Faculty
Eric W. Northway
Full-time Lecturer
Religious Studies
423 Catt Hall
Dept. of Philosophy and Religious Studies
Iowa State University
Ames, IA 50011
Phone: (515) 294-6018
Email:northway@iastate.edu
Education
Ph.D. Candidate, University of Durham, Durham, England
Non-Degree Student, Institute for Orthodox Christian Studies, Wesley
House, Cambridge, England
M.A., Reformed Theological Seminary, Jackson, Mississippi
B.A. (Bachelor of Arts in Religious Studies), Iowa State University
Research and Teaching Interests
Patristic Reception in the Reformations
Religious Syncretism – Ancient & Contemporary
Religion and Popular Media & Culture
Religion and Social Control
Interfaith Dialogue
“Celtic” Christian Histories and Theologies
Eastern Orthodox Theologies
Selected Publications
Book Review for The Pomegranate: The International
Journal of Pagan Studies: John Lamb Lash.Not in His Image: Gnostic Vision, Sacred Ecology, and the Future of Belief. (White River Junction, Vt.: Chelsea Green, 2006) - Published in Vol. 9.1 (2007), pp. 98-99.
Review (submitted): Bronwen Neil, Geoffrey D. Dunn, and Lawrence Cross,
eds., "Prayer and Spirituality in the Early Church: Vol. 3; Liturgy
and Life." (Strathfield, Australia: St. Paul's Publications,
2003), Sobornost, Incorporating Eastern Churches Review.
Review: Theodoret of Cyrus, "Commentary on the Letters of Saint
Paul." 2 vols. Trans. by, Robert Charles Hill (Brookline, MA:
Holy Cross Orthodox Press, 2001), Journal of Early Christian Studies
11/2 (Summer 2003): 241-242.
Review: William Ian P. Hazlett, ed., "Martini Buceri Opera Latina:
Vol. 5; Defensio Adversus Axioma Catholicum id est Criminationem R.
P. Roberti Episcopi Abrincensis (1534)." (Leiden: Brill, 2000), Sixteenth Century Journal 33/4 (Winter 2002): 1100-1101.
Review: Geoffrey Wainwright, "Is the Reformation Over? Catholics
and Protestants at the Turn of the Millennia (The Père Marquette Lecture
in Theology 2000)," (Milwaukee WI, Marquette University Press,
2000), Heythrop Journal 43/3 (2002): 373-374.
Review: Zachary Hayes, "The Gift of Being: A Theology of Creation,"
(Collegeville, MN, Liturgical Press, 2001), Heythrop Journal
43/2 (2002): 235-236.
Review: Théodore De Bèze, "Correspondance de Théodore de Bèze,
t. XXIII (1582)," Béatrice Nicollier and Hervé Genton, eds. (Geneva:
Librairie Droz, 2001), Sixteenth Century Journal 33/3 (Fall
2002): 850.
Review: Paul McPartlan, "Sacrament of Salvation: An Introduction
to Eucharistic Ecclesiology" (Edinburgh: T&T Clark, 1995), Heythrop Journal 43/1 (2002): 104-105.
Courses Taught
Christianity in the Roman Empire (Cl St 367)
History of Christianity (Forthcoming Spring ’06)
Independent Studies
Introduction to the Study of the Bible
Introduction to Judaism
Introduction to World Religions
The New Testament
Religion in America
Professional Acitivity
American Academy of Religion
American Philological Association
North American Patristics Society
Sixteenth Century Studies Conference
Society for Reformation Research