J. Warren Smith

Journal article Religions · November 18, 2016 This is an essay in comparative ethics within the Platonist tradition. Although the primary focus is on Augustine’s account of rightly ordered love of neighbor in De vera religione, it analyzes Augustine’s account of the love of finite goods by comparing i ... Full text Cite

Divine ecstasy and divine simplicity: the eros motif in Pseudo-Dionysius's soteriology

Journal article Pro Ecclesia · March 1, 2012 Link to item Cite

Ambrose, Paul, and the conversion of the Jews

Journal article Ex auditu · January 1, 2009 Link to item Cite

Nicaea and its legacy: an approach to fourth-century Trinitarian theology

Journal article Modern Theology · April 1, 2007 Link to item Cite

Augustine and the limits of preemptive and preventive war

Journal article Journal of Religious Ethics · March 1, 2007 Link to item Cite

Justification and merit before the Pelagian controversy: the case of Ambrose in Milan

Journal article Pro Ecclesia · March 1, 2007 Link to item Cite

The Body of Paradise and the Body of the Resurrection: Gender and the Angelic Life in Gregory of Nyssa's De Hominis Opificio

Journal article Harvard Theological Review · April 2006 Full text Cite

Martyrdom: self-denial or self-exaltation? motives for self-sacrifice from Homer to Polycarp a theological reflection

Journal article Modern Theology · April 1, 2006 Link to item Cite

A Just and Reasonable Grief: The Death and Function of a Holy Woman in Gregory of Nyssa's Life of Macrina

Journal article Journal of Early Christian Studies · 2004 This paper examines the key theological views that governed fourth-century interpretations of 'the holy woman' in ascetic communities. Specifically, it looks at Gregory of Nyssa's portrayal of Macrina in De Vita Macrinae as one whose asceticism and virgini ... Full text Cite

Suffering impassibly: Christ's passion in Cyril of Alexandria's soteriology

Journal article Pro Ecclesia · September 1, 2002 Link to item Cite

Macrina, tamer of horses and healer of souls: grief and the therapy of hope in Gregory of Nyssa's De anima et resurrectione

Journal article Journal of Theological Studies · April 1, 2001 Link to item Cite

Youth ministry in American Methodism's mission.

Journal article Methodist History · July 1, 1981 The article examines the development of Youth Ministry within Methodism from 1889 to the present. Citing early Epworth League journals, Souvenir Programs, Handbooks, and personal documents, the article moves from needs that brought into being The Epworth ... Link to item Cite