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- Patristics, Theology, Byzantine Theology, Byzantine Iconography, Byzantine Studies, Greek manuscripts, and 14 moreManuscript Studies, Late Antique and Byzantine Studies, Paleography, Byzantine Literature, Byzantine Paleography and codicology, Greek Palaeography, Religion, Iconography, Christian Iconography, Monasticism, Christian Spirituality, Byzantine art, Mount Athos Studies, and Greek Patristicsedit
- Distinguished Professor of the Humanities, University of Austin (UATX)edit
A talk given at the June 2024 conference on Christian Education, sponsored by the Antiochian Archdiocese of North America and held at the Antiochian House of Studies.
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This is a book review essay on four recent English translations of the Psalter (LXX). (Please note that these are uncorrected page proofs.)
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The Introduction (pp. vii-xxvii) and Note on the Text (pp. 379-390) from our edition and translation of John Geometres, _Life of the Virgin Mary_, Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library 77 (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2023).
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A study of St Paul's ascent/rapture into heaven in the Byzantine theological tradition published in _Hierotopy of Air and Heaven in Christian Culture_, ed. Alexey Lidov (Moscow: Indrik, 2023). This study makes use of material from my "The... more
A study of St Paul's ascent/rapture into heaven in the Byzantine theological tradition published in _Hierotopy of Air and Heaven in Christian Culture_, ed. Alexey Lidov (Moscow: Indrik, 2023). This study makes use of material from my "The Reception of Paul and Pauline Theology in Byzantium" and "Symeon of Thessaloniki and the Theology of the Icon Screen." Those interested in the material from Geometres cited in the present article may now consult the critical edition and translation (Constas and Simelidis, Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library).
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Maximos Constas, "There was not a needy person among them" (Acts 4:34): An Essay on St Basil's Social Concerns," The Journal of Malankara Orthodox Theological Studies (Kerala, India) 7.2 (July-December, 2022): 7-14.
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This is a study of a series prayers to the Virgin attributed to Ephrem the Syrian, which I translated and published in 2018 (_Mother of the Light: Prayers to the Theotokos_. NewRome Press, 2018). Among the findings is the restoration of... more
This is a study of a series prayers to the Virgin attributed to Ephrem the Syrian, which I translated and published in 2018 (_Mother of the Light: Prayers to the Theotokos_. NewRome Press, 2018). Among the findings is the restoration of two prayers in the collection (Prayers I, XI) to the fourteenth-century writer Philotheos Kokkinos.
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A public lecture by Prof. Mary Cunningham, sponsored by the Pappas Patristic Institute, at Holy Cross Greek Orthodox School of Theology, 7:00 p.m., Friday, April 21, 2023. Paschal reception to follow. The lecture will also be... more
A public lecture by Prof. Mary Cunningham, sponsored by the Pappas Patristic Institute, at Holy Cross Greek Orthodox School of Theology, 7:00 p.m., Friday, April 21, 2023. Paschal reception to follow. The lecture will also be live-streamed via the PPI website.
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Forthcoming in _The Icon_, ed. Charles Barber (Cambridge University Press)
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John Geometres (ca. 935 - ca. 1000) was one of the most highly esteemed poets and authors of the middle Byzantine period. His most important work, the Life of the Virgin Mary, is a literary and theological masterpiece which has long been... more
John Geometres (ca. 935 - ca. 1000) was one of the most highly esteemed poets and authors of the middle Byzantine period. His most important work, the Life of the Virgin Mary, is a literary and theological masterpiece which has long been inaccessible to readers. (A later paraphrase of this Life was mistakenly thought by some to be an original work written by Maximos the Confessor, but is in fact a later Georgian-language modification by Euthymios the Athonite of the Life by Geometres.) This volume contains a critical edition of the Greek text, a complete English translation, a detailed introduction and many hundreds of footnotes and annotations. The volume is scheduled to appear in late April or early May 2023.
