Patrick T.R. Gray

Professor, School of Arts and Letters, Atkinson Faculty of Liberal and Professional Studies
Th.D. (Trinity College, Toronto)

Scholarly Interests

* Fifth- and Sixth-Century Theology of Byzantium
* Palestine in the Byzantine period
* Justinian
* Fifth Ecumenical Council and its reception
* the process of patrification (i.e. the creation of a canon of theologians known as church fathers ).

Publications

The Defense of Chalcedon in the East (451-553), Studies in the History of Christian Thought XX, E.J. Brill. Leiden, 1979.

"Theological Discourse in the Seventh Century: The Heritage from the Sixth Century", Byzantinische Forschungen (in press)

"The Sabaite Monasteries and the Christological Controversies of the Fifth and Sixth Centuries", The Sabaite Heritage, ed. J. Patrich (in press with Dumbarton Oaks)

"Covering the Nakedness of Noah: Reconstruction and Denial in the Age of Justinian", Conformity and Non-Confirmity in Byzantium , ed. L. Garland = Byzantinische Forschungen 24 (1997) 193-206.

"Through the Tunnel with Leontius of Jerusalem: The Sixth Century Transformation of Theology", The Sixth Century: End or Beginning?, ed. P. Allen & E. Jeffreys, Byzantina Australiensia 10. Australian Association for Byzantine Studies. Brisbane, 1996, pp. 187-196.

(with Michael W. Herren), 'Columbanus and the Three Chapters Controversy--A New Approach' Journal of Theological Studies NS 45 (1994) 160-170.