Professor Doru Costache
Professor of Theology
Australian University College of Divinity
Sydney, NSW, Australia
Biography
Professor of Theology at the Australian University College of Divinity (AUCD, formerly SCD). Doru lectures in various areas of theology for two of AUCD's member institutions, Nisibis Assyrian Theologian College (since 2020; where he serves also as Academic Dean since 2025) and St Cyril’s Coptic Orthodox Theological College (since 2016).
ISCAST Research Director and coeditor of Christian Perspectives on Science and Technology (since 2021).
Fellow of ISSR International Society for Science and Religion (since 2020). Fellow of ISCAST Institute for the Study of Christianity in an Age of Science and Technology (since 2020). Participant in Science and Orthodoxy around the World, a TWCF-funded project run at the Institute of Historical Research at the National Hellenic Research Foundation, Athens, Greece, where he cochaired the "Cosmology" group (2016-2023).
Selby Old Fellow in the Religious History of the Orthodox Christian Faith at the University of Sydney Library (2023-2025, 2021-2022). Member of the International Association for Patristic Studies (since 2013). Honorary Associate of Department of Studies in Religion, the University of Sydney (2017-2023). A Durham International Senior Research Fellow of Institute of Advanced Study, Durham University, United Kingdom (Epiphany Term, 2018).
Romanian Orthodox protopresbyter, ministering to St Gregory the Theologian's Orthodox Mission, NSW, Australia (since 2017).
Biography
Full CV. My academia.edu profile. Official AUCD profile. ISCAST profile. Nisibis profile.
Honoraria Titles
Major Prizes
Religion, Philosophy & History Interests
Christianity-Orthodoxy
Science & Technology Interests
Cosmology
Website
https://scd.academia.edu/DoruCostache
Publications
Dreams, Virtue and Divine Knowledge in Early Christian Egypt
Cambridge University Press 2019
Co-authors: Bronwen Neil, Kevin Wagner
https://www.cambridge.org/au/academic/subjects/classical-studies/ancient-history/dreams-virtue-and-divine-knowledge-early-christian-egypt?format=HB
Nature Contemplation in Clement of Alexandria: Elements of the Method
Routledge 2025
https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/mono/10.4324/9781003488453/nature-contemplation-clement-alexandria-doru-costache
A New Copernican Turn: Contemporary Cosmology, the Self, and Orthodox Science-Engaged Theology
Routledge 2024
Co-authors: Geraint F. Lewis
https://www.routledge.com/A-New-Copernican-Turn-Contemporary-Cosmology-the-Self-and-Orthodox-Science-Engaged-Theology/Costache-Lewis/p/book/9781032863498
Humankind and the Cosmos: Early Christian Representations
Brill 2021
https://brill.com/view/title/60404
Consciousness in the Cosmos: From René Descartes to David Bohm’s Revolution
2025
Volume:32:5–6
Pages:155-179
https://doi.org/10.53765/20512201.32.5.155
Astral Iconography and the Byzantine Study of the Heavens
2024
Volume:13:2
Pages:321-351
https://dx.doi.org/10.5209/dmae.96568
Transitions in Patristic Cosmology: From Cosmophobia to Universe-(Re)Making
2024
Volume:15:6
https://doi.org/10.3390/rel15060728
The Cosmology of David Bohm: Scientific and Theological Significance
2024
Co-authors: Richard de Grijs
Volume:22:1
Pages:204-220
https://doi.org/10.1080/14746700.2023.2294529
Patristic and Neopatristic Antecedents of Scientifically Engaged Theology
2023
Volume:67:1-2
Pages:115-145
https://www.academia.edu/110320816/Patristic_and_Neopatristic_Antecedents_of_Scientifically_Engaged_Theology
‘A Note on Evagrius’ Cosmological and Metaphysical Statements’
Oxford University Press 2020
Volume:71:2
Pages:718-730
https://academic.oup.com/jts/article-abstract/71/2/718/6007992
‘Strange Bedfellows? Orthodox Perspectives on Theology, Spirituality, Science, and Technology’
Babes-Bolyai University 2020
Volume:65:2
Pages:5-25
https://www.academia.edu/45142410/Strange_Bedfellows_Orthodox_Perspectives_on_Theology_Spirituality_Science_and_Technology
‘The Orthodox Doctrine of Creation in the Age of Science’
Johns Hopkins University Press 2019
Volume:2:1
Pages:43-64
https://www.academia.edu/37088958/The_Orthodox_Doctrine_of_Creation_in_the_Age_of_Science
‘One Description, Multiple Interpretations: Suggesting a Way Out of the Current Impasse’
Brepols 2021
Editors:Christopher Knight and Alexei Nesteruk
Volume:Eastern Orthodox Christianity and the Sciences: Theological, Philosophical, Scientific and Historical Aspects of the Dialogue
Pages:33-49
https://www.academia.edu/43717810/One_Description_Multiple_Interpretations_Suggesting_a_Way_Out_of_the_Current_Impasse
