Publications:

Books published and completed

Augustine and the Trinity (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, forthcoming).

Works on the Spirit: Athanasius and Didymus, tr. and ed. with Mark DelCogliano and
Andrew Radde-Gallwitz (Crestwood NY: St. Vladimir’s Seminary Press, forthcoming).
The Mystery of the Holy Trinity in the Fathers of the Church, edited with Vincent Twomey
(Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2007), 199pp.
The Question of Orthodoxy in Early Christianity, edited. Special edition of Journal of Early
Christian Studies 14 (2006).
Nicaea and its Legacy: An Approach to Fourth Century Trinitarian Theology (Oxford and
New York: Oxford University Press, 2004), 496pp. Paperback 2006.
[sample review: Maurice Wiles, JThS 56 (2005), 670-675;
review symposium in Harvard Theological Review 100 (2007)]
The Cambridge History of Early Christian Literature, edited with Andrew Louth & Frances
Young, (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004), 538pp. Paperback 2007.
Christian Origins: Theology, Rhetoric and Community, edited with Gareth Jones (London:
Routledge, 1998), pp. x + 219.
The Passionate Intellect: Essays on the Transformation of Classical Traditions Presented to
Professor Ian Kidd, Rutgers University Studies in the Classical Humanities Vol. VII, edited
(Brunswick NJ: Transaction , 1995), pp. xvi + 376.
Corpus of British Medieval Library Catalogues: Standard Editions Titles and Notes with
Richard Sharpe & David N. Bell, (London: British Library, 1993), pp. 114. [2nd ed. 1994, pp.
160; 3rd ed. 1995 only Richard Sharpe]

Editorial Appointments

Journals

2006- Editorial Board member, Modern Theology

Blackwell Publishers

2006- Editorial Board member, Conversations in Theology

Blackwell Publishers

2001- Editorial Board member, Journal of Early Christian Studies.

Johns Hopkins University Press

Book Series

2007- Co-editor, with Dr. Mark Edwards of “Ashgate Studies in Philosophy and
Theology in Late Antiquity.”

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2002- International Advisory Board, “CUA Studies in Early Christianity,” published by
Catholic University of America Press.

1994- Co-editor, with Prof. Gareth Jones, of “Challenges in Theology,” Blackwell

Publishers. The following volumes have appeared:
Catherine Pickstock, After Writing: On the Liturgical Consummation of
Philosophy.
David Cunningham, These Three are One: The Practice of Trinitarian Theology.
Mark McIntosh, Mystical Theology.
Stephen E. Fowl, Engaging Scripture.
Eugene Rogers, Sexuality and the Christian Body.
William Cavanaugh, Torture and the Eucharist.
Paul Fiddes, The Promised End
Rowan D. Williams, On Christian Theology.
Sarah Coakley, Powers and Submissions
Gerard Loughlin, Alien Sex
Ian Markham, A Theology of Engagement
Matthew Levering, Scripture and Metaphysics: Aquinas and the Renewal of
Trinitarian Theology
Graham Ward, Christ and Culture
Rachel Muers, Keeping God’s Silence
David Burrell, Faith and Freedom
Mark Jordan, Rewritten Theology
Samuel Wells, God’s Companions: Reimagining Christian Ethics
Paul DeHart, The Trial of the Witnesses: The Rise and Decline of Postliberal
Theology
David Ford, Shaping Theology
Gavin D’Costa, Theology in the Public Square

Articles in peer-reviewed academic journals:

1. “The Soul and the Reading of Scripture: A Note on Henri De Lubac,” Scottish Journal of
Theology 61 (2008), 173-190.

2. “Lex Domini, Lex Spiritus: Pro-Nicene Pneumatology AD 360-400.” This article and no.
2 will be part of a special edition of Augustinian Studies, forthcoming 2008.

3. “Spiritus Amborum: The Foundations of Augustine’s Pneumatology.”

4. “Giving Wings to Nicaea: Reading Augustine’s Earliest Trinitarian Theology,”

Augustinian Studies 38 (2007).

5. “Nicaea and Its Legacy: An Introduction” and “A Response to the Critics of Nicaea and
Its Legacy,” Harvard Theological Review 100 (2007), 141-144, 159-171 [part of review
symposium on my Nicaea and Its Legacy].

