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Research Interests
Tertullian
Cyprian
Novatian
Fifth-century Popes - Innocent I, Leo the Great
Augustine of Hippo
Constantine
Roman North Africa
Jews and Christians
Rhetorical criticism
Early Christian letters and homilies
Mariology
Pre-Nicene Christian theology (especially ecclesiology)
Roman imperial history from the 1st to 5th centuries
Early Christian art and architecture (mosaics, catacomb art)
Books
Prayer and Spirituality in the Early Church, vol. 3: Liturgy and Life, ed. Bronwen Neil, Geoffrey D. Dunn and Lawrence Cross (Sydney: St. Paul’s Publications, 2003).
Tertullian, The Early Church Fathers (London: Routledge, 2004).
Cyprian and the Bishops of Rome: Questions of Papal Primacy in the Early Church, Early Christian Studies 11 (Sydney: St. Pauls, 2007).
Articles & Chapters
1998
“Aristotle and the Art of Preaching,” Worship 72 (1998), pp. 220-235.
“Tertullian and Rebekah: A Re-Reading of an ‘Anti-Jewish’ Argument in Early Christian Literature,” Vigiliae Christianae 52 (1998), pp. 121-145.
1999
“Two Goats, Two Advents and Tertullian’s adversus Iudaeos,” Augustinianum 39 (1999), pp. 245-264.
“Pro Temporum Condicione: Jews and Christians as God’s People in Tertullian’s Adversus Iudaeos,” in Prayer and Spirituality in the Early Church, vol. 2, ed. Pauline Allen, Wendy Mayer and Lawrence Cross (Brisbane: Centre for Early Christian Studies, Australian Catholic University, 1999), pp. 315-341.
2000
“The Universal Spread of Christianity as a Rhetorical Argument in Tertullian’s adversus Iudaeos,” Journal of Early Christian Studies 8 (2000), pp. 1-19.
2001
“Divine Impassibility and Christology in the Christmas Homilies of Leo the Great,” Theological Studies 62 (2001), pp. 71-85.
“Peter and Paul in Rome: The Perspective of the North African Church,” in Pietro e Paolo: Il loro rapporto con Roma nelle testimonianze antiche (xxix Incontro di studiosi dell’antichità cristiana, Roma 4-6 maggio 2000) Studia Ephemeridis Augustinianum 74 (Rome: Institutum Patristicum Augustinianum, 2001), pp. 405-413.
“Suffering Humanity and Divine Impassibility: The Christology of the Lenten Homilies of Leo the Great,” Augustinianum 41(2001), pp. 257-271.
“The Ancestry of Jesus according to Tertullian: ex David per Mariam,” Studia Patristica 36, ed. M. F. Wiles and E. J. Yarnold (papers presented to the 13th International Conference on Patristic Studies, Oxford 1999) ( Leuven : Peeters, 2001), pp. 349-355.
2002
“Rhetorical Structure in Tertullian’s ad Scapulam,”Vigiliae Christianae 56 (2002), pp. 47-55.
“The Carthaginian Synod of 251: Cyprian’s Model of Pastoral Ministry,” inI concili della cristianità occidentale secoli III-V (xxx Incontro di studiosi dell’antichità cristiana, Roma 3-5 maggio 2001) Studia Ephemeridis Augustinianum 78 (Rome: Institutum Patristicum Augustinianum, 2002), pp. 235-257.
“Tertullian and Daniel 9:24-27: A Patristic Interpretation of a Prophetic Time-Frame,” Zeitschrift für Antikes Christentum 6 (2002), pp. 330-344.
“The Diversity and Unity of God in Novatian’s de Trinitate,” Ephemerides Theologicae Lovanienses 78 (2002), pp. 385-409.
“Cyprian of Carthage and the Episcopal Synod of Late 254,” Revue d’Études Augustiniennes 48 (2002), pp. 229-247.
2003
“Cyprian and His Collegae: Patronage and the Episcopal Synod of 252,” Journal of Religious History 27 (2003), pp. 1-13.
“Infected Sheep and Diseased Cattle or the Pure and Holy Flock: Cyprian’s Pastoral Care of Virgins,” Journal of Early Christian Studies 11 (2003), pp. 1-20.
“Clement of Rome and the Question of Roman Primacy in the African Tradition” Augustinianum 43 (2003), pp. 1-24.
“Mary in the Presbyteral Homilies of Augustine of Hippo,” in Prayer and Spirituality in the Early Church, vol. 3: Liturgy and Life, ed. Bronwen Neil, Geoffrey D. Dunn and Lawrence Cross (Sydney : St. Paul ’s Publications 2003), pp. 83-91
“Probabimus venisse eum iam - The Fulfilment of Daniel’s Prophetic Time-Frame in Tertullian’s adversus Iudaeos,” Zeitschrift für Antikes Christentum 7 (2003), pp. 140-155.
“A Survey of Tertullian’s Soteriology,” Sacris Erudiri 42 (2003), pp. 61-86.
"Sententiam nostram non nouam promimus: Cyprian and the Episcopal Synod of 255," Annuarium Historiae Conciliorum 35 (2003), pp. 211-221.
2004
“Schism and Heresy According to Cyprian of Carthage,” Journal of Theological Studies n.s. 55 (2004), pp. 551-574.
