Dr Morwenna Ludlow
Publications
Books
with S Douglass, Reading the Church Fathers, T & T Clark, 2011.
Universal salvation : eschatology in the thought of Gregory of Nyssa and Karl Rahner, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2009.
The Early Church, London, I. B. Tauris, 2009.
Gregory of Nyssa - Ancient and (Post-) Modern, Oxford University Press, 2007.
Universal Salvation: Eschatology in the Thought of Gregory of Nyssa and Karl Rahner, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2000.
Articles
Why was Hans Denck thought to be a Universalist?, The Journal of Ecclesiastical History, vol. 55, no. 2, 2004, 257-274
Theology and Allegory: Origen and Gregory of Nyssa on the unity and diversity of Scripture, International Journal of Systematic Theology, vol. 4, no. 1, 2002, 45-66
Chapters
Chapter 7: Anatomy: Investigating the Body of Texts in Origen and Gregory of Nyssa, in Ludlow M,Douglass S (eds) Reading the Church Fathers, T&T Clark, 2011, 132-153
Spirit and Letter in Origen and Augustine, in Fiddes P,Bader G (eds) The Spirit and the Letter, Edinburgh: T and T Clark, 2011
Eschatology and rhetoric in Gregory of Nyssa’s commentary on 1 Corinthians 15:28, in Drecoll V (eds) Gregory of Nyssa, the 'Opera Minora', Leiden: Brill, 2011
Origen as preacher and teacher: a comparison of exegetical methods in his writings on Genesis and the Song of Songs, in Lyons WJ (eds) Delivering the Word: Preaching and Exegesis in the Western Christian Tradition, Equinox, 2011
Patristic exegesis of Genesis 1: Origen, the Cappadocians and Augustine, in Horrell D,Hunt C,Southgate C,Stavrakopoulou F (eds) Towards an Ecological Hermeneutic: Biblical, Historical, and Theological Perspectives, Edinburgh: T and T Clark, 2010
Contemporary Interpretations, in Maspero G (eds) Encyclopedia of Gregory of Nyssa, Leiden: Brill, 2010, 170-174
Greek Mythology, in Maspero G (eds) Encyclopedia of Gregory of Nyssa, Leiden: Brill, 2010, 372-375
Plato, in Maspero G (eds) Encyclopedia of Gregory of Nyssa, Leiden: Brill, 2010, 623-625
Suffering servant or king of glory? Christological readings of the Old Testament in the patristic era, in Lincoln AT,Paddison A (eds) Christology and scripture, T and T Clark, 2007, 104-119
“The task of theology is never finished.” John Macquarrie and Karl Rahner on the challenges and limits of doing theology., in Morgan R (eds) In search of humanity and deity: a celebration of John Macquarrie's Theology, SCM, 2006, 117-126
Divine Infinity and Eschatology: the limits and dynamics of human knowledge according to Gregory of Nyssa: Contra Eunomium II 67-170, in Karfikova L,Douglass S,Zachhuber J (eds) Gregory of Nyssa: Contra Eunomium II An English Version with Supporting Studies - Proceedings of the 10th International Colloquium on Gregory of Nyssa (Olomouc, September 15-18, 2004), Leiden: Brill, 2004, 67-170
The Cappadocians, in Evans GR (eds) The first Christian theologians, Blackwell, 2004, 168-185
with GR Evans, Patristics, in Jones SGJ,Jones G (eds) The Blackwell companion to modern theology, Wiley-Blackwell, 2004, 113-132
Universalism in the History of Christian Theology, in Parry RA,Partridge CH (eds) Universal salvation? The Current Debate, , 2003, 191-218
'Criteria of canonicity' and the early church, in Barton J,Wolter M (eds) Die Einheit Der Schrift Und Die Vielfalt Des Kanons/the Unity of Sciripture and the Diversity of the Canon, Walter De Gruyter, 2003, 69-93
Introduction, in Seelbach LC (eds) Perpetua und Tertullian, Verlag IKS Garamond, 2000
The Apostolic Fathers, in Fergusson D,Kilby K,Torrance I,al E (eds) The Cambridge Dictionary of Christianity, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press
Patristics, in Fergusson D,Kilby K,Torrance I,al E (eds) The Cambridge Dictionary of Christianity, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press
Articles
Demons, evil and liminality in Cappadocian theology, Journal of Early Christian Studies, vol. 20:2, no. Summer, 2012
Science and theology in Gregory of Nyssa’s De anima et resurrectione: astronomy and automata., Journal of Theological Studies, vol. 60:2, no. October, 2009, 467-489
Universal Salvation and a Soteriology of Divine Punishment, Scottish Journal of Theology 53:4 (December 2000) pp.449-471, vol. 53, no. 4, 2000, 449-471
Reviews
with CA Beeley, Morwenna Ludlow 'Gregory of Nyssa, Ancient and (Post)modern', Conversations in Religion and Theology, vol. 7, no. 1, 2009, 28-40
Anna M. Silvas Gregory of Nyssa: The Letters. Introduction, translation and Commentary, Zeitschrift für Antikes Christentum / Journal of Ancient Christianity, vol. 13, 2009, 355-356
Kevin Madigan and Carolyn Osiek (edd. and trr.) Ordained Women in the Early Church. A Documentary History, New Blackfriars, vol. 90, no. 1025, 2009, 131-135
Christopher A. Beeley Gregory of Nazianzus on the Trinity and Knowledge of God. In Your Light we Shall see Light, Scottish Journal of Theology
Ivor J. Davidson, The Birth of the Church: from Jesus to Constantine ad30-312 and A Public Faith: From Constantine to the Medieval World 312-600, Volumes 1 and 2 of The Monarch History of the Church, Journal of Theological Studies, vol. 60, no. 1, 269-271
Nicholas J. Healy The Eschatology of Hans Urs von Balthasar: Being as Communion (Oxford Theological Monographs, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2005), New Blackfriars, vol. 88, no. 1014, 232-234
Conferences
Origen’s Exegesis: reading back to the past and forward to the future,
In illud: tunc et ipse filius,
Anatomy - investigating the body of texts in Origen and Gregory of Nyssa,
Karl Rahner’s requirements for a new eschatology: our task for the next millennium?,
Punishment in the works of Gregory of Nyssa,
Gregory of Nyssa and the Body: do recent readings ignore a development in his thought?,
Gregory of Nyssa’s use of science in his De anima et resurrectione,
Gregory of Nyssa: Contra Eunomium II – a historical reading,
Divine infinity and eschatology: the limits and dynamics of human knowledge, according to Gregory of Nyssa. Contra Eunomium II §§67 – 170,
Others
What is virginity? Feminists debate Gregory of Nyssa’s “De virginitate”.,
The Fathers’ interpretation of Genesis 1,
Imago Dei or Adam’s Rib? Feminists Debate the Church Fathers’ Accounts of the First Woman,
