Jason Lamantia
Part-Time Professor | Faculy of theology
Profile
Jason Lamantia is a Part-Time Professor in the Faculty of Theology at Saint Paul University. His research focus concerns the Late Antique and Early Medieval Greek and Latin theological, historical, and literary sources of the Patristic and Byzantine periods, with a particular focus on the subjects of holiness and repentance in Eastern & Western Christian monastic and ascetic texts from the 5th to the 11th centuries. His doctoral thesis was a historical and theological exploration of repentance in the writings of St Symeon the New Theologian (949-1022). Dr. Lamantia is also a trained historian with interests in Celtic and Anglo-Saxon monasticism as well as Byzantine monasticism from the 9th to the 11th centuries. He also has academic training in the field of literary studies where his interests are in examining theological themes in Old & Middle English poetry as well as in the writings of David Jones and Fyodor Dostoyevsky. Dr. Lamantia has been an editorial assistant for a couple of book-length publications, has published a number of articles in peer-reviewed journals in addition to presenting papers and giving guest lectures and courses at a number of conferences and academic institutions.
Ph.D. Theology, Saint Paul University, 2024
Master of Theological Studies (M.T.S.), Saint Paul University, 2018
B.A. English Literature, University of Ottawa, 2000
B.A. History, University of Ottawa, 1998
Greek & Latin Patristics; Early & Medieval Church History; Eastern Christian Theology and Spirituality; Literature & Theology
Books Edited
Editorial Assistant to The Oxford Handbook of Vatican II, edited by Catherine E. Clifford & Massimo Faggioli. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2023.
A 25th Anniversary Exploration of the Significance of the Pontifical Commission’s Document “The Interpretation of the Bible in the Church”. Special Edition of Theoforum 50 (2020) (Co-edited with Dr. Gregory Bloomquist).
Articles in Peer-Reviewed Journals
Lamantia, Jason. “Deification in the ‘Body’ of Christ: Incarnation, Eucharist, and Church in the Hymns of St. Symeon the New Theologian” in Logos: A Journal of Eastern Christian Studies 61, 1-4 (2020), pp. 117-134.
Lamantia, Jason. “The Interpretation of the Bible in the Church and New Methods of Literary Analysis” in Theoforum 50 (2020), pp. 35-44.
Lamantia, Jason. “The Interpretation of the Bible in the Church and Interpretation in the Tradition of the Church” in Theoforum 50 (2020), pp. 109-118.
Lamantia, Jason. “The Interpretation of the Bible in the Church and Inculturation” in Theoforum 50 (2020), pp. 149-158.
Lamantia, Jason. “How Do You Distinguish the Father from the Son? Saint Symeon the New Theologian’s Response to a Trinitarian Question” in Theoforum 47, No. 2 (2016/2017), pp. 421-430.