Tim Vivian
Tim Vivian | |
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| Born | 1951 |
| Nationality | American |
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| Education | Coptic Christianity, Desert Fathers |
Tim Vivian (born 1951CSUB), and a retired priest of the Episcopal Church (United States).
Education and career
Vivian received a
Henry R. Luce Post-Doctoral Fellow at Yale Divinity School.[2]
Vivian taught at
CSUB from 1990 to 2022. He has published over 25 books, 50 journal articles, and 100 scholarly book reviews. He won the Faculty Scholarship & Creative Activity award at California State University, Bakersfield, in 2007/2008.[3]
He serves on the board of advisors for Cistercian Studies Quarterly and on the editorial board of Coptica.
Vivian is a priest of the Episcopal Church.[4] He served as vicar of Grace/St. Paul's from 2007 to 2017. On April 26, 2018, Vivian was granted professor emeritus status at California State University, Bakersfield.[5] On October 11, 2018, he was awarded an honorary Doctor of Divinity degree from the Church Divinity School of the Pacific for his scholarship and work for social justice.[6]
Research
Although Vivian's research emphasis is on early Christianity, especially
Coptic studies and early Christian monasticism, he has published broadly in religious history. He is the recipient of the 2015 Nelson R. Burr Prize of the Historical Society of the Episcopal Church (HSEC) for his article “Wake the Devil from His Dream: Thomas Dudley, Quincy Ewing, Religion, and the ‘Race Problem’ in the Jim Crow South” published in the December 2014 issue of Anglican and Episcopal History.[7]
Vivian is also a published poet with published collections including Other Voices, Other Rooms (Eugene, OR: Wipf and Stock, 2020), Poems Written in a Time of Plague: Further Reflections on Scripture (Eugene, OR: Wipf and Stock, 2020), and A Doorway into Thanks: Further Reflections on Scripture (New York: Austin Macauley, 2023).[8]
Publications (selected)
- Saint Peter of Alexandria: Bishop and Martyr (Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 1988).
- Paphnutius: Histories of the Monks of Upper Egypt and the Life of Onnophrius (Kalamazoo: Cistercian Publications, 1993).
- Two Coptic Homilies Attributed to Saint Peter of Alexandria (with Birger A. Pearson) (Rome: Opus dei Copti manoscritti litterari, 1993).
- The Life of Saint George of Choziba and The Miracles of the Most Holy Mother of God at Choziba (with Apostolos Athanassakis) (San Francisco: International Scholars Publications, 1994). Edition of Antony of Choziba's biography of George of Choziba.
- Journeying into God: Seven Early Monastic Lives (Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 1996).
- The Life of the Jura Fathers (with Kim Vivian & Jeffrey Burton Russell) (Kalamazoo: Cistercian Publications, 2000).
- The Life of Antony (with Apostolos Athanassakis) (Kalamazoo: Cistercian Publications, 2003).
- Four Desert Fathers: Pambo, Evagrius, Macarius of Egypt, and Macarius of Alexandria. Coptic Texts Relating to the Lausiac History of Palladius (Crestwood, NY: St. Vladimir's Seminary Press, 2004).
- Saint Macarius the Spiritbearer: Coptic Texts Relating to Saint Macarius the Great (Crestwood, NY: St. Vladimir's Seminary Press, 2004).
- Words to Live By: Journeys in Ancient and Modern Monasticism (Kalamazoo: Cistercian Publications, 2005).
- Witness to Holiness: Abba Daniel of Scetis (with numerous scholars) (Kalamazoo: Cistercian Publications, 2008).
- Becoming Fire: Through the Year with the Desert Fathers and Mothers (Collegeville, MN: Cistercian Publications/Liturgical Press, 2009).
- Mark the Monk: Counsels on the Spiritual Life, Volumes I & 2 (with Augustine Casiday) (Crestwood, NY: St. Vladimir's Seminary Press, 2009).
- The Holy Workshop of Virtue: The Life of Saint John the Little(with Maged S. A. Mikhail) (Collegeville, MN: Cistercian Publications/Liturgical Press, 2010).
- “Syncletica,” in Daniel Patte, ed., The Cambridge Dictionary of Christianity (Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2010), 2012.
- Eight articles in The Oxford Dictionary of Late Antiquity (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018).
- The Sayings and Stories of the Desert Fathers and Mothers, Volumes 1 and 2 (Collegeville, MN: Cistercian Publications, 2021, 2023).
- Door of the Wilderness: The Greek, Coptic, and Copto-Arabic Sayings of St. Antony of Egypt (with Lisa Agaiby) (Leiden: Brill, 2021).
- The Life of Bishoi: Translations of the Greek, Syriac, Ethiopic, and Arabic Texts (ed. with Maged S. A. Mikhail) (Cairo, Egypt: The American University in Cairo Press, 2022).
- "“The Origins of Monasticism," in The T&T Clark Handbook of the Early Church (London: T&T Clark, 2022), 483–500.
- Chapters on the Coptic and two Greek Lives in The Lives of Paul of Thebes (Brill, 2024).
- Exhortation to the Monks by Hyperechios (The American University in Cairo Press, 2024).
- Becoming Fire: Through the Year with the Desert Fathers and Mothers, rev. ed. (Cistercian Publications, 2024).
- "The Desert Fathers and Mothers and the Ascetical Tradition," in The Oxford Handbook of Orthodox Theology (2025).
References
- ^ "Tim Vivian". VIAF. 2009-03-03. Retrieved 2024-01-13.
- ^ "Rev. Dr. Tim Vivian". St. Paul's Episcopal Church (Where Grace Happens). Retrieved 2018-04-10.
- ^ "Faculty Awards List Past Recipients List" (PDF).
- ^ "Dr. Tim Vivian -Honorary Degree Award". School of Arts & Humanities. California State University, Bakersfield. Retrieved 2018-04-10.
- ^ "AH Professors Honored with Emeritus Awards". Archived from the original on 2018-05-11.
- ^ "The Rev. Dr. Tim Vivian '88 Awarded Honorary Degree". 16 October 2018.
- ^ "CSUB Professor Tim Vivian Awarded Nelson R. Burr Prize". California State University, Bakersfield. Retrieved 2018-04-10.
- ^ "Online catalog of the publisher".
External links
- Tim Vivian in WorldCat search results
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