Dr Mario Baghos

Dr Mario Baghos

About

Dr Mario Baghos
Dr Mario Baghos

Adjunct Lecturer, Campion College Australia
Grad Dip in Educational Studies (UNE)
PhD Studies in Religion (Sydney)
BTh Hons (SCD, now AUCD)

 
Dr Mario Baghos is Senior Lecturer in Theology at the University of Notre Dame Australia. He has lectured and coordinated courses in the disciplines of theology, history, research methodology and studies of religion at Campion College Australia, Charles Sturt University, the University of Sydney, and the Sydney College of Divinity (now the Australian University College of Divinity). He has published extensively on patristic and medieval eschatology and Byzantine art and architecture, as well as religious symbolism in popular culture. He is owner of TERRA SYMBOLICA© on YouTube.

 
BOOKS

  • From the Ancient Near East to Christian Byzantium: Kings, Symbols, and Cities. Newcastle Upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2021.

 
CHAPTERS IN BOOKS

  • ‘The End-Times Throughout History: The Problem of the Year 1000.’ In Eschatology at the Beginning of the Third Millennium. Edited by Kevin Wagner, Peter John McGregor, and Danijel Uremović, 91-106. Eugene, OR: Pickwick Publications, 2025.
  • ‘God’s Presence in History: The Work of Christ and the Spirit in St Gregory of Nazianzus’ Fifth Theological Oration and Oration 38 On the Nativity.’ In Pneumatology at the Beginning of the Third Millennium. Edited by Kevin A. Wagner, Peter J. McGregor and Isabell Naumann, 124-142. Eugene, OR: Pickwick Publications, 2023.
  • ‘The Greek Orthodox Church in Australia’ (together with Anastasios Bozikis and Chris Baghos). In The Greek Orthodox Church in Australia. Edited by Christine Chaillot, 23-69. Zürich: Lit Verlag, 2021.
  • ‘Ecosystemic Agency: Christ, His Saints, and John Chrysostom.’ In John Chrysostom: Past, Present, Future. Edited by Doru Costache and Mario Baghos, 15-51. Sydney: AIOCS Press, 2017.
  • ‘Theotokoupoleis: The Mother of God as Protectress of the Two Romes.’ In Mariology at the Beginning of the Third Millennium. Edited by Kevin Wagner, M. Isabell Naumann, Peter John McGregor, and Paul Morrissey, 51-77. Eugene, OR: Pickwick Publications, 2017.
  • ‘Religious Symbolism and Well-being in Christian Constantinople and the Crisis of the Modern City.’ In Well-being, Personal Wholeness and the Social Fabric. Edited by Doru Costache, Darren Cronshaw, and James R. Harrison, 324-354. Newcastle Upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2017.
  • ‘Ecclesial Memory and Secular History in the Conflicting Representations of St Cyril of Alexandria.’ In Alexandrian Legacy: A Critical Appraisal. Edited by Doru Costache, Philip Kariatlis and Mario Baghos, 246-280. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2015.
  • ‘The Traditional Portrayal of St Athanasius according to Rufinus, Socrates, Sozomen, and Theodoret.’ In Alexandrian Legacy: A Critical Appraisal. Edited by Doru Costache, Philip Kariatlis and Mario Baghos, 139-171. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2015.
  • ‘Reconsidering Apokatastasis in St Gregory of Nyssa’s On the Soul and Resurrection and The Catechetical Oration.’ InCappadocian Legacy: A Critical Appraisal. Edited by Doru Costache and Philip Kariatlis, 387-415. Sydney, NSW: St Andrew’s Orthodox Press, 2013.
  • ‘St Gregory the Theologian’s Existential Metanarrative of History.’ In Cappadocian Legacy: A Critical Appraisal. Edited by Doru Costache and Philip Kariatlis, 275-298. Sydney, NSW: St Andrew’s Orthodox Press, 2013.
  • ‘The Recapitulation of History and the “Eighth Day”: Aspects of St Basil the Great’s Eschatological Vision.’ In Cappadocian Legacy: A Critical Appraisal. Edited by Doru Costache and Philip Kariatlis, 151-168. Sydney, NSW: St Andrew’s Orthodox Press, 2013.

