University of Oxford

Faculty Member, Theology

British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow (2011-2014)

Regent's Park College

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Select Publications

Freedom and Necessity in Modern Trinitarian Theology (Accepted and forthcoming from Oxford University Press, Oxford Theological Monographs).

[with Christopher Hays, Julia Konstantinovsky, Richard Ounsworth and Casey Strine] When the Son of Man Didn’t Come: A Constructive Proposal Regarding the “Delay of the Parousia” (wholly written or collaborated on 5 of 10 chapters) (under consideration by OUP).

'Sophiology, Antinomism and the Problematic of Pantheism in the Trinitarian Theology of Sergii Bulgakov: A Panentheistic Response in Joseph A. Bracken?' in Bridge Over Troubled Waters? Evaluation and Critique of Joseph Bracken’s Comprehensive Worldview, A Festschrift for Joseph A. Bracken, S. J., eds. Gloria Schaab and Marc Pugliese (Forthcoming Marquette University Press, June 2012).

'Georges Florovsky' in S. J. Kristiansen and Svein Rise, eds., Fifty Theological Thinkers--From Modern to Postmodern Theologians (Forthcoming Ashgate, Summer 2012).

'A Helper of Providence: "Justified Providential War" in Vladimir Solov'ev ' in War in Eastern Christian Thought: Perspectives from Orthodox Christian Scholars, eds. Perry T. Hamalis and Valerie A. Karras (Forthcoming from Notre Dame UP).

‘“Waiting for the Barbarians”: Identity and Polemicism in the Neo-Patristic Synthesis of Georges Florovsky’, Modern Theology, 27.4 (October 2011), 659-691.

Entry on ‘Florovsky, Georges (1893-1979)’, The Cambridge Dictionary of Christianity, Gen. Ed. Daniel Patte (Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2010), 428-429.

‘The Christological Focus of Vladimir Solov’ev’s Sophiology’, Modern Theology, 25.4 (October 2009), 617-646.

‘Georges Florovsky’ in Ståle Johannes Kristiansen and Svein Rise, eds., Moderne teologi: Tradisjon og nytenkning hos det 20. århundrets teologer (Kristiansand: Höøyskoleforlaget-Norwegian Academic Press, 2008), 366-379.

‘Graced Creatureliness: Ontological Tension in the Uncreated/Created Distinction in the Sophiologies of Solov’ev, Bulgakov and Milbank’, Logos: A Journal of Eastern Christian Studies, 47.1-2 (2006), 163-190.

‘“...Tam Svoboda”: Problema Bozhestvennnoi Svobody i Neobkhodimosti Liubvi u K. Barta i S. Bulgakova’ in Russkoe Bogoslovie v Evropeiskom Kontekste: S. N. Bulgakov i zapadnaia religiozno-filosofskaia mysl’, Seriia ‘Religioznye mysliteli’, ed., Vladimir Porus (Moscow: Bibleisko-bogoslovskii institut sv. apostola Andreia, 2006), 40-81.

‘Georges Florovsky on reading the life of St Seraphim’, Sobornost, 27.1 (2005): 58-70. [‘Ho orthos tropos anagnoses tou Viou hagiou Serapheim, kata ton p. Georgio Phlorophsky’, Synaxi, 98 (April-June 2006), 55-65 [translation]].

[done with Irina Kukota] ‘Protopresbyter Sergii Bulgakov: Hypostasis and Hypostaticity: Scholia to the Unfading Light’, St Vladimir’s Theological Quarterly, 49:1-2 (2005),  5-46 [translation from Russian, introduction, notes and appendix]

«La Question de «l’intercommunion»: point de vue orthodoxe», Diakonia, No 49 (Juillet-Août-Septembre 2005), 27-28. [reprint of article below]

«La Question de «l’intercommunion»: point de vue orthodoxe», Unité des Chrétiens, No 138 (Avril 2005),  26-28.

‘Bulgakov’s Ecumenical Thought’,  Sobornost,  24.1 (2002), 24-55.

‘Bulgakov and intercommunion’,  Sobornost,  24.2 (2002),  9-28.

Reviews in Modern Theology, St Vladimir’s Theological Quarterly, Logos: A Journal of Eastern Christian Studies, The Russian Review, ARC and Sourozh.

Recent Lectures, Seminar and Conference Papers

‘Between the Trinity and Hell: Evil and Suffering in Modern Orthodox Theology’ (Day Long Lecture Course on Subject), Institute for Orthodox Christian Studies, Wesley House, Cambridge, 17 December 2011.

Collaborative presentation of forthcoming book (When the Son of Man Didn’t Come: A Constructive Proposal Regarding the “Delay of the Parousia”) from Oxford Postdoctoral Colloquium, 9 December 2011, Institute for Bible, Theology and Hermeneutics, Director: Dr Mark Elliott, University of St Andrews, School of Divinity, St Mary’s College.

'The Vocation of the Academic Theologian?', British Early Career Association for Theologians (BECAT), 8-9 September 2011, St Edmund Hall, University of Oxford.

'A Tale of Two Speeches: Post-Secularism, Primacy, the Papacy and the Critique of the Secular in the Theologies of Benedict XVI and Met. Hilarion Alfeyev', Oxford – Bonn Theology Faculty Graduate and Senior Seminar, St John's College, Oxford, 13 September 2011.

'An Alternate Modernity?: Orthodox and Roman Catholic Engagements with Secularism and (Post) Modernity and the Nature of Episcopal Authority', 'The Challenge of a Secular Age', 12th Annual Summer School, Institute for Orthodox Christian Studies, Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, 24 July-29 July 2011.

'The God of Possibility, Divine Possibilities and the Last Things (II)', Trinity Term 2011, 9 June 2011, Paper for Post-doctoral Eschatology Seminar, Keble and Oriel Colleges, Oxford, Convenor: Dr Christopher Hayes.

'Antinomism, Trinity and the Challenge of Rationalism in the Theology of Sergii Bulgakov', 'Sergey Bulgakov’s Heritage in Modern Social and Humanitarian Discourse-- International Scientific Conference to Commemorate Sergey Bulgakov's 140th birthday', Kiev National University, Faculty of Economics, Kiev, Ukraine, 12-14 May 2011.

'The God of Possibility, Divine Possibilities and the Last Things (I)', Hilary Term 2011, 31 March 2011 and Trinity Term 2011, 26 April 2011, Paper for Post-doctoral Eschatology Seminar, Keble and Oriel Colleges, Oxford, Convenor: Dr Christopher Hayes.

'An Ecclesial Approach to Hermeneutics and Doctrinal Development', Hilary Term 2011, 28 February 2011, Paper for Post-doctoral Eschatology Seminar, Keble and Oriel Colleges, Oxford, Convenor: Dr Christopher Hayes.

New Testament/Modern Theology Joint Seminar on the Subject of 'Hope'--Hilary Term 2011, 21 February 2011, Respondent to paper of Dr Julia Konstantinovsky on 'Apokatastasis: A Patristic Perspective on Hope [on Evagrius Ponticus]', Christ Church. Convenors: Profs George Pattison and Markus Bockmuehl.

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