Research interests

• Apophatic anthropology
  An investigation into the connect between the unknowability of God and the mystery of human nature and deification in the Greek patristic tradition.

• Hypostatic union
  Investigating the implications of the understanding of the humanity of Jesus for the understanding of the human path to holiness

• Desire and holiness
  A study of human desire and beauty, influenced by grace, in the human path to holiness. This includes a rethinking of the theology of sexuality drawing from the Christian tradition.

• Neoplatonism and Christian theology
  The Christianization of neoplatonism has provided resources for thinking about the relationship between soul and body that have not been sufficiently explored.

• Beauty and theology
  Developing a theology of culture and the arts as a resource for theology.

Previous courses

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