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
Demons, evil and liminality in Cappadocian theology, Journal of Early Christian Studies, vol. 20:2, no. Summer, 2012, 179-211
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
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
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
Chapters
Spirit and Letter in Origen and Augustine, in Bader G, Fiddes P (eds) The Spirit and the Letter A Christian Tradition and a Late-Modern Reversal, T & T Clark international, 2012
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, 2012, 45-61
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
The Apostolic Fathers, in Fergusson D, Kilby K, Torrance I, al E (eds) The Cambridge Dictionary of Christianity, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011
Spirit and Letter in Origen and Augustine, in Fiddes P, Bader G (eds) The Spirit and the Letter, Edinburgh: T and T Clark, 2011
‘In illud: tunc et ipse filius’ [Gregory of Nyssa’s commentary on 1 Corinthians 15:28], in Drecoll V, Berghaus M (eds) Gregory of Nyssa: The Minor Treatises on Trinitarian Theology and Apollinarianism, Leiden: Brill, 2011, 413-425
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, 140-153
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, 217-237
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
Contra Eunomium III.10, in Leemans J, Cassin M (eds) Contra Eunomium III. Papers of the 12th International Colloquium on Gregory of Nyssa, Leuven September 2010,
Demonizing one’s enemies: a comparison of the rhetoric of evil in modern public discourse and Cappadocian theology, in Wolter M, Fiddes P (eds) The Discourse of Evil,
Gregor von Nyssa, in Riedweg C, Wyrwa D, Horn C (eds) Grundriss der Geschichte der Philosophie: Kaiserzeit und Spätantike, Schwabe
Reading Classic Texts, in Higton M, Fodor J (eds) The Routledge Companion to the Practice of Christian Theology,
Patristics, in Fergusson D, Kilby K, Torrance I, al E (eds) The Cambridge Dictionary of Christianity, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press
Texts and teachers in the writings of Gregory of Nyssa, in van Hoof L, van Nuffelen P (eds) Literature and Society in the fourth century A.D., Leiden: Brill
Augustine on the Last Things, in Toom T (eds) T & T Clark Companion to Augustine and Modern Theology,
Reviews
with CA Beeley, Morwenna Ludlow 'Gregory of Nyssa, Ancient and (Post)modern', Conversations in Religion and Theology, vol. 7, no. 1, Blackwell, 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, Annual Meeting of the North American Patristics Society, Chicago
In illud: tunc et ipse filius, Eleventh International Colloquium on Gregory of Nyssa, Tübingen
Anatomy - investigating the body of texts in Origen and Gregory of Nyssa, Annual Meeting of the North American Patristics Society, Chicago
Karl Rahner’s requirements for a new eschatology: our task for the next millennium?, Society for the Study of Eschatology, Edinburgh
Punishment in the works of Gregory of Nyssa, XIII International Conference on Patristic Studies, Oxford
Gregory of Nyssa and the Body: do recent readings ignore a development in his thought?, XIV International Conference on Patristic Studies, Oxford
Gregory of Nyssa’s use of science in his De anima et resurrectione, XXXV Incontro di Studiosi dell'Antichità Cristiana, Augustinianum, Rome
Gregory of Nyssa: Contra Eunomium II – a historical reading, XVth Oxford International Conference on Patristics, Oxford
Ekphrasis, rhetoric and philosophy in Plato and Gregory of Nyssa, North American Patristics Society, Chicago
Why demons are not completely evil: the place of demons in Cappadocian theology, North American Patristics Society, Chicago
Divine infinity and eschatology: the limits and dynamics of human knowledge, according to Gregory of Nyssa. Contra Eunomium II §§67 – 170, Tenth International Colloquium on Gregory of Nyssa, Olomouc, 15th - 18th Sep 2004
Imaging and imitation in Cappadocian theology, 16th International Conference on Patristics Studies, Oxford, 8th - 12th Aug 2011
Gregory of Nyssa's Educational Strategies, ‘A magic stronger than the governors’ power’. Literature and Society in the Fourth Century A.D., Ghent, Belgium, 23rd - 24th Sep 2010
Contra Eunomium III.10, Gregory of Nyssa, Contra Eunomium III, Leuven, Belgium, 14th - 17th Sep 2010
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
