AHMA Participating Faculty
J. Rebecca Lyman, D.Phil (Oxford, 1983)
Professor Emerita of History
Church Divinity School of the Pacific
jrlyman@aol.com
Field of Interest: Ancient Christianity
Selected Works:
Johannine Epistles translation and annotation in The New American Bible (1986)
"Arians and Manichees on Christ", Journal of Theological Studies NS 40 (1989), 493-503.
Christology and Cosmology: Models of Divine Activity in Origen, Eusebius, and Athanasius (1993)
"Lex Orandi: Heresy, Orthodoxy, and Popular Religion" The Making and ReMaking of Christian Doctrine. Essays in Honour of Maurice Wiles (1993)
"A Topography of Heresy: Mapping the Rhetorical Creation of Arianism" Arianism After Arius: Essays on the Development of the Fourth Century Trinitarian Conflict (1993)
"The Making of a Heretic: The Life of Origen in Epiphanius" Panarion 64" Studia Patristica 31 (1997), 445-451.
"Origen as Ascetic Theologian: Orthodoxy and Authority in the Fourth Century Church" Origeniana Septima (1999), 187-194.
"Ascetics and Bishops: Epiphanius on Orthodoxy" Orthodoxie, Christianisme, Histoire (2000).
"The Politics of Passing: Justin Martyr's Conversion as a Problem of Hellenization" Seeing and Believing: Conversion in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages (2003)
"Heresy and Hellenism. The 2002 North American Patristic Society Presidential Address", Journal of Early Christian Studies 11 (2003), 209-222.