Very Rev. Dr. Doru Costache
ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR in Theology (Patristic Studies)
EDUCATION:
BTh, University of Bucharest
ThD (Patristics), University of Bucharest
https://scd.academia.edu/DoruCostache
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 Sydney College of Divinity, 2005-to date), 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
SCD Research Profile: https://grs.scd.edu.au/2018/11/20/dr-doru-costache/
RECENT PUBLICATIONS:
Humankind and the Cosmos: Early Christian Representations (Brill, 2021).
Dreams, Virtue and Divine Knowledge in Early Christian Egypt. (co-authored with Bronwen Neil and Kevin Wagner; Cambridge University Press, 2019).
“A Note on Evagrius’ Cosmological and Metaphysical Statements.” The Journal of Theological Studies 71:2 (2020).
“The Orthodox Doctrine of Creation in the Age of Science.” Journal of Orthodox Christian Studies vol. 2, no. 1 (2019).
Reading Scripture in the Orthodox Church: The Festal Cycle. (AIOCS Press, 2019).
