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Rhetoric, philosophy, and transformation in the thought of Michael Psellos
Champion, Michael. (2023). Rhetoric, philosophy, and transformation in the thought of Michael Psellos. In In Anagnostou-Laoutides, Eva and Parry, Ken (Ed.). Later Platonists and their heirs among Christians, Jews, and Muslims : Texts and studies in Eastern Christianity pp. 211-231 Brill. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004527850_010

Book chapter

Spiritual direction as a medical art in early Christian monasticism
Zecher, Jonathan L.. (2022). Spiritual direction as a medical art in early Christian monasticism Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198854135.001.0001

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Dorotheus of Gaza and ascetic education
Champion, Michael W.. (2022). Dorotheus of Gaza and ascetic education Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198869269.001.0001

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Carpocrates, Marcellina, and Epiphanes : Three early Christian teachers of Alexandria and Rome
Litwa, M. David. (2022). Carpocrates, Marcellina, and Epiphanes : Three early Christian teachers of Alexandria and Rome Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/b22945

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Thinking theologically about the divine ideas : Reexamining the Summa of Thomas Aquinas
DeSpain, Benjamin R.. (2022). Thinking theologically about the divine ideas : Reexamining the Summa of Thomas Aquinas Koninklijke Brill NV.

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De Concordantia Catholica : Katholizität neu denken für Europa
van Erp, Stephan. (2022). De Concordantia Catholica : Katholizität neu denken für Europa. Crosscultural Studies of Religion and Theology. 2022(1), pp. 2-33. https://doi.org/10.25598/CSRT/2022-12

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From status politics to the paranoid style : Richard Hofstadter and the pitfalls of psychologizing history
McKenzie-McHarg, Andrew. (2022). From status politics to the paranoid style : Richard Hofstadter and the pitfalls of psychologizing history. Journal of the History of Ideas. 83(3), pp. 451-475. https://doi.org/10.1353/jhi.2022.0022

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An herb for speaking to the dead : The liturgical and magical life of Hyssop in the Latin Middle Ages
Barbezat, Michael. (2022). An herb for speaking to the dead : The liturgical and magical life of Hyssop in the Latin Middle Ages. Church History. 91(3), pp. 492-512. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0009640722002153

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Aquinas's Theory of Goodness
Stump, Eleonore. (2022). Aquinas's Theory of Goodness. The Monist. 105(3), pp. 321-336. https://doi.org/10.1093/monist/onac003

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Seven theses on dogmatics and Patristics in Catholic theology
Ayres, Lewis. (2022). Seven theses on dogmatics and Patristics in Catholic theology. Modern Theology. 38(1), pp. 36-62. https://doi.org/10.1111/moth.12736

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Early Christian women
LaValle Norman, Dawn. (2022). Early Christian women Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009047067

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The genealogy of atheism
Newheiser, David. (2022). The genealogy of atheism. In In Newheiser, David (Ed.). The varieties of atheism : Connecting religion and its critics pp. 1-18 University of Chicago Press. https://doi.org/10.7208/chicago/9780226822686-001

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Theologia Ficiniana : Intellectual exchange and spiritual renewal in late Quattrocento Florence
Stephens, Lana Marie. (2022). Theologia Ficiniana : Intellectual exchange and spiritual renewal in late Quattrocento Florence [PhD Thesis]. Australian Catholic University https://doi.org/10.26199/acu.8yq19

PhD Thesis

Reading for form in doctrine : Literary approaches to Przywara’s Analogia Entis
Eikelboom, Lexi. (2022). Reading for form in doctrine : Literary approaches to Przywara’s Analogia Entis. The Journal of Religion. 102(3), pp. 307-331. https://doi.org/10.1086/719824

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Medical metaphors in byzantine spiritual direction
Zecher, Jonathan. (2022). Medical metaphors in byzantine spiritual direction. The Journal of Religion. 102(4), pp. 529-554. https://doi.org/10.1086/721356

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Mission and healing : Witnessing in the aftermath of trauma
Lakawa, Septemmy E. and Fitchett-Climenhaga, Alison. (2022). Mission and healing : Witnessing in the aftermath of trauma. In In Kim, Kirsteen, Jørgensen, Knud and Fitchett-Climenhaga, Alison (Ed.). The Oxford handbook of mission studies pp. 293-310 Oxford University Press.