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The Pappas Patristic Institute invites you to a symposium honoring the work of Norman Russell and his translation of On the Orthodox Faith by St John of Damascus. Hailed as the 'seal of the Fathers,' St John of Damascus is the author of a... more
The Pappas Patristic Institute invites you to a symposium honoring the work of Norman Russell and his translation of On the Orthodox Faith by St John of Damascus. Hailed as the 'seal of the Fathers,' St John of Damascus is the author of a collection known as the Fount of Knowledge, a three-volume summa of both the 'outer' and 'inner' wisdom handed down by the Church. This symposium brings together some of the foremost scholars of the Damascene's thought in order to explore topics in ancient philosophy, Trinitarian theology, Christology, and more.
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This is an article on Athonite saints and elders that will be published in the Routledge Handbook of Mt Athos. I am grateful to my teaching assistant, Anthony Ladas, for his assistance with the section on Athonite Martyrs, which is the... more
This is an article on Athonite saints and elders that will be published in the Routledge Handbook of Mt Athos. I am grateful to my teaching assistant, Anthony Ladas, for his assistance with the section on Athonite Martyrs, which is the focus of his Masters Thesis, which he is writing under my direction.
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A study of the forms and functions of sacred space in the Life of Symeon the New Theologian (ca. 949-1022) by Niketas Stethatos.
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I am delighted to announce the publication of an article written by my colleague, Professor Christos Simelidis, who is collaborating with me on an edition and translation of The Life of the Virgin written by John Geometres in the 10th... more
I am delighted to announce the publication of an article written by my colleague, Professor Christos Simelidis, who is collaborating with me on an edition and translation of The Life of the Virgin written by John Geometres in the 10th century (forthcoming in the Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library series).
Professor Simelidis demonstrates that the Life of the Virgin attributed to St Maximos the Confessor, which (it has been claimed) survived only in a later Georgian translation, is in fact the work of John Geometres paraphrased into Georgian by his contemporary, Euthymios the translator.
The article, just published in Dumbarton Oaks Papers 74 (2020): 125-59, is a richly detailed study offering the reader a fascinating look into this little known period in Byzantine literary and theological history, as well as into the practices of writers and translators in tenth-century Byzantium.
The complete version of the article can be found on Academia.edu at this link https://www.academia.edu/44893858/_Two_Lives_of_the_Virgin_John_Geometres_Euthymios_the_Athonite_and_Maximos_the_Confessor_Dumbarton_Oaks_Papers_74_2020_125_159
Professor Simelidis demonstrates that the Life of the Virgin attributed to St Maximos the Confessor, which (it has been claimed) survived only in a later Georgian translation, is in fact the work of John Geometres paraphrased into Georgian by his contemporary, Euthymios the translator.
The article, just published in Dumbarton Oaks Papers 74 (2020): 125-59, is a richly detailed study offering the reader a fascinating look into this little known period in Byzantine literary and theological history, as well as into the practices of writers and translators in tenth-century Byzantium.
The complete version of the article can be found on Academia.edu at this link https://www.academia.edu/44893858/_Two_Lives_of_the_Virgin_John_Geometres_Euthymios_the_Athonite_and_Maximos_the_Confessor_Dumbarton_Oaks_Papers_74_2020_125_159
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The Light of the World (a companion volume to Mother of the Light: Prayers to the Theotokos) is a collection of 35 patristic and Byzantine prayers to Christ. The introduction contains two lengthy excerpts on prayer (one attributed to St... more
The Light of the World (a companion volume to Mother of the Light: Prayers to the Theotokos) is a collection of 35 patristic and Byzantine prayers to Christ. The introduction contains two lengthy excerpts on prayer (one attributed to St John Chrysostom, the other written by Elder Aimilianos of Simonopetra), along with my own introductory remarks. The volume is available from Newrome Press.
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This is the Foreword to _Made for Union: The Sacramental Theology of St Nikodemos of the Holy Mountain_ by Fr George Dokos, a specialist on the theology of St Nikodemos and a translator of many of his works. This is the first study of... more
This is the Foreword to _Made for Union: The Sacramental Theology of St Nikodemos of the Holy Mountain_ by Fr George Dokos, a specialist on the theology of St Nikodemos and a translator of many of his works. This is the first study of St Nikodemos's sacramental theology to appear in English. (Full bibliographical information appears at the end of the document.)
