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

This October, at the annual conference of the Pappas Patristic Institute (associated with Holy Cross Greek Orthodox Seminary, and part of the Boston Theological Institute), I presented a paper entitled "Early Christian Binitarianism and its Trinitarian Significance." 

At the annual meeting of NAPS (North American Patristics Society), in May, I have presented a paper entitled "The Holy Spirit and the Angelic Powers in Justin Martyr."

This Fall semester I am teaching the O.T. Doctoral Seminar, which will deal with biblical theophanies and their reception history.

We will also continue the meetings of SYMBOLON, a study group dedicated to the relationship between biblical exegesis and doctrinal developments in early patristic literature. In the Fall semester we are going to discuss Lewis Ayres' book Nicaea and its Legacy.

Coming up:

DUQUESNE  UNIVERSITY, 27 March 2009           

The Reception History of the Bible:

A Colloquium