Philip Rousseau

 

Andrew W. Mellon Distinguished Professor of Early Christian Studies, and Director, Center for the Study of Early Christianity, Catholic University of America (since 1998).

 

L.Phil. (1962), Heythrop College; B.A., M.A., and D.Phil. (1965, 1969, 1972), Oxford University, England.

 

Fellow, Dumbarton Oaks (1981-1982); Visiting Professor, University of California, Berkeley (1985); Honorary Research Fellow, University of Exeter, England (1990); Member, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton (1990); Visiting Scholar, Wolfson College, Oxford (1995); Bye Fellow, Robinson College, Cambridge (1996); Distinguished Scholar, Senter for Høyere Studier, Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters (2003).

 

 

Fields of Interest

 

Late Roman religion, with particular emphasis on ascetic culture; Greek and Latin Patristic literature of the fourth and fifth centuries; social and political history of the later Roman empire.

 

 

Recent Publications

 

“Jerome on Jeremiah: Exegesis and Recovery,” in Andrew Cain and Josef Lössl (eds), Jerome of Stridon: His Life, Writings and Legacy (Farnham & Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2009), pp. 73-83.

 

(Edited) A Companion to Late Antiquity (Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell, 2009).

 

(Edited with Manolis Papoutsakis) Transformations of Late Antiquity: Essays for Peter Brown (Farnham & Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2009).

 

“Late Roman Christianities,” in Thomas F.X. Noble and Julia M.H. Smith (eds), The Cambridge History of Christianity, 3: Early Medieval Christianities, c.600-c.1100 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008), pp. 21-45.

 

“Human Nature and its Material Setting in Basil of Caesarea’s Sermons on the Creation,” Heythrop Journal 49 (2008): 222-39.

 

“Introduction: from Binding to Burning,” in William E. Klingshirn and Linda Safran (eds), The Early Christian Book (Washington, DC: Catholic University of America Press, 2007), pp. 1-9.

 

"The Successors of Pachomius and the Nag Hammadi Codices," in James E. Goehring and Janet Timbie (eds), The World of Early Egyptian Christianity: Language, Literature, and Social Context (Washington, DC: Catholic University of America Press, 2007), pp. 140-57.

 

“The Desert Fathers and their Broader Audience,” in Alberto Camplani and Giovanni Filoramo (eds), Foundations of Power and Conflicts of Authority in Late-Antique Monasticism, Orientalia Lovaniensia Analecta, 157 (Louvain: Peeters, 2007), pp. 89-107.

 

“Cassian’s Apophthegmata,” Jahrbuch für Antike und Christentum 48/49 (2005/2006): 19-34.

 

Note.  My 2002 volume, The Early Christian Centuries, is not out of print but is printed "on demand" by Pearson Educational.  Click on the title to place an order.

 

Complete list of publications

 

 

Work in Progress

 

A book entitled The Social Identity of the Ascetic Master in Late Roman Christianity.

 

"Henri de Lubac and the Patristic Age"

 

"The Politics of Humility in the Later Roman Empire"

 

"Jerome and Cassian: Connecting the Dots," which will form the introduction to a selection of my published papers, Essays on Jerome and Some Contemporaries.

 

 

Teaching

 

 

Contact

 

Center for the Study of Early Christianity

300 McMahon Hall

Catholic University of America

Washington, DC 20064

Phone: 202 319 6217

Fax: 202 319 6609

E-mail: rousseau@cua.edu

Website: http://earlychristianity.cua.edu