2020 Annual Meeting Program Booklet
Thursday, May 21st - Saturday, May 23rd, 2020 Hyatt Regency Chicago Chicago, Illinois North American Patristics Society
Officers Robin Darling Young, President (2018-2020) Clayton N. Jefford, Vice-President/President Elect (2018-2020) D. Jeffrey Bingham, Immediate Past President (2018-2020) Richard Brumback III, Secretary/Treasurer (2016-2020)
Board Members Brian Dunkle, S.J., Member-at-Large (2017-2020) Sophie Lunn-Rockliffe, Member-at-Large (2017-2020) Jennifer Barry, Member-at-Large (2018-2021) Blossom Stefaniw, Member-at-Large (2018-2021) Candace Buckner, Student Member-at-Large (2018-2020) Stephen Shoemaker, editor of JECS (2015-2020), ex officio Christopher Beeley, editor of Christianity in Late Antiquity Series (2016-2021), ex officio
Nominating Committee Kristi Upson-Saia (2016-2020), Chair Brian Matz (2017-2021) Georgia Frank (2018-2022)
Journal of Early Christian Studies Stephen Shoemaker, Editor David Eastman, Book Review Editor
Christianity in Late Antiquity Monograph Series Christopher Beeley, Editor
Dear NAPS Members and Conference Participants,
Welcome to the 2020 Annual Meeting of the NAPS! Our Vice President, Clayton Jefford, has worked with tireless deliberation to assemble a sterling program. Please join me in expressing our heartfelt gratitude to him for all of his time and effort, without which this conference could not proceed.
I am pleased to introduce the plenary speakers for this year. On Thursday evening we hear from Jonathan Draper (University of KwaZulu-Natal), who will speak on “Dissociation and the Role of Habitus and Cultural Capital in the Visions of Hermas.” Our traditional dessert reception will follow. The Presidential Address, “Angels, Animals and the Assembly of God’s Spies,” is set for Friday morning, and on Saturday morning Clare K. Rothschild (Lewis University/University of Stellenbosch) will lecture on “The Lovers Miniature of the Muratorian Codex (Ambr. I 101 sup.)”
This year’s program offers an extensive and diverse selection of panels, presentations, and discussions, plus a special panel review of our NAPS history. Over three days there will be eighty sessions, carefully organized into six time slots. Also spread throughout the schedule are the various coffee breaks, continental breakfasts, and other opportunities to socialize with friends and colleagues. As always, we will enjoy a meal together at the banquet on Friday evening, and afterward we will hear from Joseph W. Trigg. His talk is entitled “NAPS and the Republic of Letters.”
We return eagerly to our annual meeting after a pause in 2019 for the meeting of the Oxford Patristics Conference. We look forward to seeing each other again back in Chicago and especially to marking the fiftieth anniversary of our society, which we hope to celebrate in a spirit of scholarly friendship and generosity, grateful that we have endured in these times and rejoicing in each other’s accomplishments in this expression of that wider, ancient, and venerable company of scholars.
Robin Darling Young President, North American Patristics Society 3
NAPS ANNUAL MEETING 2020 PROGRAM-AT-A-GLANCE
Thursday, May 21st Friday, May 22nd Saturday, May 23rd
7:30 – 9:00 am 7:30 – 9:00 am (Wednesday May 20th, 2:00 – Continental Breakfast Continental Breakfast 5:00 pm and Thursday May 21st, 9:00 – 11:00 am: 8:00 – 8:45 am Meeting of the Board of Graduate Student Caucus Directors) Meeting
10:00 am – 5:00 pm 8:00 am – 5:00 pm 8:00 am – 1:00 pm Exhibits Open Exhibits Open Exhibits Open
9:00 am – 12:00 noon 9:00 – 10:40 am 9:00 – 10:40 am Pre-Conference Workshop Session 4: Panels 4A – 4N Session 10: Panels 10A – 10N Digital Research with the Coptic Scriptorium Project Reserve your Spot Here
New Models in Publishing Workshop Reserve your Spot Here 12:00 – 1:30 pm 10:40 – 11:00 am Lunch (on your own) Morning Coffee Break
1:30 – 3:10 pm Session 1: Panels 1A – 1N 11:00 am – 12:00 noon 11:00 am – 12:00 noon Session 5: NAPS Session 11: Plenary Presidential Lecture Address Clare K. Rothschild Robin Darling Young The Lovers Miniature of the Angels, Animals, and the Muratorian Codex (Ambr. I Assembly of God’s Spies 101 sup.)
3:10 – 3:30 pm 12:00 – 1:30 pm 12:00 – 1:30 pm Afternoon Coffee Break Lunch (on your own) Lunch (on your own)
3:30 – 5:10 pm 1:30 – 3:10 pm 1:30 – 3:30 pm Session 2: Panels 2A – 2N Session 6: Panels 6A– 6N Session 12: Panels 12A – 12K
4 5:10 – 7:30 pm 3:30 – 4:00 pm Dinner Break (on your own) Afternoon Coffee Break
5:30 – 6:30 pm 4:00 – 5:00 pm Graduate Student Session 7: Panel Networking Reception Discussion
7:30 – 8:30 pm 5:15 – 7:30 pm Session 3: Plenary Session 8: Instrumenta Lecture Studiorum Jonathan A. Draper (5:15 – 5:30 pm) Dissociation and the Role of Habitus and Cultural Capital Session 9: NAPS General in the Visions of Hermas Business Meeting (5:30 – 6:30 pm)
JECS Business Meeting (6:30 – 7:30 pm)
8:45 – 10:40 pm 7:30 – 9:30 pm Dessert Reception Banquet Buffet
After Dinner Presentation Joseph W. Trigg NAPS and the Republic of Letters
5 Wednesday, May 20, 2020 2:00pm – 5:00pm – Meeting of the NAPS Board of Directors Location: Dusable Chair: Robin Darling Young
Thursday, May 21, 2020 9:00am – 11:00am – Meeting of the NAPS Board of Directors Location: Dusable Chair: Robin Darling Young
10:00am – 5:00pm – Exhibits Open Location: Crystal Ballroom C
9:00am – 12:00pm – Pre-Conference Workshops
Workshop I Digital Research with the Coptic Scriptorium Project Chairs: Caroline T. Schroeder, Christine Luckritz-Marquis, Rebecca Krawiec, and Lance Martin
This hands-on workshop will introduce participants to multiple digital humanities research methods using the Coptic Scriptorium project. The workshop is open to participants at all levels in the Coptic language, from no knowledge to expert. We will learn: to use the Online Coptic Dictionary for language learning, teaching, and research; to conduct both basic searches and complex queries of the Coptic Scriptorium text corpora for research; some basic principles of creating digital editions; about the benefits of linguistics methods known as Natural Language Processing for research; collaboration with the Coptic Scriptorium project. Caroline T. Schroeder, Christine Luckritz-Marquis, Rebecca Krawiec, and Lance Martin will lead the workshop. Link to sign up: https://forms.gle/FH7vpLFE96xKosWB9
6 Workshop 2 New Models in Publishing Workshop Chairs: Edward Naumann, Eric Schmidt, and Micah Saxton
This workshop will explore new models and tools in academic publishing. The first half of the workshop will be a panel discussion focusing on new models in publication from the perspectives of scholars, publishers, and librarians. This discussion will be informative for digital humanities projects. The second half of the workshop will have hands-on opportunities to learn useful tools for digital publications including WordPress and Github Pages. Please bring a laptop to this workshop so that you can participate in the hands-on opportunities. Link to sign up: https://forms.gle/Rcyo31YY9Az45PzV7
Sessions 1A – 1N: 1:30pm – 3:10pm
Session 1A Augustine: Considerations of Philosophy Location: Crystal Ballroom B Chair: Coleman Ford, Southern Baptist Theological Seminary
Stevie Hull, Brown University: “The Rhetorical ‘Art of Memory’ in Augustine’s De ordine”
Thomas Clemmons, The Catholic University of America: “Porphyry in Augustine’s Early Writings”
Jonathan Milad, University of Toronto: “Augustine and Epictetus on Will and Choice”
Mark Wiebe, Lubbock Christian University: “Pain, Privation, and the Goodness of Being”
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Session 1B Book Review: Christian Reading: Language, Ethics, and the Order of Things (California 2019) by Blossom Stefaniw Location: Crystal Ballroom A Chair: Ellen Muehlberger, University of Michigan Ann Arbor
Panelists: Elizabeth Clark, Duke University Heidi Marx, University of Manitoba Peter A. Mena, University of San Diego J. Gregory Given, University of Virginia
Session 1C Alternative Christianities: Sethian, Marcionite, Valentinian Location: Comiskey Chair: M. David Litwa, Australian Catholic University
Jason BeDuhn, Northern Arizona University: “Demiurgical Tipping Points in the First Centuries CE”
Sarah Parkhouse, Australian Catholic University: “‘I am not of this world’ (John 8:23): Jesus’ Self-proclaimed Superiority in John and its Effect on Early Christian Interpretation of the Creator”
Stephen Cooper, Franklin and Marshall College: “Contempt for the Creator in Marcion’s Christianity”
Daniel Smith, University of Texas Austin: “Out of a Foreign Air: ApocAdam and the Appropriation of Jewish Apocalyptic”
8 Session 1D Exorcism, Exsufflation, and the End of the Donatist Church Location: Wrigley Chair: David G. Hunter, Boston College
Jane Merdinger, Independent Scholar: “Augustine’s Repudiation of the Donatist Rite of Re-exsufflation”
Geoffrey Dunn, University of Pretoria: “The Parable of the Sheep and the Goats in Augustine’s Eschatological Arguments with the Donatists”
Alden Bass, Oklahoma Christian University: “Spiritual Combat in the Donatist Escorial Sermons”
Jesse Hoover, Baylor University: “Was Tyconius a Millenarian?”
