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title: "Very Rev. Professor Doru Costache · St Cyril’s"
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Qualifications
* BTh, University of Bucharest
* ThD (Patristics), University of Bucharest
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# Very Rev. Professor Doru Costache
Professor in Theology (Patristics)
**_Protopresbyter Dr Doru Costache_** was trained at the Radu Vodă Seminary, Bucharest, Romania (1983-1988). He has undertaken undergraduate studies (1989-1993) and doctoral studies (1995-1999) in Orthodox theology at the University of Bucharest. His doctoral thesis, publicly defended in March 2000, was on the anthropic cosmological principle interpreted from the viewpoint of a patristic theologian, Saint Maximus the Confessor, and a neopatristic theologian, Father Dumitru Stăniloae. He has over twenty years of tertiary teaching experience (the University of Bucharest, 1995–2004; the Australian University College of Divinity, 2005–present), and was the Durham International Senior Research Fellow of Institute of Advanced Study, the University of Durham, Epiphany Term, 2018\. He is the author of _Humankind and the Cosmos: Early Christian Representations_ (Brill, 2021) and co-author of _Introducere în Dogmatica Ortodoxă_ (1997), _Știință și Theologie: Preliminarii pentru Dialog_ (2001), _Sfinții Părinți despre Originile și Destinul Cosmosului și Omului_ (2003) and _Dreams, Virtue and Divine Knowledge in Early Christian Egypt_ (Cambridge University Press, 2019). He has also authored two popular-level books, _Reading Scripture in the Orthodox Church: The Sunday Cycle_ and _Reading Scripture in the Orthodox Church: The Festal Cycle_ (AIOCS Press, 2018, 2019). He was ordained to the diaconate in January 1997 and to the priesthood in May 2001, and is married with one daughter.
#### Research & supervision interests
Early Christian representations of reality; traditional interpretations of Genesis 1-3; experiences of holiness; wellbeing; science, ethics, and theology; transdisciplinarity
AUCD Research Profile:
#### Recent publications
_Contemplation in Clement of Alexandria: Elements of the Method_. London and New York: Routledge, 2025 ()
(Coauthored with Geraint F. Lewis) _A New Copernican Turn: Contemporary Cosmology, the Self, and Orthodox Science-Engaged Theology_. Routledge Focus on Religion. London and New York: Routledge, 2024\. ()
“Consciousness in the Cosmos: From René Descartes to David Bohm’s Revolution” _Journal of Consciousness Studies_ 32:5–6 (2025) 155-179, .
“A Note on the Codex Angus and Its Use” _The Journal of Ecclesiastical History_ 76:4 (2025): 707-722, .
“Abraham, the Contemplation of Nature, and Divine Vision in Clement of Alexandria.” In: Nichifor Tanase, Marius Portaru, and Daniel Lemeni (eds). _Knowing God in Light: Theophany and Language_. Forum Orthodoxe Theologie 23\. Vienna: LIT Verlag, 2024: 127-144.
“Astral Iconography and the Byzantine Study of the Heavens” _De Medio Aevo_ 13:2 (2024) 321-351, .
“Athanasius on Deacons and the Diaconate.’ In: Bart J. Koet, Edwina Murphy, and Esko Ryökäs (eds). _Deacons and Diakonia in Late Antiquity: The Third Century Onwards_. Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zum Neuen Testament 2, Reihe 606\. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2024: 64-77.
“Transitions in Patristic Cosmology: From Cosmophobia to Universe-(Re)Making” _Religions_ 15:6 (2024) 728, .
(Coauthored with Richard de Grijs) “The Cosmology of David Bohm: Scientific and Theological Significance” _Theology and Science_ 22:1 (2024) 204-220, .
“Patristic and Neopatristic Antecedents of Scientifically Engaged Theology” _St Vladimir’s Theological Quarterly_ 67:1-2 (2023) 115-145.
“The Trees of Paradise: Patristic Perspectives.” In: Ciprian Costin Apintiliesei and Constantin Pogor (eds). _Tendances et directions dans les recherches actuelles des théologiens orthodoxes roumains de la diaspora_. Patrimoines. Paris: Cerf, 2022: 177-196.
“Theological Anthropology Today: Panayiotis Nellas’s Contribution.” In: Kostas Tampakis and Haralampos Ventis (eds). _Orthodox Christianity and Modern Science: Past, Present and Future_. Science and Orthodox Christianity 3\. Turnhout: Brepols Publishers, 2022: 167-182.
[_Humankind and the Cosmos: Early Christian Representations_](https://brill.com/display/title/60404?language=en) (Brill, 2021).
[_Dreams, Virtue and Divine Knowledge in Early Christian_ _Egypt_](https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/dreams-virtue-and-divine-knowledge-in-early-christian-egypt/69533BB20E6764A893E5BA5F485A35BC). (co-authored with Bronwen Neil and Kevin Wagner; Cambridge University Press, 2019).
“[A Note on Evagrius’ Cosmological and Metaphysical Statements](https://academic.oup.com/jts/article-abstract/71/2/718/6007992?redirectedFrom=fulltext).” _The Journal of Theological Studies_ 71:2 (2020).
“[The Orthodox Doctrine of Creation in the Age of Science.](https://muse.jhu.edu/article/730651)” _Journal of Orthodox Christian Studies_ vol. 2, no. 1 (2019).
[_Reading Scripture in the Orthodox Church: The Festal Cycle_](https://aiocs.net/product/reading-scripture-in-the-orthodox-church-the-festal-cycle-pdf-aiocs/). (AIOCS Press, 2019).
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