Paul Gavrilyuk came to the University of St. Thomas in 2001. An Eastern Orthodox historian and theologian, Gavrilyuk offers courses in the history of Christian doctrine, Christianity in late antiquity, liturgical studies, and Russian religious thought. He taught study-abroad courses and lectured in Italy, France, Belgium, Russia, Ukraine, and Kazakhstan. In spring 2007 he was invited as Visiting Professor to Harvard Divinity School, where he taught two graduate courses "Human and Divine Suffering in Late Antiquity" and "Introduction to Modern Russian Religious Thought."

His recent publications include two books: The Suffering of the Impassible God: The Dialectics of Patristic Thought (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004; paperback in 2006) and Histoire du catéchuménat dans l’église ancienne [A History of the Catechumenate in the Early Church]  (Paris: Cerf, 2007), which is a revised French edition of his book on the rites of initiation originally published in Russian in 2001. His scholarly articles appeared in The Journal of Theological Studies, Scottish Journal of Theology, and Vigiliae Christianae, among others. His current research includes a book on the pre-modern doctrine of the spiritual senses.  

For more information, visit personal.stthomas.edu/plgavrilyuk

Curriculum Vitae

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 Books

Histoire du catéchuménat dans l’église ancienne. Paris: Editions du Cerf, 2007.

The Suffering of the Impassible God: The Dialectics of Patristic Thought. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004. Paperback in 2006.

Recent Articles

"God’s Impassible Suffering in the Flesh: The Promise of Paradoxical Christology," in T. J. White, ed. Divine Impassibility and the Mystery of Human Suffering (Eerdmans, forthcoming). 

"God’s Participation in Human Suffering in the Early Christian Theology of Martyrdom," in Proceedings of L.E.S.T. V (Leuven, forthcoming in 2008)

"Eastern Orthodoxy (Philosophical Theology)," in The Routledge Companion to Philosophy of Religion, ed. Paul Copan and Chad V. Meister (London: Routledge, 2007).

"Scripture and Regula Fidei: Two Interlocking components of the Canonical Heritage" and "Canonical Liturgies: The Dialectic of Lex Orandi and Lex Credendi," in Canonical Theism, ed. William J. Abraham (Grand Rapids, Mich.: Eerdmans, 2008).

"Universal Salvation in the Eschatology of Sergius Bulgakov," The Journal of Theological Studies 57 (2006), 110-132.

"The Kenotic Theology of Sergius Bulgakov," Scottish Journal of Theology 58 (2005), 251-269.

"Melito’s Influence upon the Anaphora of Apostolic Constitutions 8. 12," Vigiliae Christianae 59 (2005), 355-376.

"Theopatheia: Nestorius’s Main Charge against Cyril of Alexandria," Scottish Journal of Theology 56 (2003), 190-207.

Education

Ph. D.-- Southern Methodist University (2001)

M. T. S.--Southern Methodist University (1995)

B.  S.--Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (1993)

Research Interests

Patristic Doctrine of God & Christology

Patristic Religious Epistemology

Modern Russian Religious Thought, esp. Sergius Bulgakov


Courses taught at the University of St. Thomas

THEO 101 Christian Theological Tradition

THEO 220 Early Christian Theology

THEO 388 Orthodoxy and Catholicism in Ukraine (study abroad course)

THEO 390 Sacred Places of France (study abroad course)

THEO 498 Studies in Historical Jesus (individual study)

THEO 498 Knowledge of God in Scripture and Tradition (individual study)

CATH 397 Initiation and Worship in the Early Church (study abroad course in Rome)

DVHS 601 Patristics

Courses taught at Harvard Divinity School (Spring 2007)

Human and Divine Suffering in Late Antiquity

Introduction to Modern Russian Religious Thought

Courses taught at Southern Methodist University (1998-2001)

ST 6301-2 Interpretation of the Christian Message I & II (advanced M. Div. course in Systematic Theology)

HX 6305-6 The Christian Heritage I & II (introductory M. Div. course in History of Christianity)

HX 8380 Understandings of Atonement in the Christian Tradition (advanced M. Div. course)