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GREG S. PETERS

CURRENT EMPLOYMENT 2010 – Present Biola University - La Mirada, CA Assistant Professor of Medieval and Spiritual Theology, Torrey Honors Institute

EDUCATION 2003 University of St. Michael’s College, Toronto, Ontario Ph.D. in Medieval Christian History and Institutional/Social Christian History Supervisor: Professor T. Allan Smith, CSB Dissertation: A Treasury of Divine Knowledge and Wisdom’: The Twelfth Century Byzantine Spiritual Theology of Peter of Damascus. The thesis examines the abundant writings of the twelfth century Byzantine monk Peter of Damascus (fl. ca. 1156/7), providing a synthetic exposition of his spiritual theology in relationship to earlier Byzantine spiritual authors.

1999 St. John’s University School of Theology, Collegeville, Minnesota M.A. in Christian History and Monastic Studies Supervisor: Professor Columba Stewart, OSB Dissertation: From Orthodoxy to Heresy: A Biblical and Historical Examination of syneisaktism in the Early Church. The thesis examines and contrasts Paul’s teaching in 1 Corinthians 7 and fourth century arguments used against celibate men and women who cohabited together for mutual support and protection.

1996 Dallas Theological Seminary, Dallas, Texas M.A.in Biblical Studies

1994 Philadelphia College of Bible, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania B.S. in Biblical Studies

ORGANIZATIONAL MEMBERSHIPS AND ACTIVITIES 2012—Present Anglican House Publishers Editor

2008—Present Ecclesiology Consultation, Evangelical Theological Society Chair

2007-Present Journal of Spiritual Formation and Soul Care

th May 2013 48 International Congress on Medieval Studies Organized Sponsored Session entitled “The Language of Reform in Eleventh- and Twelfth-Century Monasticism: East and West”

th May 2009 44 International Congress on Medieval Studies Organized Sponsored Session entitled “Monastic Life and Monastic Lives,”

May 2001 Organized Special Session entitled “Monastic Benevolence: Comparisons West and East” for the 36th International Congress on Medieval Studies Consulting Editor

March 30— University of St. Michael’s College April 1 2001 Co-organizer with T. Allan Smith of Conference on Byzantine Monasticisms

ACADEMIC SERVICE 2010-2013 University Personnel Committee - Biola University

2001-2002 Toronto School of Theology - Advanced Degree Council Student Representative

2000-2002 Advanced Degree Student Association - Toronto School of Theology President

2000-2001 University of St. Michael’s College, Dean Search Committee Student Representative

1999-2001 Toronto School of Theology – Historical Department Student Representative

1997-1998 Association of Theological Schools Subcommittee on Curriculum and Library at St. John’s School of Theology Student Representative

1992-1993 Student Theological Society - Philadelphia College of Bible President

PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS  Spirituality International (Titus Brandsma Institute, Nijmegen)

 Research Associate, Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, UCLA

 Anglo-Catholic History Society

 Network for Late Antique and Early Medieval Monasticism

 Medieval Academy of America

 American Catholic Historical Association Byzantine Studies Association of North America American Society

of Church History

 American Benedictine Academy Society of the Study of Anglicanism Evangelical Theological Society

GRANTS AND AWARDS

2010 American Benedictine Academy, Monastic Studies Grant January ($750)

2008 Newman Scholarship, National Institute of Newman Studies August ($2500)

Fall 2010 Research and Development Grant, Biola University ($3,500)

Fall 2007 Research and Development Grant, Biola University ($4100)

Spring 2006 Research and Development Grant, Biola University ($750)

Fall 2006 Research and Development Grant, Biola University ($1450)

2005 Peer-Learning Group, Seminars in Christian Scholarship, Calvin College September ($200; amount matched by the Torrey Honors Institute)

2005-2006 Faculty Grant, Institute for Spiritual Formation, Talbot School of Theology ($300)

2002-2003 Toronto School of Theology, John M. Kelly Award, University of St. Michael’s College, Faculty of Theology Fellowship

1999-2003 University of St. Michael’s College Conference Travel Grant, May 2001 and November 2001

1997-1999 St. John’s School of Theology Fellowship

October 1998 Graduate Theological Studies Travel Grant, St. John’s School of Theology

May 1999 Graduate Theological Studies Travel Grant, St. John’s School of Theology

