Welcome!

This page is intended mainly to supply some information about my professional persona. In due time I'll be adding more personal stuff. 

Until then . . .

What I do

I am currently an Assistant Professor of Theology at Duquesne University, in Pittsburgh, PA. 

After studying Theology at the University of Bucharest, in my home country of Romania, I received my MA and PhD degrees from Marquette University, in Milwaukee, WI, where I graduated in 2007.

In June of 2007 my family and I moved from Milwaukee to Pittsburgh.  [View pictures of this lovely and lively city here and here!] 

I work in the area of early Christianity, focusing on biblical interpretation and doctrinal developments in the early centuries of the common era. For more, see Research and Current Projects.

What's new

My book on angelomorphic pneumatology, a revision of my doctoral dissertation, is now in print:

 Angelomorphic Pneumatology: Clement of Alexandria and Other Early Christian Witnesses. Vigiliae Christianae Supplements 95. Leiden/Boston: Brill, 2009. See details here or on the book image.

  I will be part of an interesting panel at the annual meeting of NAPS (North American Patristics Society) in May 2009. The topic of all papers is Early Christian Binitarianism.

WORD AND WIND:

CHAIR AND MODERATOR:
Ronald Heine (Northwest Christian University)

PRESENTERS: 
Michel René Barnes, Marquette University:
"Topography and Causality: Irenaeus and the End of High Pneumatology"

D. Jeffrey Bingham, Dallas Theological Seminary:
"Christ, the Spirit, and the Water in Irenaeus of Lyons"

Bogdan G. Bucur, Duquesne University:
"'Binitarian Monotheism' & Co: Between Scholarly Concepts and Early Christian Phenomena"

Anthony Briggman, Marquette University:
"Reevaluating Angelomorphism in Irenaeus: The Case of Proof 10"

Stephen O. Presley, University of St. Andrews:
"The Son, The Spirit, and the Old Testament in Justin Martyr"

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Colloquium Biblicum Lovaniense LVIII
(University of Leuven - Belgium, July 2009)
I will present a paper entitled

Moses on Tabor, Jesus on Sinai:

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At the annual meeting of the SBL (New Orleans, Nov 2009), I will present a paper in the "Greek Bible" group:

The Vision of Habakkuk in the LXX and Its Christian Reception

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Recently:

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DUQUESNE  UNIVERSITY, 27 March 2009 

The Reception History of the Bible:

A Colloquium

(PDF of the flyer)

www.duq.edu/receptionhistory