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Assistant Professor Theology Department
paul.kolbet@bc.edu
Office Location 21 Campanella Way, Room 350 Boston College Chestnut Hill, MA 02467
Phone: 617.552.3760 Fax: 617.552.0794
Personal Web Site n/a
Office Hours Wednesday 10:30-12:30 pm and by appointment.
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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 project entitled, Augustine and Classical Therapy.
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 Diatribe to Dialogue: Studies in the Jewish-Christian Encounter
PUBLICATIONS SINCE 2002 “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.
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.
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