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Research paper thumbnail of The Whole Mystery of Christ: Creation as Incarnation in Maximus Confessor (University of Notre Dame Press, 2022)

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Research paper thumbnail of The Father's Kenosis: A Defense of Bonaventure on Intra-trinitarian Acts

Pro Ecclesia, 2021

Russell Friedman identifies two “rival accounts” in medieval trinitarian theology. The “emanation... more Russell Friedman identifies two “rival accounts” in medieval trinitarian theology. The “emanation account,” which Bonaventure represents, prefers to emphasize the constitutive role of “act” or “operation” among the intra-trinitarian persons. The “relation account,” that of Thomas Aquinas, prefers rather to say that relations alone constitute divine persons. A specific question illustrates their difference: Does the Father generate the Son because the Father is Father, or is He Father because He generates the Son? Aquinas thinks the former, Bonaventure the latter. Bonaventure’s position attracts criticism from contemporary Thomists. And even Franciscan sympathizers have conceded ambiguity around this point of his trinitarian theology. To wit: If the Father’s act of begetting the Son makes him Father, doesn’t this presume a “Proto-Father,” as Friedman has it, who begets? I argue that this criticism ignores the uniquely Christian-Neoplatonic premises Bonaventure’s view presumes. Perceiving them manifests Bonaventure’s deep coherence on this point and beyond.

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Research paper thumbnail of A Novel Use of the Body-Soul Comparison Emerges in Neochalcedonian Christology

Review of Ecumenical Studies, 2019

Comparing the union of Christ's two natures to the body-soul union in a human being was a typical... more Comparing the union of Christ's two natures to the body-soul union in a human being was a typical way among patristic authors to conceive the Incarnation. I argue that a novel use of the comparison emerged among Neochalcedonian theologians, esp. Leontius of Byzantium and Maximus Confessor. Their novelty lay in the concurrent refinement of the nature-hypostasis distinction required by Chalcedon. That refinement-particularly the shift from conceiving natures as self-subsistent to subsistent only in hypostases-opened unprecedented ways to make the anthropological comparison. Now there was a new, univocal tertium comparationis between Christ and the human being: in each case it's a hypostasis alone that makes two distinct natures really one. Neochalcedonian novelty supports the broader thesis that post-Chalcedonian Christology had profound impact on philosophy (cf. Johannes Zachhuber). In this case, Neochalcedonian Christology granted far greater insight into the fundamental mystery of the human person.

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Research paper thumbnail of Both Mere Man and Naked God: The Incarnational Logic of Apophasis in St Maximus the Confessor

Maximus the Confessor as a European Philosopher, 2017

Here I bring Maximus's technical Christology to bear on how, exactly, he creatively receives Dion... more Here I bring Maximus's technical Christology to bear on how, exactly, he creatively receives Dionysian negative theology. I argue implicitly that those who wish to retrieve Dionysius in response to Heidegger's onto-theo-logical critique (e.g. Marion) would do better if they did so in an explicitly Maximian way.

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Research paper thumbnail of Stoic Motifs in the Cosmology of Maximus Confessor

Dionysius, 2019

For some time now there's been a trend to study the relations between Maximus's metaphysics and v... more For some time now there's been a trend to study the relations between Maximus's metaphysics and various kinds of Neoplatonism. This has been salutary and useful. But far less attention has been given to the distinctly Stoic shape of Maximus's cosmology. That's surprising, since among the more obviously Stoic motifs in Maximus is his most idiosyncratic and central thesis--that the Logos is the logoi of the cosmos. This brief essay identifies and surveys just three Stoic motifs Maximus indulges (there are more): [1] the creative procession of the Logos as logoi; [2] the continuous creation of universals; [3] the Logos as the immanent and personal unity of the world.

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Research paper thumbnail of Creation is Incarnation: the Metaphysical Peculiarity of the Logoi in Maximus Confessor - Modern Theology 34.1 (Jan 2018): 82-102.