1996 M.A. with Honors, Dallas Theological Seminary

EXPERIENCE Spring 2007-Present Torrey Honors Institute Director: Rome, Italy 2014 On Renaissance Literature 2013 On the Church 2012 Rome in Literature 2011 On Reformation 2010 On the Spiritual Ascent 2009 On Martyrs and Monks 2008 On the Nature and Form of Beauty

Fall 2011 – Present Torrey Honors Institute Chair, Johnson House

Fall 2007 - Present St. John’s School of Theology - Collegeville, MN Visiting Professor of Monastic Studies 2007 and 2010 Medieval Monastic Spirituality 2009 Monasticism in the British and Irish Isles: From Its Origins to the Dissolution 2013 Medieval Monastic History

Winter 2007 – Present Nashotah House Theological Seminary - Nashotah, WI Adjunct Assistant Professor of Church History and 3 2007-2008 Church History Survey 2008 History and Theology of Priestly Spirituality 2013 Anglican Monasticism: History, Spirituality and Implications

Fall 2008—Present Torrey Honors Institute Director of Faculty Advancement

Fall 2011 Gordon College, Gordon-in-Orviet, Orvieto, Italy Visiting Professor Dante’s

Winter 2010 C.P. Haggard Graduate School of Theology, Azusa Pacific University – Azusa, CA Adjunct Professor of Anglican Church History

2005 – 2010 Talbot School of Theology La Mirada, CA Associate Professor of Medieval and Spiritual Theology, Talbot School of Theology

2004-2006 Trinity College, University of Toronto - Toronto, Ontario Spring Sessional Instructor 2004 English Spirituality in the High and Late Middle Ages 2005 Medieval Spiritual Theology: , Richard of St. Victor and

Fall 2002 Biola University, La Mirada, CA Visiting Professor Institute for Spiritual Formation History and Traditions of Christian Spirituality

Fall 2000 University of St. Michael’s College, Toronto, Canada Collaborative Instructor Christian Monasticisms

PUBLICATIONS

Peter of Damascus: Byzantine Monk and Spiritual Theologian (Toronto: Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, 2011)

Reforming the Monastery: Protestant Theologies of Religious Life (Eugene, OR: Cascade Books, 2014)

The Road to the Future Lies in the Past: A History of (Baker Academic, in progress)

The Church’s Inheritance: Evangelical Themes in the Medieval Church (in progress) Editor

Priesthood and Holy Orders in the Middle Ages (Leiden: Brill, in progress)

ARTICLES – BOOK CHAPTERS – REFERENCE WORK ENTRIES:

“Monasticism: Instrument of the Holy Spirit in the Renewal, Revival and Revitalization of Today’s Church,” in The Holy Spirit and the Christian Life, ed. Wolfgang Vondey (Palgrave, forthcoming)

“’s Theology of the Monastic/Religious Life as a Means to Holiness,” Newman Studies Journal 10.2 (Fall 2013): 7-17.

“Spiritual Theology: An Historic Overview” and “The Medieval Traditions” in A Guide to Spiritual Classics, eds. Jamin Goggin and Kyle Stroebel, (InterVarsity Press, 2013), 79-94 and 221-246. 4 “Ascetical Theology,” “Benedictines,” “Cistercians,” “Monasteries” and “Monastic Orders” in Encyclopedia of Christian Civilization, 4 Volumes, ed. G.T. Kurian (Oxford/Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell Publishers, 2011): 145- 146, 232-233, 560-562, 1544-1551 and 1551-1555.

“Desiderius : In Praise of Folly,” in The Great Books Reader: Excerpts and Essays on the Most Influential Books in Western Civilization, ed. John Mark Reynolds (Bethany Books, 2011): 219-236.

“,” “Cassian, John,” “Climacus, John,” “Deification,” “Evagrius of Pontus,” “,” “Hilton, Walter,” “Monasticism,” “Peter of Damascus,” “” and “Thomas à Kempis,” in Dictionary of Christian Spirituality, ed. Glen Scorgie et al (Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 2011): 276-277, 339-340, 361, 392-394, 434-435, 499-500, 502, 618-620, 671, 721-722 and 796-797.

“On Spiritual Theology: A Primer,” Journal of Spiritual Formation and Soul Care 4.1 (2011): 5-26.