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6. “Deification and the Dynamics of pro-Nicene theology: The Contribution of Gregory of
Nyssa,” St. Vladimir’s Theological Quarterly 49 (2005), 375-395.

7. “Augustine on the Rule of Faith: Rhetoric, Christology, and the foundation of Christian
thinking,” Augustinian Studies 36 (2005), 33-49.

8. “Athanasius’s initial defense of the term o(moou&sioj: Re-reading the De decretis,”

Journal of Early Christian Studies 12 (2004), 337-359.

9. “On Not Three Persons: The Structure of Gregory of Nyssa’s Trinitarian Theology as
seen in Ad Ablabium: On Not Three Gods,” Modern Theology 18 (2002), 445-474.

[also printed in Sarah Coakley (ed.) Re-Thinking Gregory of Nyssa (Oxford

and Malden MA: Blackwells, 2003), 15-44]

10. “On Knowing the End: Some Questions for David Ford,” Journal of Scriptural
Reasoning 1 (2001) (web-based journal from University of Virginia, Dept of Religious
Studies: http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/journals/ssr/issues/volume1/number1/).

11. “’Remember that you are Catholic’ (serm. 52, 2): Augustine on the Unity of the Triune
God,” Journal of Early Christian Studies 8 (2000), 39-82.

12. “John D. Caputo and the faith of soft-postmodernism,” Irish Theological Quarterly 70
(2000), 13-31.
13. with Stephen E. Fowl, “(Mis)reading the face of God: The Interpretation of the Bible in
the Church,” Theological Studies 60 (1999), 513-528.
14. “On The Practice and Teaching of Christian Doctrine,” Gregorianum 80/1 (1999), 33-94.
15. “Imagining the End: The Augustinian Dynamics of Expectation,” Concilium 1998/4, 40-
50.
16. “Christology and Faith in Augustine's De trinitate XIII: Toward Relocating Books VIII -
XV,” Augustinian Studies 29 (1998), 111-139.
[also printed in V. Twomey & T. Finan (eds.), Studies in Patristic
Christology (Dublin: Four Courts Press, 1998), 95-121.]
17. “Augustine on God as Love and Love as God,” Pro Ecclesia 5 (1996), 470-487.
18. “Agustín y Ticonio sobre metafísica y exégesis,” Augustinus 90 (1995), 13-30.
19. “Faith, Theology and Representation,” Modern Theology 11 (1995), 23-47.
[also printed in G. Jones & S. Fowl (eds.), Rethinking Metaphysics (Oxford &
Cambridge MA: Blackwells, 1995), 23-47.]
20. “Between Athens and Jerusalem: Prolegomena to Anthropology in Augustine's De
trinitate,” Modern Theology 8 (1992), 53-73.

21. “Francis and the Dark Night of Creation: A meditation on foolishness and discernment in
St Francis of Assisi,” New Blackfriars 71 (1990), 244–253.

Chapters in books, encyclopedia articles, other articles

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22. “Didymus the Blind’s De Spiritu Sancto and the Development of pro-Nicene
Pneumatological traditions,” in Lewis Ayres (ed.) Unity and Diversity in Nicene
Theology, book proposal currently under consideration.
23. “Christology as Contemplative Practice: Understanding the Union of Natures in
Augustine’s Ep. 137,” in Peter Martens (ed.) In the Shadow of the Incarnation: Essays in
Honor of Brian Daley (Notre Dame: Notre Dame University Press, forthcoming 2008).
24. “The Doctrine of God,” with Andrew Radde-Gallwitz, in Susan Harvey and David
Hunter (eds.) The Oxford Handbook of Early Christian Studies (Oxford: Oxford
University Press, forthcoming 2008).
25. “Relationaliy and the Trinity,” for John Polkinghorne and John Zizioulas (eds)
Relational Ontology in Science and Theology (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, forthcoming
2008).
26. "'It's not for eatin' - it's for lookin' through'": Memoria, Intellegentia,
Voluntas and the argument of Augustine's De trinitate IX-X," in Lewis Ayres and
Vincent Twomey (eds.), The Mystery of the Trinity in the Fathers of the Church,
Supplements to Irish Theological Quarterly (Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2007), 37-64.
27. Articles in New Westminster Dictionary of Church History (Westminster John Knox
Press, forthcoming 2008):
1. “Arius, Arianism”
2. “Athanasius of Alexandria”
3. “Basil of Caesarea”
4. “Constantinople, Council of (381)”
5. “Eusebius of Nicomedia”
6. “Hellenization”
7. “Pneumatomachians”

