I work in the area of New Testament and early Christianity, with a focus on biblical interpretation and doctrinal developments in the pre-Nicene era.  In approaching Biblical texts, I consider Wirkungsgeschichte—often rendered "reception history"—as a valuable complement to historical-critical exegesis of the New Testament.  I also view it as crucial to study how early Christians expressed their religious identity by reworking doctrines, imagery, and practices inherited from the many currents of Second Temple Judaism.   

 

As a second field of interest, I do research in the history of Christian thought, focusing on doctrine and spirituality in the early centuries and the Byzantine tradition. 

 

My academic interests, bridging the conventional boundaries between New Testament Studies, Patristics, and the history of Christian thought, were shaped significantly by participation in the interdisciplinary Seminar on the Jewish Roots of Christian Mysticism and the "Theophaneia School," both led by Dr. Alexander Golitzin and Dr. Andrei Orlov at Marquette University.

 

My study of early pneumatology is forthcoming at Brill:

 

ANGELOMORPHIC PNEUMATOLOGY:

CLEMENT OF ALEXANDRIA AND OTHER EARLY CHRISTIAN WITNESSES

 

 

 

At present I am particularly interested in the pneumatological traditions of the New Testament and later Christian writings, and the New Testament roots of pre-Nicene exegesis of the Biblical theophanies.