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An overview of patristic and Byzantine biblical exegesis and hermeneutics, covering exegetical genres, the antecedents of patristic and Byzantine biblical hermeneutics in Jewish and Greek practices, Byzantine hermeneutical principles, and... more
An overview of patristic and Byzantine biblical exegesis and hermeneutics, covering exegetical genres, the antecedents of patristic and Byzantine biblical hermeneutics in Jewish and Greek practices, Byzantine hermeneutical principles, and with special attention to the middle and late Byzantine periods. This chapter was written for the forthcoming Oxford Handbook of Byzantine Literature, and thus in places necessarily takes the form of a survey.
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Announcement for a conference on Ephrem graecus, at Marquette University, on 9 November 2019.
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The middle Byzantine Lives of the Virgin Mary have recently attracted considerable scholarly attention, partly due to the mistaken attribution of one of these Lives to St Maximos the Confessor. This article is a preliminary study for an... more
The middle Byzantine Lives of the Virgin Mary have recently attracted considerable scholarly attention, partly due to the mistaken attribution of one of these Lives to St Maximos the Confessor. This article is a preliminary study for an edition and translation of John Geometres, The Life of the Virgin Mary, which I am working on with Christos Simelidis for publication in the Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library series.
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Introduction to a collection of prayers to the Mother of God ascribed to St Ephraim the Syrian. These prayers were written in Greek by a writer (or writers) whom scholars call Ephraim graecus, or the "Greek Ephraim" (and I have been told... more
Introduction to a collection of prayers to the Mother of God ascribed to St Ephraim the Syrian. These prayers were written in Greek by a writer (or writers) whom scholars call Ephraim graecus, or the "Greek Ephraim" (and I have been told that these are the first published English translations of the Greek Ephraim since the early 18th-century.) The collection also includes canons to the Virgin by Theodore the Studite, Methodios of Constantinople, and John Euchaita. On the corpus of Greek Ephraim writings, along with a number of English translations, see: https://saintephrem.wordpress.com/manuscripts/
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This is a talk I gave to a group of seminarians and theology students who were visiting the campus of Holy Cross, where I teach. While I do not normally post sermons and church talks on Academia, the discussion of Luke's account of the... more
This is a talk I gave to a group of seminarians and theology students who were visiting the campus of Holy Cross, where I teach. While I do not normally post sermons and church talks on Academia, the discussion of Luke's account of the Visitation is part of my work on the Mother of God in the patristic and Byzantine tradition, and seemed worth sharing with interested readers.
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The thought of Gregory Palamas is marked by an extraordinary appropriation of Pauline theology that has largely escaped scholarly notice. This paper argues that the Hesychast controversy unfolded around rival interpretations of Paul's... more
The thought of Gregory Palamas is marked by an extraordinary appropriation of Pauline theology that has largely escaped scholarly notice. This paper argues that the Hesychast controversy unfolded around rival interpretations of Paul's theology and visionary experiences, especially his vision of the divine light (Acts 9:3–9) and his ascent into the 'third heaven' (2 Cor 12:1–10), which Palamas and his followers identified with their own understanding of the uncreated light of God and with Hesychast spirituality more generally. Palamas' rich and complex handling of Paul's letters is explored through a close reading of the first Triad, along with relevant passages from the other works in the trilogy. The analysis suggests that the Hesychast controversy was in many ways a debate about who was the true follower of Paul. The last fifty years have witnessed an explosion of Palamite studies, along with growing interest in other theological writers of the period, yet almost no attention has been paid to the Palamite (or Hesychast) use of the Pauline corpus or of Scripture more generally. If we take the standard works of reference as our starting point, we will be told that the Hesychast controversy was a debate about the nature of mystical experience, a clash between ascetic spirituality and scholastic methodology, a chapter in the ongoing quarrel between faith and reason (or between theology and philosophy, or Christianity and Hellenism), or simply an ideological screen for the ambitions of warring feudal magnates set against the background of reviving urban life. As true as these interpretations might be, they do not even remotely suggest that the Hesychast controversy can and probably should be seen as a debate about who was the true follower of Paul.
