Recommended Reading List
Historical Figures
Arius
Barnes, Michel R., & Williams, Daniel H., eds., Arianism after Arius: Essays on the Development of the Fourth Century Trinitarian Conflicts, T & T Clark
Saint Athanasius
Anatolios, Kahlid, Athanasius :The Coherence of His Thought, Blackwell
Gwynn, David M., The Eusebians: The Polemic of Athanasius of Alexandria and the Construction of the Arian Controversy, Oxford
Robertson, Jon M., Christ as Mediator A Study of the Theologies of Eusebius of Caesarea, Marcellus of Ancrya, and Athanasius of Alexandria, Oxford
Saint Augustine
Armgstrong, A. H., St. Augustine and Christian Platonism, Villanova Univ. Press
Babcock, W.S., “Augustine and Paul: The Case of Romans IX” in Studia Patristica 16
Bammel, C.P., “Augustine, Origen and the Exegesis of St. Paul” in Augustinian Studies 32 (1992)
Bonner, G.., Freedom and Necessity: St. Augustine’s Teaching on Divine Power and Human Freedom, CUA
Bourke, V., Augustine’s View of Reality, Villanova Univ. Press.
Brown, Peter, Augustine of Hippo: A Biography, Univ. of Calif. Press
Burns, J.P., The Development of Augustine’s Doctrine of Operative Grace, Etudes Augustiniennes
Cary, Phillip, Inner Grace: Augustine in the Tradition of Plato and Paul, Oxford
Evans, G. R., Augustine on Evil, Cambridge
van Fleitern, F., ed., Collectanea Augustiniana: Augustine–Second Founder of the Faith, Peter Lang Pub.
Gilson, Etienne, The Christian Philosophy of Saint Augustine, Random House
Gorday, P., Principles of Patristic Exegesis: Romans 9-11 in Origen, John chrysostom, and Augustine, Edwin Mellon Press
Harrison, C., Rethinking Augustine’s Early Theology: An Argument for Continuity, Oxford
Kretzmann, Norman, The Cambridge Companin to Augustine, Oxford
Lawless, George, Augustine of Hippo and His Monastic Rule, Clarendon Press
____________, & Dodaro, Robert, eds., Augustine and His Critics, Routledge
Markus, R.A., Saeculum: History and Society in the Thought of St. Augustine, Cambridge
Mattheews, Gareth B., ed., The Augustinian Tradition Univ. of Calif. Press.
O’Connell, R. The Origin of the Soul in St. Augustine’s Later Works, Fordham
_________, St. Augustine’s Early Theory of Man, Cambridge
_________, St. Augustine’s Platonism, Villanova Univ. Press
Ogliari, D., Gratia Et Certamen: The Relationship Between grace and Free Will in the Discussion of Augustine with the So-Called SemiPelagians, Leuven Univ. Press.
Rombs, R., Saint Augustine and the Fall of the Soul: Beyond O’Connell and His Critics, CUP
Studer, Basil, The Grace of Christ and the Grace of God in Augustine of Hippo: Christocentrism or Theocentrism?, Liturgical Press
Teske, R., ed., Augustine: Presbyter Factus Sum, Peter Lang Pub.
Weaver, R. Divine Grace and Human Agency: A Study of the Semi-Pelagian Controversy, CUP
Wurst, G., Augustine and Manichaeism in the Latin West, Brill
Saint Basil the Great
Delcogliano, Mark, Basil of Caesarea’s Anti-Eunomian Theory of Names: Christian Theology and Late Antique Philosophy in the fourth Century Trinitarian Controversy, Brill.
Saint Cyril of Alexandria
Keating, Daniel A., The Appropriation of Divine Life in Cyril of Alexandria, Oxford
Koen, Lars, The Saving Passion: Incarnational and Soteriological Thought in Cyril in Alexandria’s Commentary on the Gospel According to St. John, University of Uppsala
Loon, H. van., The Dyophysite Christology of Cyril of Alexandria, Brill
McGuckin, John, St. Cyril of Alexandria: The Christological Controversy : Its History, Theology, and Texts, SVS
McLinion, Steven A., Words, Imagery and the Mystery of Christ: A Reconstruction of Cyril of Alexandria’s Christology, Brill
Welch, Lawrence J., Christology and Eucharist in the Early Thought of Cyril of Alexandria, Catholic Scholars Press.