“Religious Orders and Pastoral Care in the Late Middle Ages,” in Pastoral Care in the Late Middle Ages, ed. Ronald J. Stansbury, ed. (Leiden/Boston: Brill, 2010), 263-284.

“Adalard, abbot of Corbie (d. 826),” “Almoner,” “Bruno the Carthusian,” “Caen (Cadomum),” “Chapter (capitulum),” “Chapter of Faults,” “Charterhouse,” “Church, collegiate,” “Clairvaux (including abbey),” “Dijon,” th “Dunfermline, abbey,” “General Chapter,” “Holyrood, abbey,” “Maurus, St, (6 century),” “Mellifont, abbey,” “Melrose, abbey,” “Pontigny, abbey,” “Sulpicius Severus (d. 420),” “White Monks,” and “Windeshein, abbey,” in The Oxford Dictionary of the Middle Ages, ed. Robert E. Bjork (Oxford University Press, 2010): 7, 44, 297, 319, 365, 371, 394, 402, 503, 519, 692, 807, 1106, 1121-22, 1335, 1580, 1728 and 1736.

“Walter Hilton,” “Nicodemos of the Holy Mountain” and “Nil Sorsky,” in Encyclopedia of Christian Literature, 2 Volumes, ed. G.T. Kurian (Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, 2010): 367, 493-494 and 569-570.

“Do as I Say, Not as I Do: Monastic Vitae as Reforming Documents,” in Tjurunga: An Australasian Benedictine Review 77 (2009): 17-30.

“The Place of Monasticism in the Thought of Donald Bloesch,” in Church, Society and Monasticism: Acts of the International Symposium, ed. Eduardo López-Tello García and Benedetta Selene Zorzi, Rome, May 31 - June 3, 2006 (Analecta Monastica 9) (St. Ottilien: EOS Klosterverlag, 2009): 261-274.

“Benedict of Nursia, John Henry Newman and the Torrey Honors Institute of Biola University: An Examination of an Educational Approach to Christian Learning,” in Newman Studies Journal 6.1 (Spring 2009): 36-46.

“The Rule of Benedict,” a review article in the Journal of Spiritual Formation and Soul Care 1.1 (Spring 2008): 106-108.

“Benedictine abbey of Corbie” and “Peter of Damascus” in International Encyclopedia for the Middle Ages – Online (UCLA/Brepols Publishing, 2006). 5 “Recovering a Lost Spiritual Theologian: Peter of Damascus and the ,” in St. Vladimir’s Theological Quarterly 49.4 (2005): 437-459.

“Peter of Damascus and Early Christian Spiritual Theology,” in Patristica et Medievalia 26 (2005): 89-109.

“Towards a Definition of ‘Spiritual Theology’: A Historiography of Recent Writings on Byzantine Spirituality,” in Studia Monastica 46.1 (2004): 25-41.

“Offering Sons to God in the Monastery: Child Oblation, Monastic Benevolence, and the Cistercian Order in the Middle Ages,”in Cistercian Studies Quarterly 38.3 (2003): 285-295.

“Familial Relationships: The Writings of Theoleptos of Philadelphia to Irene Eulogia Choumnaina Palaiologina,” in Eastern Churches Journal 10.1 (2003): 55-66.

“Spiritual Marriage in Early Christianity: 1 Corinthians 7:25-38 in Modern Exegesis and the Earliest Church,” in Trinity Journal 23 NS (Fall 2002): 211-224.

BOOK REVIEWS

Review of Steven Vanderputten and Brigitte Meijns, eds., Ecclesia in medio nationis: Reflections on the Study of Monasticism in the Central Middle Ages/Réflexions sur l’étude du monachisme au moyen âge central in Comiatus (forthcoming)

Review of Alexandra da Costa, Reforming Printing: Syon Abbey’s Defence of Orthodoxy 1525-1534 in The Sixteenth Century Journal (forthcoming)

Review of Rene Kollar, A Foreign and Wicked Institution?: The Campaign Against Convents in Victorian England in Theological Book Review 24.1 (2012): 87.

Review of Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove, The Rule of Saint Benedict: A Contemporary Paraphrase in Journal of Spiritual Formation and Soul Care 5.2 (2012): 302-304.