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Gaspar Sanz’s ‘Ecos Sagrados de la Fama Gloriosa de Innocencio XI’ (1681) and clerical cultures of diversion in Baroque Spain
Pattenden, Miles. (2022). Gaspar Sanz’s ‘Ecos Sagrados de la Fama Gloriosa de Innocencio XI’ (1681) and clerical cultures of diversion in Baroque Spain. Journal of Ecclesiastical History. pp. 1-31. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0022046921001469

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Ringing in the papal restoration: Francesco Cancellieri's treatise on the Capitoline bells (1806)
Pattenden, Miles. (2022). Ringing in the papal restoration: Francesco Cancellieri's treatise on the Capitoline bells (1806). Modern Italy. pp. 1-17. https://doi.org/10.1017/mit.2022.9

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Rufinus and the reimagination of Pliny's correspondence with Trajan (HE 3.33)
Hanaghan, Michael Peter. (2022). Rufinus and the reimagination of Pliny's correspondence with Trajan (HE 3.33). Vigiliae Christinane. 76(2), pp. 202-216. https://doi.org/10.1163/15700720-bja10044

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Severus of Antioch on Gospel reading with the Eusebian Canon Tables
Crawford, Matthew R.. (2022). Severus of Antioch on Gospel reading with the Eusebian Canon Tables. In In Pierce, Madison N., Byers, Andrew J. and Gathercole, Simon (Ed.). Gospel reading and reception in early Christian literature pp. 215-233 Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009083188.012

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Pentecostal ethics in light of Stanley Hauerwas’s account of narrative, virtue, and the Church
Parkes, Christopher Anthony. (2022). Pentecostal ethics in light of Stanley Hauerwas’s account of narrative, virtue, and the Church [PhD Thesis]. Australian Catholic University Institute for Religion and Critical Inquiry https://doi.org/10.26199/acu.8xw17

PhD Thesis

It is good : Creation, phenomenology, and culture
Benjamins, Jacob. (2022). It is good : Creation, phenomenology, and culture [PhD Thesis]. Australian Catholic University Institute for Religion and Critical Inquiry https://doi.org/10.26199/acu.8xw0v

PhD Thesis

Introduction to mission studies : Analyzing missiology’s current configuration and charting future prospects
Kim, Kirsteen and Fitchett-Climenhaga, Alison. (2022). Introduction to mission studies : Analyzing missiology’s current configuration and charting future prospects. In In Kim, Kirsteen, Jørgensen, Knud and Fitchett-Climenhaga, Alison (Ed.). The Oxford handbook of mission studies pp. 3-18 Oxford University Press.

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The so-called Stratiotics and Phibionites : Three notes on the "Gnostics" of Epiphanius, Panarion 26
Litwa, M. David. (2022). The so-called Stratiotics and Phibionites : Three notes on the "Gnostics" of Epiphanius, Panarion 26. Vigiliae Christinane. 76(1), pp. 73-93. https://doi.org/10.1163/15700720-bja10036

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Converse with the dead as a technology of the self : Agreements to return from the other-world in Peter of Cornwall’s Book of Revelations
Barbezat, Michael D.. (2022). Converse with the dead as a technology of the self : Agreements to return from the other-world in Peter of Cornwall’s Book of Revelations. Journal of Medieval History. 48(1), pp. 32-56. https://doi.org/10.1080/03044181.2021.2018022

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Papias of Hierapolis, exposition of dominical oracles : The fragments, testimonia, and reception of a second-century commentator
Carlson, Stephen C.. (2021). Papias of Hierapolis, exposition of dominical oracles : The fragments, testimonia, and reception of a second-century commentator Oxford University Press.