Saint Cyril of Jerusalem
Drijvers, J.W., Cyril of Jerusalem: Bishop and City, Brill
Saint Dionysius
Kharlamov, Vladimir, The Beauty of the Unity and the Harmony of the Whole: The Concept of Theosis in the Theology of Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite, Wipf & Stock
Wear, Sarah, & Dillion, John, Dionysius the Areopagite and the Neoplatonic Tradition, Ashgate
Eunomius
Vaggi0ne, Richard, Eunomius of Cyzicus and the Nicene Revolution, Oxford
Saint Gregory of Nazianzus
Winslow, Donald F., The Dynamis of Salvation, Philadelphia Patristic Foundation
Beeley, Christopher A., Gregory of Nazianzus on the Trinity and Knowledge of God: In Your Light We Shall See Light, Oxford
Saint Gregory of Nyssa
Barnes, Michel, The Power of God: Dunamis in Gregory of Nyssa’s Trinitarian Theology, CUP
Harrison, Verna, Grace and HUman Freedom According to St. Gregory of Nyssa, Edwin Mellon Press
Krivocheine, Basil, ‘Simplicity of the Divine Nature and the Distinctions in God, According to St. Gregory of Nyssa,’ St. Vladimir’s Theological Quarterly, 21 (1977) : 76-104.
Martin, Laird, Gregory of Nyssa and the Grasp of Faith: Union, Knowledge and Divine Presence, Oxford
Smith, J. Warren, Passion and Paradise: Human and DIvine Emotion in the Thought of gregory of Nyssa, Herder & Herder
Turcescu, Lucian, Gregory of Nyssa and the Concept of Divine Persons, Oxford
Zachhuber, Johannes, Human Nature in Gregory of Nyssa: Philosophical Background and Theological Significance, Brill
Saint Hilary of Poitiers
Weedman, M., The Trinitarian Theology of Hilary of Poitiers, Brill
Saint Irenaeus of Lyon
Steenberg, M., Irenaeus on Creation: The Cosmic Christ and the Saga of Redemption, Brill
Saint Maximus the Confessor
Bathrellos, Demetrios, The Byzantine Christ, Oxford
Cooper, Adam, The Body in St. Maximus the Confessor: Holy Flesh, Wholly Deified, Oxford
Farrell, Joseph, Free Choice in St. Maximus the Confessor, St. Tikhon’s Seminary Press
Maximus, The Disputation With Pyrrhus of Our Father Among the Saints Maximus the Confessor St. Tikhon’s Seminary Press
Tollefsen, Torstein Theodor, The Christocentric Cosmology of St. Maximus the Confessor, Oxford
Toronen, Melchisidec, Union and Distinction in the Thought of St. Maximus the Confessor, Oxford
St. Methodius
Patterson, L.G., Methodius of Olympus: Divine Soverignty, Human Freedom and Life in Christ, CUA
Origen
Benjamins, R., “Origen’s Concept of Free Will in Relationship to the Fight against Opposing Powers (de Principiis III. 2-3) in Studia Patristica 26
Boyd, W.J.P., “Origen and Pharaoh’s Hardened Heart: A Study on Justification and Election in St. Paul and Origen” in Studia Patristica 7
Crouzel, Henri, Origen, T & T Clark
Hanson, R.P.C., Allegory and Event: A Study of the Sources and Signifiance of Origen’s Interpretation of Scripture, WJK
Lubac, Henri, History and Spirit: The Understanding of Scripture According to Origen, Ignatius
Tzamalikos, P., Origen-Cosmology and Ontology of Time, Brill
___________, Origen: Philosophy of History and Eschatology, Brill
Widdicombe, Peter, The Fatherhood of God from Oprigen to Athanasius, Oxford
Saint Photius
Dvornik, Francis, The Photian Schism, Cambridge
Haugh, Richard, Photius and the Carolingians
Photios, The Mystagogy of the Holy Spirit by Patriarch Photios
Saint Gregory Palamas
Meyendorff, John, A Study of Gregory Palamas
Meyendorff, John, Saint Gregory Palamas and Orthodox Spirituality
Papademetriou, George, An Introduction to St. Gregory Palamas
Papademetriou, George, Maimondies and Palamas on God,
Papademetriou, George, The human body according to Saint Gregory Palamas
Palamas, Gregory, The Triads
Palamas, Gregory, Dialogue Between an Orthodox and a Barlaamite
Palamas, Gregory, Treatise on the Spiritual Life
Palamas, Gregory, Mary the Mother of God: Sermons by Saint Gregory Palamas
Palamas, Gregory, The Homilies of Saint Gregory Palamas, (3 Vols.)