Review of Katharine Sykes, Inventing Sempringham: Gilbert of Sempringham and the origins of the role of the Master in Comitatus 43 (2012): 288-290.

Review of James William Brodman, Charity and Religion in Medieval Europe in The Sixteenth Century Journal 42.1 (2011): 185-187.

Review of Christoph Bultmann, Volker Leppin and Andreas Lindner, eds., Luther und das monastische Erbe in The Sixteenth Century Journal 41.1 (2010): 305-306. 6

Review of Jeffrey F. Hamburger and Susan Marti, eds., Crown and Veil: Female Monasticism from the Fifth to the Fifteenth Centuries in The Sixteenth Century Journal 40.4 (2009): 1238-1240.

Review of Richard H. Schmidt, God Seekers: Twenty Centuries of Christian Spiritualities in Journal of Spiritual Formation and Soul Care 2.1 (2009):139-141.

Review of Karen Stöber, Late Medieval Monasteries and their Patrons: England and Wales, c. 1300-1540 in The Sixteenth Century Journal 39.4 (2008): 1131-1132.

Review of Margaret Harvey, Lay Religious Life in Medieval Durham in The Sixteenth Century Journal 39.3 (Fall 2008): 777-778.

Review of Hannah Ward and Jennifer Wild, eds., The Monastic Way: Ancient Wisdom for Contemporary Living, A Book of Daily Readings in Cistercian Studies Quarterly 43.2 (2008): 224-226.

Review of Hilary Thimmesh, ed., Saint John’s at 150: A Portrait of this Place Called Collegeville, 1856-2006 in Cistercian Studies Quarterly 42.2 (2007): 237-239.

Review of Philipp W. Rosemann, in Calvin Theological Journal 41.2 (2006): 406-407.

Review of Dániel Deme, The Christology of Anselm of Canterbury in Toronto Journal of Theology 21.2 (2004):

Review of Rik van Nieuwenhove and Joseph Wawrykow, eds., The Theology of Thomas Aquinas in Calvin Theological Journal 41.1 (2006): 167-169.

Review of Regis J. Armstrong, O.F.M. Cap., J. A. Wayne Hellmann, O.F.M. Conv., William J. Short, O.F.M., eds., The Francis Trilogy of Thomas of Celano: The Life of Saint Francis (1228-1229), The Remembrance of the Desire of a Soul (1245-1247), The Treatise on the Miracles of Saint Francis (1250-1252) in Calvin Theological Journal 41.1 (2006): 173-174.

Review of Bernard V. Brady, Christian Love: How Christians through the Ages Have Understood Love in Toronto Journal of Theology 20:2 (2004): 258-259.

Review of Anselm Stolz, The Doctrine of Spiritual Perfection in Toronto Journal of Theology 20:1 (2004): 118-119. 7 Review of Richard Landes, Andrew Gow, and David C. Van Meter eds., The Apocalyptic Year 1000: Religious Expectation and Social Change, 950-1050 in Toronto Journal of Theology 20:1 (2004): 84-85.

Review of Walter E. Kaegi, Heraclius: Emperor of Byzantium in Fides et Historia 36:2 (2004): 141-143.

Review of Warwick Gould and Marjorie Reeves, Joachim of Fiore and the Myth of the Eternal Evangel in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries in Fides et Historia 35:1 Winter/Spring (2003): 139-140.

Review of Bernard McGinn, The of : The Man From Whom God Hid Nothing in Toronto Journal of Theology 18:2 (2002): 282-283.

Review of Peter King, Western Monasticism: A History of the Monastic Movement in the Latin Church in Toronto Journal of Theology 17:2 (2001):307-308.

PAPERS GIVEN The Language of Reform: An Examination of Eastern and Western Monastic Foundation Documents. 48th International Congress on Medieval Studies, May 2013.

Monasticism: Instrument of the Holy Spirit in the Renewal, Revival and Revitalization of Today’s Church. The Holy Spirit and Christian Life Conference, March 2013.

John Henry Newman’s Theology of the Monastic/Religious Life as a Means to Holiness. Newman Association of America Conference, August 2012.

Do as I say, not as I do: Monastic Vitae as Reforming Documents. th 44 International Congress on Medieval Studies, May 2009.

The Journey of Our Life: Dante as a Spiritual Theologian of Grace. 60th Annual Meeting of the Evangelical Theological Society, November 2008.