Session 1E Religion, Medicine, Disability, Health and Healing in Late Antiquity (ReMeDHe): Sexuality and Reproduction as Medical Topics for Early Christian Authors Location: Water Tower Chair: Lennart Lehmhaus, Freie Universität Berlin
Brent Arehart, University of Cincinnati: “Medical Abstinence and Christian Celibacy in Late Antiquity: A Reevaluation”
Jonathan Zecher, Australian Catholic University: “Seminal Confessions: Sexual Dreams and Spiritual Diagnosis according to John Cassian”
Chris de Wet, University of South Africa: “Nemesius of Emesa on Pleasure, Desire, and Sex: A Case of the Medical Making of Christian Sexual Culture”
Candace Buckner, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill: “On the Verge of Life and Death: Obstetric and Perinatal Anxiety in the Coptic Life of Aaron”
9 Session 1F Spiritual Perception in Late Antiquity Location: Addams Chair: Paul L. Gavrilyuk, University of St. Thomas
Paul L. Gavrilyuk, University of St. Thomas: “Philo as the Initiator of the Spiritual Senses Tradition”
Marcus Plested, Marquette University: “The Spiritual Senses in Macarius-Symeon”
Frederick D. Aquino, Abilene Christian University: “Training Spiritual Perception: A Constructive Look at John Cassian”
Alexis Torrance, University of Notre Dame: “The Interface between the Physical and Spiritual Senses in Maximus the Confessor”
Session 1G Revisiting Neo-Cyrillian and Non-Chalcedonian Theologies: Their Implications for Ecumenical and Speculative Reflection Location: Horner Chair: Kevin Clarke, St. Patrick’s Seminary and University
Thomas Cattoi, Santa Clara University: “Back to Composition: Maximos the Confessor on Christ’s Composite Subjectivity and God’s Providential Will”
Jonathan Bieler, John Paul II Institute for Marriage and the Family: “Maximos the Confessor: A Preserver of Cyril of Alexandria’s Christological Concerns”
Yuichi Tsunoda, Sophia University Tokyo: “The Distinction between the ‘Nature of Union’ and the ‘Nature of What is Compounded’ in Leontius of Byzantium’s Understanding of the Hypostatic Union”
Khachik Grigoryan, Ankyunakar Research Center: “The Manazkert Council of 726 and Armenian Christology’s Response to Chalcedon”
10 Session 1H De-centering the ‘Author’ in Late Ancient Christianity: Looking after the Author—Post-Origin Textual Studies Location: Ogden Chair: James E. Walters, Rochester University
Nicolò Sassi, Indiana University Bloomington: “How Manuscript Evidence Troubles the Notion of Strong Authorship: The Case of the Book of Hierotheos”
Philip Forness, Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main: “De-centering the Homilist: Material Philology and Editions of Late Antique Sermons”
Caroline Crews, University of Texas Austin: “A Narrator by Any Other Name: Narrative Variation in the Passion of Perpetua and Felicity Manuscripts”
Reyhan Durmaz, University of Pennsylvania: “Obscuring, Complicating, and Losing the Author: Oral Performance of Hagiographical Stories in Late Antiquity”
Session 1I The Cross in Late Ancient Christian Thought and Practice I Location: Wright Chair: David Eastman, McCallie School
Zachary Smith, Yale University: “The Power of the Cross in Early Christian Practice”
David Eastman, McCallie School: “Crux paradoxa and the Petrine Tradition”
Andrea Peecher, University of Notre Dame: “Memorializing a Celestial Cross: Liturgy, Eschatology and Cyril of Jerusalem’s Staurophany”
Natalie Smith, University of Edinburgh: “Helena and the Invention of the True Cross: Could Melania the Elder Be the Source of the Incorporation of Helena into the Cross Tradition?”
11 Session 1J Apostolic Fathers: The Roman Setting Location: Picasso Chair: Michael Bland Simmons, Auburn University Montgomery
Scott D. Moringiello, DePaul University: “Agape in the Community: 1 Clement ’s Praise of God’s Love”
Janelle Peters, Loyola Marymount University: “Paul’s Authority in 1 Clement and Polycarp’s Letter to the Philippians”
Travis Proctor, Wittenberg University: “‘Do you want to hear me read?’ (Shep. Herm. 4.3): On Reading, Writing, and Listening in the Shepherd of Hermas”
Session 1K Non-Elites and Christianization in Late Antiquity I Location: Dusable Chair: Jaclyn Maxwell and Tina Sessa, Ohio University
Kristin Harper, Moberly Area Community College: “Miscent meritum corpora: Popular Religious Beliefs of the Afterlife from Iulian’s Epitaph (ICUR 7.18944)”
Catherine Taylor, Brigham Young University: “Vigils to Keep: Sarcophagi from Arles and Lay Devotion”
Jordan Conley, Boston University: “On Incubation and Christianization: Encounters at the Shrine of Saints Cyrus and John”
12 Session 1L Origen: Principles of Theology Location: Field Chair: Bert Harrill, The Ohio State University
Amy Brown Hughes, Gordon College: “Christology in the Pre-Nicene Theological Dialogues of Origen and Methodius”
Micah Miller, Emory University: “The Epinoiai of Christ as Powers in Origen”
Mark Therrien, University of Notre Dame: “Origen’s ‘Myth of Souls’? A Re-Reading of Peri archōn 2.8 in its Theological and Biblical Context”
Matthew Kemp, Loyola University Chicago: “John Henry Newman’s Rehabilitation of Origen”
Session 1M Gregory of Nazianzus: Grief, Suffering, and Healing Location: McCormick Chair: Bradley K. Storin, Louisiana State University
Allison Gray, St. Mary’s University: “A Brother and a Sister’s Keeper: Grief as Knowledge in Gregory of Nazianzus”
Caleb Little, Baylor University: “‘A Stronger Remedy’: Healing and Soteriology in Gregory of Nazianzus”
Gabrielle Thomas, Yale Divinity School: “The Place of Personified Evil and Human Suffering in the Theology of Gregory Nazianzen”
13 Session 1N Maximus the Confessor: Hermeneutics Location: Burnham Chair: Clayton N. Jefford, Saint Meinrad Seminary and School of Theology
Mitchell Stevens, Saint Louis University: “A Revelation of Directionality: Maximus the Confessor and Foucault’s Hermeneutics of Desire”
Jordan Parro, Boston College: “The Hermeneutics of Sexual Difference in Maximus the Confessor”
Eric Lopez, Life Pacific University: “‘In him we live, move, and have our being’: Maximus the Confessor’s Trinitarian Hermeneutics”
3:10pm – 3:30pm – Coffee Break – Crystal Ballroom C
14 Sessions 2A – 2N: 3:30pm – 5:10pm
Session 2A Augustine: Roman North African Context Location: Crystal Ballroom B Chair: Jesse Hoover, Baylor University
Adam Ployd, Eden Theological Seminary: “Augustine, Punic, and the Theological Use of Ethnicity”
David Riggs, Indiana Wesleyan University: “The ‘Genius of Carthage’ is a False God: Is Augustine Tilting at ‘Pagan’ Windmills?”
Vince L. Bantu, Fuller Theological Seminary: “Optatum Gildonianum: Social and Theological Identity in Late Antique North Africa”
Timo Nisula, Åbo Akademi University: “‘Who is your father?’ Abraham’s Family in the Donatist Communal Identity”
Session 2B Cyril’s Contra Julianum, Book 7: Angles of Inquiry Location: Crystal Ballroom A Chair: Matthew Crawford, Australian Catholic University, Aaron Johnson, Lee University
Gretchen Reydams-Schils, University of Notre Dame: “Philosophy as a Topic of Debate in Contra Julianum Book 7”
Susanna Elm, University of California Berkeley: “The Stupidity of the Greeks: Cyril’s Julian”
Lewis Ayres, Durham University: “Cyril against Julian: Hellene against Hellene?”
Scott Johnson, University of Oklahoma: “‘Nibbling at the Teachings of the Greeks’: Cyril of Alexandria on Hebrew and Greek Learning (Contra Julianum 7)”
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Session 2C Lightning Talk Location: Comiskey Chair: Micah Saxton, Iliff School of Theology
Caroline T. Schroeder, University of Oklahoma: “What’s New in Digital Coptic Studies?”
