Professor Doru Costache

Professor of Theology and Spirituality, Principal and Academic Dean of Nisibis Assyrian Theological College
PhD Theol (Bucharest, 2000) BTh (Bucharest, 1993)

Protopresbyter Doru Costache is Professor of Theology and Spirituality at the Australian University College of Divinity (AUCD), Principal and Academic Dean of AUCD’s Nisibis Assyrian Theological College, and ISCAST Research Director. He authored Nature Contemplation in Clement of Alexandria: Elements of the Method (Routledge, 2025) and Humankind and the Cosmos: Early Christian Representations (Brill, 2021). He coauthored A New Copernican Turn: Contemporary Cosmology, the Self, and Orthodox Science-Engaged Theology (with Geraint F. Lewis; Routledge, 2024) and Dreams, Virtue and Divine Knowledge in Early Christian Egypt (with Bronwen Neil and Kevin Wagner; Cambridge University Press, 2019).

Publications
Books
  • 2025

    Nature Contemplation in Clement of Alexandria: Elements of the Method

    Routledge 2025.

  • 2024

    A New Copernican Turn: Contemporary Cosmology, the Self, and Orthodox Science-Engaged Theology

    Routledge 2024 (together with Geraint F. Lewis).

  • 2021

    Humankind and the Cosmos: Early Christian Representations

    Brill 2021.

  • 2019

    Dreams, Virtue and Divine Knowledge in Early Christian Egypt

    Authors - Bronwen Neil, Doru Costache, Kevin Wagner, Cambridge University Press.

Book Chapters and Refereed Articles
  • 2026

    ‘Pneumatology.’ In: Bronwen Neil and Andrew Mellas (eds). The Cambridge Companion to the Byzantine Church.

    Cambridge University Press: 198-215

  • 2025

    (Coauthored with Efthymios Nicolaidis) ‘Contemporary Orthodox Views of Information Technology and Artificial Intelligence in Online Resources’

    Christian Perspectives on Science and Technology 4: 145-180

  • 2025

    ‘La complessa visione del mondo del Cristianesimo delle origini.’ In: Marcello La Matina (ed.). Europa, ovvero un sogno fatto in Grecia. Eterotopie 1088.

    Milano: Mimesis Edizioni: 131-144

  • 2025

    ‘Consciousness in the Cosmos: From René Descartes to David Bohm’s Revolution’

    Journal of Consciousness Studies 32:5–6, 155-179.

  • 2024

    ‘Abraham, the Contemplation of Nature, and Divine Vision in Clement of Alexandria.’ In: Nichifor Tanase, Marius Portaru, and Daniel Lemeni (eds). Knowing God in Light: Theophany and Language.

    Forum Orthodoxe Theologie 23. Vienna: 127-144.

  • 2024

    ‘Athanasius on Deacons and the Diaconate.’ In: Bart J. Koet, Edwina Murphy, and Esko Ryökäs (eds). Deacons and Diakonia in Late Antiquity: The Third Century Onwards.

    Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zum Neuen Testament 2, Reihe 606. Tübingen, 64-77.

  • 2024

    ‘Astral Iconography and the Byzantine Study of the Heavens’

    De Medio Aevo 13:2, 321-351.

  • 2023

    ‘Patristic and Neopatristic Antecedents of Scientifically Engaged Theology’

    St Vladimir’s Theological Quarterly 67:1-2, 115-145.

  • 2022

    ‘Affirming Creation’s Goodness in a Time of Pandemic: Patristic Insights’

    in Colloquium 54:2.

  • 2022

    ‘The Trees of Paradise: Patristic Perspectives.’

    In: Ciprian Costin Apintiliesei and Constantin Pogor (eds). Tendances et directions dans les recherches actuelles des théologiens orthodoxes roumains de la diaspora. Patrimoines. Paris: 177-196.

  • 2022

    ‘Burning Hearts: Emmaus as Realised Eschatology in the Philokalic Tradition.’

    In: Peter G. Bolt and Sehyun Kim (eds). God’s Grace Inscribed on the Human Heart: Essays in Honour of James R. Harrison. Early Christian Studies 23. Macquarie Park: SCD Press: 61-78.

  • 2022

    ‘Theological Anthropology Today: Panayiotis Nellas’s Contribution.’

    In: Kostas Tampakis and Haralampos Ventis (eds). Orthodox Christianity and Modern Science: Past, Present and Future. Science and Orthodox Christianity 3. Turnhout: Brepols Publishers: 167-182.

  • 2021

    'One Description, Multiple Interpretations: Suggesting a Way Out of the Current Impasse.’

    In: Christopher C. Knight and Alexei V. Nesteruk (eds). Orthodox Christianity and Modern Sciences: Theological, Philosophical, Scientific and Historical Aspects of the Dialogue. Science and Orthodox Christianity 2. Turnhout: Brepols Publishers: 33-49.

  • 2020

    ‘A Note on Evagrius’ Cosmological and Metaphysical Statements

    In: The Journal of Theological Studies 71:2 (2020) 718-730.

  • 2020

    ‘Strange Bedfellows? Orthodox Perspectives on Theology, Spirituality, Science, and Technology’

    Technology’ Studia Universitatis Babes-Bolyai Theologia Orthodoxa 65:2, 5-25.

  • 2020

    Maximus the Confessor and John Damascene’s cosmology

    In: John Slattery (ed). The T&T Clark Handbook of Christian Theology and the Modern Sciences (Bloomsbury/T&T Clark, 2020) 81-91.

  • 2020

    Andrew of Crete’s Great Canon, Byzantine Hermeneutics, and Genesis 1-3

    In: Andrew Mellas and Sarah Gador-Whyte (eds). Hymns, Homilies and Hermeneutics in Byzantium. Byzantina Australiensia 25 (Leuven and Boston: Brill, 2020) 67-85.

  • 2019

    ‘The Orthodox Doctrine of Creation in the Age of Science.’

    Journal of Orthodox Christian Studies 2:1, 43-64.

  • 2019

    A Theology of the World: Dumitru Stăniloae, the Traditional Worldview, and Contemporary Cosmology

    In: Vasilios N. Makrides and Gayle Woloschak (eds). Orthodox Christianity and Modern Science: Tensions, Ambiguities, Potential. Science and Orthodox Christianity 1 (Turnhout: Brepols Publishers, 2019) 205-22.

  • 2019

    Christian Gnosis: From Clement the Alexandrian to John Damascene

    In: Garry W. Trompf, Gunner B. Mikkelsen, and Jay Johnston (eds). The Gnostic World (Routledge Worlds London and New York: Routledge, 2019) 259-70.

  • 2019

    Byzantine and Modern Orthodox Gnosis: from the Eleventh to the Twenty-First century

    In: Garry W. Trompf, Gunner B. Mikkelsen, and Jay Johnston (eds). The Gnostic World (Routledge Worlds London and New York: Routledge, 2019) 426-35.

  • 2019

    Reading Scripture in the Orthodox Church: The Festal Cycle

    AIOCS 2019.