‘Pure religion and undefiled…is this’: Religious Orders and Pastoral Care in the Late Middle Ages. 42nd International Congress on Medieval Studies, May 2007.

The Holy Spirit in Spiritual Theology: An Examination of the Sources. 58th Annual Meeting of the Evangelical Theological Society, November 2006.

The Place of Monasticism in the Thought of Donald Bloesch. The Monastic Institute 2006: Church, Society and Monasticism, June 2006.

Familial Relationships in the Writings of Theoleptos of Philadelphia to Irene Eulogia Choumnaina Palaiologina. 27th Annual Byzantine Studies Conference, November 2001.

Evangelicalism without Boundaries: Tradition and Authority in Spiritual Theology. Toronto School of Theology, Advanced Degree Student Association Seminar, October 2001 and 53rd Annual Meeting of the Evangelical Theological Society, November 2001.

‘Offering Sons to God in the Monastery’: Oblation as Monastic Benevolence. 36th International Congress on Medieval Studies, May 2001.

Christodoulos of Patmos: Servant of Christ, Lover of Humankind? Conference on Byzantine Monasticisms, University of St. Michael’s College, March 2001.

Poetic Precursors and a Postscript to ’s Apologia ad Guilelmum abbetem. 34th International Congress on Medieval Studies, May 1999.

8 The Gift of Teaching in Cistercian Theology. 50th Annual Meeting of the Evangelical Theological Society, November 1998.

An Examination of Fourth Century Arguments against Syneisaktism: Search for Understanding. Twenty-Third International Conference on Patristic, Medieval and Renaissance Studies, October, 1998.

LECTURES GIVEN

“Anglicanism: History and Theology.” Torrey Honors Institute, May 2011.

“John Henry Newman: Priest, Theologian and Educator.” Torrey Honors Institute, March 2011.

“Thomas Aquinas: Medieval Theologian.” Torrey Honors Institute, October 2010.

“The Theology of the Gospel of John.” Torrey Honors Institute, May 2010.

“Anglican Themes in the Torrey Honors Institute Curriculum.” Torrey Honors Institute, December 2009.

“Pseudo-Dionysius: Byzantine Mystical Theologian.” Torrey Honors Institute, September 2009.

“Burning for God: The Historical and Theological Setting of Pascal's Pensées.” Torrey Honors Institute, April 2009.

“Newman and Luther on Reforming the Monastery.” Torrey Honors Institute, November 2008.

“Peter of Damascus: Byzantine Monk and Spiritual Theologian.” Torrey Honors Institute, October 2008.

“'A Putrid Smell': An Olfactic Response to the Grand Inquisitor.” Torrey Honors Institute, April 2007.

“Dante’s Need for Bernard of Clairvaux: On Loving God.” Torrey Honors Institute, October 2007.

“Late Medieval Pastoral Care: Trying to Make Sense of Chaucer’s Clerics and Monks.” Torrey Honors Institute, April 2007.

“Thomas Aquinas and the Pattern of Medieval Dominican Preaching.” Torrey Honors Institute, April 2007.

“From the City to the Desert and Back Again: Monasticism from 100 to1000.” Early Church Guild, Biola University, October 2006.

“On Reading Hagiography.” Torrey Honors Institute, September 2006.

“Russian Monasticism and Dostoyevsky’s Father Zosima.” Torrey Honors Institute, March 2006.

“Spirituality in the Early Church.” 9 Torrey Honors Institute, February 2006.

“Peter of Damascus.” Torrey Honors Institute, October 2005.

“The Lives of .” Torrey Honors Institute, October 2005.

“Reading Aquinas with the Readers of Aquinas.” Torrey Honors Institute, September 2005 and September 2006.

WORKSHOPS “The Theology of Thomas Aquinas” Led by Joseph Wawrykow, University of Notre Dame Biola University, June 2013

“The Role of Scripture in a Christian University: Personal, Professional, and Integrative” Led by Wayne Grudem and Michael J. Wilkins Biola University, Summer Faculty Theology Integration Seminar, June 2006

“Musical Theology: Past Lessons, Present Perspectives Led by Richard Plantinga and Clayton Schmit Calvin College, Seminars in Christian Scholarship, June 2005.