Joel Kalvesmaki, Text Alignment Network: “The Latin Readers of John Chrysostom”
Kristin Harper, Moberly Area Community College: “Modern Pilgrimage and Past Ritual: Communal Use of Sant’Ansano, Allerona, Italy”
Jennifer Otto, University of Lethbridge: “The Upside of Martyrdom”
Niki Clements, Rice University: “Foucault, Confessions, and Early Christianity”
Iskandar Bcheiry, ATLA: “An Early Christian Reaction to Islam: Patriarch Isho’yahb III and the Muslim Arab in the First Half of the Seventh Century”
Karen Carducci, The Catholic University of America: “Pagans and Christians on Mountains as Non-Human Agents”
Andrew Summerson, Calumet College of St. Joseph: “Christ as Jonah’s Sea Monster: Creative Typology in Byzantine Hymnography”
16 Session 2D Theosis in the Second and Third Centuries: Early Perspectives and Approaches to the Human Journey to God Location: Wrigley Chair: Kevin Clarke, St. Patrick’s Seminary and University
John C. Solheid, University of Toronto: “The Social Ethics of Deification in Origen: New Insights from his Homily on Psalm 81”
Don Springer, Sioux Falls Seminary: “Trinitarian and Moral Advancement in Theophilus”
Awet Andremicael, Yale Graduate School of Arts and Sciences: “Gloria enim hominis, Deus: Human Glory in Irenaeus’ Engagement with Deification Themes”
Session 2E Religion, Medicine, Disability, Health and Healing in Late Antiquity (ReMeDHe): Health and Healing in Patristic or Rabbinic Texts Location: Water Tower Chair: Julia Kelto Lillis, Union Theological Seminary
Dawn LaValle, Australian Catholic University: “No Cock for Asclepius: Healing in Plato’s Phaedo and Gregory of Nyssa’s On the Soul and Resurrection”
Naoki Kamimura, Tokyo Gakugei University: “Medical Imagery and the cura animarum in the Letters of Augustine”
Chance Bonar, Harvard University: “‘This is what physicians do’: John Chrysostom’s Homily against the Jews 8 as Response to Antiochene Jewish Health”
Monika Amsler, University of Maryland: “Originality and Compliance in Talmudic Medical Recipes”
17 Session 2F Irenaeus of Lyons: Images and Issues Location: Gold Coast Chair: D. Jeffrey Bingham, Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary
Nicole Chen, University of Oxford: “The Devil as Progenitor of Irenaeus’ Genealogy of Heresy”
Olena Gorbatenko, University of Notre Dame: “Toward a Reconsideration of the Role of Sin in Irenaeus”
Jackson Lashier, Southwestern College: “Irenaeus, Tertullian, and the Theophanic Appearances of the Logos”
Session 2G Tertullian: His Views and Opponents Location: Horner Chair: Richard Brumback III, Freed-Hardeman University
James C. Dever, University of Notre Dame: “Tertullian’s Bestiary in Adversus Marcionem”
Sarah Epplin, Cornell University: “Tertullian and the Eucharist”
Matthew Westermayer, Cornell University: “Crux and Simulacra: The Wooden Cross beyond Christian Apologetics”
David Wilhite, Baylor University: “Tertullian on the Monarchians: Persons and Impersonations”
18 Session 2H Building and Breaching Boundaries in Late Ancient Discourses Location: Addams Chair: Maria E. Doerfler, Yale University
Sara Misgen, Yale University: “Eternal Pain, Eternal Witness: Hell and Cosmology in the City of God and the Apocalypse of Paul”
Julia Nations-Quiroz, Yale University: “Judgment and Vindication: New Insights on the Brescia Casket’s Visual Program and its Relationship to Text”
Camille Angelo, Yale University: “From Periphery to Center: Reviewing the Place of the Holy Man in the Ritual Landscape"
C.J. Rice, Yale University: “The Curious Case of Eunomianism and the Law, 389-399 CE”
19 Session 2I The Cross in Late Ancient Christian Thought and Practice II Location: Wright Chair: Felicity Harley, Yale University
Tiggy McLaughlin, Gannon University: “The Fleshless Relic: The True Cross and the Word-Made-Flesh Christology of Venantius Fortunatus”
Daniel Eastman, Yale University: “Seeing Christ on the Cross in Late Antiquity”
Lee Jefferson, Centre College: “Cross, Chi-Rho, or Staff? Interpreting the Mystery of the Parousia Panel of Santa Sabina, Rome”
Respondent Robin Jensen, University of Notre Dame
Session 2J John Chrysostom: Texts and Theology Location: Ogden Chair: Sophie Lunn-Rockliffe, Peterhouse Cambridge
Sarah F. Porter, Harvard University: “Bonds of Love: Conjuring Orthodoxy in John Chrysostom’s Homily in Praise of Meletius”
Michael A. Tishel, Aristotle University of Thessalonik: “‘Suddenly we have become saints and sons’: The Centrality of the Sudden (Ἐξαίφνης) in John Chrysostom’s Homilies on Romans”
Samantha L. Miller, Anderson University: “The Virtues of John Chrysostom and Deliverance Theology: A Conversation”
Katherin Papadopoulos, Australian Lutheran College: “John Chrysostom: A Mnemoportrait”
20 Session 2K Non-Elites and Christianization in Late Antiquity II Location: Dusable Chair: Jaclyn Maxwell and Tina Sessa, Ohio University
Mark Anderson, Loyola Marymount University: “‘My Lord is Found among the Sick and the Strangers’: The Poor as Christ in Late Ancient Health and Welfare Institutions”
Walter Beers, Princeton University: “Popular Religion and the Subaltern in John of Ephesus’ Ecclesiastical History”
Alyssa Kotva, The Ohio State University: “Violence and Conversion in Sulpicius Serverus’ Vita Martini”
Session 2L Heresiology 2020: Fake News and Truthiness Location: Field Chair: M. Anne Kreps, University of Oregon
Jason von Ehrenkrook, University of Massachusetts: “Messiahs and Money Changers: Or, How John Chrysostom Helped Elect Donald Trump”
Young Richard Kim, University of Illinois Chicago: “The Politics of Heresiology, Then and Now”
Rebecca Falcasantos, University of Virginia: “#CommunionGate: Atrocity and Monstrosity in Socrates’ Ecclesiastical History”
Anna Lankina, University of Florida: “Heresiological Discourse in the Ecclesiastical Historians of the Fifth Century”
David Maldonado Rivera, Kenyon College: “‘The rest of the world will be filled with the Adversary’s teaching’: Space and Dissent in Anti-Chalcedonian Polemics”
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Session 2M The Alexandrian World Location: McCormick Chair: Justin Rogers, Freed-Hardeman University
Romulus D. Stefanut, University of the South: “Literacy, Literary Community, and Literary Canon in Jewish Alexandria: The Puzzling Case of Philo’s Therapeutae”
Rebecca Luft, St. Macrina Institute: “Moses, the High Priest, and the Tabernacle as Maps of Deification: Gnostic Visuality in Clement of Alexandria’s Stromata”
Nathan Porter, Duke Divinity School: “Christology in the Hermeneutics of Cyril of Alexandria”
Shawn J. Wilhite, California Baptist University / Durham University “‘Follow the royal road, without turning to the right or to the left’: Late Antique Exegetical Culture and Cyril’s Ideal Reader in Dialogues on the Trinity”
Session 2N Ephrem the Syrian Location: Burnham Chair: Brian Matz, Fontbonne University
Michael Ennis, Harvard Divinity School: “‘On Mary as though on an eye’: Divine Light in Ephrem’s Mariology and Early Midrash”
Cody Strecker, Hillsdale College: “The Lyric Mode of Ephrem’s Hymns”
David Kiger, Emmanuel Christian Seminary: “Ephrem and Didymus on the Undiminished Giver”
Charles Rivera, Yale University: “Did Ephrem Know Origen? Harmonious Interpretation in the Commentary on Matthew and the Hymns on Virginity”
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5:10pm – 7:30pm – Dinner Break (on your own)
5:30pm – 6:30pm – Graduate Student Networking Reception Location: Water Tower Refreshments Provided
Session 3: 7:30pm – 8:30pm
Plenary Lecture Location: Crystal Ballroom A & B Chair: Chris de Wet, University of South Africa
“Dissociation and the Role of Habitus and Cultural Capital in the Visions of Hermas”
Jonathan A. Draper, Professor Emeritus University of KwaZulu-Natal
8:45pm – 10:40pm – Dessert Reception Location: Crystal Ballroom Foyer
Friday, May 22, 2020
7:30am – 9:00am – Continental Breakfast Location: Crystal Ballroom Foyer
8:00am – 8:45am – Graduate Student Caucus Meeting Location: Crystal Ballroom A
8:00am – 5:00pm – Exhibits Open Location: Crystal Ballroom C
23 Sessions 4A – 4N: 9:00am – 10:40am
Session 4A Augustine: On Conversion and History Location: Crystal Ballroom B Chair: Kimberly F. Baker, Saint Meinrad Seminary and School of Theology
Marcin Wysocki, The John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin: “Conversion as an Adventure: A Study of St. Augustine’s Letters to Heretics and Schismatics”
Amanda Arulanandam, University of Toronto: “The Shape of Truth, the Character of Love: St. Augustine on the Nature of ‘Humility’”
Han-luen Kantzer Komline, Western Theological Seminary: “Reconsidering Reconsiderations: Rereading Augustine as Heavenly Scribe”
Corine Milad, University of Toronto: “History as Speech: Augustine on Allegory and Rhetoric”
Session 4B Syriac Literature I Location: Addams Chair: Thomas Clemmons, The Catholic University of America
Samuel Pomeroy, University of Leuven: “‘Over Each Nation, Country, and City’: The Nation-Angels in Fourth to Eighth-Century Greek, Syriac, and Armenian Christian Literature”
Natalie M. Reynoso, Fordham University: “Animals Fit for Consumption and Desirous of Flesh in Syriac Christian Martyrdom Narratives from the Sassanian Empire”
Erin G. Walsh, University of Chicago: “My Body, My Self: Addressing the Body in Syriac Poetry”
24 Session 4C Lightning Talk Location: Comiskey Chair: Jeanne Nicole Mellon Saint-Laurent, Marquette University
Marie-Ange Rakotoniaina, Emory University: “Of Heart and Time: The Sabbath in Augustine’s Enarrationes in Psalmos”
Gerald Boersma, Ave Maria University: “The Vision of Love in Augustine’s De Trinitate”
Coleman Ford, Southern Baptist Theological Seminary: “Recovering Augustinian Friendship: A Case Study from Augustine’s Ep. 258”
Jimmy Chan, University of Toronto: “Augustine’s Ambiguous Reception of Stoic Emotions”
Khachik Grigoryan, Ankyunacar Research Center: “The Supposed Meaning of the Letter of Cyril of Alexandria to John of Antioch of 433 A.D.: Is it Really a Formula of Reunion or a Final Document of the Third Ecumenical Council?”
Insoo Kim, Graduate Theological Union: “Christological Anthropology”
Emanuel Fiano, Fordham University: “A New Creedal Ethos: Polemics and Style in Fourth-Century Conciliar Documents”
25 Session 4D The Clergy of Rome in Late Antiquity: Problems and Perspectives Location: Wrigley Chair: Dennis Trout, University of Missouri
Michele Renee Salzman, University of California Riverside: “The Acts of Silvester and Sunday Observances in Rome”
David G. Hunter, Boston College: “Sexual Continence and the Clergy of Rome: Rethinking the Ad Gallos episcopos of Damasus I”
Andrew Cain, University of Colorado Boulder: “Badly Behaving Priests of Rome and the Theory of a Monastic Clergy in Jerome’s Commentary on Titus”
Respondent Dennis Trout, University of Missouri
26 Session 4E Early Eucharistic Rites Location: Water Tower Chair: Robin Jensen, University of Notre Dame
Paul Bradshaw, University of Notre Dame: “Wineless Eucharists: Asceticism or Breakfasts?”