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A paper given at the Symposium, "Heaven and Earth: Perspectives on Greece's Byzantium," J. Paul Getty Museum and the UCLA Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Los Angeles, California, 3 May 2014.
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This paper is forthcoming in Niki Tsironis, et al., eds., Lament as Performance in Byzantium (London and New York: Routledge: forthcoming).
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Forthcoming in a volume on Maximos the Confessor and Origen in post-Chalcedonian theology, edited by Vladimir Cvetkovic and Sebastian Mateiescu.
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A study of Maximos the Confessor's reception and use of the works of Dionysios the Areopagite.
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This is the program for the forthcoming Colloquium on the Mystagogy of Maximos the Confessor, to be held in Boston on 28-30 April.
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This is an announcement for the forthcoming Colloquium on St Maximos the Confessor's Mystagogy. Sponsored by the Pappas Patristic Institute, the Colloquium will take place on 28-30 April 2022 at Holy Cross Greek Orthodox School of... more
This is an announcement for the forthcoming Colloquium on St Maximos the Confessor's Mystagogy. Sponsored by the Pappas Patristic Institute, the Colloquium will take place on 28-30 April 2022 at Holy Cross Greek Orthodox School of Theology in Brookline, MA.
This is the first in what will be a series of ongoing Colloquia each one focusing on a particular work by the Confessor.
You may visit the website of the Institute at the following link: https://www.pappaspatristicinstitute.com/
This is the first in what will be a series of ongoing Colloquia each one focusing on a particular work by the Confessor.
You may visit the website of the Institute at the following link: https://www.pappaspatristicinstitute.com/
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The second annual Dathel & John D. Georges Lecture for Orthodox-Catholic Relations, given at Notre Dame Seminary, New Orleans, on 20 November 2019.
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In his Chapters on Love II.30, St Maximos the Confessor cites Galatians 3:28, which states that in Christ there is "neither male nor female." This passage, along with St Maximos's remarks in Amb. 41 and elsewhere, have led to conflicting... more
In his Chapters on Love II.30, St Maximos the Confessor cites Galatians 3:28, which states that in Christ there is "neither male nor female." This passage, along with St Maximos's remarks in Amb. 41 and elsewhere, have led to conflicting interpretations of the Confessor's views on gender . The commentary presented here is by Elder Aimilianos of Simonopetra, and is taken from The Mystical Marriage: Spiritual Life According to St Maximos the Confessor (Columbia: Newrome Press, 2018). Elder Aimilianos was an astute and insightful reader of St Maximos, and his interpretation merits careful consideration.
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These are the (uncorrected) page proofs of my book review essay of Nikolaos Loudovikos, _Church in the Making: An Apophatic Ecclesiology of Consubstantiality_ (New York, 2016). The essay is scheduled to appear in the forthcoming issue of... more
These are the (uncorrected) page proofs of my book review essay of Nikolaos Loudovikos, _Church in the Making: An Apophatic Ecclesiology of Consubstantiality_ (New York, 2016). The essay is scheduled to appear in the forthcoming issue of the journal Analogia. Loudovikos's book offers a wide-ranging discussion of contemporary eastern and western thinking on ecclesiology, though my review focuses more closely on his discussion of Dionysios the Areopagite and Maximos the Confessor.
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A review by Sotiris Mitralexis of my translation of St Maximos the Confessor, On Difficulties in Sacred Scripture: The Responses to Thalassios (CUA, 2018), published in Vigiliae Christianae 72 (2018): 1-4
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A paper given at the International Symposium on the Environment in Seoul, Korea (7 December 2018), where the keynote speaker was His All-Holiness, the Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew. After some introductory remarks, my paper focuses on... more
A paper given at the International Symposium on the Environment in Seoul, Korea (7 December 2018), where the keynote speaker was His All-Holiness, the Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew. After some introductory remarks, my paper focuses on St Maximos the Confessor's interpretation of the two trees in paradise, which figures prominently in his introduction to the Responses to Thalassios.
