Associate Professor of Theology, Sydney College of Divinity.

Interests: The history of science and the interactions of theology and science in Late Antiquity and the Byzantine era.

Methods: Science-engaged theology, transdisciplinarity (as defined by Basarab Nicolescu).

Working on a monograph on Clement of Alexandria’s interdisciplinary theory of nature contemplation (under contract with Routledge, to submit by the end of 2024).

I edited and contributed to a special issue on Byzantine science and technology for De Medio Aevo, to be released soon.

Recent books:
Costache, Doru, and Geraint F. Lewis. A New Copernican Turn: Contemporary Cosmology, the Self, and Orthodox Science-Engaged Theology. London and New York: Routledge, 2024.
Costache, Doru. Humankind and the Cosmos: Early Christian Representations. Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2021.

Recent articles:
Costache, Doru. ‘Transitions in Patristic Cosmology: From Cosmophobia to Universe-(Re)Making’ Religions 15:6 (2024) 728, https://doi.org/10.3390/rel15060728.
de Grijs, Richard, and Doru Costache. ‘The Cosmology of David Bohm: Scientific and Theological Significance’ Theology and Science 22:1 (2024) 204-220, https://doi.org/10.1080/14746700.2023.2294529.
Costache, Doru. ‘Patristic and Neopatristic Antecedents of Scientifically Engaged Theology’ St Vladimir’s Theological Quarterly 67:1-2 (2023) 115-145.

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