Sept. 26: John Herrmann, Alahan Monastery: An Early Byzantine Monument in South Central Turkey

Oct. 17: Khaled Anatolius, Trinitarian Hermeneutics in Athanasius

Nov. 14: Susan Holman, Rich City Burning: Social Welfare and Ecclesial Insecurities in Basil's Homily 21

Dec. 12: Denise Buell, A New People with a Past: Early Christian Experiments in Ethnography

January 30, Miguel Herrero, From Helicon to Sion: Some Aspects of the Shaping of Paganism in the Protrepticus of Clement of Alexandria

February 20, Daniel Caner, Spreading the Blessings?: Material Eulogiai and Divine Economy

March 20, Nicholas P. Constas, “The Ear of the Virginal Body”: the Poetics of Sound in the School of Proclus

April 10, Joan R. Branham, The Construction of Sacred Space in Ancient Judaism and Early Christianity

Bostoniensia 2001-2002

Sept. 20: Robin Jensen and Patout Burns, A Pilgrimage to the Land of Augustine: Christian Sites in Modern Algeria (Hippo, Madauros, and Tipasa)

Oct. 25: James Ernest, The Bible in Athanasius

Nov. 15: Andrew McGowan, 'A Third Race' Or Not: The Rhetoric of Ethnic Self-definition in the Christian Apologists

Dec. 13: Annewies van den Hoek and John Herrmann, Thecla, the Beast Fighter. A Female Emblem of Deliverance in Early Christian Popular Art

Jan. 24: Khaled Anatolius, Trinitarian Hermeneutics in Athanasius (meeting postponed until Oct. 17)

Jan. 24: Annewies van den Hoek, Alexandria: Topography, Monuments, and Celebreties

Febr. 21: Leonard Maluf, The Two Boats in Lk 5:1-11. Reflections on Bede's Allegorical Interpretation of the Lukan Narrative

March 21: Susan Graham, Paul and the Apostolic Preaching: Rom 9-11 in Irenaeus's Epideixis

April 18: Jennifer Knust, A Depraved Empire and the Licentious Heretics: Sexualized Invective in Christian Apology

Patristica Bostoniensia 2000-2001

September 28 - Robin Jensen, Prayers for the Dead. Funerary Mosaics in Christian North Africa.

October 19 - Kenneth Fisher, Transsexual or Gender Themes in the Passio Perpetuae et Felicitatis?

November 9 - Kelley McCarthy Spoerl, Translation Workshop Fragments of Marcellus of Ancyra.

December 14 - Annewies van den Hoek, Philo and Origen. A Descriptive Catalogue of their Relationship.

February 1 - Gary Anderson, Balancing the Heavenly Books: Sin as the Accumulation of Debt in Second Temple Judaism and Late Antique Christianity.

February 22 - François Bovon, Mary Magdalene and Women’s Ministry in the Acts of Philip.

March 22 - Nicholas Constas, “Vanity of Vanities”? Solomon's Trilogy and the Patristic Subversion of Scripture.

April 19 - Luc Herren, “He Has Brought Down the Powerful from their Thrones”: The Use of the Magnificat around 400 CE.

Patristica Bostoniensia 1999–2000

September 23 - Nicholas Constas, An Apology for the Cult of the Saints in Late Antiquity: Eustratius Presbyter of Constantinople, De Statu Animarum post Mortem

October 21 - Joseph Lienhard, S.J., Two Theological Traditions and Marcellus of

Ancyra's Contra Asterium

November 18 - Annewies van den Hoek, Endowed with Reason of Glued to the Senses: Philo's Thoughts on Adam and Eve

December 16 - Lloyd G. Patterson (posthumously), PLEROMA: the Human Plenitude from Irenaeus to Gregory of Nyssa

January 20 - Gary A. Anderson, The Fall of Satan in the Thought of St. Ephrem and John Milton

February 17 - Khaled Anatolios, The Influence of Irenaeus on Athanasius

March 16 - Dennis Trout, Damasus and the Invention of Christian Rome

April 13 - Eric Junod, Veritas and Voluntas Auctoris in Augustine's Confessions,

Book 12: An Original and Provocative Hermeneutical Distinction

Patristica Bostoniensia 1998-1999

September 24 - Susan Holman, The Entitled Poor: Relief Language in Gregory of Nyssa's and Gregory of Nazianzus's Peri Philoptochias