 
ARTICLES IN REFEREED JOURNALS

  • ‘Elder and New Romes: Constantinople and its Predecessor in Late Antique Historiography.’ Ancient West and East 25 (2025): 69-100. https://doi.org/10.2143/AWE.24.0.0000000
  • ‘Twin Peaks and the Descent into Hades Motif.’ Alternative Spirituality and Religion Review. Online First: 18 June 2025. https://doi.org/10.5840/asrr2025617129
  • ‘Eusebius of Caesarea’s Representations of Christ, Constantine, and Rome: An ‘Eschatology of Replacement.’ Religions 16(6) 2025, 744. https://doi.org/10.3390/rel16060744
  • ‘Until It Sleeps: Interpreting Metallica’s Use of the Paintings of Hieronymus Bosch.’ Literature and Aesthetics 35:1 (2025): 142-161.
  • ‘The Fathers of the Church, the Reformation, and the Failed Attempts at Union between the Tübingen Theologians and the Patriarchate of Constantinople: A Broad Perspective.’ Religions 15(7) 2024, 831. https://doi.org/10.3390/rel15070831
  • ‘Nuancing the “Millennium” in the Writings of Norman Cohn.’ Literature & Aesthetics: The Journal of the Sydney Society of Literature and Aesthetics (SSLA) 33:1 (2023): 37-54.
  • ‘The Founding of Constantinople: An Interdisciplinary Approach.’ Ancient West and East 20 (2021): 121-161. https://doi.org/10.2143/awe.20.0.3289532
  • ‘Orthodox Tradition vis-à-vis Historical Criticism in Representations of Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.’ St Vladimir’s Theological Quarterly 65.1-2 (2021): 5-27.
  • ‘On the Historical Existence of Saint George, Part 2.’ The Basilian 2.2 #4 (Fall, 2021): 13-22.
  • ‘On the Historical Existence of Saint George, Part 1.’ The Basilian 2.1 #3 (Fall, 2020): 1-10.
  • ‘Christ Pantokrator in the Byzantine Art of Italy.’ Phronema 34:1 (2019): 55-84.
  • ‘Christ the “Sun” and “Hearth” of our Salvation.’ International Journal of Orthodox Theology 9:3 (2018): 75-92.
  • ‘Enlightenment Legacy, Turbulence in Alexandria, and the Conflicting Representations of Athanasius and Cyril.’ St Vladimir’s Theological Quarterly 62:3 (2018) 201-238.
  • ‘Christ, Paradise, Trees, and the Cross in the Byzantine Art of Italy.’ International Journal of Orthodox Theology 9:2 (2018) 112-155.
  • ‘ПАРАДИГМЫ ГЛОБАЛИЗАЦИИ И МЕТАНАРРАТИВ ЛОГОСА,’ trans. by A. A. Puchekynin of my article ‘Hellenistic Globalisation and the Metanarrative of the Logos’ [Elizabeth Kefallinos (ed.), Thinking Diversely: Hellenism and the Challenge of Globalisation, A Special Edition of Modern Greek Studies, Australia and New Zealand: A Journal for Greek Letters (Dec. 2012): 23-37], Neobyzantion 1:1, forthcoming.
  • ‘Apocalypticism, the Year 1000, and the Medieval Roots of the Ecological Crisis.’ Literature & Aesthetics: The Journal of the Sydney Society of Literature and Aesthetics (SSLA) 26 (2016): 83-102.
  • ‘The Conflicting Portrayals of Origen in the Byzantine Tradition.’ Phronema 30:2 (2015): 69-104.
  • ‘Ecclesial Memory and Secular History in the Conflicting Portrayals of Cyril of Alexandria: An Apology for the Saint.’ Phronema 29:2 (2014): 87-125.
  • ‘Apology for Athanasius: The Traditional Portrait of the Saint according to Rufinus and the Byzantine Historians.’ Phronema 28:2 (2013): 55-88.
  • ‘The Impact of Martyrdom on Eusebius of Caesarea’s Commentary on Luke: Anticipating the Imminent Eschaton.’ Phronema 28:1 (2013): 73-100.
  • ‘Hellenistic Globalisation and the Metanarrative of the Logos.’ In: Elizabeth Kefallinos (ed.). Thinking Diversely: Hellenism and the Challenge of Globalisation, A Special Edition of Modern Greek Studies, Australia and New Zealand: A Journal for Greek Letters(Dec. 2012): 23-37.
  • ‘Reconsidering Apokatastasis in St Gregory of Nyssa’s On the Soul and Resurrection and the Catechetical Oration.’ Phronema27:2 (2012): 125-162.
  • ‘St Gregory the Theologian’s Metanarrative of History.’ Phronema 26:2 (2011): 63-79.
  • ‘The Meaning of History: Insights from St Gregory the Theologian’s Existential Metanarrative.’ Colloquium 43:1 (2011): 17-38.
  • ‘St Basil’s Eschatological Vision: Aspects of the Recapitulation of History and the Eighth Day.’ Phronema 25 (2010): 85-103.
  • ‘Taboric Light, Uncreated Energies and Participation in the Divine Life: Insights from the Triads of St Gregory Palamas.’ E-Oikonomia 02 (2008)

 

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