John Anthony McGuckin

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John Anthony McGuckin (born 1952) is an Orthodox Christian scholar, priest, and poet.

McGuckin attended Heythrop College from 1970 to 1972, graduated from the University of London with a Divinity degree in 1975, and received a Certificate in Education from the University of Newcastle upon Tyne in 1979, his PhD from Durham University in 1980, and an MA in Educational Studies from the University of Southampton in 1986. He is a Fellow of both the Royal Society of Arts and the Royal Historical Society.

A former Reader in Patristic and Byzantine Theology at the University of Leeds, McGuckin is the Nielsen Professor of Early Church History at Union Theological Seminary and Professor of Byzantine Christian Studies at Columbia University in New York City.

He was raised Roman Catholic and at 19 became a member of the Passionist religious order. In 1989 McGuckin became Greek Orthodox and was ordained a priest for the Romanian Orthodox Church, serving in Manhattan. He has written important scholarly books on Cyril of Alexandria, Gregory of Nazianzus, and Origen, among others. His work has ranged over the areas of New Testament interpretation, Patristics, Byzantine History, and Orthodox theology. He is a highly regarded Orthodox theologian, both in the English-speaking world and in Eastern Europe. His wife Eileen is a very talented iconographer [1].

[edit] Bibliography

• St Symeon the New Theologian: Chapters and Discourses(1982, reprinted 1996).

• The Transfiguration of Christ in Scripture and Tradition (1986) ISBN 0-88946-609-2

• Selected Poems of St Gregory Nazianzen (1986, reprinted 1989, & 1995).

• St. Cyril of Alexandria: The Christological Controversy (1994, and reprinted 2004) ISBN 0-88141-259-7

• At the Lighting of the Lamps: Hymns from the Ancient Church (1995, and reprinted 1997) ISBN 0-8192-1717-4

• St. Gregory of Nazianzus: An Intellectual Biography (2000; Nominated for the 2002 Pollock Biography Prize) ISBN 0-88141-222-8

• Standing in God's Holy Fire: The Spiritual Tradition of Byzantium (Orbis, 2001) ISBN 1-57075-382-2

• Byzantium and Other Poems (Black Gate Press,1994.) (Out of Print).

• The Book of Mystical Chapters (Shambhala, 2002) ISBN 1-59030-007-6

• The Westminster Handbook To Patristic Theology ( 2004) ISBN 0-664-22396-6

• The Westminster Handbook To Origen (2004) ISBN 0-664-22472-5

[edit] External links

• His faculty page at Union Seminary.

• The Road to Nicaea —one of his essays, a description of the First Ecumenical Council.

• Non Violence and Peace Traditions in Early & Eastern Christianity —another essay, from the website of St Mary Magdalen Orthodox Church, where he serves.