October 22 - Paul Peterson, Rude of Speech: Paul's Rhetorical Expertise, According to the Fathers

November 12 - Annewies van den Hoek and John Herrmann, Paulinus and His Building Program in Cimitile

December 10 - Robin Jensen, The Eucharistic Liturgy in Hippo's Basilica Maior at the Time of Augustine

January 21 - Pier Franco Beatrice, Chapter One: The Apologetic Project of the

Theosophy of: An Introduction to the Theosophy

February 18 - Ute Possekel, Christ as Physician in the Writings of Ephrem the Syrian

March 18 - Andrew McGowan, Marcion's Love of Creation

April 18 - Kelley McCarthy Spoerl, New Sources for Early Christian Pneumatology: Apollinarius of Laodicea's Kata Meros Pistis

Patristica Bostoniensia 1997-1998

September 25 - Khaled Anatolios, Theology and Economy in Origen and Athanasius

October 16 - Susan Holman, “You Speculate on the Misery of the Poor”: Usury as a Social Crime in Basil of Caesarea’s Second Homily on Psalm 14

November 13 - Robert Daly, The Effect of the Anti-Arian Polemic on (Origen's) Eucharistic Spiritualism

December 11 - Michael O'Laughlin, Closing the Gap between Anthony and Evagrius

January 22 - Lloyd Patterson, On Methodius

February 19 - François Bovon, Reasons why Some Patristics Texts Remember -- and Some Don't -- the Lives of the Apostles

March 19 - Annewies van den Hoek, Origen's Role in Formulating Later Christological Language

April 23 - Nicholas Constas, On the Soul

Patristica Bostoniensia 1996 - 1997

September 25 - Khaled Anatolios, “The Body as Instrument”: A Re-Evaluation of Athanasius’ “Logos-Sarx” Christology

October 17 - Valerie A. Karras, The Mystery of the Trinity Revealed and Experienced: Language, Metaphor and Personhood

November 14 - Robin Jensen, The Trinity and the Creation of Adam and Eve

December 12 - Paul Crego, Timothy the Cat, Theodoret of Cyrus and the Armenian Church

January 23 - Willemien Otten, Christ’s Birth of a Virgin Who Became a Wife: Flesh and Speech in Tertullian’s De Carne Christi

February 20 - Annewies van den Hoek, The Catechetical School of Alexandria and its Philonic Heritage

March 20 - Gary Anderson and Nicholas Constas, In Passionem et Crucem Domini

April 17 - François Bovon, Prayers and Visions in the Recently Discovered Acts of Philip VIII-XV and Martyrdom

Patristica Bostoniensia 1995-1996

September 21 - Robert J. Daly, SJ, The Eucharistic Theology of Pope Gelasius I: A Nontridentine View

October 19 - Brian E. Daley, SJ, Divine Transcendence and Human Transformation: Gregory of Nyssa’s Anti-Apollinarian Christology

November 19 - Ruth Clements, Peri Pascha in the Context of Origen’s Exegetical Project

December 7 - Paul Crego, Maximux the Confessor’s Life of the Virgin Mary, or, How Long have the Georgians Known that Mary Spoke Georgian at Pentecost?

January 25 - Annewies van den Hoek, The Hymn in Clemens Alexandrinus, Paedagogus III (12) 101,3

February 22 - Gary A. Anderson, The Garments of Glory in Early Jewish and Christian Exegesis

March 21 - Kelley McCarthy Spoerl, Athanasius’ Account of Divine Distinction: Starting from Scratch

April 25 - George Dragas, On Athanasios

Patristica Bostoniensia 1994-1995

September 22 - Kelley McCarthy Spoerl, Anti-Arian Polemic in Eusebius of Caesarea’s Ecclesiastical Theology

October 20 - François Bovon, The Gospel of Luke in the Second Century, a.k.a. Une nouvelle citation des Actes de Paul chez Origène