“Censuimus: Cyprian and the Episcopal Synod of 253,” Latomus 63 (2004), pp. 672-688.
“The White Crown of Works: Cyprian’s Early Pastoral Ministry of Almsgiving in Carthage,” Church History 73 (2004), pp. 715-740.
2005
“Rhetoric and Tertullian’s de Virginibus Velandis,” Vigiliae Christianae 59 (2005), pp.1-30.
“Roman Primacy in the Correspondence Between Innocent I and John Chrysostom,” (Rome 2004) in Giovanni Cristomo: Oriente e Occidente tra IV e V secolo (xxxiii Incontro di studiosi dell’antichità cristiana, Roma 6-8 maggio 2004) Studia Ephemeridis Augustinianum 93/2 ( Rome: Institutum Patristicum Augustinianum, 2005), pp. 687-698.
“The Date of Innocent I’s Epistula 12 and the Second Exile of John Chrysostom,” Greek, Roman and Byzantine Studies 45 (2005), pp. 155-170.
“Mavilus of Hadrumetum, African Proconsuls and Mediaeval Martyrologies,” in Studies in Latin Literature and Roman History XII, ed. Carl Deroux, Collection Latomus 287 (2005), pp. 433-446.
"Cyprian's Rival Bishops and their Communities," Augustinianum 45 (2005), pp. 61-93.
"Widows and Other Women in the Pastoral Ministry of Cyprian of Carthage," Augustinianum 45 (2005), pp. 295-307.
2006
“Innocent I and the Attacks on the Bethlehem Monasteries,” Journal of the Australian Early Medieval Association 2 (2006), pp. 69-83.
"Tertullian's Scriptural Exegesis in de praescriptione haereticorum," Journal of Early Christian Studies 14 (2006), pp. 141-155.
"The Elements of Ascetical Widowhood: Augustine's De bono viduitatis and Epistula 130," in Prayer and Spirituality in the Early Church, vol. 4: The Spiritual Life, eds Wendy Mayer, Pauline Allen and Lawrence Cross (Sydney: St. Pauls, 2006), pp. 247-256.
"Augustine, Cyril of Alexandria, and the Pelagian Controversy," Augustinian Studies 37 (2006), pp. 63-88.
“Cyprian and Women in a Time of Persecution,” Journal of Ecclesiastical History 57 (2006), pp. 205-225.
“Nam quae foris exercentur nullum habent salutis effectum : Cyprian and the Episcopal Synod of September 256,” in Pagani e cristiani all ricerca della salvezza (secoli I-III) (xxxiv Incontro di studiosi dell’antichità cristiana, Roma 5-7 maggio 2005) Studia Ephemeridis Augustinianum 96 (Rome : Institutum Patristicum Augustinianum, 2006), pp. 513-524.
“Validity of Baptism and Ordination in the African Response to the ‘Rebaptism’ Crisis: Cyprian of Carthage’s Synod of Spring 256,” Theological Studies 67 (2006), pp. 257-274.
“Cyprian’s Care for the Poor: The Evidence of de Opere et Eleemosynis ,” in Studia Patristica 42, ed. F. Young, M. Edwards and P. Parvis, papers presented to the 14th International Conference on Patristic Studies, Oxford 2003 ( Leuven : Peeters, 2006), pp. 363-368.
“References to Mary in the Writings of Cyprian of Carthage ,” in Studia Patristica 42, ed. F. Young, M. Edwards and P. Parvis, papers presented to the 14th International Conference on Patristic Studies, Oxford 2003 (Leuven : Peeters, 2006), pp. 369-378.
2007
“Anastasius I and Innocent I: Reconsidering the Evidence of Jerome,” Vigiliae Christianae 61 (2007), pp. 30-41.
“The Validity of Marriage in Cases of Captivity: The Letter of Innocent I to Probus,” Ephemerides Theologicae Lovanienses 83 (2007), pp. 107-121.
“Mary’s Virginity in partu and Tertullian’s anti-Docetism Reconsidered,”
Journal of Theological Studies n.s. 58 (2007), pp. 467-484.
“Innocent I and Anysius of Thessalonica,” Byzantion 77 (2007), pp. 124-148.
Reviews
David Ivan Rankin, From Clement to Origen: The Social and Historical Context of the Church Fathers (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2006), review in Australian Ejournal of Theology 9 (March 2007): http://dlibrary.acu.edu.au/research/theology/ejournal/aejt_9/bookreview.htm
Alberto Ferreiro, Simon Magus in Patristic, Medieval, and Early Modern Traditions, Studies in the History of Christian Traditions 125 ( Leiden: Brill, 2005), review in Theological Studies 68 (2007), pp. 179-180.
David E. Wilhite, Tertullian the African: An Anthropological Reading of Tertullian's Context and Identities. Millenium Studies 14 (Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 2007), review in Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2008.02.16
Education
B.A. (Hons.) - University of Queensland (1988) - thesis: "Roman Imperial Attitudes Towards Christianity AD 303-361"
Ordained Roman Catholic priest of the Diocese of Cairns (1988)
M.Litt. - University of New England (1993) thesis: "Christian Self-Identity in the Age of the Severi"
Ph.D. - Australian Catholic University (2000) - thesis: "A Rhetorical Analysis of Tertullian’s Adversus Iudaeos"
Archives / travel diary
Events for 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008