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How hope becomes concrete
Newheiser, David Andrew. (2021). How hope becomes concrete. Critical Research on Religion. 9(3), pp. 349-352. https://doi.org/10.1177/20503032211044432

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Constantius heros (ILCV 66) – An elegiac testimony on the decline of the Late Roman West
Wijnendaele, Jeroen W. P. and Hanaghan, Michael P.. (2021). Constantius heros (ILCV 66) – An elegiac testimony on the decline of the Late Roman West. In In Schuler, Christof, Haensch, Rudolf and Killen, Simone (Ed.). Chiron : Mitteilungen der Kommission für Alte Geschichte und Epigraphik des Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts ; band 51 pp. 257-276 De Gruyter. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110742770-008

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Introduction : Theological discernment and political praxis
van Erp, Stephan. (2021). Introduction : Theological discernment and political praxis. Louvain Studies. 44(1), pp. 3-8. https://doi.org/10.2143/LS.44.1.3289237

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The renewal of perception in religious faith and biblical narrative
Wolfe, Judith. (2021). The renewal of perception in religious faith and biblical narrative. European Journal for Philosophy of Religion. 13(4), pp. 111-128. https://doi.org/10.24204/EJPR.2021.3744

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Lesbia's controversial bird : Testing the cases for and against passer as sparrow
Green, Ashleigh. (2021). Lesbia's controversial bird : Testing the cases for and against passer as sparrow. Antichthon. 55, pp. 6-20. https://doi.org/10.1017/ann.2021.7

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A short grammar of providence
Wolfe, Judith. (2021). A short grammar of providence. International Journal of Systematic Theology. 23(3), pp. 428-431. https://doi.org/10.1111/ijst.12503

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Atonement : Response to critics
Stump, Eleonore. (2021). Atonement : Response to critics. Religious Studies. 57(1), pp. 165-178. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0034412519000660

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Beyond understanding
Coakley, Sarah. (2021). Beyond understanding. Political Theology. 22(5), pp. 398-406. https://doi.org/10.1080/1462317X.2021.1955575

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Myths of aerial tollhouses and their tradition from George the Monk to the Life of Basil the Younger
Zecher, Jonathan. (2021). Myths of aerial tollhouses and their tradition from George the Monk to the Life of Basil the Younger. Dumbarton Oaks Papers. 75, pp. 297-318.

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Gadamer, Barth, and transcendence in biblical interpretation
Sarisky, Darren. (2021). Gadamer, Barth, and transcendence in biblical interpretation. European Journal for Philosophy of Religion. 13(4), pp. 87-110. https://doi.org/10.24204/EJPR.2021.3732

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Revelation and the veridicality of narratives
Stump, Eleonore. (2021). Revelation and the veridicality of narratives. European Journal for Philosophy of Religion. 13(4), pp. 27-43. https://doi.org/10.24204/EJPR.2021.3734

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Wild lands and the southern sun : Claims to North Africa during the Thirteenth-Century Crusades
Cassidy-Welch, Megan. (2021). Wild lands and the southern sun : Claims to North Africa during the Thirteenth-Century Crusades. Journal of Medieval History. 47(3), pp. 381-393. https://doi.org/10.1080/03044181.2021.1926663

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Author’s reflections on the responses and questions from the book launch
Insole, Christopher. (2021). Author’s reflections on the responses and questions from the book launch. Studies in Christian Ethics. 34(3), pp. 298-306. https://doi.org/10.1177/09539468211009763

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Introduction : Landscapes of conflict and encounter in the crusading world
Spacey, Beth C. and Cassidy-Welch, Megan. (2021). Introduction : Landscapes of conflict and encounter in the crusading world. Journal of Medieval History. 47(3), pp. 293-301. https://doi.org/10.1080/03044181.2021.1928378

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