Sampling of on-line articles

 

Note: For scholarly publications, please click here to go to another page; the articles on the present page are often academic in focus, but not scholarly publications.

Please note that the following index of on-line publications is not exhaustive, but indicates only the most frequently read and cited on-line texts. Many of the documents indicated (all provided as links to the texts themselves) have also been published in printed format, either in compilation volumes, newsletters or other printed media.

INTERNET & RADIO BROADCASTS:

  1. •‘A Word From the Holy Fathers’ - a weekly podcast produced jointly by Monachos.net and Ancient Faith Radio (December 2008 - present). Click here for broadcast area on Monachos

  2. •Eastern Orthodoxy and ‘Mysticism’: The Transformation of the Senses - Six-part special on Ancient Faith Radio, recorded at the St Barnabas Seminar in November 2010.

  3. •‘St Augustine in England’ - brief radio interview for BBC Radio 4’s ‘Making History’ (BBC iPlayer)

INTRODUCTORY PATRISTIC AND MONASTIC STUDIES ON MONACHOS.NET

Monachos.net provides a large collection of introductory studies on various patristic and monastic topics, several of which I have authored. These are intended largely for a general, non-specialist audience; though some topics are more advanced.

  1. •A World Full of Arians

  2. •Epinoia & Ennoia: The Cappadocian Fathers on essence/energy and the human knowledge of God

  3. •Modelling the Trinity after the man: Human nature and the Trinity in the Cappadocian Epistle 38

  4. •Athanasius of Alexandria: Sacrifice, Sanctification, Salvation

  5. •Dionysius the Areopagite: Self-Surpassing Knowledge

  6. •Gregory of Nyssa: Luminous Darkness

  7. •Gregory Palamas: An Historical Overview

  8. •Gregory Palamas: Knowledge, Prayer, and Vision

  9. •Hesychios the Priest: On Watchfulness and Holiness

  10. •John Klimakos: On Repentance that Leads to Joy

  11. •Maximos the Confessor: On the Free Will of Christ

  12. •Symeon the New Theologian: On the Divine Light

  13. •Origen: the Final Restoration ... a Question of Heresy?

  14. •Anthony of Egypt: the Basics of His Spirituality

  15. •A Gospel Motivation for the Monastic Life

  16. •Ex Oriente Lux: John Cassian on Eastern Monasticism in the West

STUDY AREAS AND THEMATIC SUMMARIES

The following are 'study areas' or collections of materials assembled upon a certain theme with resources for student use. Also included here are specific texts from such areas, which are not complete articles but focussed points of consideration on a given topic.

  1. •Patristic Christology Study Area

  2. •'Who do you say that I am?' An Introduction to Patristic Christology

  3. •Two 'Schools': Alexandria and Antioch

  4. •Mount Athos - The Holy Mountain

  5. •The Jesus Prayer, the Prayer of the Heart

DEVOTIONAL ARTICLES, TALKS AND HOMILIES

The following include devotional materials written for ecclesiastical publications or fora, as well as talks given at retreats and other venues. These are most often in the form of reflections on liturgical feasts or themes.

  1. •The Sermon and the Chalice: St John Chrysostom on Receiving the Word of God (2009) - Published on-line first at the Preacher’s Institute (also on Monachos.net)

  2. •‘Their Proclamation Has Gone Out Unto All the Earth...’: On the Feast of Sts Peter & Paul (2010)

  3. •The Nativity of the Paschal Christ (2008)

  4. •The spirit of exile and the sin of man (2008)

  5. •The Advent of Love: Reflections on the Nativity of Christ (2004)

  6. •'He bowed the heavens and came down': The nativity of Christ (2003)

  7. •On the Nativity Fast - Preparation of the Soul

  8. •Not like other men: Reflections on the Sunday of the Publican and the Pharisee

  9. •'All to no purpose have I left my true home': Reflections on the Sunday of the Prodigal Son

  10. •Sunday of the Last Judgement: Reflections on the fear of God

  11. •At the threshold of the Fast: Reflections on the Sunday of Forgiveness

  12. •'Yea, the time has come': Holy Pascha and the mystery of the liturgical present (2004)

  13. •The personal mystery of Pascha (2003)

  14. •A brief word on celibacy

  15. •She in whom salvation was begun: The Mother of God and the incarnation

  16. •To see the cross universally: Images of the cross in the Old Testament

  17. •Prayer as the act from which all good comes