Professor Richard Price on ‘Antioch versus Alexandria: a false antithesis?'

King's Patristic Seminar   Professor Richard Price (Heythrop College, London) is our next speaker on 16 June 2011 in the King's Patristic Seminar (Strand Campus, Room S.2.30) giving a paper on ‘Antioch versus Alexandria: a false antithesis?'   Richard Price is Professor of the History of Christianity, MA (Oxford), DPhil (Oxford), BD (London), MTh (London), and one of the best known Patristic scholars in the UK. His recent publications include: The Acts of the Council of Chalcedon. Translated with introduction and notes by Richard Price and Michael Gaddis. 3 vols (Liverpool University Press 2005, 2007, 2009). Chalcedon in Context: Church Councils 400-700, edited by Richard Price and Mary Whitby (Liverpool University Press 2009). The Acts of the Council of Constantinople of 553, with related texts on the Three Chapters Controversy. Translated with introduction and notes by Richard Price. 2 vols (Liverpool University Press 2009). ‘Theotokos: The Title and its Significance in Doctrine and Devotion’, in Sarah Boss, ed., Mary: The Complete Resource (Continuum 2007), 56-73. ‘Pastoral Theology: A Fruit of the Enlightenment’, Pastoral Review 3.3 (2007), 7-12. ‘The Holy Man and Christianization from the Apocryphal Apostles to St Stephen of Perm’, in Jonathan Shepard, ed., The Expansion of Orthodox Europe: Byzantium, the Balkans and Russia 1000-1500 (Ashgate 2007). ‘Martyrdom and the Cult of the Saints’, in D.G. Hunter and S.A. Harvey, eds, The Oxford Handbook of Early Christian Studies (Oxford University Press, 2008), 808-25.

Next King's Patristic Seminar

Professor Allen Brent is going to speak on "Hellenistic Mythologies and Early Christian Iconography".
Date: 12 May, 1pm
at: Strand Campus, Room S2.30

Professor Allen Brent (on the left, here together with Dr Nicola Spanu, myself and Dr Emanuele Castelli), Co-Investigator of the British Academy Project on 'Early Christian Iconography and Epigraphy', at our research stay in Rome in January/March 2011 - is going to give an insight into our discussion and the progress we are making. We all expect a lively talk and discussion.