Maxwell Johnson, University of Notre Dame: “An Anaphora in Mystagogical Catechesis 5 Attributed to St. Cyril of Jerusalem and the Anaphora of St. James”
Nathan Chase, University of Notre Dame: “Barcelona, Mark, and James: An Anaphoral Hydra?”
Anna Petrin, Wesley Theological Seminary: “Influences on the Intercessions of Mystagogical Catechesis 5: Implications for the Anaphora of St. James”
Session 4F Gregory of Nyssa: Spirituality and Virtue Location: Gold Coast Chair: Michael Magree, S.J., Boston College
Charles Schmidt, Rice University: “The Medical Imagination in Gregory of Nyssa’s De hominis opificio”
Michael J. Petrin, The Catholic University of America: “The Life of Macrina and the Asketikon of Basil”
Nathan D. Pederson, Loyola University Chicago: “Opacity and Epektasis: Aesthetic Formation in Gregory of Nyssa”
Monica Keith, The Catholic University of America: “Gregory of Nyssa’s Unique Vision of Christian Citizenship”
27 Session 4G The Use of the Term ‘Person’ in Pre-Chalcedonian Theology (Persona or Prosōpon) I Location: Wright Chair: J. Patout Burns, University of Notre Dame
Joshua McManaway, University of Notre Dame: “The Meaning of Prosōpon in the Works of Nestorius: A Novel Interpretation”
Christopher McLaughlin, Boston College: “The Christology of Theodoret of Cyrus”
Nathan Tilley, Duke University: “Dyophysite Deification: Babai the Great on the Parṣopa of Filiation”
Session 4H De-centering the ‘Author’ in Late Ancient Christianity: Troubling Authors Location: Soldier Field Chair: Ellen Muehlberger, University of Michigan Ann Arbor
Jeffrey Wickes, Saint Louis University: “The Rise and Fall of Ephrem, Genius and Saint”
James E. Walters, Rochester University: “Naming the Anonymous Persian Sage: Authorship and Syriac Historiography”
Rebecca Krawiec, Canisius College: “Besa: The Non-Author”
28 Session 4I The Theology and Contemplative Aesthetic of Early Christian Worship as Reflected in Art, Music, and Architecture Location: Horner Chair: Edward Schaefer, University of Florida
Michael Motia, University of Massachusetts: “Blue God: Polychrome, Synesthesia, and Early Christian Mysticism”
Andrew Summerson, Calumet College of St. Joseph: “Christ as Jonah’s Sea Monster: Creative Typology in Byzantine Hymnography”
Linda Fuchs, Independent Scholar / University of Florida: “Invisible Imagery Extols the Invisible God: The Jonah Sarcophagus”
Edward Schaefer, University of Florida: “Text, Melody, Mode and Sign: The Relationship between the Ancient Notation Systems and the Theology of the Mass”
Session 4J Apostolic Fathers: Syria and Asia Minor Location: Ogden Chair: Shawn J. Wilhite, California Baptist University / Durham University
Chance Blackmer, Freed-Hardeman University: “Ignatius, the Monoepiscopacy, and the Influence of 2 Peter 1:20”
Matthew Albanese, University of Oxford: “Greek Syntax and Literary Unity in Ignatius to the Magnesians”
Cavan Concannon, University of Southern California: “Networking Early Christianity: Dionysios of Corinth, Ignatius of Antioch, and Polycarp of Smyrna”
Stephen Carlson, Australian Catholic University: “The Genre of Papias’s Expositions of Dominical Oracles”
29 Session 4K Non-Elites and Christianization in Late Antiquity III Location: Dusable Chair: Jaclyn Maxwell and Tina Sessa, Ohio University
Mattias Gassman, University of Oxford: “Between Preacher and Congregation: Preaching in Augustine, Ep. 29”
Diane Fruchtman, Rutgers University: “Social Martyrdom in Augustine’s Sermons”
Laura Robinson, Duke University: “‘Making Disciples’ in Late Antique Christianity: Christians, Judaism, and Proselytism in Light of the First Gospel”
Jennifer Hunter, University of Washington: “The (Re)ritualization and Christianization of Marriage, Sex, and Procreation among the Silent Majority”
Session 4L Origen: Scripture and Exegesis Location: Field Chair: Joseph G. Mueller, S.J., Marquette University
Samuel Johnson, University of Notre Dame: “‘Spoken in figures’: Origen as Critical Reader of the Gospels?”
Judy Kim, University of Notre Dame: “The Letter of the Text and the Pedagogical Role of the Prophet Featured in Origen’s Homilies on Jeremiah”
Karl Shuve, University of Virginia: “Origen and Methodius: Reading the Song of Songs; Rewriting Plato”
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Session 4M Gregory of Nazianzus: Structure and Salvation Location: McCormick Chair: Bradley K. Storin, Louisiana State University
Brian Matz, Fontbonne University: “Deacons and their Work in the Writings of Gregory Nazianzen”
Scott Ables, Oregon State University: “Reconsidering Pre-Theological Perichoresis in Gregory of Nazianzus”
Brendan Harris, Oxford University: “Gregory Nazianzen on Universal Salvation”
Session 4N Maximus the Confessor: Theory and Method Location: Burnham Chair: Paul M. Blowers, Milligan University
Eugenia Torrance, University of Notre Dame: “How to Read the Book of Nature: Critiquing Retrievals of Maximus’ ‘Two Books’ Theory in Ecotheology”
Despina D. Prassas, Providence College: “Christian and Stoic Approaches to Calming the Thoughts”
Joshua Lollar, University of Kansas: “The Concept of Paradigm in Maximus the Confessor”
Kevin Clarke, St. Patrick’s Seminary and University: “Maximus the Confessor’s Anti-Severan Polemics in the Opuscula”
10:40am – 11:00am – Coffee Break – Crystal Ballroom C
31 Session 5: 11:00am – 12:00pm
NAPS Presidential Address Location: Crystal Ballroom B Chair: Clayton N. Jefford, Saint Meinrad Seminary and School of Theology
“Angels, Animals, and the Assembly of God’s Spies”
Robin Darling Young, Associate Professor of Church History The Catholic University of America
12:00pm – 1:30pm – Lunch (on your own) Tables for conversation will be set up in the Crystal Ballroom Foyer
Sessions 6A – 6N: 1:30pm – 3:10pm
Session 6A Augustine: Confessions Location: Crystal Ballroom B Chair: Charles Bobertz, St. John’s University
Michael Cameron, University of Portland: “Biblical Character Inhabitation in Augustine’s Confessions”
Gerald Boersma, Ave Maria University: “The Nobility of Sight in the Confessions”
Coleman Ford, Southern Baptist Theological Seminary: “Augustine’s Conversion as Aesthetic Journey: A Reappraisal of Beauty in Augustine’s Confessions”
Mark Weedman, Johnson University: “Augustine’s Double Healing and the Problem of Grief”
Patricia L. Grosse, Finlandia University: “From Flesh to Bones: The Entanglement of Love and Desire in the Life and Afterlife of St. Monnica”
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Session 6B John Chrysostom’s Ad Stagirium: Themes and Conversation Location: Crystal Ballroom A Chair: Blake Leyerle, University of Notre Dame
Blake Leyerle, University of Notre Dame: “Introduction”
Margaret Mitchell, University of Chicago: “Techniques of Consolation” (10 mins)
Robert G. T. Edwards, University of Notre Dame: “Divine Providence” (10 minutes)
Maria E. Doerfler, Yale University: “The Trouble with Families” (10 mins)
Discussion
Wendy Mayer, Australian Lutheran College: “Demonology and Emotions” (10 mins)
Jessica Wright, University of Southern California: “Mental and Physical Illnesses” (10 mins)
Chris de Wet, University of South Africa: “Asceticism” (10 mins)
Discussion
33 Session 6C Creation, Cosmology, and the Self Location: Comiskey Chair: Andrew Jacobs, Harvard Divinity School
Karen Carducci, The Catholic University of America: “The Birth of Minerals according to Pagans and Christians”
Paul M. Blowers, Milligan University: “George of Pisidia’s Hexameron: Cosmic Wisdom for Emperors, Patriarchs, and All the Rest of Us”
Stanley P. Rosenberg, Wycliffe Hall Oxford: “Between Organic and Mechanistic Views of Nature: Creation ex nihilo and Fourth-Century Latin Interpretations of Nature”
Adam Trettel, Harvard University: “Diffusion of Creation Theology in De Spiritalis Historiae Gestis 2 of Avitus of Vienne”
Kyueil Kwak, Georgia Central University: “A Mirror or Window: A Study on the Sixth-Century Debates over Cosmology and Scriptural Interpretation Reflected in the Hagia Sophia at Constantinople”
34 Session 6D Scholarly Approaches to Patristic Studies Location: Wrigley Chair: Blossom Stefaniw, University of Halle
Tara Baldrick-Morrone, Florida State University: “‘A trauma as profound as that of Gnosticism’: Rereading John Noonan’s History of Ancient Positions on Contraception”
Niki Clements, Rice University: “‘Care of the self’ (ἐπιμελεία ἑαυτοῦ) in Gregory of Nyssa and Michel Foucault”
Marty Tomszak, Loyola University Chicago: “Tangibly Beautifying the Soul: St. Basil of Caesarea as a Metaxu between Apophatic Contemplation and Cataphatic Social Orthopraxy”
Gianna Zipp, Universität Greifswald: “Lactantius Meets Maurice Halbwachs”
Joseph T. Lienhard, S.J., Fordham University: “Johannes Quasten and Patristics in America: A Tribute”
Session 6E Augustine: Preaching and Exegesis Location: Water Tower Chair: Jonathan Yates, Villanova University
Zachary Howard, Durham University: “‘The Apostle answers you and says’ (serm. 154): Augustine’s Biographic Exegesis of Paul in his Anti-Pelagian Polemics”
Hubertus Drobner, University of Paderborn: “Easter Week in Hippo Regius”
Marie-Ange Rakotoniaina, Emory University: “Of Heart, (Re)Quies and Time: Redefining the Sabbath Rest in the Sermons of Augustine”
Kimberly F. Baker, Saint Meinrad Seminary and School of Theology: “Did Hilary of Poitiers Influence Augustine’s Doctrine of the Totus Christus?” 35 Session 6F Gregory of Nyssa: Theology and Christology Location: Gold Coast Chair: Nancy Pardee, University of Chicago Greenberg Center for Jewish Studies
Alexander L. Abecina, University of Cambridge: “Tracing the Spirit: Christology in Gregory of Nyssa’s Contra Eunomium III”
Clifton Huffmaster, Graduate Theological Union: “The Importance of the Unknowability of God’s Essence in Gregory of Nyssa’s Contra Eunomium”
Ellen Scully, Seton Hall University: “Mixture Christology in Gregory of Nyssa”
Alexander B. Miller, Fordham University: “Christ the Prototype: Embodiment and Divine Simplicity in Gregory of Nyssa”
Ty Monroe, Assumption College Worcester: “Etsi pascha non daretur? Exploring the Anomaly in Nyssen’s On the Soul and Resurrection”
36 Session 6G Culture, Conflict, Empire, and Politics Location: Horner Chair: Brian Dunkle, S.J., Boston College
Alex Istok, New York University: “Reimagining Roman Power in Athenagoras”
Emanuel Fiano, Fordham University: “Reading Theodoret Closely: Was the Council of the Thebaid (362) a Rigorist Gathering?”