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This is my short introduction to _The Mystical Marriage: Spiritual Life according to St. Maximos the Confessor_ (Columbia, MO: Newrome Press, 2018). This book is an English translation of six talks given by Elder Aimilianos of Simonopetra... more
This is my short introduction to _The Mystical Marriage: Spiritual Life according to St. Maximos the Confessor_ (Columbia, MO: Newrome Press, 2018). This book is an English translation of six talks given by Elder Aimilianos of Simonopetra (Mt Athos) on select passages from St Maximos the Confessor's _Chapters on Love_. The introduction locates the Elder's work in the context of the study of the Church Fathers on the Holy Mountain.
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The first complete English translation of the Responses to Thalassios, including the 465 scholia; it is scheduled to appear in March of 2018.
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This is an English translation of Jean-Claude Larchet’s recent review of the study by Peter van Deun and Pascal Mueller-Jourdan, “Maxime le Confesseur,” in La théologie byzantine et sa tradition, ed. C.-G. Conticello, vol. 1/1 (Turnhout,... more
This is an English translation of Jean-Claude Larchet’s recent review of the study by Peter van Deun and Pascal Mueller-Jourdan, “Maxime le Confesseur,” in La théologie byzantine et sa tradition, ed. C.-G. Conticello, vol. 1/1 (Turnhout, 2015), 375-514.
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This is a short review/presentation of a new, two-volume anthology of the writings of St Maximos the Confessor.
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published in Analogia 1.2 (2017): 1-12 Maximus the Confessor and Dionysius the Areopagite are two of the most important representatives of what is often called Christian Neoplatonism, yet each made markedly different use of Neoplatonic... more
published in Analogia 1.2 (2017): 1-12
Maximus the Confessor and Dionysius the Areopagite are two of the most important representatives of what is often called Christian Neoplatonism, yet each made markedly different use of Neoplatonic categories and concepts. To date, there are no major studies comparing their respective responses to later Greek philosophy, which, this paper argues, are aligned with their respective responses to Origenism. To examine this phenomenon, this paper studies the Confessor's systematic restructuring of the Neoplatonic cycle of 'remaining, procession, and return', which departs significantly from the forms this cycle takes in the corpus Dionysiacum. Maximus' doctrine of the logoi, including the centrality of the incarnate Logos to his metaphysics, is at once a radical critique of Origenism, a tacit dismissal of Dionysian hierarchies, and a comprehensive rethinking of Christian Neoplatonism.
Maximus the Confessor and Dionysius the Areopagite are two of the most important representatives of what is often called Christian Neoplatonism, yet each made markedly different use of Neoplatonic categories and concepts. To date, there are no major studies comparing their respective responses to later Greek philosophy, which, this paper argues, are aligned with their respective responses to Origenism. To examine this phenomenon, this paper studies the Confessor's systematic restructuring of the Neoplatonic cycle of 'remaining, procession, and return', which departs significantly from the forms this cycle takes in the corpus Dionysiacum. Maximus' doctrine of the logoi, including the centrality of the incarnate Logos to his metaphysics, is at once a radical critique of Origenism, a tacit dismissal of Dionysian hierarchies, and a comprehensive rethinking of Christian Neoplatonism.
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This is my contribution to the forthcoming Oxford Handbook of Dionysius the Areopagite, edited by Mark Edwards et al. I have contributed another chapter to the same Handbook on the reception of Dionysius by Maximus the Confessor. Work on... more
This is my contribution to the forthcoming Oxford Handbook of Dionysius the Areopagite, edited by Mark Edwards et al. I have contributed another chapter to the same Handbook on the reception of Dionysius by Maximus the Confessor. Work on these articles began with a paper given at the International Workshop on the Corpus Dionysiacum, which met at the University of Oxford (Pusey House and St Cross College) in the summer of 2016.
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This is a brief portrait of Elder Aimilianos of Simonopetra, by Gerard Mathijsen, a Dutch Benedictine Monk of St Adelbert Abbey in the Netherlands. The document includes a link to the original Dutch text, an extensive recounting of the... more
This is a brief portrait of Elder Aimilianos of Simonopetra, by Gerard Mathijsen, a Dutch Benedictine Monk of St Adelbert Abbey in the Netherlands. The document includes a link to the original Dutch text, an extensive recounting of the life of Elder Aimilianos (also in Dutch), and links to photographs and videos from the funeral service and interment of the Elder at the Convent of the Annunciation (Ormylia), a dependency of Simonopetra. I am thankful to Fr Gerard for his kind permission to post his work on this site.
