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Qualifications

* BA (Honours) in Philosophy USyd
* Grad Cert. in Orthodox Theology, SAGOTC
* PhD in Early Modern Philosophy of Religion at USyd
* Coptic Fellow of Orthodox Christian Studies Center, Fordham

Faculty

# Dr. Samuel Kaldas

Director of Research, Lecturer in Philosophy & Theology

_**Dr.** **Samuel Kaldas**_ is Director of Research & Community Engagement at St Cyril’s. He studied philosophy, ancient history, and Orthodox theology before completing a PhD on the early modern philosophers of religion known as the “Cambridge Platonists”. In 2022, he was a Distinguished Research Fellow of Fordham’s _Orthodox Christian Studies Center_, writing on the development of Coptic eucharistic theology in the 19th and 20th centuries.

#### Research & supervision interests

Philosophy of Religion; Patristics; Desert Fathers; Religious Epistemology; Coptic Orthodox Theology; Science and Religion.

#### Recent publications

_The Cambridge Platonists and Early Modern Philosophy: Inventing the Philosophy of Religion_. Cambridge Studies in Religion and Philosophy, vol. 2\. Cambridge University Press, forthcoming 2023.

(Co-authored with Stephen Meawad). “Orthodox Christian Perspectives on Church and State.” _Palgrave-Macmillan Handbook of Religion and State_. Forthcoming, 2023.

“[From Garments of Flesh to Garments of Light: Hardness, Subtleness and the Soul-Body Relation in Macarius-Symeon](https://brill.com/display/book/9783657703395/BP000014.xml?language=en).” In _The Unity of Body and Soul in Patristic and Byzantine Thought_, edited by Anna Usacheva, S. Bhayro and J. Ulrich. Contexts of Ancients and Medieval Anthropology, vol. 1\. Leipzig: Brill, 2020.

“[‘Draughts of Love and Divine Revelations’: Experiential Theology in Matta Al-Miskīn and Fayek M. Ishak.](https://brill.com/display/book/9789004446564/BP000014.xml)” In _Copts in Modernity_, edited by Nelly van Doorn-Harder, Lisa Agaiby and Mark Swanson. Leiden: Brill 2020.

“[A ‘Strange New Philosophy’ of Forgiveness: Insights from St John Chrysostom on Forgiving the Unrepentant.](https://www.academia.edu/42908491/A_Strange_New_Philosophy_of_Forgiveness_Insights_from_St_John_Chrysostom_on_Forgiving_the_Unrepentant)” St. Vladimir’s Theological Quarterly, vol. 63, no. 3 (2019): 261–271.

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