The Catholic University of America

 Publications by Susan Wessel

Books

 

Leo the Great and the Spiritual Rebuilding of a Universal Rome

Vigiliae Christianae Supplements (Leiden: Brill, 2008); paperback edition (Leiden: Brill, 2012)

 

Cyril of Alexandria and the Nestorian Controversy: The Making of a Saint and of a Heretic

Oxford Early Christian Studies (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004)

Translation

The Greek Life of St. Leo bishop of Catania (BHG 981b), Text and Notes by Alexander Alexakis. Translation by         
          Susan Wessel (Brussel: Société des Bollandistes, 2011)

Articles in Periodicals and Collections

“Religious Doctrine amid Ecclesiastical and Political Change,” ed. M. Maas, Cambridge Companion to the 

          Age of Attila (Cambridge University Press), forthcoming
"Theological Argumentation: The Case of Forgery,” ed. S. Johnson, Oxford Handbook of Late Antiquity (New   

          York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012), forthcoming
“The Formation of Ecclesiastical Law in the Early Church,” in The History of Byzantine and Eastern Canon Law

          to 1500, eds. W. Hartmann, K. Pennington (Washington, DC: Catholic University of America Press, 

          2012), 1-23
"The Theology of Agape in Maximus the Confessor,” St. Vladimir’s Theological Quarterly 55 (2011), 319-342
“The Morality of Disgust in John Chrysostom and Jerome,” Augustinianum 50 (2010), 147-162
“Human Action and the Passions in Nemesios of Emessa,” Studia Patristica 48 (2010), 3-13
“Memory and Individuality in Gregory of Nyssa’s Dialogus de anima et resurrectione,” Journal of Early    

          Christian Studies 18 (2010), 369-392
“The Reception of Greek Science in Gregory of Nyssa’s De hominis opificio,” Vigiliae Christianae 63             

          (2009), 24-46
“The Politics of Text and Tradition in the Council of Constantinople III (AD 680/1),” Annuarium Historiae            

          Conciliorum 38 (2006), 35-54
“The Nouthesia and the Law of Moses,” Byzantion 73 (2003), 530-542
“Forgery and the Monothelete Controversy: Some Scrupulous Uses of Deception,” Greek, Roman, and  

          Byzantine Studies 42 (2001), 201-220
“The Ecclesiastical Policy of Theodosius II” Annuarium Historiae Conciliorum 33 (2001), 285-308
“Socrates’ Narrative of Cyril of Alexandria’s Episcopal Election,” Journal of Theological Studies 52 (2000),

          98-104
“Nestorius, Mary, and Controversy in Cyril of Alexandria’s Homily IV (De Maria deipara in Nestorium,     

          CPG 5248),” Annuarium Historiae Conciliorum 31 (1999), 1-49