28. “Patristic and Medieval Theologies of Scripture: An Introduction,” in Justin Holcomb

(ed.) Christian Theologies of Scripture: A Comparative Introduction (New York: NYU
Press, 2006), 11-20.
29. “Shine, Jesus, Shine: On Locating Apollinarianism,” in Frances Young, Mark Edwards
and Paul Parvis (eds.) Studia Patristica XL, Papers presented at the fourteenth
International Conference on Patristic Studies held in Oxford 2003 (Louvain: Peeters,
2006), 143-157.
30. “The Patristic Hermeneutic Heritage,” in Paul Ballard (ed.) The Bible in Pastoral
Practice: A Reader (London: DLT, 2005) 25-41.
31. “The Final Act,” Christian History and Biography 85 (2005), 39-42 (special edition on
the Council of Nicaea).
32. “Articulating Identity: the fourth and fifth centuries,” in L. Ayres, A. Louth & F. Young
(eds.), The Cambridge History of Early Christian Literature (Cambridge: CUP, 2004),
414-463.
33. “A Reading of John D. Caputo’s ‘God and Anonymity’,” in Mark Dooley (ed.) A Passion
for the Impossible: John D. Caputo in Focus (Albany NY: SUNY Press, 2003), 129-146.
(With response by Caputo, 147-152).

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34. “Augustine, Christology and God as Love: An Introduction to the Homilies on 1 John,”
Kevin Vanhoozer (ed.) Nothing Greater, Nothing Better: Theological Essays on the Love
of God (Grand Rapids MI: Eerdmans, 2001), 67-93.
35. “A Lack of Theological Vision: The Interpretation of Reality and the future of ‘liberal’
theology,” in Ian Markham and J’anine Jobling (eds.) Radical Liberalism (London:
SPCK, 2000), 194-202.
36. “The Grammar of Augustine’s Trinitarian theology,” in Robert Dodaro & George
Lawless (eds.), Augustine and his Critics (London & New York: Routledge, 1999), 56-
71.
37. Articles in Allan Fitzgerald (ed.), Augustine Through The Ages: An Encyclopedia (Grand
Rapids MI: Eerdmans, 1999):
1. “Being: esse, essentia”
2. “The Cappadocians”
3. “God” (with Michel R. Barnes)
4. “Measure, number and weight (Wisd. 11:21)”

[all articles also in A. Fitzgerald & J. García (eds.), Diccionario de San

Agustín. San Agustín a través del tiempo (2001), and A. Fitgerald and M.-
A. Vannier (eds.) Saint Augustin. La Méditerranée et l'Europe. IVe-XXIe
siècle (Paris: Cerf, 2005)]

38. “Introduction: A project in The Study of Christian Origins,” in (ed.) Lewis Ayres &
Gareth Jones, Christian Origins: Theology, Rhetoric and Community (London:
Routledge, 1998), 1-7.
39. “Theology, Social Science and Postmodernity: Some Theological Considerations,” in K.
Flanagan & P. Jupp (eds.), Postmodernity, Sociology and Religion (London: MacMillan,
1996), 174-189.
40. “The Discipline of Self-knowledge in Augusine's De trinitate Book X,” Lewis Ayres,
(ed.), The Passionate Intellect: Essays on the Transformation of Classical Traditions
Presented to Professor Ian Kidd, Rutgers University Studies in the Classical Humanities
Vol. VII (Brunswick NJ: Transaction , 1995), 261-296.
41. “Bibliography: De Doctrina Christiana 1950-1990,” (ed.) D. W. H. Arnold & P. Bright,
De Doctrina Christiana: A Classic of Western Culture, vol I (Notre Dame IN & London:
Notre Dame U. P., 1995), 247-260.

Review articles

42. “Augustine on the Couch: J.J. O’Donnell’s Augustine: A New Biography, Christian
Century, February 7th, 2006.
43. “The Mysteries of Being: Martin Henry’s On Not Understanding God,” Irish
Theological Quarterly 71 (2001), 75-80.
44. ’In the path of thy judgements’: Oliver O'Donovan's The Desire of the Nations,” Reviews
in Religion and Theology (1997), 25-34.
45. “The Craft of Forgiveness: L. Gregory Jones's Embodying Forgiveness,” Reviews in
Religion and Theology 3/5 (1996), 21-26.