I affix here only the introduction to this article, which provides the argument's outline. Follow... more I affix here only the introduction to this article, which provides the argument's outline. Follow the link to the full article.

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Research paper thumbnail of Origen's Polemics in Princ 4.2.4: Scriptural Literalism as a Christo-Metaphysical Error (Vigiliae Christianae, 2015)

The relation between Books 1-3 and Book 4 of Origen’s Peri Archon has largely been left unspecif... more The relation between Books 1-3 and Book 4 of Origen’s Peri Archon has largely been left
unspecified or denied. This is due to the apparent incongruence between the metaphysical
discussions of the former section and the hermeneutical remarks of the latter.
I argue that Origen’s threefold distinction of Scripture in Princ 4.2.4 draws upon key
metaphysical conclusions of the earlier sections to depict the metaphysical structure
of inspired Scripture as analogous to the Incarnation, and that this insight constitutes
Origen’s fundamental polemic against scriptural literalism, the common error of the
two primary adversaries of the work (the “simple” of the Church and the Marcionites).
Peri Archon is thus unified around the polemical purpose of defending Origen’s allegorical
exegesis.

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Book Reviews by Jordan D Wood

Research paper thumbnail of 2018 Syndicate Symposium on René Girard, Unlikely Apologist

A discussion with author responses of the 2016 monograph René Girard, Unlikely Apologist: Mimetic... more A discussion with author responses of the 2016 monograph René Girard, Unlikely Apologist: Mimetic Theory and Fundamental Theology. Contributions from Professors Chelsea King, Mark Heim, Neil Ormerod, and Brian Robinette.

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Research paper thumbnail of Review of Gisela H. Kreglinger, Storied Revelations: Parables, Imagination, and George MacDonald's Christian Fiction, for Reviews in Religion and Theology 24.4 (2017): 741-44

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Research paper thumbnail of Review of Michel Corbin, SJ, La grâce de la liberté: Augustin et Anselme, for Reviews in Religion and Theology 21.3 (2014): 330-3

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Research paper thumbnail of Review of Bob Becking (ed.), Orthodoxy, Liberalism, and Adaptation, for International Journal for Public Theology 8 (2014): 258-60

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Research paper thumbnail of Review of Pieter G.R. de Villiers and Jan Willem van Henten (eds.), Coping with Violence in the New Testament, for International Journal of Public Theology 8 (2014): 114-115

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Research paper thumbnail of Review of Paul Martens, The Heterodox Yoder, for Political Theology 15.5 (2014): 476-8

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Research paper thumbnail of Review of William T. Cavanaugh, Migrations of the Holy: God, State, and the Political Meaning of the Church, for International Journal of Public Theology 7 (2013): 333-4

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Talks by Jordan D Wood

Research paper thumbnail of Assessing the "Constantinian Shift": A Defense of the Theological Question

This talk claims that the most fundamental question raised by non-Constantinian theologies such a... more This talk claims that the most fundamental question raised by non-Constantinian theologies such as John Howard Yoder's is the precise relation between Christian ontology and Christian ethics. Yoder's critique is not essentially an historical, but a theological one: Christ has revealed that God is nonviolent, and so the use of violence is a failure to participate in divine being, to be like God. Some trends in Radical Orthodoxy are also briefly observed, as they serve to exacerbate the question here identified and commended as worthy of theological attention.

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Platonism and Christian Thought in Late Antiquity by Jordan D Wood

Research paper thumbnail of LIST OF PARTICIPANTS: Platonism and Christian Thought in Late Antiquity - International Workshop in Oslo on the Philosophy of Late Antiquity

by Panagiotis G Pavlos, Jordan D Wood, Christina Hoenig, Jonathan Bieler, Enrico Moro, Sebastian Mateiescu, Sébastien Morlet, Alexander Petkas, Adrian C . Pirtea, E. Brown Dewhurst, Joshua Robinson, and Lars Fredrik Janby

The list of participants in the International Workshop in Oslo.