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I am grateful to Dimitri Conomos and Graham Speake for their kind permission to post this moving and informative account of the repose of Elder Aimilianos of Simonopetra.
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This is a transcription of a short talk I gave to the Friends of Mt Athos on 12 June, 2021. As indicated in the footnotes, most of my remarks are based on material from two books by Elder Aimilianos, _Psalms and the Life of Faith_... more
This is a transcription of a short talk I gave to the Friends of Mt Athos on 12 June, 2021. As indicated in the footnotes, most of my remarks are based on material from two books by Elder Aimilianos, _Psalms and the Life of Faith_ (Athens, 2011), and his _Προσμονή Θεού: Λόγοι περί ασθενείας, πόνου και θανάτου_ (Athens, 2018).
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This is the second and final part of my brief biography of Elder Aimilianos of Simonopetra. The Elder reposed in the Lord on 9 May 2019. May his memory be eternal! My apologies for the garbled Greek in some of the footnotes, apparently... more
This is the second and final part of my brief biography of Elder Aimilianos of Simonopetra. The Elder reposed in the Lord on 9 May 2019. May his memory be eternal!
My apologies for the garbled Greek in some of the footnotes, apparently the result of the formatting, though this does not appear in the version that was printed.
My apologies for the garbled Greek in some of the footnotes, apparently the result of the formatting, though this does not appear in the version that was printed.
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This book was published in Greek; there is currently no English translation available.
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A syllabus for a course on film and cinema as a means of teaching theology and spirituality, with special attention to the work of Terrence Malick and his philosophical and theological masterpiece, The Tree of Life (2011). The theological... more
A syllabus for a course on film and cinema as a means of teaching theology and spirituality, with special attention to the work of Terrence Malick and his philosophical and theological masterpiece, The Tree of Life (2011). The theological and cinematological key to this course is indebted to Paul Schrader's work on "Transcendental Film" (cited in the bibliography).
Note that the Terrence Malick film cited on this syllabus as "Radegund" was subsequently released under the new title of "A Hidden Life." This film, which depicts the real-life story of Franz Jagerstatter, an Austrian farmer who refused to fight in Hitler's army, for which he was executed and later beatified by the Roman Catholic church, premiered at the Cannes Film Festival in May 2019, where, after the film was screened, Malick received a remarkable five-minute standing ovation. "A Hidden Life" is scheduled for release in the fall of this year (2019).
Note that the Terrence Malick film cited on this syllabus as "Radegund" was subsequently released under the new title of "A Hidden Life." This film, which depicts the real-life story of Franz Jagerstatter, an Austrian farmer who refused to fight in Hitler's army, for which he was executed and later beatified by the Roman Catholic church, premiered at the Cannes Film Festival in May 2019, where, after the film was screened, Malick received a remarkable five-minute standing ovation. "A Hidden Life" is scheduled for release in the fall of this year (2019).
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A book review of
Church in the Making: An Apophatic Ecclesiology of Consubstantiality, NIKOLAOS LOUDOVIKOS,
Yonkers, NY: St Vladimir’s Seminary Press, 2016, pp. 296. ISBN 978–0–88141–509–4,
by Maximos Constas
Church in the Making: An Apophatic Ecclesiology of Consubstantiality, NIKOLAOS LOUDOVIKOS,
Yonkers, NY: St Vladimir’s Seminary Press, 2016, pp. 296. ISBN 978–0–88141–509–4,
by Maximos Constas
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A new translation series.
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This is a chapter for the forthcoming _Oxford Handbook of Orthodox Theology_ edited by Fr Andrew Louth. The material presented here draws on new scholarship (much of it engaged with previously unpublished documents) and provides a clearer... more
This is a chapter for the forthcoming _Oxford Handbook of Orthodox Theology_ edited by Fr Andrew Louth. The material presented here draws on new scholarship (much of it engaged with previously unpublished documents) and provides a clearer picture of the eighteenth-century Philokalic revival (and the so-called Kollyvades controversy) than had been previously available to us.
