gaul” (The Varieties of Christianity to 250 C.E.) in Margaret Mitchell and Frances Young eds., The Cambridge History of Christianity, vol. 4 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009).

What are we doing Talking about God? The discipline of Theology,” in A. Papanikolaou and E. Prodromou, eds., Thinking Through Faith: New Perspectives from Orthodox Scholars (Crestwood, NY: SVS Press, 2008), 67–86.

Calling upon God as Father: Augustine and the Legacy of Nicaea,” in A. Papanikolaou and G. E. Demacopoulos, eds., Orthodox Readings of Augustine (Crestwood, N.Y.: SVS Press, 2008), 153–65.

“Faithfulness and Creativity,” in Orthodox and the World Today: Sixth Congress of the Higher Orthodox Schools of Theology, Sofia, 5–10 October 2004 (Sofia: St Kliment Ohridski University Press, 2006), 166–173.

“The Church in Via,” paper delivered at the Plenary session of the Conference on Eschatology held by the Theological Commission of the Moscow Patriarchate, Danielovsky Monastery, Nov. 14–17, 2005. Georgian translation in Archevani, January 2006.

“The Motherhood of the Church” and “Mary as a Type of the Church” in Vierge Marie—Église Vierge: Acts du quatrième colloque de théologie orthodoxe de l’Université de Sherbrooke, (Sherbrooke: Université de Sherbrooke, Éditions G.G.C, 2005), 13–29, 83–95.

“The Question of Nicene Orthodoxy,” in A. Louth and A. Casiday eds., Byzantine Orthodoxies: Papers from the Thirty-Sixth Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies, University of Durham, 23–25 March, 2002 (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2006), 15–27.

“Social and Historical Setting (2nd Century),” in F. Young, A. Louth, and L. Ayres, eds., The Cambridge History of Early Christian Literature (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004), 55–70.

“Faithfulness and Creativity,” in Abba (see above, books 2003), 159–178.

“Interpreting the Incarnation,” Sourozh 89 (August 2002), 15–29.

“Adam” and “Anthropologie” in Dictionnaire de Théologie (Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, 1997).

Other

“Mission in the Modern Age”, forthcoming in Oxbridge Philokalic Review.

From Adam to Christ: From Male and Female to Being Human,” The Wheel 13/14 (Spring/Summer 2018), 19–32.

“Diversity and Dialogue in the Service of Communion: The Example of St Irenaeus of Lyons,” One in Christ 51.1 (2017), 21–36.

Lifting the Veil: Reading Scripture in the Orthodox Tradition,” Sobornost 38:1 (2016), 74–90.

“Take Back Death! Christian Witness in the Twenty-First Century,” Koinonia n.s. 64 (2014), 7–22.

The Christian Art of Dying,” Sobornost 35:1–2 (2013), 136–47. Italian translation in: Le Età della Vita Spirituale. Atti del XXI Convegno Ecumenico Internazionale di Spiritualità Ortodossa, Monastero di Bose, 4–7 settembre 2013 (Bose: Edizioni Qiqajon, 2014), 301–16.

“Older than All Creation,” Communi Viatorum 55.3 (2013), 237–254.

‘The Spirit and the Bride Say Come!’ The Eschatological Dimensions of the Liturgy,” Communio 38.3 (Fall 2011), 465–485.

“Comunione e Conciliarità”/“Communion and Conciliarity,” Album Accademico 2010–11, Pontificio Istituto Orientale, Rome, 37–48, 48–59.

“The Eschatological Dimensions of Liturgy,” Assembly: A Journal of Liturgical Theology 36.1 (2010), 2–9.

Marriage and Asceticism,” Sobornost 29:2 (2007), 24–50.

“Taught by the Apostles,” Christian History (Fall 2007).

“One in Christ: An Historical Look,” AGAIN, summer 2006.“For the Welfare of the Churches of God,” AGAIN, summer 2006. French translation in Le Messager Orthodoxe.

“Virgin Mother—Virgin Church.” Russian translation, “Virgin Mother—Virgin Church,” Bogoslovskii Vestnik 2004, no.4, 123–149.

“Midwife of the Christian Bible,” Christian History 80 (XXII.4).“Tradition” in St Vladimir’s Seminary 2003 Education Day book.

The Trinity,” The Living Pulpit (April, 1999).

Severus of Antioch: Eastern and Oriental Perspectives,” St Nersess Theological Review 3:1–2 (1998), 23–35. Reprinted in Christine Chaillot, The Dialogue Between the Eastern Orthodox and Oriental Orthodox Churches (Volos, Greece: Volos Academy, 2016), 64–73.

Of God, Man, and Creation” (Undergraduate thesis, Thames Polytechnic, London, 1988)