Jessica van ’t Westeinde, University of Bern: “‘To cope, or not to cope?’ Detecting Coping Strategies in the Reception of the ‘Robber Synod’ at the First Meeting of Chalcedon (451 CE)”
Tarmo Toom, Georgetown University: “An Expedient Doctrine: Separation of Church and State in the Donatist Controversy”
Michael Champion, Australian Catholic University: “Harsh Justice or Gentle Equity? Christian Appropriation of Classical Political Thought”
Session 6H De-centering the ‘Author’ in Late Ancient Christianity: Who Makes a Text? Location: Ogden Chair: Ellen Muehlberger, University of Michigan Ann Arbor
Jae Hee Han, Brown University: “Event as Author: Pseudepigraphy and the Apostolic Redactor in the Didascalia Apostolorum”
J. Gregory Given, University of Virginia: “Do Ancient Letters Have Authors?”
Dina Boero, The College of New Jersey: “Who is the Author of Antonios’ Life of Symeon the Elder?”
Phillip Fackler, University of Pennsylvania: “Recycled Text: Parallels between the Apostolic Constitutions and Letters of Ps.-Ignatius” 37 Session 6I Scripture and Exegesis I Location: Wright Chair: Christopher A. Graham, Criswell College
M. David Litwa, Australian Catholic University: “The God of this World: The Marcionite Interpretation of 2 Corinthians 4:4”
Bogdan Bucur, Duquesne University: “‘All catholic churches join us in thinking this way’: Christophanic Exegesis in the Epistula Hymenaei”
Meira Z. Kensky, Coe College: “‘Thus a teacher must be’: Pedagogical Formation in John Chrysostom’s Homilies on 1 and 2 Timothy”
Thomas P. Scheck, Ave Maria University: “Jerome’s Origenistic Exegesis of Romans 9”
Clayton Killion, Saint Louis University: “Locks and the Law: Ambrosiaster’s Exegesis of Authority”
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Session 6J Texts and Manuscripts—Dates and Genres Location: Addams Chair: Stephen O. Presley, Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary
Luke Drake, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill: “The Coptic Act of Peter in Late Antiquity: Virginity, Disability, Intertextuality”
Nathan Smolin, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill: “Clement Said What? History and Fiction in the Clementine Homilies”
Joseph G. Mueller, S.J., Marquette University: “Reconsidering the Date of The Teachings of Silvanus”
Zachary M. Keith, The Catholic University of America: “Reexamining Vat.gr. 2200 as an Early Edition of St. John Damascene’s Liber de haeresibus”
Edwina Murphy, Morling College: “Constructing Ad Quirinum: Cyprian’s Use of Connection and Association in Book 3”
39 Session 6K Visions of the Feminine Role Location: Dusable Chair: Clayton N. Jefford, Saint Meinrad Seminary and School of Theology
Peter A. Mena, University of San Diego: “Performing Thecla: Gender Performance and the Theater in Acts of Paul and Thecla”
Jeannie Sellick, University of Virginia: “Virgin Acts: Blinding, Castration, and the Stakes of Male Chastity”
Morwenna Ludlow, University of Exeter: “Rhetoric, Performance and Women’s Speech in Fourth-Century Greek Homilies”
Lillian I. Larsen, University of Redlands: “On Teaching a New Alphabet”
Caroline T. Schroeder, University of Oklahoma: “Girls and Girlhood in White Monastery Texts
Session 6L Participation and Metaphysics in the Cappadocian Tradition Location: Field Chair: Andrew Radde-Gallwitz, University of Notre Dame
Kirsten Anderson, University of Notre Dame: “Ontology and Human Invention in Gregory of Nyssa”
Luke Togni, Marquette University: “Genera of Participation in the Dionysian Corpus”
Andrew Radde-Gallwitz, University of Notre Dame: “Gregory of Nyssa and the Metaphysics of Body”
Taylor Ross, University of Notre Dame: “Gregory of Nyssa’s ‘Symbolism’ in Neoplatonic Context”
Michel Barnes, Marquette University: “Power Causality and Divine Productivity in Gregory of Nyssa”
40 Session 6M Catechesis, Liturgy, and Sacred Spaces I Location: McCormick Chair: Michele Renee Salzman, University of California Riverside
David Brakke, The Ohio State University: “Eucharist, Sacrifice, and Priesthood among Second-Century Christians: After the Gospel of Judas”
Alex Fogleman, Baylor University: “The Ethiopian Eunuch in Early North African Catechesis”
Joseph Grone, Saint Louis University: “The Bloodless Sacrifice of the Martyr: The Kontakia on George Ascribed to Romanos the Melodist”
Session 6N Archives and Beyond: Reading Ecclesiastical Histories Location: Burnham Chair: David Maldonado Rivera, Kenyon College
Sr. Maria Theotokos Adams, SSVM, The Catholic University of America: “Liturgical Time for a New Historiography: The Rhetoric of Synchronic Dating in Eusebius of Caesarea’s ‘Martyrs of Palestine’”
Matthew Chalmers, Washington and Lee University: “Time for the Samaritans: Reading Socrates and Sozomen on the Date of Easter”
Jennifer Barry, University of Mary Washington: “We Didn’t Start the Fire: Remembering Alexandria on Fire”
Paul Wheatley, University of Notre Dame: “(Pseudo-)Dorotheus of Tyre as a Storytelling Archivist of Orthodox Identity Formation and Interpretation of Scripture”
Jeremy Schott, Indiana University Bloomington: “Middle Byzantine Readers of Ecclesiastical History: The Case of the Scholia of Plut. 70.7”
3:30pm – 4:00pm – Coffee Break – Crystal Ballroom C 41 Session 7: 4:00pm – 5:00pm
Panel Discussion 50 Years of Scholarship: Continuity & Change Location: Crystal Ballroom A & B Chair: Robert D. Sider, Dickinson College
Panelists Elizabeth Clark, Duke University Joseph T. Lienhard, S.J., Fordham University Columba Stewart, OSB, St. John’s University Wendy Mayer, Australian Lutheran College
Session 8: 5:15pm – 5:30pm Instrumenta Studiorum Location: Crystal Ballroom B Chair: Robin Darling Young, The American Catholic University
Session 9: 5:30pm – 6:30pm NAPS General Business Meeting Location: Comiskey Chair: Robin Darling Young, The Catholic University of America
6:30pm – 7:30pm, JECS Business Meeting Location: Addams
42 7:30pm – 9:30pm, Banquet Buffet Location: Crystal Ballroom B
After Dinner Presentation: “NAPS and the Republic of Letters”
Joseph W. Trigg, Independent Scholar
43 Saturday, May 23, 2020
7:30am – 9:00am – Continental Breakfast Location: Crystal Ballroom Foyer
8:00am – 1:00pm – Exhibits Open Location: Crystal Ballroom C
Sessions 10A – 10N: 9:00am – 10:40am
Session 10A Augustine: Pelagianism and the Will Location: Crystal Ballroom B Chair: Gerald Boersma, Ave Maria University
Erik Estrada, Texas Christian University: “The Common Identity of the Anonymous Opponents Critiqued in Augustine’s On Faith and Works and the Writings of Pelagius and his Followers”
Jordan J. Wales, Hillsdale College: “On Being ‘Sons’ of God: Imitation, Indwelling, and Augustine’s Developing Divergence from Pelagius”
Thomas Humphries, Saint Leo University: “Resisting the Will of God: Cassian and Augustine Reconsidered”
Dennis Trout, University of Missouri: “Augustine at the Vatican: Pope Honorius, Monothelitism, and the Doors of St. Peter’s”
44 Session 10B The Reception of Chalcedon in the West Location: Addams Chair: Tina Sessa, Ohio University
Eric Fournier, West Chester University of PA: “The Vandal Council of 484: A Reaction to Zeno’s Henotikon?”
Samuel Cohen, Sonoma State University: “‘Whoever refuses to sign is a heretic!’ The subscriptio and the Christological Controversy before and after Chalcedon”
Teodor Tabus, University of Bonn: “The Reception and Defense of the Chalcedonian definitio fidei through the Scythian Monks and their Writings”
Janet Sidaway, King’s College London: “West Meets East in Gregory the Great: What Influence Did Gregory’s Years in Constantinople Have on his Understanding of Chalcedon, and How Was This Reflected in his Teaching on the Transfiguration and Ascension?”
Session 10C Evagrius of Pontus: Life and Legacy Location: Field Chair: Robin Darling Young, The Catholic University of America
Carl Vennerstrom, The Catholic University of America: “A Gnostikos Reading Gnostikoi: Evagrius Ponticus as an Interpreter of David and Solomon”
Joel Kalvesmaki, Text Alignment Network: “The Earliest Christian Scholiasts: Didymus or Evagrius?”