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 46. “Augustine, The Trinity and Modernity: Colin Gunton's The One, The Three and The
Many,” Augustinian Studies 26 (1995), 127-133.
47. “Karl Barth and the Future of Theology,” Reviews in Religion and Theology, 2/4 (1995),
16-28.
48. “Edward Schillebeeckx at Eighty: A Happy Theologian?,” Reviews in Religion and
Theology 1/4 (1994), 9-17.

Book reviews (sample)

"Surrounded with Sense", review of J. J. O'Donnell, Augustine Confessions, 3 vols (Oxford:

Clarendon Press, 1992), Times Higher Educational Supplement, Jan 22nd, 1993, 22.
J. Milbank, Theology and Social Theory (Oxford: Blackwells, 1990), in Scottish Journal of
Theology 45 (1992), 125-6.
C. Gunton, The Promise of Trinitarian Theology (Edinburgh, T. & T. Clark, 1991), Journal of
Theological Studies 43 (1992), 780-782.
J. Moltmann, History and the Triune God, tr. J. Bowden (London: SCM, 1991), Scottish Journal
of Theology 46 (1993), 574-5.
E. Moltmann-Wendel & J. Moltmann, God - His and Hers (London: SCM, 1991), Scottish
Journal of Theology 46 (1993), 571-2.
J. Hick, The Metaphor of God Incarnate (London: SCM, 1993), Reviews in Religion and
Theology (RRT) 1 (1994), 22-25.
A. Nicholls, The Panther and the Hind: A Theological History of Anglicanism (Edinburgh: T. &.
T. Clark, 1993), RRT 1 (1994), 32-35
S. R. L. Clarke, Limits and Renewals, 3 vols, (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1989-91), Modern
Theology 10 (1994), 227-229.
A. E. McGrath, Christian Theology: An Introduction (Oxford: Blackwells, 1994), Theology 97
(1994), 440-442.
J. Auer, The Church: The Universal Sacrament of Salvation, Dogmatic Theology 8 (Washington
D.C.: Catholic University of America Press, 1993), RRT 1 (1994), 63-67.
G. Gutierez, Las Casas: In Search of the Poor of Jesus Christ (New York: Orbis, 1993), RRT 2/1
(1995), 57-59.
S. Elm, Virgins of God: The Making of Asceticism in Late Antiquity (Oxford: Clarendon Press,
1994), RRT 2/4 (1995) 76-79.
J. Rist, Augustine: Ancient Philosophy Baptised (Cambridge: CUP, 1994), RRT 3 (1996), 89-91.
D. Williams, Ambrose of Milan and the End of the Arian-Nicene Conflicts (Oxford: Clarendon
Press, 1995), RRT 3/1 (1996), 90-2.
D. Brakke, Athansius and the Politics of Asceticism (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1995), RRT 3
(1996), 92-3.
D. Turner, The Darkness of God: Negativity in Christian Mysticism (Cambridge: CUP, 1995),
Modern Theology 14 (1998), 147-149.
I. Markham, Truth and the Reality of God (Edinburgh: T. & T. Clark, 1998), Theology 102
(March/April 1999), 130-131.
C. Gestrich, The Return of Splendor in the World: The Christian Doctrine of Sin and Forgiveness
(Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1997), RRT 6/1 (1999), 76-77.
T. Weinandy, The Father's Spirit of Sonship: Reconceiving the Trinity (T. & T. Clark, 1995),
Journal of Theological Studies ns. 50 (1999), 430-432.
G. Green, Theology, Hermeneutics and Imagination: The Crisis of Interpretation at the End of
Modernity (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000), Modern Theology 17 (2001), 256-
258.

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R. D. Williams, Arius: Heresy and Tradition (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2001), Anglican
Theological Review 85 (2003), 574-6.
H. Chadwick, The Church in Ancient Society (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002), Journal of
Early Christian Studies 2002.
C. Kannengiesser et al. Handbook of Patristic Exegesis, 2 vols (Leiden: Brill, 2004), Journal of
Early Christian Studies 13 (2005), 532-536.