‘Maximus the Confessor and John Damascene’s cosmology’
Bloomsbury/T&T Clark 2020
Editors:John Slattery
Volume:The T&T Clark Handbook of Christian Theology and the Modern Sciences
Pages:81-91
https://www.academia.edu/41670315/Maximus_the_Confessor_and_John_Damascenes_Cosmology
‘A Theology of the World: Dumitru Stăniloae, the Traditional Worldview, and Contemporary Cosmology’
Brepols 2019
Editors:Vasilios N. Makrides and Gayle Woloschak
Volume:Orthodox Christianity and Modern Science: Tensions, Ambiguities, Potential
Pages:205-222
https://www.academia.edu/35940919/A_Theology_of_the_World_Dumitru_Sta_niloae_the_Traditional_Worldview_and_Contemporary_Cosmology
‘Orthodoxy and Science: Insights from the Holy and Great Council’
World Council of Churches 2020
Volume:72:3
Pages:396-408
https://www.academia.edu/42963649/Orthodoxy_and_Science_Insights_from_the_Holy_and_Great_Council
‘Andrew of Crete’s Great Canon, Byzantine Hermeneutics, and Genesis 1-3’
Brill 2020
Editors:Andrew Mellas and Sarah Gador-Whyte
Volume:Hymns, Homilies and Hermeneutics in Byzantium
Pages:67-85
https://www.academia.edu/42812018/Andrew_of_Crete_s_Great_Canon_Byzantine_Hermeneutics_and_Genesis_1_3
‘Christian Gnosis: From Clement the Alexandrian to John Damascene’
Routledge 2019
Editors:Garry W. Trompf, Gunner B. Mikkelsen, and Jay Johnston
Volume:The Gnostic World
Pages:259-270
https://www.academia.edu/36058193/Christian_Gnosis_From_Clement_the_Alexandrian_to_John_Damascene
‘Byzantine and Modern Orthodox Gnosis: from the Eleventh to the Twenty-First century’
Routledge 2019
Editors:Garry W. Trompf, Gunner B. Mikkelsen, and Jay Johnston
Volume:The Gnostic World
Pages:426-435
https://www.academia.edu/36534265/Byzantine_and_Modern_Orthodox_Gnosis_From_the_Eleventh_to_the_Twenty_First_Century
‘The King, the Palace, and the Kingdom: Anthropic Thinking in Gregory of Nyssa, John Chrysostom, and Other Witnesses’
AIOCS Press 2017
Editors:Doru Costache and Mario Baghos
Volume:John Chrysostom: Past, Present, Future
Pages:235-265
https://www.academia.edu/34847019/The_King_the_Palace_and_the_Kingdom_Anthropic_Thinking_in_Gregory_of_Nyssa_John_Chrysostom_and_Other_Witnesses
‘Being, Well-being, Being for Ever: Creation’s Existential Trajectory in Patristic Tradition’
Cambridge Scholars 2017
Editors:Doru Costache, Darren Cronshaw, and James Harrison
Volume:Well-being, Personal Wholeness and the Social Fabric
Pages:55-87
https://www.academia.edu/32369512/Being_Wellbeing_Being_for_Ever
‘Mapping Reality within the Experience of Holiness’
Oxford University Press 2015
Editors:Pauline Allen and Bronwen Neil
Volume:The Oxford Handbook of Maximus the Confessor
Pages:378-396
https://www.academia.edu/6543330/Mapping_Reality_within_the_Experience_of_Holiness
‘The Transdisciplinary Carats of Patristic Byzantine Tradition’
2013
Pages:131-140
https://www.academia.edu/3591807/The_Transdisciplinary_Carats_of_Patristic_Byzantine_Tradition
‘Meaningful Cosmos: Logos and Nature in Clement the Alexandrian’s Exhortation to the Gentiles’
2013
Pages:107-130
https://www.academia.edu/4750435/Meaningful_Cosmos_Logos_and_Nature_in_Clement_the_Alexandrian_s_Exhortation_to_the_Gentiles
‘Making Sense of the World: Theology and Science in St Gregory of Nyssa’s An Apology for the Hexaemeron’
2013
Pages:1-28
https://www.academia.edu/3642262/Making_Sense_of_the_World_Theology_and_Science_in_St_Gregory_of_Nyssa_s_An_Apology_for_the_Hexaemeron
‘Approaching An Apology for the Hexaemeron: Its Aims, Method and Discourse’
2012
Pages:53-81
https://www.academia.edu/1972006/Approaching_An_Apology_for_the_Hexaemeron_Its_Aims_Method_and_Discourse
‘Seeking Out the Antecedents of the Maximian Theory of Everything: St Gregory the Theologian’s Oration 38’
2011
Pages:27-45
https://www.academia.edu/1077436/Seeking_Out_the_Antecedents_of_the_Maximian_Theory_of_Everything_St_Gregory_the_Theologian_s_Oration_38
‘The Other Path in Science, Theology and Spirituality: Pondering a Fourteenth Century Byzantine Model’
2011
Pages:39-54
https://www.academia.edu/1077421/The_Other_Path_in_Science_Theology_and_Spirituality_Pondering_a_Fourteenth_Century_Byzantine_Model
‘Christian Worldview: Understandings from St Basil the Great’
2010
Pages:21-56
https://www.academia.edu/1077400/Christian_Worldview_Understandings_from_St_Basil_the_Great
‘Queen of the Sciences? Theology and Natural Knowledge in St Gregory Palamas’ One Hundred and Fifty Chapters’
2008
Pages:27-46
https://www.academia.edu/1077479/Queen_of_the_Sciences_Theology_and_Natural_Knowledge_in_St_Gregory_Palamas_One_Hundred_and_Fifty_Chapters
