Johan Leemans

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Johan Leemans (* 1965 in Duffel ) is a Belgian Catholic church historian . He has been Professor of Christianity in Late Antiquity at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven since 2008 with a focus on Greek patrons .

Life

He wrote his doctoral thesis on the sermons of the martyrs of Gregory of Nyssas . He then conducted research as a postdoc on the homiletic corpus of the Cappadocian church fathers. Between 2005 and 2008 he held the chair for Ancient Church History and Patrology at the Catholic Theological Faculty of the University of Erfurt .

In his research he mainly focuses on the fourth and fifth centuries in the Greek East. He is currently leading a project on Greek sermons on Ascension Day and Pentecost. He is also the editor of Sacris Erudiri magazine and co-editor of Vigiliae Christianae magazine . He works on the Novum Testamentum Patristicum project and on the Sources Chrétiennes edition of Gregory of Nyssa's sermons. Johan Leemans is a member of the Research Center for Church History and Theology and Vice Dean for Research at the Faculty of Theology and Religious Studies, KU Leuven.

Publications (selection)

  • with Wendy Mayer, Pauline Allen and Boudewijn Dehandschutter: 'Let us die that we may live'. Greek Homilies on Christian Martyrs from Asia Minor, Palestine, and Syria (c. AD 350-AD 450) . Routledge, London / New York 2003, ISBN 9780415240420 .
  • Corpus christianorum 1953 - 2003. Xenium Natalicium. Fifty years of scholarly editing Turnhout, Brepols 2003, ISBN 2-503-51481-2 .
  • More than a memory. The discourse of martyrdom and the construction of Christian identity in the history of Christianity ( Annua nuntia Lovaniensia ; Volume 51). Peeters Publishers, Leuven 2005, ISBN 978-9042916883 .
  • Boudewijn Dehandschutter. Polycarpiana. Studies on martyrdom and persecution in early Christianity. Collected essays ( Ephemerides theologicae Lovanienses ; Volume 205). Universitaire Pers Leuven, Leuven 2007, ISBN 978-90-429-1993-8 .
  • Martyrdom and persecution in late antique Christianity. Festschrift Boudewijn Dehandschutter ( Ephemerides theologicae Lovanienses ; Volume 241). Peeters Publishers, Leuven 2010, ISBN 978-90-429-2469-7 .
  • with Peter Van Nuffelen, Shawn WJ Keough and Carla Nicolaye (eds.): Episcopal elections in late antiquity ( works on church history ; Volume 119). Verlag Walter de Gruyter, Berlin / Boston 2010, ISBN 978-3-11-026855-3 .
  • with Brian J. Matz and Johan Verstraeten (eds.): Reading patristic texts on social ethics. Issues and challenges for twenty-first-century Christian social thought . Catholic University of America Press, Washington DC 2011, ISBN 0-8132-1859-4 .
  • with Peter Gemeinhardt (Ed.): Christian martyrdom in late antiquity. History and discourse, tradition and religious identity ( Work on Church History ; Volume 116). Verlag Walter de Gruyter, Berlin / Boston 2012, ISBN 978-3-11-026351-0 .
  • with Matthieu Cassin (Ed.): Gregory of Nyssa. Contra Eunomium III. An English translation with commentary and supporting studies. Proceedings of the 12th International Colloquium on Gregory of Nyssa (Leuven, September 14-17, 2010) ( Vigiliae Christianae. Texts and studies of early christian life and language ; Volume 14). Brill, Leuven 2014, ISBN 978-90-04-27061-9 .

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personal data
SURNAME Leemans, Johan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Belgian church historian
DATE OF BIRTH 1965
PLACE OF BIRTH duffel