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Ephemera by Jordan D Wood

Research paper thumbnail of "Must Catholics Hate Hegel?" in Church Life Journal (June 2018)

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Research paper thumbnail of The Whole Mystery of Christ: Creation as Incarnation in Maximus Confessor (University of Notre Dame Press, 2022)

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Research paper thumbnail of The Father's Kenosis: A Defense of Bonaventure on Intra-trinitarian Acts

Pro Ecclesia, 2021

Russell Friedman identifies two “rival accounts” in medieval trinitarian theology. The “emanation... more Russell Friedman identifies two “rival accounts” in medieval trinitarian theology. The “emanation account,” which Bonaventure represents, prefers to emphasize the constitutive role of “act” or “operation” among the intra-trinitarian persons. The “relation account,” that of Thomas Aquinas, prefers rather to say that relations alone constitute divine persons. A specific question illustrates their difference: Does the Father generate the Son because the Father is Father, or is He Father because He generates the Son? Aquinas thinks the former, Bonaventure the latter. Bonaventure’s position attracts criticism from contemporary Thomists. And even Franciscan sympathizers have conceded ambiguity around this point of his trinitarian theology. To wit: If the Father’s act of begetting the Son makes him Father, doesn’t this presume a “Proto-Father,” as Friedman has it, who begets? I argue that this criticism ignores the uniquely Christian-Neoplatonic premises Bonaventure’s view presumes. Perceiving them manifests Bonaventure’s deep coherence on this point and beyond.

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Research paper thumbnail of A Novel Use of the Body-Soul Comparison Emerges in Neochalcedonian Christology

Review of Ecumenical Studies, 2019

Comparing the union of Christ's two natures to the body-soul union in a human being was a typical... more Comparing the union of Christ's two natures to the body-soul union in a human being was a typical way among patristic authors to conceive the Incarnation. I argue that a novel use of the comparison emerged among Neochalcedonian theologians, esp. Leontius of Byzantium and Maximus Confessor. Their novelty lay in the concurrent refinement of the nature-hypostasis distinction required by Chalcedon. That refinement-particularly the shift from conceiving natures as self-subsistent to subsistent only in hypostases-opened unprecedented ways to make the anthropological comparison. Now there was a new, univocal tertium comparationis between Christ and the human being: in each case it's a hypostasis alone that makes two distinct natures really one. Neochalcedonian novelty supports the broader thesis that post-Chalcedonian Christology had profound impact on philosophy (cf. Johannes Zachhuber). In this case, Neochalcedonian Christology granted far greater insight into the fundamental mystery of the human person.

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Research paper thumbnail of Both Mere Man and Naked God: The Incarnational Logic of Apophasis in St Maximus the Confessor

Maximus the Confessor as a European Philosopher, 2017

Here I bring Maximus's technical Christology to bear on how, exactly, he creatively receives Dion... more Here I bring Maximus's technical Christology to bear on how, exactly, he creatively receives Dionysian negative theology. I argue implicitly that those who wish to retrieve Dionysius in response to Heidegger's onto-theo-logical critique (e.g. Marion) would do better if they did so in an explicitly Maximian way.

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Research paper thumbnail of Stoic Motifs in the Cosmology of Maximus Confessor

Dionysius, 2019

For some time now there's been a trend to study the relations between Maximus's metaphysics and v... more For some time now there's been a trend to study the relations between Maximus's metaphysics and various kinds of Neoplatonism. This has been salutary and useful. But far less attention has been given to the distinctly Stoic shape of Maximus's cosmology. That's surprising, since among the more obviously Stoic motifs in Maximus is his most idiosyncratic and central thesis--that the Logos is the logoi of the cosmos. This brief essay identifies and surveys just three Stoic motifs Maximus indulges (there are more): [1] the creative procession of the Logos as logoi; [2] the continuous creation of universals; [3] the Logos as the immanent and personal unity of the world.

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Research paper thumbnail of Creation is Incarnation: the Metaphysical Peculiarity of the Logoi in Maximus Confessor - Modern Theology 34.1 (Jan 2018): 82-102.