Palamas, Gregory, The One Hundred and Fifty Chapters, Ed. & trans. Robert E. Sinkewicz
St. Sophronius
Allen, Pauline. trans., Sophronius of Jerusalem and the Seventh Century Heresy: The Synodal Letter and Other Documents, Oxford
Topics
Trinitarianism
Behr, John, The Way to Nicea, SVS
________, The Nicene Faith, SVS
Friedman, Russell L., Medieval Trinitarian Thought from Aquinas to Ockham, Cambridge
Papadakis, Aristeides, Crisis in Byzantium: The Filioque Crisis in the Patriarchate of the Gregory II of Cyprus (1283-1289) , SVS
Radde-Gallwitz, Andrew., Basil of Caesarea, Gregory of Nyssa and the Transformation of Divine Simplicity, Oxford
Siencienski, A. Edward, The Filioque: A History of a Doctrinal Controversy, Oxford
Christology
Adams, Marilyn McCord, What Sort of Human Nature?: Medieval Philosophy and the Systematics of Christology, Marquette
Chazelle, Celia & Cubit, Catherine, ed., The Crisis of the Oikoumene: TheThree Chapters and the Failed Quest for Unity in the Sixth Century Mediterranean, Brepols
Clayton, Paul B., The Christology of Theodoret of Cyrus, Oxford
Fairbairn, Donald, Grace and Christology in the Early Church, Oxford
Frend, W.H.C., The Rise of the Monophysite Movement, Cambridge
Gavrilyuk, Paul L., The Suffering of the Impassible God: The Dialectics of Patristic Thought, Oxford
Grillmeier, Aloys, Christ in Christian Tradition, WJK
Hovorun, Cyril, Will, Action and Freedom: Christological Controversies in the Seventh Century, Brill
Lang, U.M. John Philoponus and the Controversy over Chalcedon in the Sixth Century: A Study and Translation of the Arbiter, Spicilegium, Sacrum Lovaniense, 47 Peeters
Muller, Richard, Christ and the Decree: Predestination and Christology in Reformed Theology from Calvin to Perkins, Baker
Torrance, I. Christology After Chalcedon: Severus of Antioch and Sergius the Monophysite, Wipf & Stock
Verghese, P., ‘The Monothelite Controversy’, Greek Orthodox Theological Review, 13 (1968)
Soteriology/Deification
Russell, Norman, The Doctrine of Deification in the Greek Patristic Tradition, Oxford
Iconography
Bingham, Steven, Early Christian Attitudes Towards Images, Orthodox Research Institute.
_____________, Epiphanius of Salamis, Doctor of Iconoclasm?: The Deconstruction of a Myth, Orthodox Research Institute.
Chazelle, Celia, The Crucified God in the Carolingian Era: Theology and Art of Christ’s Passion, Cambridge
Noble, Thomas F.X., Images, Iconoclasm and the Carolingians, Univ. of Pennsylvania
Ecclesiaology
O’Connell, Patrick, The Ecclesiology of St. Nicephorus: Pentarchy and Primacy, Pont. Institutum Studiorum Orientalium
Ecclesiastical History
Albergio, G., Christian Unity: The Council of Ferrara-Florence 1438/9-1989, Leuven
Allen, Pauline, & Jeffreys, Elizabeth, ed., The Sixth Century, End or Begining? Australian Association for Byzantine Studies
Cameron, Averil, Continuity and Change in Sixth Century Byzantium, Variorum
Chadwick, Henry, East and West: The Making of a Rift in the Church, Oxford
Chazelle, C., & Cubitt, C. (eds.), The Crisis of the Oikumene: The Three Chapters and the Failed Quest for Unity in the Sixth Century Mediterranean, Brespols
Chrysos, Evangelos, The Ecclesiastical Polity of Justinian in the Controversy of the Three Chapters, Thessalonica
Gill, Joseph, The Council of Florence, Cambridge
_________, Byzantium and the Papacy 1198-1400, New Brunswick
Haldon, J.F., Byzantium in the Seventh Century: The Transformation of a Culture, Cambridge
Hussey, J.M., The Orthodox Church in the Byzantine Empire, Oxford
Merrills, A.H., ed., Vandals, Romans and Berbers: New Perspectives on Late Antique North Africa, Ashgate