Ian Gerdon, University of Notre Dame: “The Chapters of the Disciples of Evagrius and the Evagrian Legacy”
Jesse Siragan Arlen, University of California Los Angeles: “Reading Evagrius at the Monastery of Narek”
45 Session 10D New Materialism and Early Christianity Location: Haymarket Chair: Kristi Upson-Saia, Occidental College
Allen Wilson, Fordham University: “Adunatio animae et carnis: Irenaeus of Lyons and a Theology of Blood”
Katie Kleinkopf, Indiana University Southeast: “Ascetics as Assemblages: Disruption and Experimentation in Early Christianity”
Christopher Sweeney, Fordham University: “The Matter of Daniel the Stylite”
Session 10E Speech Ethics Location: Water Tower Chair: Brian Matz, Fontbonne University
Jamie Marvin, University of California San Diego: “False Speech and Financial Incentives”
Kevin Uhalde, Ohio University: “Swearing at the Edge of Uncertainty: Ethical and Pragmatic Approaches”
Jonathan Yates, Villanova University: “‘Veritas mundat, uanitas inquinate’: The Rationale for Not Taking God’s Name in Vain in Augustine’s Sermons”
Jaclyn Maxwell, Ohio University: “Joking and Laughter in John Chrysostom’s Homilies”
46 Session 10F Irenaeus of Lyons: New Directions in Scholarship I Location: Gold Coast Chair: Susan L. Graham, Saint Peter’s University
Jonatan C. Simons, Australian Catholic University: “Irenaeus and Divine Grammar in haer. 2.13”
Grant W. Gasse, University of Notre Dame: “Irenaeus, Pauline Mystery, and the Philosophers in Adversus Haereses 2.14”
Stephen O. Presley, Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary: “Irenaeus and Apologetics: A Survey and Assessment of the State of Scholarship”
Session 10G The Use of the Term ‘Person’ in Pre-Chalcedonian Theology (Persona or Prosōpon) II Location: Horner Chair: Joshua McManaway, University of Notre Dame
Michael Magree, S.J., Boston College: “Exegesis Supporting Metaphysics: Eusebius of Caesarea’s Use of Prosōpon and its Hypostatic Associations”
Derek King, University of St. Andrews: “Knowing the Father in the Church: Jesus Christ as Prosōpon in Gregory of Nyssa”
Ross Twele, The Catholic University of America: “The Term Persona in Latin Theological Discourse under Constantius II”
J. Patout Burns, University of Notre Dame: “Augustine’s Christological Use of the Term Persona”
47 Session 10H Imagining the Other I Location: Ogden Chair: Stephen Carlson, Australian Catholic University
Michael Flexsenhar III, The University of Memphis: “Seeking Death in a Synagogue: Satire in the Refutation of All Heresies (9.12.7-9)”
Michail Kitsos, University of Michigan: “Christian Claims of a Religious Legitimacy: Christian Dialogical Discussions on Icons and Idols in the Adversus Iudaeos Dialogues”
Andrew Jacobs, Harvard Divinity School: “Isaac the (ex-)Jew”
Ari Finkelstein, University of Cincinnati: “Fear of Jewish Fire in Late Antique Syrian Antioch”
Session 10I Scripture and Exegesis I Location: Wright Chair: Mark Elliott, University of Toronto
Ian Mills, Duke University: “Marcion as Editor? Gospel Re-Writing and the Ancient Conventions of Textual Criticism”
Bert Harrill, The Ohio State University: “Basil of Caesarea’s Exegesis on Ephesians 1:1 (Against Eunomius 2.19): The Significance of a Lacunate Text”
Elizabeth Schrader, Duke University: “Farewell to Mary ‘of Magdala’”
48 Session 10J John Chrysostom: Alms, Wealth, and Salvation Location: Picasso Chair: Jennifer Barry, University of Mary Washington
Becky Walker, Saint Louis University: “‘Almsgiving makes one like God’: Almsgiving’s Role in the Acquisition of Virtue according to John Chrysostom”
Junghun Bae, Kosin University: “Almsgiving, the Therapy of the Soul, and Salvation: John Chrysostom and the Christianization of Ancient Philosophical Therapy”
Douglas Finn, Villanova University: “God’s Natural Bounty: Theosis, Agriculture, and Wealth in John Chrysostom’s Preaching on Job”
Session 10K Conversion, Piety, and Self-Knowledge I Location: Dusable Chair: Caroline T. Schroeder, University of Oklahoma
Jonathan Morgan, Indiana Wesleyan University: “The Sign of the Cross in Pre-Nicene Latin Theology”
Midori Hartman, Albright College: “Conversion as Hunting in Basil of Caesarea’s Letter 10”
Nathan D. Howard, University of Tennessee Martin: “Sensing Friendship: Masculinity and Materiality in Cappadocian Epistles”
Alyssa Cady, Princeton University: “If Not with Deeds, Then with Words: Textual Tombs and Interpretive Guides in Prudentius”
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Session 10L Eusebius of Caesarea Location: Soldier Field Chair: Richard Brumback III, Freed-Hardeman University
David DeVore, Cal Poly Pomona: “The Limits of Collective ‘Orthodox’ Authorship in Eusebius’ Ecclesiastical History”
Andrew Koperski, The Ohio State University: “Eusebius, Revelation, and its Place in the New Testament Canon”
Nathan Betz, KU Leuven: “Witnesses to the New Jerusalem at the Constantinian Turn: Lactantius and Eusebius of Caesarea”
Jennifer Otto, University of Lethbridge: “Sufferers and Survivors: Eusebius, Martyrs, and Happy Endings”
Session 10M Catechesis, Liturgy, and Sacred Spaces II Location: Burnham Chair: David Brakke, The Ohio State University
Anne McGowan, Catholic Theological Union: “Modeling Membership: A Cognitive Science Analysis of Commitment- Oriented Strategies in Early Christian Mystagogical Writings”
Hugo Mendez, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill: “Armenian Monks and the Making of the Čašoć”
Anthony Thomas, University of Minnesota: “‘Do you fear the narrow house?’ Heresy and Private Worship in Ambrose’s De Cain et Abel”
András Handl, KU Leuven: “The Catacomb of Whom? How an Anonymous Hypogeum Became the Catacomb of Calepodius and Why Does This Matter?”
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Session 10N The Apocalypse of Ps.-Shenoute: Imperial Apocalypticism and Early Islamic Jerusalem Location: McCormick Chair: Stephen J. Shoemaker, University of Oregon
Stephen J. Shoemaker, University of Oregon: “The Apocalypse of Ps-Shenoute and the ‘Restoration’ of the Jerusalem Temple”
Stephen Davis, Yale University: “An Arabic Canons of Shenoute”
John Lamoreaux, Southern Methodist University: “The Textual Tradition of Saʿīd b. Ba rīq's Chronicle”
Mark Swanson, Lutheran School of Theologyṭ Chicago: “Bu rus al-Sadamantī’s Instructive Lives: Arabic Theology and Patristic Tradition” ṭ
Session 11: 11:00am – 12:00pm
Plenary Lecture Location: Crystal Ballroom B Chair: Shawn J. Wilhite, California Baptist University / Durham University
“The Lovers Miniature of the Muratorian Codex (Ambr. I 101 sup.)”
