Dr Augustine Casiday BA, BSc, MA, PhD

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Contact Details

Tel: 01570 424 868 (4868)

Location

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Campus

Lampeter Campus

Job Title

Senior Lecturer in Theology

Role in the University

Teaching, supervision, research

Academic Interests

Early and eastern Christianity; prayer; monasticism; Platonism

Publications

1)  Tradition and theology in the writings of St John Cassian, Oxford Early Christian Studies (Oxford: OUP, 2006)

2)  Translator and editor, with Tim Vivian, St Mark the Monk: On the spiritual life (Crestwood, NY: SVS Press, 2009)

3)  Evagrius Ponticus, Routledge Early Church Fathers (London and New York: Routledge, 2006)

4)  Co-editor, with Fred Norris, Cambridge History of Christianity, vol. 2: Constantine to 600 (Cambridge: CUP, 2007)

5)  Co-editor, with Andrew Louth, Byzantine Orthodoxies (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2006)

6)  Assistant editor, with F. Young, L. Ayres and A. Louth, editors, The Cambridge History of Early Christian Literature (Cambridge: CUP, 2004)

7)  An edited volume for Routledge Press (The Orthodox Christian World), a monograph for Cambridge University Press (Christian Theology in the Egyptian Desert: The works of Evagrius Ponticus), and a book-length essay for St Vladimir’s Seminary Press (‘Remember the Days of Old’: Orthodox reflections on patristic theology) are currently being revised and are scheduled to appear soon.

8)  Numerous contributions to edited volumes and publications in peer-reviewed journals

Additional Information

My current research focuses on the application of ancient Christian ascetic techniques as a resource for mental well-being. I am also studying a 16th Century Romanian work, Neagoe Basarab’s Învăţăturile către fiul său Teodosie, for the light it sheds on the political implications of Byzantine disciplines of prayer.

In addition, I have recently delivered the following papers by invitation:

  • The Alexander Souter Memorial Lecture for 2010 (University of Aberdeen): ‘The historical theology of St Vincent of Lérins’
  • Union of Monastic Superiors annual meeting (Mirfield; June 2009): ‘Changes in the study of John Cassian’
  • Themes in Biblical Narrative annual symposium (Groningen, NL; September 2008): ‘The call of God and the response of Abraham: Perspectives from a fifth-century Christian debate’
  • ‘Parrhesia and the Rhetoric of Free Speech,’ organized by M. Garrison and I. van Renswoude for the International Medieval Congress (Leeds, 7-10 July 2008): ‘Da servis tuis cum cum omni fiducia loqui verbum tuum: Parrhesia in Early Latin Christianity’
  • Denys Hay seminar (Edinburgh, 21 November 2007): ‘Reading Augustine in fifth-century Lérins’
  • EMERGE seminar (Edinburgh, 20 November 2007): ‘The cultural horizons of an eighth-century English nunnery: Some observations from Aldhelm of Malmesbury’s De uirginitate, prosa’
  • Maynooth Patristic Symposium, St Patrick’s College (Maynooth, ROI, 11 November 2007): ‘On-going heresiology in the modern study of Evagrius Ponticus’