McKitterick, Rosamond, History and Memory in the Carolingian World, Cambridge
Morrison, Karl F., Tradition and Authority in the Western Church, 300-1140, Princeton
Pohl, Walter, ed., Kingdoms of the Empire: The Integration of Barbarians in Late Antiquity, Brill
Richards, Jefffrey, The Popes and the Papacy in the Early Middle Ages, 476-752, Routledge
Stump, P.H., The Reforms of the Counil of Constance, Leiden
Wallace-Hadrill, John Michael, The Frankish Church, Oxford
Patristic Theology
Medieval Theology/Philosophy
Cross, Richard, Duns Scotus on God, Ashgate
Cullen, Christopher M., Bonaventure, Oxford
Hankey, W.J., God in Himself: Aquinas’ Doctrine of God as Expounded in the Suma Theologiae, Oxford
Montagnes, Bernard, The Doctrine of the Analogy of Being According to Thomas Aquinas, Marquette
Whippel, John F., the Metaphysical Thought of thomas Aquinas: From Finite Being to Uncreated Being, CUA
Philosophy
Ancient and Late Antiquity
Armstrong, A.H., “Form, Individual and Person in Plotinus.” Dionysius 1(1977)
____________., “Two Views of Freedom.” Studia Patristica 18 (1982)
Barnes, Jonathan, Porphyry: An Introduction, Oxford
Berchman, Robert M., From Philo to Origen: Middle Platonism in Transition, Scholars Press
Boys-Stones, G. A., Post Hellenistic Philosophy: A Study of its Development from the Stoics to Origen, Oxford
Bradshaw, David, Aristotle East and West: Metaphysics and the Division of Christendom, Oxford
Charles, David, Aristotle on Meaning and Essence, Oxford
Dillon, John, Alcinous: The Handbook of Platonism, Oxford
_________, The Middle Platonists, 80 B.C. to A.D. 220, Rev. Ed., Cornell
_________, The Heirs of Plato: A Study of the Old Academy (347-274 BC), Oxford
_________, & Gerson, Lloyd, Neoplatonic Philosophy, Hackett
Gersh, Stephen, From Iamblichus to Eriugena: An Investigation of the Prehistory and Evolution of the Pseudo-Dionysian Tradition, Brill
Gerson, Lloyd, Plotinus, Routledge
___________, The Cambridge History of Philosophy in Late Antiquity, Cambridge
Ierodiiakonou, Katerina, Ed., Byzantine Philosophy and Its Ancient Sources, Oxford
Turner, John D., & Majercik, Ruth, eds., Gnosticism and Later Platonism: Themes, Figures and Texts, Society of Biblical Literature
Wallis, R.T, NeoPlatonism, Hackett
Westra, Laura, Plotinus and Freedom: A Meditation on Enneads 6.8, Edwin Mellon Press
Free Will & Determinism
Robert Kane, The Significance of Free Will, Oxford
Robert Kane, A Contemporary Introduction to Free Will, Oxford
Peter van Inwagen, An Essay on Free Will, Oxford
Timothy O’Connor, ed., Agents, Causes and Events, Oxford
Gary Watson, ed., Free Will, Oxford
The Problem of Evil
Adams, Marilyn McCord, ed., The Problem of Evil, Oxford
Kvanvig, Jonathan L., The Possibility of an All Knowing God, St. Martin’s Press
Peterson, Michael, ed.,The Problem of Evil: Selected Readings, Univ. Of Notre Dame
Plantinga, Alvin, God, Freedom and Evil
Swinburne, Richard, Providence and the Problem of Evil, Oxford
van Inwagen, Peter The Problem of Evil, Oxford
God
Creel, Richard, Divine Impassibility, Wipf & Stock
Hughes, Christopher, On A Complex Theory of a Simple God: An Investigation of Aquinas’ Doctrine of God, Cornell
Miller, Barry, A Mostly Unlikely God: A Philosophical Enquiry, Notre Dame
Morris, Thomas V., Anselmian Explorations, Notre Dame
Wierenga, Edward, R., The Nature of God: An Inquiry into the Divine Attributes, Cornell
Ethical Theory
Adams, Robert, Finite and Infinite Goods: A Framework for Ethics, Oxford
Dancy, Jonathan, Ethics Without Principles, Oxford
Husrthouse, Rosalind, On Virtue Ethics, Oxford