I affix here only the introduction to this article, which provides the argument's outline. Follow... more I affix here only the introduction to this article, which provides the argument's outline. Follow the link to the full article.

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Research paper thumbnail of Origen's Polemics in Princ 4.2.4: Scriptural Literalism as a Christo-Metaphysical Error (Vigiliae Christianae, 2015)

The relation between Books 1-3 and Book 4 of Origen’s Peri Archon has largely been left unspecif... more The relation between Books 1-3 and Book 4 of Origen’s Peri Archon has largely been left
unspecified or denied. This is due to the apparent incongruence between the metaphysical
discussions of the former section and the hermeneutical remarks of the latter.
I argue that Origen’s threefold distinction of Scripture in Princ 4.2.4 draws upon key
metaphysical conclusions of the earlier sections to depict the metaphysical structure
of inspired Scripture as analogous to the Incarnation, and that this insight constitutes
Origen’s fundamental polemic against scriptural literalism, the common error of the
two primary adversaries of the work (the “simple” of the Church and the Marcionites).
Peri Archon is thus unified around the polemical purpose of defending Origen’s allegorical
exegesis.

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Research paper thumbnail of 2018 Syndicate Symposium on René Girard, Unlikely Apologist

A discussion with author responses of the 2016 monograph René Girard, Unlikely Apologist: Mimetic... more A discussion with author responses of the 2016 monograph René Girard, Unlikely Apologist: Mimetic Theory and Fundamental Theology. Contributions from Professors Chelsea King, Mark Heim, Neil Ormerod, and Brian Robinette.

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Research paper thumbnail of Review of Gisela H. Kreglinger, Storied Revelations: Parables, Imagination, and George MacDonald's Christian Fiction, for Reviews in Religion and Theology 24.4 (2017): 741-44

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Research paper thumbnail of Review of Michel Corbin, SJ, La grâce de la liberté: Augustin et Anselme, for Reviews in Religion and Theology 21.3 (2014): 330-3

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Research paper thumbnail of Review of Bob Becking (ed.), Orthodoxy, Liberalism, and Adaptation, for International Journal for Public Theology 8 (2014): 258-60

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Research paper thumbnail of Review of Pieter G.R. de Villiers and Jan Willem van Henten (eds.), Coping with Violence in the New Testament, for International Journal of Public Theology 8 (2014): 114-115

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Research paper thumbnail of Review of Paul Martens, The Heterodox Yoder, for Political Theology 15.5 (2014): 476-8

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Research paper thumbnail of Review of William T. Cavanaugh, Migrations of the Holy: God, State, and the Political Meaning of the Church, for International Journal of Public Theology 7 (2013): 333-4

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Research paper thumbnail of Assessing the "Constantinian Shift": A Defense of the Theological Question

This talk claims that the most fundamental question raised by non-Constantinian theologies such a... more This talk claims that the most fundamental question raised by non-Constantinian theologies such as John Howard Yoder's is the precise relation between Christian ontology and Christian ethics. Yoder's critique is not essentially an historical, but a theological one: Christ has revealed that God is nonviolent, and so the use of violence is a failure to participate in divine being, to be like God. Some trends in Radical Orthodoxy are also briefly observed, as they serve to exacerbate the question here identified and commended as worthy of theological attention.

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Research paper thumbnail of LIST OF PARTICIPANTS: Platonism and Christian Thought in Late Antiquity - International Workshop in Oslo on the Philosophy of Late Antiquity

by Panagiotis G Pavlos, Jordan D Wood, Christina Hoenig, Jonathan Bieler, Enrico Moro, Sebastian Mateiescu, Sébastien Morlet, Alexander Petkas, Adrian C . Pirtea, E. Brown Dewhurst, Joshua Robinson, and Lars Fredrik Janby

The list of participants in the International Workshop in Oslo.

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Research paper thumbnail of "Must Catholics Hate Hegel?" in Church Life Journal (June 2018)

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