About
Cody Barnhart is a PhD student in Divinity at the University of Aberdeen.
His dissertation investigates Clement of Alexandria’s literary and pedagogical use of polymathy with a special interest in how it relates to non-Christian authors in antiquity. Additional research interests include include Alexandrian intellectual identity, Irenaeus of Lyons, and the context and reception of the Nicene Creed. Education
University of Aberdeen: Doctor of Philosophy, Divinity –
Anticipated: May 2027
- Dissertation: “The Power of Performative Knowledge: Pedagogy and Polymathy in Clement of Alexandria”
- Advisor: John Behr (Regius Chair in Humanity)
Midwestern College: Bachelor of Arts, Interdisciplinary Studies – December 2020
- Thesis: “Rising Up to Spiritual Realities: The Use of Partitive Exegesis in Gregory of Nazianzus’s Orations 29 and 30 and His Anti-Eunomian Polemic”
- Advisors: Matthew Millsap, Brandon D. Smith
Publications
Books & Monographs
- Clement of Alexandria: Essential Readings, edited with a new introduction, Patristic Essentials (Dallas: Fontes Press, Spring 2025), forthcoming.
Articles/Chapters in Books & Journals
- “Now The Work of God is Suffering Earth: Ante-Nicenes on the Vivification of Clay through Son and Spirit,” in Studia Patristica The Christians of the Patristic Period in Relation to the Nature, forthcoming.
Book Reviews
- Michael J. Hollerich, Making Christian History: Eusebius of Caesarea and His Readers, in Journal of Biblical and Theological Studies (2023).
- Madison N. Pierce, Divine Discourse in the Epistle to the Hebrews, in Midwestern Journal of Theology 21.1 (2022), 102–105.
Upcoming Talks and Conferences
Co-organizing session “Early Christian Creativity and Cultural Production,” for the Annual Meeting of the North American Patristics Society, Chicago, May 2024. Memberships
- International Association of Patristic Studies (AIEP-IAPS), 2023–Present
- Society of Biblical Literature, 2021–Present
- Institute for Biblical Research, 2021–Present
- North American Patristics Society, 2020-Present
- Evangelical Theological Society, 2017–Present