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The rise of digital culture has created both tremendous human possibilities as well as tremendous challenges and problems. Powerful corporate and commercial interests compete for our attention, which has become a valuable commodity in the... more
The rise of digital culture has created both tremendous human possibilities as well as tremendous challenges and problems. Powerful corporate and commercial interests compete for our attention, which has become a valuable commodity in the online world. Living in a culture of organized distractions, human awareness is fragmented, causing us to lose touch with ourselves, our neighbors, the world around us, and God. This paper explores the traditional ascetic practices of attention and watchfulness, which are recommended as counterweights to modern cultural, psychological, and spiritual fragmentation. The principal sources under consideration are drawn from the Philokalia, a collection of writings devoted to the practice of "attending to oneself."
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From the middle Byzantine period through the publication of the Philokalia in 1782 and beyond, St John Chrysostom has been acknowledged as an authoritative teacher of the Jesus Prayer. This claim rests on a number of letters and other... more
From the middle Byzantine period through the publication of the Philokalia in 1782 and beyond, St John Chrysostom has been acknowledged as an authoritative teacher of the Jesus Prayer. This claim rests on a number of letters and other texts that at an early date were ascribed to Chrysostom and given canonical status by the later Byzantine Hesychasts. This is an extensive excerpt from the introduction to my forthcoming book on the subject, which includes the Greek text and English translation of the Chrysostomic material in question. These are uncorrected page proofs; the volume will appear sometime before the end of 2019.
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This is a photographic reproduction of the original Introduction (or Prologue or Proemium) of the first edition of the Greek Philokalia, published in Venice in 1782. This introduction, written by St Nikodemos, was excluded from vol. 1 of... more
This is a photographic reproduction of the original Introduction (or Prologue or Proemium) of the first edition of the Greek Philokalia, published in Venice in 1782. This introduction, written by St Nikodemos, was excluded from vol. 1 of the English Philokalia (which appeared in 1979); for an English translation, see Constantine Cavarnos, trans., The Philokalia (Belmont, MA: Institute for Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies, 2008), pp. 27-40.
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Research Interests: Late Antique and Byzantine Studies, Byzantine Studies, Byzantine Architecture, Byzantine Iconography, Medieval Architecture, and 8 moreMedieval Art, Late Antique Art and Archaeology, Hierotopy, Byzantine Art and Archaeolgy, Icons, Byzantine art, Sacred Space, and Icons and Rituals: Sacred Biography, Pilgrimage and Sacred Spaces
Icons of Space brings together prominent scholars of Byzantine religion, art, and architecture to honor renowned art historian Alexei Lidov. Lidov developed hierotopy, an innovative approach for studying the creation of sacred spaces.... more
Icons of Space brings together prominent scholars of Byzantine religion, art, and architecture to honor renowned art historian Alexei Lidov. Lidov developed hierotopy, an innovative approach for studying the creation of sacred spaces. Sixteen chapters in this volume present icons of space by posing questions about multi-layered iconic ideas and the lived experiences of the creators and beholders of iconic spaces. Thus, this book contributes to image theory and theories of architecture and sacred space. Simultaneously, it moves beyond colonial studies that predominantly focus on religion and politics as expressions of privileged knowledge and power. This book will appeal to those interested in hierotopy and arts.
ISBN 9780367723491
ISBN 9780367723491
Research Interests: Christianity, Cultural Studies, Russian Studies, Aesthetics, Late Antique and Byzantine Studies, and 15 moreHistory of Ideas, Architecture, Architectural History, Byzantine Studies, Mediterranean, History of Art, Byzantine Architecture, Relics (Religion), Sacred Art, Religious Studies, Hierotopy, Sacred Architecture, Icons, Sacred Space, and Alexei Lidov
St Theodore the Studite's "Letter 380" is in many ways an epitome of Theodore’s icon theology. It has been translated by the Pappas Patristic Institute to offer readers and students of theology an idiomatic English version of the text.... more
St Theodore the Studite's "Letter 380" is in many ways an epitome of Theodore’s icon theology. It has been translated by the Pappas Patristic Institute to offer readers and students of theology an idiomatic English version of the text.
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