Greg Peters

Department	Torrey Honors College
51�� Affiliations	Faculty
Office Location	Emerson 236
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Documents

Degrees

SM.D., Pontificio Ateneo di Sant’Anselmo, Rome
Ph.D., St. Michael’s College, University of Toronto
M.A., Dallas Theological Seminary
M.A., St. John's University School of Theology
B.S., Philadelphia College of Bible

Member of

FirstGen Faculty and Staff Torrey Honors College

Biography

Dr. Greg Peters is a native Virginian who loves traveling (especially to monasteries in Europe) and reading. He enjoys the fiction of Chinua Achebe, Georges Bernanos and the nineteenth century Russian novelists, and the poetry of George Herbert, John Donne and Gerard Manley Hopkins. He is an ordained priest in the Reformed Episcopal Church, serving as vicar at the Anglican Church of the Epiphany, La Mirada. Peters is also a Research Associate at the Von Hügel Institute at St Edmund's College (University of Cambridge) and a research professor at Nashotah House Theological Seminary in Wisconsin.

Affiliations

Spirituality International (Titus Brandsma Institute, Nijmegen)
Research Associate, Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, UCLA
Anglo-Catholic History Society
Mystical Theology Network
Network for Late Antique and Early Medieval Monasticism
Medieval Academy of America
American Benedictine Academy
Society of the Study of Anglicanism
Evangelical Theological Society
Anglican House Publishers
Society of Anglican Theologians

Awards

Provost Faculty Award for Excellence in Scholarship — 51�� — 2023 — La Mirada, CA.

Publications (Selected)

Books

From Anchorhold to Parish ‒ English Monasticism and Anglican Spirituality: The 2022 James Lloyd Breck Conference on Monasticism and The Church, ed. Peters, G., (Nashotah House Press, 2022).
Thomas à Kempis: His Life and Spiritual Theology, Peters, G., (Cascade Books, 2021).
Parish Asceticism: The 2021 James Lloyd Breck Conference on Monasticism and The Church, ed. Peters, G., (Nashotah House Press, 2021).
Becoming a Community of Disciples: Guidelines from Abbot Benedict and Bishop Basil (Sacred Roots Spiritual Classics 2), ed. Peters, G., (Samuel Morris Publications/Sacred Roots, 2021).
The Monastic Call of Every Christian: The 2019 James Lloyd Breck Conference on Monasticism and The Church, ed. Peters, G., (Nashotah House Press, 2019).
Distinguishing the Church: Explorations in Word, Sacrament and Discipline, eds. Peters, G. and Jenson, M., (Pickwick Publications, 2019).
The Monkhood of All Believers: The Monastic Foundation of Christian Spirituality, Peters, G., (Baker Academic, 2018).
The Story of Monasticism: Retrieving an Ancient Tradition for Contemporary Spirituality, Peters, G., (Baker Academic, 2015).
Reforming the Monastery: Protestant Theologies of Religious Life, Peters, G., Cascade Books, 2014).
Peter of Damascus: Byzantine Monk and Spiritual Theologian, Peters, G., (Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, 2011).

Articles

“The Necessity of Monastic Asceticism: A Case for Retrieval in Contemporary Evangelicalism,” Peters, G., Journal of Spiritual Formation and Soul Care, August 2024.
“Bare Ruined Choirs?: The Death and Life of Anglican Monasticism,” Peters, G., American Benedictine Review, March 2023.
“The Uniqueness of Russian Thought: How Slavophilism and Monasticism Answer the Challenge of “Westernism,” Peters, G., American Benedictine Review, September 2021.
“Poetic Precursors and a Postscript to Bernard of Clairvaux’s Apologia ad Guilelmum abbatem,” Peters, G., Tjurunga: An Australasian Benedictine Review, 2021.
“Imagination, Formation, and the Theological Novel,” Peters, G., Modern Reformation, January 2021.
“An ‘eccentric genius’: (Athanasius) Francis Diedrich Wackerbarth and the Re-introduction of Monasticism into the Church of England,” Peters, G., American Benedictine Review, September 2020.
“Institutionalizing Theology: A. B. Goulden and the Community of Reparation to Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament,” Peters, G., Anglican and Episcopal History, June 2020.
“A Call for Evangelical Monasticism,” Peters, G., Journal of Spiritual Formation and Soul Care, November 2017.
“A ‘pretensed and counterfeit holiness’ or Sowers of ‘spiritual things’?: John Jewel and Thomas Harding on Monasticism,” Peters, G., Downside Review, May 2016.
"The Journey of Our Life: Dante as a Spiritual Theologian of Grace,” Peters, G., Journal of Spiritual Formation and Soul Care, May 2016.

Book Chapters

“Late Medieval Monasticism and Children’s Education: Monastic Apostolate or Recruiting Tool?” in Monasticism, Education and Formation Symposium, Peters, G., ed. Sawicki, B. (Eos-Verlag, 2024), pp. 257-269.
“Joseph (Fr. Ignatius) Leycester Lyne (1837-1908) and Revival of Monasticism in the Anglican Communion,” in A Benedictine Reader: 1530–1930, Peters, G., ed. Feiss, H. and O'Brien, M. (Cistercian Publications, 2023), pp. 381-400.
“Unity of Knowledge and Unity with God: Theology’s Crucial Place in Education,” in Re-kindling an Old Light: Contours of Christ–shaped Liberal Learning, Peters, G., ed. Loftin, K. (High Bridge Books, 2022), pp. 103-12.
"Paying It Forward: Medieval Monastic Economies of Salvation,” in Human Flourishing: Economic Wisdom for a Fruitful Christian Vision of the Good Life, Peters, G., ed. Forster, G. and Cross, A. (Pickwick Publications, 2020), pp. 74-86.
“Ramon Lull (1232-1316),” in The History of Apologetics: A Biographical and Methodological Introduction, Peters, G., ed. Forrest, B., Chatraw, J., and Dew, J. (Zondervan, 2020), pp. 251-265.
“Medieval Ressourcement,” in Embracing Contemplation: Reclaiming a Christian Spiritual Practice, Peters, G., ed. Coe, J. and Strobel, K. (InterVarsity Press, 2018), pp. 56-73.
“Influence of the Benedictine Rule” and “Mount Athos established as a major monastic center (960s),” in Great Events in Religion: An Encyclopedia of Pivotal Events in Religious History, Peters, G., ed. Holt, A. and Curta, F. (ABC-Clio, 2017), pp. 313-317 and 470-472.
“Monasticism: Instrument of the Holy Spirit in the Renewal, Revival and Revitalization of Today’s Church,” in The Holy Spirit and the Christian Life, Peters, G., ed. Vondley, W. (Palgrave Macmillan, 2014), pp. 41-57.
“Spiritual Theology: An Historic Overview” and “The Medieval Traditions,” in A Guide to Spiritual Classics, Peters, G., ed. Goggin, J. and Stroebel, K. (InterVarsity Press, 2013), pp. 79-94 and 221-246.
“Ascetical Theology,” “Benedictines,” “Cistercians,” “Monasteries” and “Monastic Orders,” in Encyclopedia of Christian Civilization, 4 Volumes, Peters, G., ed. Kurian, G.T., (Wiley-Blackwell Publishers, 2011), pp. 145-146, 232-233, 560-562, 1544-1551 and 1551-1555.