CONTRIBUTORS

Mr Adrian Agachi is currently undertaking doctoral research in the University of Winchester. His research interests include Orthodoxy in the twentieth century, and church fathers from the sixth to fourteenth centuries.

Dr Antoine Arjakovsky is Research Director of the department of Society, Freedom, Peace, at the Collge des Bernardins, Paris. He is also the founding director of the Institute of Ecumenical Studies at the Ukrainian Catholic University in Lviv.

Dr Trevor Batrouney is Adjunct Professor in the School of Global Studies, Social Science and at RMIT University, Melbourne. His research interests include the study of immigrant groups in Australia, with a particular focus on Middle Eastern migration and the establishment of Orthodox churches.

Dr Peter C. Bouteneff is Associate Professor of Systematic Theology at St Vladimirs Orthodox Theological Seminary in Crestwood, New York. In addition to Christology and ecclesiology, his research interests include the connections between theology and popular culture.

Mr Alan Brown is a member of Trinity College, Cambridge. His research is focused on nineteenth- and twentieth-century Russian, Serbian and Greek dogmatic theology.

The Reverend Dr Bogdan G. Bucur is Assistant Professor of Theology at Duquesne University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. His research interests include the history of biblical exegesis and its relation with spirituality and doctrinal developments in Patristic and Byzantine Christianity.

Dr Augustine Casiday , FRHistS, is Lecturer in Historical Theology at the University of Wales, Trinity Saint David. His research interests include the theology, literature and practices of Christian monasticism, especially during the first millennium.

Dr John T. Chirban is Professor of Psychology at Hellenic College and Instructor in the Department of Psychiatry at Harvard University, where he was named Senior Fellow at the Center for the Study of World Religions. His interests include integrative studies in medicine, psychology and religion.

Dr Mary B. Cunningham is Lecturer in Historical Theology at the University of Nottingham. She is engaged in research on Byzantine homilies, the cult of the Virgin Mary, and early Christian spirituality.

Dr Vladimir Cvetkovi is Adjunct Lecturer in Orthodox Theology at the Department of Systematic Theology in the University of Aarhus. His research interests are in patristics, especially Gregory of Nyssa and Maximus the Confessor, and in modern Orthodox theology.

The Right Reverend Basil Essey is the Bishop of Wichita (Kansas) and the Antiochian Orthodox Diocese of Mid-America. He was co-chair of the Glorification Committee for St Raphael and composed his Akolouthia. His research interests include liturgy and hagiography.

Dr Gavin Flood is Professor of Hindu Studies and Comparative Religion at the University of Oxford, where he is also the Academic Director of the Oxford Centre for Hindu Studies. His research interests include the religions of Shiva and phenomenology.

Dr Paul Gavrilyuk is Associate Professor of Historical Theology at the University of St Thomas, in Saint Paul, Minnesota. His research interests include patristic theology, philosophy of religion and modern Orthodox theology

Dr Christian Gottlieb is the Librarian of HM the Queens Reference Library, Amalienborg Castle, Copenhagen. He has also lectured in church history at the Faculty of Theology of Copenhagen University. His research interests include the history of Christian social thought, particularly in the context of Russian Orthodoxy.

Dr Tamara Grdzelidze is a Programme Executive within the Faith and Order Secretariat of the World Council of Churches in Geneva, Switzerland. Her research interests include patristic and liturgical theology, ecclesiology, ecumenical theology, history of the Church of Georgia, and Georgian hagiography.

Dr Getatchew Haile is Cataloguer Emeritus of Oriental Manuscripts at the Hill Museum and Manuscript Library, and Regents Professor of Medieval History, at Saint Johns University in Collegeville, Minnesota. His interest is in the study of Ethiopic (Geez) literature.

Dr Perry T. Hamalis is the Cecelia Schneller Mueller Professor of Religion at North Central College in Naperville, Illinois. His research interests center on Eastern Orthodox contributions to the fields of religious ethics and political philosophy.

The Reverend Dr Dellas Oliver Herbel is an Adjunct Instructor at Minnesota State University, Moorhead, and the Priest for Holy Resurrection Orthodox Mission Church in Fargo, North Dakota. His areas of research include American religious history and the history of Christian thought.

The Reverend Dr Robert A. Kitchen is Minister of Knox-Metropolitan United Church in Regina, Saskatchewan. His research interests are in early Syriac asceticism and monasticism, including the Book of Steps , Philoxenos of Mabbug and Dadisho Qatraya.

Dr Alexis Klimoff is Professor of Russian Studies at Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, New York. His research interests are Russian nineteenth- and twentieth-century literature and intellectual history.

Dr Vassa Kontouma is Matre de confrences in the cole pratique des hautes tudes, Paris, and an affiliate with the Catholic Institute of Paris and its School of Advanced Oriental Studies. Her recent research focuses on Byzantine theology and the life and works of St John Damascene.

Reverend Professor Andrew Louth , FBA, is Professor Emeritus of Patristic and Byzantine Studies at the University of Durham and Visiting Professor of Eastern Orthodox Theology at the Free University of Amsterdam. His research interests include Greek (mostly) patristic and Byzantine theology and church history and modern Orthodox theology.

Dr Wendy Mayer is Honorary Fellow in the Centre for Early Christian Studies, Australian Catholic University. Her research interests include the life and homilies of John Chrysostom and life in the cities of Antioch and Constantinople in late antiquity.

The Very Reverend Dr John A. McGuckin , FRHistS, is Nielsen Professor of Ancient and Byzantine Christian History in Union Theological Seminary, and Professor of Byzantine Christian Studies in Columbia University, New York.

Dr Maged S. A. Mikhail is Associate Professor of History at the California State University at Fullerton. His research and teaching interests focus on late antiquity, Coptic history, and the early Islamic history.

The Reverend Dr Ivan Moody is a Research Fellow at CESEMUniversidade NOVA, Lisbon, and a Priest of the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople. Active as a composer and conductor, his research interests include the aesthetics and theology of Orthodox Church music, contemporary composition in Eastern Europe and church music in Bulgaria and Serbia.