Research

Here are the titles of some of my extended research papers, as well as the full text of some of my shorter papers.

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Current Research:

The Feast of the Entry of the Theotokos into the Temple: A study of its origins and theology – M.Th Thesis in progress. St. Vladimir’s Orthodox Theological Seminary. Advisers: Fr. John Behr and Fr. Alexander Rental. Date of completion May 5th, 2009.

Extended Papers (in no particular order):

◊ Wagner, Sarah. “The Coptic Book of Job and Leiden Or. 14.544: An Inquiry into Its Textual History and Its Place with the Book of Proverbs.” Saint Shenouda Coptic Quarterly 1.3 (April 2005) 3–23. PUBLISHED. http://www.stshenouda.com/SSCQ/sscq.htm#V1_3

◊ Penthos and Tears in the Spiritual Teachings of the Mystical Tradition: From Evagrius of Pontus and Symeon the New Theologian to Dimitru Staniloae

◊ The Literal and the Allegorical: Scriptural Exegesis of Modern Commentators and the Exegetical Method of Origen of Alexandria in Matthew 25:31-46

◊ Schismatics and the Holy Spirit in Basil’s First Canon and Onward

◊ A Comparison of Fr. Sergius Bulgakov’s The Holy Grail and The Eucharist with Previous Liturgical Commentaries

◊ The Question of the Ordination of Deaconesses in Liturgical Texts and Canon Law of the Byzantine and Latin Churches

◊ Kassia the Hymnographer and Her Use of Feminine Language in Her Hymnography

◊ The Interpretation of Creation According to Origen of Alexandria and Basil the Great – Abstract

◊ The Adulterous Soul: A Comparison of Psyche in Origen of Alexandria and The Nag Hammadi Library – Abstract

◊ Karl Rahner Between Augustine and the Cappadocians: Patristic Approaches to Understanding the Economic and Immanent Trinity

◊ Rewriting and Interpreting Scripture in the Dead Sea Scrolls – Abstract

◊ Old Testament Images in the Hymnography of the Feast of the Entrance of the Theotokos

◊ The Emerging Church: Its relationship to orthodoxy and Orthodoxy

◊ Literary and Rhetorical Analysis of Gregory of Nyssa’s Letter to Theodosius concerning the Belly-Myther

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Short Papers (again, in no particular order):

This page has the following sub pages.

• Gregory the Theologian, Dionysius the Areopagite, Vladimir Lossky, and Apophatic Theology
• What Does it Mean to be in the Image of God? Irenaeus of Lyon Against the Gnostics
• One Person or Two in Gregory of Nyssa’s Against Eunomius 3.3
• The Trinity in Johannine Literature and its Consequences for a Perichoretic Understanding of the Trinity in the Fourth Gospel