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Mark DelCogliano

Professor and Department Chair

Theology

  • Education
  • PhD, Emory University, 2009
    MTS, Vanderbilt University Divinity School, 2004
    BS, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 1991

  • Research Interests
  • Early Christianity/Patristics; historical theology, particularly doctrinal debates and developments (Trinitarian doctrine, Christology, soteriology, anthropology); the interpretation of scripture in early Christianity; landmark figures such as Origen, Eusebius, Athanasius, Didymus, Basil of Caesarea, Augustine, and Gregory the Great.

 

Current Work

Asterius of Cappadocia: Fragments and Testimonies. A new edition of the extant literary remains of an important Trinitarian theologian active ca. 320-340, together with an English translation and commentary.

From Asterius to Eunomius: The Development of the Doctrine of the Trinity, 318-362. A study of the development of the “non-Nicene” doctrine of the Trinity and an assessment of its contributions to later “pro-Nicene” orthodoxy.

Basil the Theologian. A comprehensive study of Basil of Caesarea’s Trinitarian theology and Christology.


Basil of Caesarea’s Anti-Eunomian Theory of Names: Christian Theology and Late-Antique Philosophy in the Fourth-Century Trinitarian Controversy. Vigiliae Christianae, Supplements 103. Leiden: Brill, 2010.

St. Basil the Great: On Fasting and Feasts. Popular Patristics Series 50. Yonkers: St. Vladimir’s Seminary Press, 2013. Translated by Susan R. Holman and Mark DelCogliano. Introduction by Susan R. Holman. Of the nine homilies presented in this volume, I contribute annotated translations of four of them: two on fasting, one against drunkenness, and one on the incarnation.

St Basil the Great: On Christian Doctrine and Practice. Popular Patristics Series 47. Yonkers: St. Vladimir’s Seminary Press, 2012. An annotated translation of eleven homilies on Trinitarian theology and various aspects of Christian practice.

Gregory the Great on the Song of Songs. Cistercian Studies Series. Kalamazoo: Cistercian Publications 2012.

Works on the Spirit: Athanasius and Didymus. Popular Patristics Series. Crestwood: St. Vladimir’s Seminary Press, 2011. With Andrew Radde-Gallwitz and Lewis Ayres.

St. Basil of Caesarea: Against Eunomius. The Fathers of the Church 122. Washington, D.C.: The Catholic University of America Press, 2011. With Andrew Radde-Gallwitz.

Basil of Caesarea’s Anti-Eunomian Theory of Names: Christian Theology and Late-Antique Philosophy in the Fourth-Century Trinitarian Controversy. Vigiliae Christianae, Supplements 103. Leiden: Brill, 2010.

Recent Articles:

"Basil of Caesarea, Didymus the Blind, and the Anti-Pneumatomachian Exegesis of Amos 4:13 and John 1:3,” Journal of Theological Studies n.s. 61 (2010): 644–58.

The Death of George of Laodicea,Journal of Theological Studies n.s. 60 (2009): 181–190.

“The Eusebian Alliance: the Case of Theodotus of Laodicea,Zeitschrift für Antikes Christentum / Journal of Ancient Christianity 12 (2008): 250–66.

“Aphrahat on the Modes of Christ’s Indwelling,” Orientalia Christiana Periodica 74 (2008): 181–193.

“Basil of Caesarea on Proverbs 8:22 and the Sources of Pro-Nicene Theology,Journal of Theological Studies n.s. 59 (2008): 183–190.

“Eusebian Theologies of the Son as Image of God before 341,Journal of Early Christian Studies 14.4 (2006): 459–484.