Dr Krastu Nikita Banev

Associate Professor of Byzantine and Orthodox Theology

PhD

Affiliations
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Associate Professor of Byzantine and Orthodox Theology in the Department of Theology and Religion	+44 (0) 191 33 43967

Biography

My research is divided between patristics and modern Orthodox studies. In the first area, my chief contribution is my 2015 monograph which offered an anaylsis of the anti-Originist polemic in the letters and sermons of Theophilus of Alexandria. In my second area of research, I have examined the pastoral relevance of theological ideas in 19^th and 20^th -century Eastern Orthodoxy.

In December 2023, I was ordained priest in the Archdiocese of Thyateira and Great Britain of the Ecumenical Patriarhate, taking the name Nikita.

Recent Teaching

Level 1: Introduction to the History of Christianity
Level 2: Early Christian Doctrine: Trinity and Christology
Level 2: Research Project and Colloquium: "Tradition and Traditions in Orthodox Christianity"
Level 4 (MA): Patristic Ecclesiology
PhD: supervisor and internal examiner for doctoral dissertations in patristics and modern Orthodox theology
External examiner at the universities of Cambridge, Essex and Glasgow in the UK, as well as at the University of Bucharest in Romania.

Recent Conference Papers and Presentations

2024, March - "St John Chrysostom on the Universality of Christian Priesthood within the Context of Judaic and Hellenic Discourses on Self-Sacrifice", presented at the Biblical Studies and Patristics Research Seminar, Durham.
2023, December - “Prohibitum est sanctis patribus symbolo addere aliquid vel minuere”: The Nicene-Constantinopolitan Creed in the Context of the Ninth-century Missions to Moravia and Bulgaria", presented at the International conference on "The Nicene and Nicaeno-Constantinopolitan Creeds. Tensions, Rapprochements, Effects" organised by the Fondazione per le scienze religiose, Oxford.
2023, October - Vortrag an der Universität Münster mit dem Titel "Theophilus von Alexandria und die Rolle von Rhetorik und Macht in der ersten origenistischen Kontroverse." Gehalten im Rahmen des Workshops "Vom Anhänger zum Gegner des Origenes. Die antiorigenistischen Schriften des Theophilus von Alexandria (399–404). Kolloquien zum Nachleben des Origenes XII. Der Origenismus in der Spätantike IV".