Education

Ph.D., Emory University, 2009

M.T.S., Vanderbilt University Divinity School, 2004

B.S., Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 1991

 Interests

Early Christianity/Patristics; historical theology, particularly doctrinal debates and developments (Trinitarian doctrine, Christology, soteriology, anthropology); the interpretation of scripture in early Christianity; landmark figures such as Origen, Eusebius, Athanasius, Didymus, Basil of Caesarea, Augustine, and Gregory the Great.

 Current Work

 From Asterius to Eunomius: The Development of the Doctrine of the Trinity, 318-362. A monograph on the development of the “non-Nicene” doctrine of the Trinity and an assessment of its contributions to later “pro-Nicene” orthodoxy.

Basil the Theologian. A monograph on Basil of Caesarea’s Trinitarian theology and Christology.

St. Basil the Great: Homilies on Christian Doctrine and Practice. Popular Patristics Series. Crestwood: St. Vladimir’s Seminary Press [under contract, delivery summer 2011]. An annotated translation of eleven authentic homilies on Trinitarian theology and various aspects of Christian practice, along with an introduction.

Basil of Caesarea: On Fasting and Feasts. Popular Patristics Series. Crestwood: St. Vladimir’s Seminary Press [under contract, delivery 2013]. With Susan R. Holman. Of the nine homilies presented in this volume, I contribute annotated translations of the three authentic homilies on fasting and drunkenness, and one on the incarnation.

Select Publications

 Books:

St. Basil of Caesarea: Against Eunomius. The Fathers of the Church 122. Washington, D.C.: The Catholic University of America Press, 2011. With Andrew Radde-Gallwitz.

Basil of Caesarea’s Anti-Eunomian Theory of Names: Christian Theology and Late-Antique Philosophy in the Fourth-Century Trinitarian Controversy. Vigiliae Christianae, Supplements 103. Leiden: Brill, 2010.

Recent articles:

"Basil of Caesarea, Didymus the Blind, and the Anti-Pneumatomachian Exegesis of Amos 4:13 and John 1:3,” Journal of Theological Studies n.s. 61 (2010): 644–58.

“The Death of George of Laodicea,” Journal of Theological Studies n.s. 60 (2009): 181–190.

“The Eusebian Alliance: the Case of Theodotus of Laodicea,” Zeitschrift für Antikes Christentum / Journal of Ancient Christianity 12 (2008): 250–66.

“Aphrahat on the Modes of Christ’s Indwelling,” Orientalia Christiana Periodica 74 (2008): 181–193.

“Basil of Caesarea on Proverbs 8:22 and the Sources of Pro-Nicene Theology,” Journal of Theological Studies n.s. 59 (2008): 183–190.

“Eusebian Theologies of the Son as Image of God before 341,” Journal of Early Christian Studies 14.4 (2006): 459–484.

Forthcoming:

Gregory the Great on the Song of Songs. Cistercian Studies Series. Kalamazoo: Cistercian Publications [forthcoming, Spring 2012].

Works on the Spirit: Athanasius and Didymus. Popular Patristics Series. Crestwood: St. Vladimir’s Seminary Press [forthcoming, 2013]. With Andrew Radde-Gallwitz and Lewis Ayres.