Contact

michael.petrin@mtangel.edu

Education

PhD: University of Notre Dame (2017)
MTS: University of Notre Dame (2011)
BA: Stanford University (2009)

Courses taught

• The Early Church
• The Fathers of the Church
• The Middle Ages
• Johannine Writings
• Christ in the Gospels
• The Ascetic Writings of Saint Basil
• Elementary Syriac

Research interests

• Historical and systematic theology
• Patristic theology and spirituality
• Ancient philosophy and rhetoric
• History of biblical interpretation
• Ecumenical and interreligious dialogue

Select projects

• “Review Essay: Premodern Christianity beyond ‘Greek East’ and ‘Latin West,’” Fides et Historia 55 (2023): 169–173.
• “Theôria and Praxis,” Studia Patristica 101 (2021): 67–77.
• “Eunomius and Gregory of Nyssa on τὸ τῆς εὐσεβείας μυστήριον,” Studia Patristica 95 (2017): 343–353.
• “Keeping the Commandments of God: The Functions of Scripture in the Ascetic Writings of Basil the Great.” Forthcoming.

Professional associations

• American Society of Church History
• Catholic Theological Society of America
• North American Patristics Society
• Society of Biblical Literature