Clare K. Rothschild, Professor of Scripture Studies Lewis University / University of Stellenbosch
12:00pm – 1:30pm – Lunch (on your own) Tables for conversation will be set up in the Crystal Ballroom Foyer
51 Sessions 12A – 12K: 1:30pm – 3:30pm
Session 12A Augustine: Society and De civitate dei Location: Crystal Ballroom B Chair: Han-luen Kantzer Komline, Western Theological Seminary
Marianne Djuth, Canisius College: “Creation, Death, and the Goodness of God in Augustine’s De civitate dei”
Jimmy Chan, University of Toronto: “Domestic Peace (pax domestica) as the Critical Component of Pax in a Just Society: Augustine’s Socio-Rhetorical and Theological Turn in Book XIX of De ciuitate Dei”
Jared Ortiz, Hope College: “Consolation after Rape as the Foundation of a New Republic: Augustine’s City of God Book 1”
Wei Hua, Huaqiao University: “Augustine and Mencius on Just War: A Comparative Study”
Gregory W. Lee, Wheaton College: “Augustine the Quietist”
52 Session 12B Discerning the Desert Faith Location: Field Chair: Caroline T. Schroeder, University of Oklahoma
Sean Argondizza-Moberg, Independent Scholar: “The Laughter of the Monks: Wit, Wisdom, and Humor in the Pedagogy of the Apophthegmata Patrum”
Daniel Becerra, Brigham Young University: “Interspecies Ethics in Egyptian Ascetic Literature”
Alexander Hurtsellers, Villanova University: “Spiritual Artillery: The Significance of the Sign of the Cross in the Desert Eremitic Tradition”
Yuliya Minets, University of Notre Dame: “Holy Men Speaking: Languages and Authority in Late Antique Christianity and Beyond”
Joshua Schachterle, University of Denver: “Remaking the Desert: Territory, Holiness, and the Origenist Controversy”
53 Session 12C Doctrinal Considerations Location: McCormick Chair: Shawn J. Wilhite, California Baptist University / Durham University
Matthew Briel, Assumption College: “Pseudo-Dionysius, an Outlier in the Greek Theological Tradition on the Question of Providence”
Jeremiah Coogan, University of Notre Dame: “Rethinking ‘Adoptionism’: An Argument for Dismantling a Dubious Category”
Mark DelCogliano, University of St. Thomas: “Non-Apollinarian Christological Aberrations in Episcopal Letters of the 360s and 370s”
Dean Gjorcheski, Durham University: “Dualistic Anthropology: ὁ ἔσω ἄνθρωπος (‘the inner man’) of the Pseudo Macarian Homilies”
Ethan Laster, Saint Louis University: “Embodied Christology: Miaphysitism and Ascetic Suffering in John of Ephesus’ Lives of the Eastern Saints”
54 Session 12D Death, Martyrdom, and Persecution Location: Burnham Chair: Sophie Lunn-Rockliffe, Peterhouse Cambridge
Michael Hanaghan, Australian Catholic University: “Gallienus’ subdola pax in Commodian (Inst. 2.25)”
Rajiv K. Bhola, University of Ottawa: “Martyrdom as a Christian Civic Obligation in Eusebius’ Praeparatio Evangelica”
Bradley K. Storin, Louisiana State University: “Purity and Violence in Late Antique Hagiography”
Tracy Russell, Saint Louis University: “The Celibate Martyr: Discourses of Martyrdom and Asceticism in Late Ancient Syriac Virgin Martyr Narratives”
Session 12E Augustine: Signs and Rhetoric Location: Water Tower Chair: David Wilhite, Baylor University
Brian Gronewoller, Hebron Christian Academy: “Signs, Signs, Everywhere a Sign: Sensible Aspects of Creation as Divine Words in Augustine’s Early Thought”
Alexander H. Pierce, University of Notre Dame: “Augustine’s Cruciform Semiotics: The Power of the Cross in Relating Signa and Res”
Emily Cain, Loyola University Chicago: “Augustine’s Mangled Mirror: Rhetoric of the Self, the Divine, and the Other”
Amanda Knight, Emory University: “The Incarnate Word and the Psychological Image in Augustine”
John O’Callaghan, University of Notre Dame: “How Mercy Became Compassionate”
55 Session 12F Irenaeus of Lyons: New Directions in Scholarship II Location: Gold Coast Chair: Don Springer, Sioux Falls Seminary
Christopher A. Graham, Criswell College: “(Mis)Naming God in Second-Century Christian Polemics: Irenaeus and the Tetragrammaton”
Ryan L. Scruggs, McGill University: “Gift and Gratitude: Divine Economy as Gift Exchange in Irenaeus of Lyons”
D. Jeffrey Bingham, Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary: “Irenaeus and the Words of the Lord”
Session 12G Syriac Literature II Location: Horner Chair: Erin G. Walsh, University of Chicago
Justin Arnwine, University of Toronto: “Jacobites or Severians? Controversial Eponyms in East Syrian Literature”
Iskandar Bcheiry, ATLA: “A Discovery of an Unknown West-Syriac Synod from the End of the Seventh Century or the Beginning of the Eighth Century”
Abby Kulisz, Indiana University Bloomington: “Books, Bishops, and Caliphs: The ‘Book’ in Timothy I’s Disputation with the Caliph al-Mahdī”
56 Session 12H Imagining the Other II Location: Ogden Chair: Candace Buckner, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill
Jared Secord, University of Calgary: “Agrippa Castor, Barbarian Wisdom, and the Development of Christian Heresiology”
Brian Dunkle, S.J., Boston College: “Christianizing the ‘Jewish Affect’: Ambrose’s Reception of Philo on Grace”
John Hood, Independent Scholar: “‘Drink the blood which you shed’: Sin, Witness, and Rhetoric in Augustine’s Enarrationes in Psalmos ”
Nathan J. Hardy, University of Chicago: “The Riddle of the Sphinx: Vision and Materiality in the Acts of Andrew and Matthias in the City of the Cannibals”
Christian Gers Uphaus, University of Notre Dame: “Pagan Monotheism in Late Antiquity”
57 Session 12I Patristic Imagery of the Virgin Mary Location: Wright Chair: Clayton N. Jefford, Saint Meinrad Seminary and School of Theology
Samantha J. Scott, Marquette University: “A Prophet, a Priest, and a King Walk into the Holy of Holies: A Fresh Look at Mary in the Imagination of the Protoevangelium of James”
Michael Beshay, The Ohio State University: “Undefiled and Wider than Heaven: The Virgin Mary’s ‘Gnostic’ Womb in Early Christian Thought and Ritual”
Jeanne Nicole Mellon Saint-Laurent, Marquette University: “The Diet of the Virgin Mary”
Julia Kelto Lillis, Union Theological Seminary: “The Role of Christology in the Invention of Anatomical Virginity”
Ashley Purpura, Purdue University: “Gender, Power, and Performance in the Akathistos Hymn”
Session 12J Texts and Manuscripts—Dates and Genres Location: Addams Chair: Paul Wheatley, University of Notre Dame
Paul Smith, Bethlehem College and Seminary: “Apostolic Constitutions as Collaborative Writing”
Columba Stewart, OSB, St. John’s University: “New Manuscript Evidence for the Letter to Melania of Evagrius of Pontus”
Joshua Hartman, Kalamazoo College: “New Dynamics of Genre and Generic Allusion in Prudentius”
Nicholas E. Wagner, Duke University: “The Coptic Marginalia in P.Beatty 6(7) (Greek Isaiah): Biliteracy, Grammar, and Disambiguation”
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Session 12K Conversion, Piety, and Self-Knowledge II Location: Dusable Chair: William E. Klingshirn, The Catholic University of America
Christopher R. Mooney, University of Notre Dame: “‘Converted to such a saving faith’: fides and credere in Augustine’s de vera religione”
Matthew Drever, University of Tulsa: “Augustine and the Quest for Self-Knowledge”
Brendan Lupton, St. Mary of the Lake: “The Sign of the Cross in the Dialogues of Gregory the Great”
Rangar Cline, University of Oklahoma: “Eulogia in Motion: GIS Modelling of the Distribution Patterns of Late Antique Pilgrimage Souvenirs”
59 History of the North American Patristics Society
The North American Patristic Society was founded on December 29, 1970 at a convention of the American Philological Association in New York City. When the first meeting was held, 75 persons attended and heard a program of three papers. The idea for a Society had begun with a conversation between Michael P. McHugh and Robert D. Sider at a meeting of classicists in April 1969. The founders believed that “more effective teaching and research could be carried out in patristics by bringing into one forum scholars in such varied fields as classical philology, theology, church history and ancient history, and philosophy” (McHugh, 1971). In the year following the first meeting, Louis J. Swift drafted a constitution, which was approved by the members at the next meeting of the APA in 1971 in Cincinnati. The first president, Bruce M. Metzger, was elected for the year 1972. In 1973 the Society was incorporated in the state of Kentucky as a non-profit organization.
Through 1980, the Society met each year in late December in conjunction with the APA. In those same years the Society often held joint sessions with the Medieval Institute in Kalamazoo and with the American Society of Church History in order to expand its presence and seek a suitable home. The beginnings were small. Often only ten or twelve people attended a session. Louis Swift wrote of the early years, “Nobody knew whether we would even survive, let alone flourish.”
William R. Schoedel and Louis Swift, in consultation with Joseph F. Kelly, planned the First Independent Conference for Chicago in May 1981. The initial idea was to meet every two years, and the meetings that took place in 1983 and 1985 were called the Biennial Meeting. The first printed program was produced in 1985 by Robert L. Wilken. J. Patout Burns served as the local coordinator at Loyola University Chicago for these meetings, except in Oxford years. In 2002 the Society officially changed its name to The North American Patristics Society, Inc.
The Society’s first publication was the newsletter Patristics, first edited by Louis Swift and then successively by Frederick W. Norris, Thomas M. Finn, John J. O’Keefe, and Clayton N. Jefford. Beginning ca. 1980, the newsletter came to include book reviews with Joseph Kelly and then Michael Slusser serving as book review editors.
In 1986, the Society took over the Patristic Monograph Series. Twelve volumes in the series had been published by the Philadelphia Patristic Foundation in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Mercer University Press was engaged as publisher and brought out four volumes between 1988 and 1997. The first editor was Frederick Norris, who was succeeded by Joseph T. Lienhard in 1993 and thereafter by Philip Rousseau in 2002. In 1999, The Catholic University of America Press became the
60 publisher of the series. In 2008, editorship of the Series passed to David Hunter. In 2011, Christopher Beeley became its editor, and he oversaw the transition of the series from CUA Press to the University of California Press in 2014. The series was subsequently renamed as the Christianity in Late Antiquity Series.
In 1993, the Society began the publication of a journal entitled The Journal of Early Christian Studies, edited by Everett Ferguson and Elizabeth Clark. From 1981 to 1992, Ferguson had edited nine volumes of an independent journal called The Second Century: A Journal of Early Christian Studies, which became the foundation of the new JECS. The book review functions of the Patristics newsletter were incorporated into the journal and were directed by Louis Swift. Ultimately, Patout Burns replaced Ferguson as co-editor. Burns himself was succeeded in 2004 by David Brakke, who became sole editor in 2005. Upon completion of David Brakke’s term in 2015, the NAPS Board appointed Stephen Shoemaker as the new editor of JECS. The JECS currently has a circulation of around 1500.
In 1997, John O’Keefe created a web page for the organization at www.patristics.org. In 2006, NAPS moved the site of its annual meeting from Loyola University in Chicago to the Holiday Inn Chicago Mart Plaza. In the same year the Society instituted its “Lifetime Achievement Award” (see below). In 2014, interest and growth in the Society’s annual meeting necessitated a move to a larger venue, the Hyatt Regency in Chicago.
Bibliography • McHugh, Michael P. “The North American Patristic Society: Retrospect and Prospect.” Classical Folia 25 (1971), 5-8. • Norris, Frederick W. “Black Marks on the Communities’ Manuscripts.” Journal of Early Christian Studies 2 (1994), 443-66. • “Research Groups in North America Studying Early Christianity.” Second Century 1 (1981), 55-58.
Joseph T. Lienhard, S.J., February 15, 2000. Periodic amendments and updates by Clayton N. Jefford, David G. Hunter, Brian J. Matz, Kenneth B. Steinhauser, and Richard Brumback III.
Recipients of the NAPS Lifetime Achievement Award 2006 Elizabeth Clark 2008 Everett Ferguson 2012 Louis Swift 2016 Kenneth Steinhauser 2020 Joseph T. Lienhard, S.J.