November 10 - Michael O’Laughlin, Evagrius Ponticus in Spiritual Perspective

December 8 - Annewies van den Hoek, Quotation Techniques in Clement of Alexandria: A View of Ancient Literary Working Methods

January 26 - Robin M. Jensen, The Resurrection of Lazarus in Early Christian Theology, Liturgy and Art

February 16 - Valerie Karras, “Flesh of My Flesh” – Greek Patristic Exegesis of the Creation of Eve

March 16 - Nicholas Constas, The Conceptio per aurem in Late Antiquity: Observations on Eve, the Serpent, and Mary’s Ear

April 27 - Malachy Marrion, OCSO, The Goals of the Regula Benedicti: Ultimate, Intermediate, Immediate

Patristica Bostoniensia 1993-1994

September 16 - Michael O’Laughlin, Beyond the Research Phase in Biblical and Patristic Studies

October 14 - ???

November 11 - Brian E. Daley, SJ, What did “Origenism” Mean in the Sixth Century?

December 9 - Khaled Anatolios, Receptivity as an Anthropological and Christological Category in Athanasius

January 20 - Nicholas Constas, Proclus of Constantinople and the Theotokos

February 10 - Valerie Karras, Patristic Views on the Ontology of Gender

March 10 - Robin Jensen, Early Christian North Africa

April 14 - Pamela Jackson, Mystagogy

Patristica Bostoniensia 1992-1993

September 17 - Robin M. Jensen, The Sacrifice of Isaac in Early Christian Iconography: Context and Meaning

October 8 - Lauren Pristas, Cassian’s Teaching on Grace and Free Choice: Conlationes XI-XIII

November 19 - Brian E. Daley, SJ, “Not Nature But Union”: The Origins of a Phrase in Post-Chalcedonian Christology

December 17 - Lloyd G. Patterson, The Divine Became Human: Irenaean Themes in Clement of Alexandria

January 21 - Eleni Simmons, David’s Prayer in St. John Chrysostom’s Explanation of the Psalms

February 18 - Kelley McCarthy Spoerl, Apollinarius and the Liturgy

March 18 - George C. Berthold, Levels of Scriptural Meaning in Maximus the Confessor

April 22 - Pamela Jackson, The Holy Spirit in Lex Supplicandi and Lex Credenti

Patristica Bostoniensia 1991-1992

September 19 - A group discussion of the Oxford Patristics Conference

October 24 - Annewies van den Hoek, Clement of Alexandria on Martyrdom

November 21 - Lloyd Patterson, Methodius’ Millenarianism

December 12 - Brian E. Daley, SJ, Position and Patronage in the Early Church: The Original Meaning of “Primacy of Honor”

January 23 - Paul Crego, Theodoret on the Concept of Free Will

February 20 - James Ayers, “Certum est quia impossibile?” Tertullian’s “Argument from Absurdity” in De Carne Christi 5

March 19 - Pamela Jackson, Liturgical Allusion or Illusion: A Text from Gregory of Nyssa’s De Spiritu Sancto

April 30 - Kelley McCarthy Spoerl, Apollinarius’ Christology and the Anti-Marcellian Tradition

Patristica Bostoniensia 1990 -1991

September - Paul Crego, Some Problems Concerning Nino: Enlightener of the Georgians

October 18 - Kelley McCarthy Spoerl, A Discussion of G. Christopher Stead’s article, “’Homoousios’ dans la pensée de saint Athanase”

November 4 - Eric Junod, Contesting the Attribution to Origen (made by P. Glaue) of the Interesting Papyrus: Pap. Bibl. Univ. Giss. 17

December 13 - Peter Gilbert, Theological Anthropology in the Poems of St. Gregory the Theologian

January 14 - Michael O’Laughlin, Evagrius Ponticus, Antirrheticus (Selections)

February 14 - Pamela Jackson, Journey-Bread for the Shadow-Lands: The Readings for the Rites of the Catechumenate, RCIA

March 21 - Kelly McCarthy Spoerl, Apollinarius and the Response to Early Arian Christology

April 18 - Lauren Pristas, Cassian: The Compositional Unity of De institutis V

* If anyone can help us fill gaps or provide information on meetings prior to 1990, please let us know. -ed