Khaled Anatolios
professor of historical theology, professor ordinarius

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Email : khaled.anatolios.1@bc.edu
Office Phone: 617-552-6512
Address:
Boston College
School of Theology and Ministry
140 Commonwealth Ave.
Chestnut Hill, MA 02467
Areas of Interest:
Early Christian Theology (Greek fathers, Augustine, Patristic Exegesis), Contemporary Trinitarian Theology and Christology, Eastern Christianity, Moslem-Christian Dialogue
About:
Director of STD program and Professor of Historical Theology, Professor Ordinarius, Ecclesiastical Faculty. Khaled Anatolios was born of Egyptian parents in Madras, India, and grew up also in Egypt and Canada. He holds BA and MA degrees from the University of Toronto and a Ph.D. in systematic theology from Boston College. He is the author of Retrieving Nicaea: The Development and Meaning of Trinitarian Doctrine (Baker Academic, 2011); Athanasius. The Coherence of his Thought (Routledge: 1998 & 2004); the Athanasius volume of the Routledge Early Church Fathers series (2004); and is the editor of the forthcoming The Trinity in the Life of the Church (Baker Academic). He is on the steering committee of the Boston Colloquy in Historical Theology and a member of the Board of Directors of the Pappas Patristic Institute at the Holy Cross Greek Orthodox School of Theology. He is married to Meredith and when not studying the early Church fathers, enjoys being a father to his four children. He is a member of the Melkite Greek Catholic Church.
Khaled Anatolios is away on research leave as a Henry Luce III Fellow in Theology during the academic year of 2011-2012. During that time, he will be working on a manuscript on Eastern Christian soteriology.
Courses:
Fall 2010
TM 506- Fundamental Theology
TM 703- Christology and Trinity in Theology of von Balthasar
Spring 2011
TM 741- Classics of Early Christian Theology
TM 811- Development of Christological Doctrine
Other Courses:
TM 536- Contemporary Trinitarian Theologies
TM 719- Seminar: Gregory of Nyssa
TM 519- Development of Trinitarian Doctrine
TM 724- Augustine
Recent Publications (since 2003):
Retrieving Nicaea: The Development and Meaning of Trinitarian Doctrine (Baker Academic, 2011) [Amazon.com, Baker Publishing]
“Canonicity in the Context of Trinitarian Doctrine,” The Oxford Companion to the Trinity, ed. M. Levering and G. Émery (forthcoming: Oxford University Press, 2011)
“The Christ of the Creeds,” The Blackwell Companion to Jesus, ed. Dilbert Burkett (Blackwell, 2010) 176-192
“Divine Semiotics and the Way to the Triune God in Augustine’s De Trinitate,” in God in Early Christian Thought, ed. Andrew McGowan, Brian E. Daley, and Timothy Gaden (Brill, 2009) 163-193
“The Church as Trinitarian Icon: Patristic Wisdom for Today’s Church,” Logos: A Journal of Eastern Christian Studies 49 (2008) 263-277
“Athanasius's Christology Today: the Life, Death, and Resurrection of Christ in On the Incarnation.” In the Shadow of the Incarnation. Essays on Jesus Christ in the Early Church in Honor of Brian E. Daley, SJ, ed. P. Martens, 29-49 . University of Notre Dame Press, 2008
“The Decree on the Eastern Churches.” In Vatican II: Renewal within Tradition, ed. M. Lamb and M. Levering. 343-350. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008.
“Discourse on the Trinity.” In Cambridge History of Christianity. Vol. II: Constantine to 600, ed. W. Löhr and F. Norris, 431-459. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007.
“Oppositional Pairs and Christological Synthesis: Rereading Augustine's De Trinitate.” Theological Studies 68:2 (June 2007): 231-253.
“Nicaea and its Legacy: a Discussion.” Harvard Theological Review 100:2 (April 2007): 153-158, 174-175.
“Considering Vocation: the Witness of the Fathers.” In Christ at Work: Orthodox Christian Perspectives on Vocation, ed. Ann Mitaskos Bezzerides, 107-128. Brookline, MA: Holy Cross Orthodox Press, 2006.
“When was God without Wisdom? Rhetorical Strategy and Trinitarian Hermeneutics in Athanasius of Alexandria.” In Studia Patristica XLI, edited by F. Young, M. Edwards, and P. Parvis 117-123. Leuven: Peeters, 2006.
“Christian Salvation: Biblical and Theological Perspectives.” Co-written with Richard Clifford, S.J. Theological Studies 66 (December 2005): 739-769.
Athanasius. Early Church Fathers series. New York: Routledge, 2004
“Divine Disponibilité: the Hypostatic Ethos of the Holy Spirit.” Pro Ecclesia 12 (Summer 2003): 287-308.
On the Road:
”The Perilous Gift: St. Athanasius on the Adventure of Human Exiistence,” The Center for Catholic Thought, Creighton University, September 15, 2011
“Athanasius’s Orations Against the Arians: Between Asterius and Marcellus,” XVI International Conference on Patristic Studies, Oxford University, August 10, 2011
“Faith and Hope in a Time of Church Crisis,” Daughters of St. Paul, Boston, MA, July 18, 2011
“The Exteriority of Faith in Augustine’s De Trinitate,” Academy of Catholic Theology, May 25, 2011
“Beyond Seeing and Not Seeing. Icons in Eastern Christian Theology and Spirituality” Church for the 21st Century. Boston College. October 18, 2010.
Response to Gary Anderson, “Faith, Finance, and Almsgiving in the Bible,” Boston Colloquy in Historical Theology (July, 2010)
"Ousia, Hypostasis, and the Rules of TrinitarianContemplation: Gregory of Nyssa's Ep. 38" North American Patristics Society Annual Meeting. May, 2010.
Response to John Finamore, "Thermistius on Soul and Intellect in Aristotle's De Anima," Boston Area Colloquium in Ancient Philosophy (Boston College; October, 2009)
“The Jesus Prayer: A Pathway to Contemplation in the Eastern Christian Tradition,” The Church in the 21st Century Center’s Spring 2009 series on Catholic Spirituality in Practice (March, 2009)