Paul Kolbet

EDUCATION
M.Div. Yale University Divinity School (1994)
S.T.M. Yale University Divinity School (1995)
M.A. University of Notre Dame (1999)
Ph.D. University of Notre Dame (2002)

BIOGRAPHICAL SUMMARY
Paul R. Kolbet came to Boston College in 2003 after teaching as a post-doctoral fellow at the University of Notre Dame. He is an Episcopal priest and currently working on a book on Origen of Alexandria.

RESEARCH INTERESTS
Early Christian homilies, exegesis, doctrine, ministry, and spirituality; the use of Hellenistic philosophy by early Christians as well as their relationship with Jews; the use of early Christian sources in contemporary systematic theology.

TEACHING
Introduction to Christian Theology I & II
Perspectives on Western Culture I & II
Early Christianity Seminar: Christological Controversies
Early Christianity Seminar: Spirituality and Asceticism
Augustine of Hippo
Origen of Alexandria
Diatribe to Dialogue: Studies in the Jewish-Christian Encounter

PUBLICATIONS SINCE 2002
Books and Articles:
"Rethinking the Christological Foundations of Reinhold Niebuhr's Christian Realism," Modern Theology, (forthcoming).

"Augustine Among the Ancient Therapists," in Augustine and Psychology, eds. Sandra Dixon and Kim Paffenroth, Augustine in Conversation: Tradition and Innovation (Lanham, Md.: Lexington Books, forthcoming).

"Athanasius," "Augustine," "Origen," in The Encyclopedia of Christian Civilization, edited by George Thomas Kurian (Oxford: Blackwell Publishing, forthcoming).

Augustine and the Cure of Souls: Revising a Classical Ideal, Christianity and Judaism in Antiquity (Notre Dame, Ind.: University Of Notre Dame Press, 2009).

"Rethinking Ministerial Ideals in Light of the Clergy Crisis," Ecclesiology, 5(2009): 192-211.

"Torture and Origen of Alexandria's Hermeneutics of Non-Violence," Journal of the American Academy of Religion 76 (2008).

"Athanasius, the Psalms, and the Reformation of the Self," Harvard Theological Review 99 (2006) 85-101.
 
"Formal Continuities Between Augustine's Early Philosophical Teaching and Late Homiletical Practice," Studia Patristica 43 (2006) 149-54.

Book Reviews:
Review of Paula Fredriksen, Augustine and the Jews: A Christian Defense of Jews and Judaism, Religious Studies Review (forthcoming).

Review of Erika T. Hermanowicz, Possidius of Calama: A Study of the North African Episcopate in the Age of Augustine, Religious Studies Review (forthcoming).

Review of Phillip Cary, Augustine's Invention of the Inner Self, Pro Ecclesia 10:4 (2001) 115-17.

Review of Donald Burt, Friendship and Society: An Introduction to Augustine's Practical Philosophy, Anglican Theological Review 82:4 (2000) 823-24.