Papers by Sarah Roumas
Modern Theology, 2022
The Vita Mariae Aegyptiae of Sophronius of Jerusalem, a hagiography adopted into Byzantine liturg... more The Vita Mariae Aegyptiae of Sophronius of Jerusalem, a hagiography adopted into Byzantine liturgical reading, has received little scholarly attention to date. This article analyzes the Vita through Jean-Luc Marion's thought, revealing the nature of the relationships between Mary and Zosimas and recasting the Eucharistic theology of the narrative in Marion's terms of givenness (donation). The Vita is presented with an eye to its phenomenological narrative envelope and its interpersonal relations placed in Marion's framework of the self-alii-God relationship. The Vita, narrating the relationship between a monk and a saintly woman, adds to Marion's thought the picture of conversion taking place via a face-to-face confessio relationship narrated for the nameless alii. Further, the Vita's treatment of the Eucharist places Marion's twin concepts of sacrifice and givenness within a liturgical framework which completes the confessio, while Mary herself plays a feminine role challenging Marion's understanding of the father.
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An introduction to Calvin's theology of the rite of Baptism and its development over Calvin's car... more An introduction to Calvin's theology of the rite of Baptism and its development over Calvin's career. The necessity of the sacrament and the understanding of its efficacy for Calvin are considered, as well as his position on the questions of baptism before Christ, infant baptism, and emergency (lay) baptism, within an analysis of the order of baptism included in Calvin's 1540 Strasbourg rite.
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An introduction to the thought of Martin Luther as it pertains to Communion and, more generally, ... more An introduction to the thought of Martin Luther as it pertains to Communion and, more generally, his understanding of sacramental efficacy. Luther's understanding of the role played by sacrifice in Roman thought and liturgy, his pet analogy of the 'testimony', and his idea of faithful reception are discussed.
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This paper will highlight a few of St. Maximos' methods of interpretation of the words of St. Gre... more This paper will highlight a few of St. Maximos' methods of interpretation of the words of St. Gregory of Nazianzus, with the goal of illuminating St. Maximos' understanding of and relationship with his text. Presented at the Pappas Patristics Institute's Graduate Student Conference, Brookline, MA, March 2015.
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This paper discusses Dionysios the Areopagite's understanding of hierarchy in concert with John M... more This paper discusses Dionysios the Areopagite's understanding of hierarchy in concert with John Milbank's attempt to read patristic writers within the context of symbolically constituted reality. Special attention is paid to the concept of atonement as it appears in Epistle VIII.
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Paper given at the AGES Summer Liturgical Workshop, July 18-20 2019. A general introduction to th... more Paper given at the AGES Summer Liturgical Workshop, July 18-20 2019. A general introduction to the history of the kanon as a genre of Byzantine hymnography and a specific look at its performance within Sunday Orthros services in parishes belonging to the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America.
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I consider the iambic kanon for the Nativity attributed to St. John of Damascus. A history of the... more I consider the iambic kanon for the Nativity attributed to St. John of Damascus. A history of the kanon genre is provided, and the iambic kanon considered in detail: its attribution, its meter and form, and its theology. The kanon presents a heavily neo-Chalcedonian Christology which is wholly compatible with the theology of St. John of Damascus, but it goes further than the saint's prose in emphasizing the kenotic nature of Christ's Incarnation.
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