TRS Staff

DR AUGUSTINE CASIDAY, BSc, BA (Alabama), MA (Washington University in St Louis), PhD (Durham)
Lecturer in Historical Theology
Director of the MA Monastic Studies
Partnership Manager

Email: a.casiday@lamp.ac.uk

Areas of Interest
Monasticism and asceticism, Patristic Theology, Orthodox Theology, Christian Platonism, Prayer, Exegesis

Current Research
I am preparing a book for SVS Press’s ‘Foundations’ series on patristic theology in modern Orthodox Christianity, as part of my wider interest in how beliefs and practices are transmitted within a community that highly values tradition. I am also reading up on Ethiopian Christianity (and struggling with the grammar of Ge‘ez!) with an eye to future research.

Publications include
Books
Tradition and Theology in St John Cassian, Oxford Early Christian Studies (Oxford: OUP, 2006)
co-editor with Andrew Louth, Byzantine Orthodoxies, SPBS Publications 12 (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2006)
co-editor with Frederick Norris, The Cambridge History of Christianity, Vol. 2: Constantine to c.600 (Cambridge: CUP, in press)Translations
Evagrius Ponticus, Early Church Fathers (London/New York: Routledge, 2006)
Saint John Cassian on Prayer, Fairacres Publications (Oxford: SLG Press, 2006)With T. Vivian, St Mark the Monk. On the Spiritual Life, Popular Patristics Series (Crestwood: SVS Press, in press)

Articles
‘Augustine, Cassian and De Incarnatione.’ Studia Patristica 38 (2001): 41-47.
‘Apatheia and sexuality in the thought of Augustine and Cassian.’ St. Vladimir’s Theological Quarterly 45 (2001): 359-394
‘“All are from one”: On St Antony the Great’s protology.’  Studia Monastica 44.2 (2002): 207-227.
‘St Aldhelm on apocrypha.’ Journal of Theological Studies ns 55 (2004): 147-57 ‘Christ, the icon of the Father, in Evagrian theology.’ Il Monachesimo tra Eredità e Aperture: Testi e temi nella tradizione del monachesimo cristiano, Studia Anselmiana 140 (Rome: Sant’Anselmo, 2004): 31-60
‘St Aldhelm’s bees: a chapter in the history of a simile’. Anglo-Saxon England 33 (2004): 1-22.
‘Rehabilitating John Cassian: An evaluation of Prosper of Aquitaine’s polemic against the “Semipelagians”.’ Scottish Journal of Theology 58 (2005): 270-284.
‘Grace and the humanity of Christ according to St Vincent of Lérins.’ Vigiliae Christianae 59 (2005): 298-314.
‘John XIV (Kalekas), Byzantine politics-cum-theology and the early hesychast controversy.’ Autour du Patriarcat de Constantinople aux XIVe–XVIe siècles, ed. Dan Mureşan (Paris: E.H.E.S.S, in press)
‘Church Fathers and the Shaping of Doctrine.’ The Cambridge Companion to Orthodox Christian Theology, eds. Mary Cunningham and Elizabeth Theokritoff (Cambridge: CUP, forthcoming)

Memberships
Ecclesiastical History Society
Gruppo italiano di ricerca su “Origene e la tradizione alessandrina’ (British correspondent for Adamantius, the Group’s journal)
North American Patristics Society
Royal Historical Society (member)
St Shenouda the Archimandrite Society for Coptic Studies