J. William Harmless
J. William Harmless, S.J., Ph.D. (Boston College)
Professor
Historical Theology; Patristic Studies
Courses: (Fall 2009)
THL 100 (B & D) Christianity in Context
HRS 100 (B) Beginnings of the Christian Intellectual Tradition
Office Hours:
M, W, & F 10:30-11:20 a.m.; 2:30-4:00 p.m.
Contact:
Humanities 132
402-280-2572
Email
Recent Publications:
Books:
Augustine in His Own Words. Washington, DC: Catholic University of America Press (forthcoming, late 2009).
Mystics. New York: Oxford University Press, 2008. Pp. xiv + 350. ISBN 978-0-19-530038-3 (hardcover), ISBN 978-0-19-530039-0 (paperback).
Desert Christians: An Introduction to the Literature of Early Monasticism. New York: Oxford University Press, 2004. Pp. xxiv + 488 (includes 30 illustrations & 8 maps). ISBN 0-19-516222-6 (hardcover); ISBN 0-19-516223-4 (paperback).
Augustine and the Catechumenate. Collegeville, MN: The Liturgical Press, 1995. pp. xii + 406. ISBN 0-8146-6132-7.
Essays:
“Monasticism,” The Oxford Handbook of Early Christian Studies, pp. 493-517. Ed. David G. Hunter & Susan Ashbrook Harvey. New York: Oxford University Press, 2008. Pp. xxvii + 1020. ISBN 978-0-19-927156-6.
“Christ the Pediatrician: Augustine on the Diagnosis and Treatment of the Injured Vocation of the Child,” The Vocation of the Child, pp. 127-153. Ed. Patrick McKinley Brennan. Grand Rapids: Wm. B. Eerdmans, 2008. Pp. xvi + 444. ISBN 978-0-8028-6240-2.
“Women of the Early Church: A Portrait Gallery,” Women and the Shaping of Catholicism, pp. 38-58. Ed. Richard Miller. Ligouri: Ligouri, 2009. Pp. vii + 136. ISBN 978-0-7648-1770-0.
“Antony,” “Cassian, John,” “Catechumenate,” “Evagrius of Pontus,” “Monasticism, Early Egyptian and Palestinian,” “Palladius,” and “Serapion of Thmuis,” New Westminster Dictionary of Church History, Vol. 1: The Early, Medieval, and Reformation Era, pp. 33, 127-28, 130-31, 237-38, 440-41, 486-87, 603. Ed. Robert Benedetto. Louisville, KY: Westminster John Knox, 2008. Pp. 768. ISBN 978-0-664-22416-5.
“The Voice and the Word: Augustine’s Catechumenate in Light of the Dolbeau Sermons,” Augustinian Studies 35.1 (2004): 17-42.
“The Sapphire Light of the Mind: The Skemmata of Evagrius Ponticus,” Theological Studies 62.3 (2001): 498-529.
“‘Salt for the Impure, Light for the Pure’: Reflections on the Pedagogy of Evagrius Ponticus,” Studia Patristica 37 (Leuwen: Peeters, 2001): 514-526.
“Remembering Poemen Remembering: The Desert Fathers and the Spirituality of Memory,” Church History 69.3 (2000): 483-518.