61 Alphabetical Index of Presenters, Chairs and Organizers with Session Numbers
Abecina, A 6F Brown Hughes, A 1L Ables, S 4M Brumback, R 2G Adams, M 6N Buckner, C 1E Albanese, M 4J Bucur, B 6I Amsler, M 2E Burns, J 4G, 10G Anderson, K 6L Cady, A 10K Anderson, M 2K Cain, A 4D Andremicael, A 2D Cain, E 12E Angelo, C 2H Cameron, M 6A Aquino, F 1F Carducci, K 2C, 6C Arehart, B 1E Carlson, S 4J, 10H Argondizza-Moberg, S 12B Cattoi, T 1G Arlen, J 10C Chalmers, M 6N Arnwine, J 12G Champion, M 6G Arulanandam, A 4A Chan, J 4C, 12A Ayres, L 2B Chase, N 4E Bae, J 10J Chen, N 2F Baker, K 4A, 6E Clark, E 1B, 7 Baldrick-Morrone, T 6D Clarke, K 1G, 2D, 4N Bantu, V 2A Clements, N 2C, 6D Barnes, M 6L Clemmons, T 1A, 4B Barry, J 6K, 6N Cline, R 12K Bass, A 1D Cohen, S 10B Bcheiry, I 2C, 12G Concannon, C 4J Becerra, D 12B Conley, J 1K BeDuhn, J 1C Coogan, J 12C Beers, W 2K Cooper, S 1C Beshay, M 12I Crawford, M 2B Betz, N 10L Crews, C 1H Bhola, R 12D Darling Young, R 5, 8, 9, 10C Bieler, J 1G Davis, S 10N Bingham, J 2F, 12F de Wet, C 1E, 3, 6B Blackmer, C 4J DelCogliano, M 12C 62 Blowers, P 4N, 6C Dever, J 2G Bobertz, C 6A DeVore, D 10L Boero, D 6H Djuth, M 12A Boersma, G 4C, 6A, 10A Doerfler, M 2H, 6B Bonar, C 2E Drake, L 6J Bradshaw, P 4E Draper, J 3 Brakke, D 6M, 10M Drever, M 12K Briel, M 12C Handle, A 10M Drobner, H 6E Harper, K 1K, 2C Dunkle, B 6G, 12H Harrill, B 1L, 10I Dunn, G 1D Harris, B 4M Durmaz, R 1H Hartman, M 10K Eastman, David 1I Hartman, J 12J Eastman, Daniel 2I Hood, J 12H Edwards, R 6B Hoover, J 1D, 2A Elliott, M 10I Howard, N 10K Elm, S 2B Howard, Z 6E Ennis, M 2N Hua, W 12A Epplin, S 2G Huffmaster, C 6F Estrada, E 10A Hull, S 1A Fackler, P 6H Humphries, T 10A Falcasantos, R 2L Hunter, D 1D, 4D Fiano, E 4C, 6G Hunter, J 4K Finkelstein, A 10H Hurtsellers, A 12B Finn, D 10J Istok, A 6G Flexsenhar, M 10H Jacobs, A 6C, 10H Fogleman, A 6M Jefferson, L 2I Ford, C 1A, 4C, 6A Jefford, C 5, 10J Forness, P 1H Jensen, R 2I, 4E Fournier, E 10B Johnson, A 2B Fruchtman, D 4K Johnson, M 4E Fuchs, L 4I Johnson, Scott 2B Gasse, G 10F Johnson, Samuel 4L Gassman, M 4K Kalvesmaki, J 2C, 10C Gavrilyuk, P 1F Kamimura, N 2E Gerdon, I 10C Kantzer Komline, H 4A, 12A 63 Given, J 1B, 6H Keith, M 4F Gjorcheski, D 12C Keith, Z 6J Gorbatenko, O 2F Kelto Lillis, J 2E, 12I Graham, C 6I, 12F Kemp, M 1L Graham, S 10F Kensky, M 6I Gray, A 1M Kiger, D 2N Grigoryan, K 1G, 4C Killion, C 6I Grone, J 6M Kim, I 4C Gronewoller, B 12E Kim, J 4L Grosse, P 6A Kim, Y 2L Han, J 6H King, D 10G Hanaghan, M 12D Kitsos, M 10H Hardy, N 12H Kleinkopf, K 10D Harley, F 2I Klingshirn, W 12K Knight, A 12E Milad, C 4A Koperski, A 10L Milad, J 1A Kotva, A 2K Miller, A 6F Krawiec, R 4H Miller, M 1L Kreps, M 2L Miller, S 2J Kulisz, A 12G Mills, I 10I Kwak, K 6C Minets, Y 12B Lamoreaux, J 10N Misgen, S 2H Lankina, A 2L Mitchell, M 6B Larsen, L 6K Monroe, T 6F Lashier, J 2F Mooney, C 12K Laster, E 12C Morgan, J 10K LaValle, D 2E Moringiello, S 1J Lee, G 12A Motia, M 4I Lehmhaus, E 1E Muehlberger, E 1B, 4H, 6H Leyerle, B 6B Mueller, J 4L, 6J Lienhard, J 6D, 7 Murphy, E 6J Little, C 1M Nations-Quiroz, J 2H Litwa, D 1C, 6I Nisula, T 2A Lollar, J 4N O'Callaghan 12E Lopez, E 1N Ortiz, J 12A Ludlow, M 6K Otto, J 2C, 10L 64 Luft, R 2M Papadopoulos, K 2J Lunn-Rockliffe, S 2J, 12D Pardee, N 6F Lupton, B 12K Parkhouse, S 1C Magree, M 4F, 10G Parro, J 1N Maldonado Rivera, D 6N Pederson, N 4F Martens, P 10I Peecher, A 1I Marvin, J 10E Peters, J 1J Marx, H 1B Petrin, A 4E Matz, B 2N, 4M, 10E Petrin, M 4F Maxwell, J 1K, 2K, 4K, 10E Pierce, A 12E Mayer, W 6B, 7 Plested, M 1F McGowan, A 10M Ployd, A 2A McLaughlin, C 4G Pomeroy, S 4B McLaughlin, T 2I Porter, N 2M McManaway, J 4G, 10G Porter, S 2J Mena, P 1B, 6K Prassas, D 4N Mendez, H 10M Presley, S 6J, 10F Merdinger, J 1D Proctor, T 1J Purpura, A 12I Smith, N 1I Radde-Gallwitz, A 6L Smith, P 12J Rakotoniaina, M 4C, 6E Smith, Z 1I Reydams-Schils, G 2B Smolin, N 6J Reynoso, N 4B Solheid, J 2D Rice, C.J. 2H Springer, D 2D, 12F Riggs, D 2A Stefaniw, B 6D River, D 2L Stefanut, R 2M Rivera, C 2N Stevens, M 1N Robinson, L 4K Stewart, C 7, 12J Rogers, J 2M Storin, B 1M, 4M, 12D Rosenberg, S 6C Strecker, C 2N Ross, T 6L Summerson, A 2C, 4I Rothschild, C 11 Swanson, M 10N Russell, T 12D Sweeney, C 10D Saint-Laurent, J 4C, 12I Tabus, T 10B Salzman, M 4D, 6M Taylor, C 1K Sassi, N 1H Theotolkos, M 6N 65 Saxton, M 2C Therrien, M 1L Schachterle, J 12B Thomas, A 10M Schaefer, E 4I Thomas, G 1M Scheck, T 6I Tilley, N 4G Schmidt, C 4F Tishel, M 2J Schott, J 6N Togni, L 6L Schrader, E 10I Tomszak, M 6D 2C, 6K, 10K, 10L, Schroeder, C 12B Toom, T 6G Scott, S 12I Torrance, A 1F Scruggs, R 12F Torrance, E 4N Scully, E 6F Trettel, A 6C Secord, J 12H Trout, D 4D, 10A Sellick, J 6K Tsunoda, Y 1G Sessa, T 1K, 2K, 4K, 10B Twele, R 10G Shoemaker, S 10N Uhalde, K 10E Shuve, K 4L Uphaus, C 12H Sidaway, J 10B Upson-Saia 10D Sider, R 7 van ’t Westeinde, J 6G Simmons, M 1J Vennerstrom, C 10C Simons, J 10F von Ehrenkrook, J 2L Siragan, J 10C Wagner, N 12J Smith, D 1C Wales, J 10A Walker, B 10J Wilhite, D 2G, 12E Walsh, E 4B, 12G Wilhite, S 2M, 4J, 11 Walters, J 1H, 4H Wilson, A 10D Weedman, M 6A Wright, J 6B Westermayer, M 2G Wysocki, M 4A Wheatley, P 6N, 12J Yates, J 6E, 10E Wickes, J 4H Zecher, J 1E Wiebe, M 1A Zipp, G 6D
66 Past Presidents of the Society 1972 Bruce M. Metzger 1973 Robert D. Sider 1974 Maurice Cunningham 1975 Robert M. Grant 1976 William R. Schoedel 1977 Joseph M. – F. Marique, S.J. 1978 John Meyendorff 1979 Thomas P. Halton 1980-81 William R. Schoedel 1981-83 Dennis E. Groh 1983-85 David Balás, O.Cist. 1985-86 Robert L. Wilken 1986-88 Sidney H. Griffith 1988-89 Elizabeth Clark 1989-90 Charles Kannengiesser 1990-92 Everett Ferguson 1992--93 J. Patout Burns 1993-94 Frederick W. Norris 1994-96 Joseph F. Kelly 1996-97 Patricia Cox Miller 1997-98 Brian E. Daley, S.J. 1998-2000 Susan Ashbrook Harvey 2000-01 Joseph T. Lienhard, S.J. 2001-02 J. Rebecca Lyman 2002-04 William Tabbernee 2004-05 James E. Goehring 2005-06 Maureen A. Tilley 2006-08 David G. Hunter 2008-09 Paul M. Blowers 2009-10 Virginia Burrus 2010-12 Dennis Trout 2012-13 Kenneth Steinhauser 2013-14 Robin Jensen 2014-16 Susanna Elm 2016-17 Kate Cooper 2017-18 D. Jeffrey Bingham 2018-20 Robin D. Young
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