St Andrew's Greek Orthodox Theological College

DR KEN PARRY

Dr Ken Parry is a senior lecturer and research fellow in the Department of Ancient History at Macquarie University where he teaches Byzantine Studies. He has taught Church History at St Andrew’s Theological College since 2002. Dr Parry has published numerous articles in the field of Byzantine Studies and Eastern Christianity, and has edited The Blackwell Dictionary of Eastern Christianity (1999), and The Blackwell Companion to Eastern Christianity (2007). Dr Parry is also the chief editor of a new book series called 'Texts and Studies in Eastern Christianity' published by Brill.

Academic Classification: Senior Lecturer

Employment Status: Sessional

Subject Area: Church History

Current Research: Early Christianity in Asia and Egypt

Books	Depicting the Word: Byzantine Iconophile Thought of the Eighth and Ninth Centuries. Leiden: Brill, 1996.
Books Edited	Art, Architecture and Religion along the Silk Roads. Turnhout: Brepols, 2008. The Blackwell Companion to Eastern Christianity. UK: Blackwell, 2007. From Palmyra to Zayton: Epigraphy and Iconography. Turnhout: Brepols, 2005. The Blackwell Dictionary of Eastern Christianity. UK: Blackwell, 1999.
Chapters in Books	'The Buddha as Colossus in Central Asia and China.' Art, Architecture and Religion along the Silk Road. ed. by Ken Parry. Silk Road Studies Series. Turnhout: Brepols, 2008: 140-65. 'The Art of the Church of the East in China.' Jingjiao: The Church of the East in China and Central Asia. eds. R. Malek and P. Hofrichter. Collectanea Serica. Institut Monumenta Serica: Sankt Augustin, 2006: 321-39. 'Reading Proclus Diadochos in Byzantium.' Plato's Ancient Readers. eds. H. Tarrant and D. Baltzly. London: Duckworth, 2006: 223-35. 'The Iconography of the Christian Tombstones from Quanzhou', in From Palmyra to Zayton: Epigraphy and Iconography , eds. S. Lieu, I. Gardner, and K. Parry. Silk Road Studies X. Turnhout: Brepols, 2005, 229-246, with 24 illustrations. 'Vegetarianism in Late Antiquity and Byzantium: The Transmission of a Regimen.' Feast, Fast or Famine: Food and Drink in Byzantium. eds. W. Mayer and S. Trzcionka. Byzantina Australiensia 15. AABS: Brisbane, 2005: 171-187. 'Origen and Image-Making.' The Westminster Handbook to Origen. ed. J. McGuckin. Louisville & London: Westminster John Knox Press, 2004: 128-31. 'Byzantine and Melkite iconophiles under iconoclasm.' Porphyrogenita: Essays in Honour of Julian Chrysostomides. eds. J. Herrin et al. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2003: 137-151. 'Japan and the Silk Road Legacy.' Worlds of the Silk Roads Ancient and Modern: Walls and Frontiers in Inner Asian History. eds. S. Lieu and C. Benjamin. Silk Road Studies Series 6. Turnhout: Brepols, 2002: 215-223.
Articles in Refereed Journals	'What to jettison before you go sailing (to Byzantium )' Phronema 23 (2009): 19-34. 'An Unusual Christian Artefact from South China.' TAAS Review (The Journal of the Asian Arts Society of Australia) 15:2 (2006): 12-13. 'The Stone Crosses of Kerala in South India.' TAASA Review (The Journal of the Asian Arts Society of Australia ) 14:2 (2005): 10-12. 'Angels and Apsaras: Christian Tombstones from Quanzhou.' TAASA Review (The Journal of the Asian Arts Society of Australia) 12:2 (2003): 5-7. 'Crisis in the Balkans: The Byzantine Monuments of Kosovo.' The Eastern Churches Journal 8:3 (2001): 83-90.
Conference Papers	‘Gregory of Nyssa and the Legacy of Universal Salvation in the Christian East’ St Andrew’s Patristic Symposium 2011. SAGOTC, Redfern NSW; 7 September 2011. ‘Aristotle and the Icon: The Use of the Categories by Byzantine Iconophile Writers’, paper for the Australian Society for Ancient Philosophy conference on Aristotle’s Categories in the Latin, Byzantine and Arab Traditions, South Cross University, 2006. ‘An Unholy Alliance: The Theological Marriage-Bed of Justinian and Theodora’, paper for conference on The Reign of Justinian and Theodora, Macquarie University, 2006. ‘Heretics in Purple: Christian Dogma and Imperial Power in Byzantium’, paper given at the Religious History Society/Australian Historical Association Conference, ANU, 2006. ‘Aspects of Yelikewen Iconography in South China’, paper given at the Second International Conference on Nestorianism in China, Salzburg, 2006. ‘Pioneers of Cultic Property: Rematerializing Early Christianity,’ paper given at the annual conference of the Society of Early Christianity, Macquarie University, 2006. ‘The Buddha as Colossus in Central Asia and China’, The Art Gallery of New South Wales, 2005. ‘Did the Apostle Thomas go to India,’ paper given at the annual conference of the Society for the Study of Early Christianity, Macquarie University, 2005. ‘The Buddha as Colossus in Central Asia and China’, paper given at the conference of the Australasian Society for Inner Asian Studies, Macquarie University, 2004. ‘Torture without Tears: The Iconography of Martyrdom in Byzantium’, lecture given at the Senior Research Seminar, Division of Humanities, Macquarie University, 2004. ‘The Iconography of the Christian Tombstones at Quanzhou’, lecture given at the School of Oriental and African Studies, London, 2004. ‘Origen, the Icon and the Vision of God’, lecture for the annual conference of the Society for the Study of Early Christianity, Macquarie University, 2004. ‘Origen of Alexandria and Byzantine Iconoclasm’, Conference on Iconography in Early Egypt, organised by the Coptic Orthodox Church Diocese of Sydney, 2003. ‘The Art of the Nestorians in Quanzhou’, St Ephrem Ecumenical Research Institute, Kerala, South India, 2003. ‘Vegetarianism in Late Antiquity and Byzantium: The Transmission of a Regimen,’ International Conference on Food and Drink in Byzantium, Australian Association for Byzantine Studies, Adelaide, 2003. ‘The Iconography of the “Nestorian” Tombstones at Quanzhou,’ First International Conference on Nestorianism in China, Salzburg, Austria, 2003. ‘Jacob d’Ancona and the Jews in Medieval China,’ conference on Foreigners in Asia, Asian Arts Society of Australia, Powerhouse Museum, Sydney, 2003. ‘West Meets East: Iconography of the Quanzhou Project,’ annual conference of the Society for the Study of Early Christianity, Macquarie University, 2003. 'The Ascetical Theology of Maximus the Confessor.' Phronema 17 (2002): 51-57. ‘A Religion of Pots and Pans: The Early Christian Polemic Against the Gods and their Idols,’ Society for the Study of Early Christianity, Macquarie University, 2002. ‘Reading Proclus in Byzantium,’ paper for the Australian Society for Ancient Philosophy conference on Plato’s Ancient Readers, University of Newcastle, 2002. ‘A Fresh Look at the Frescoes in the Dura Europos Synagogue,’ paper given at the annual conference of the Society for the Study of Early Christianity, Macquarie University, 2002.
Awards	2008 Staff Grant, Macquarie University . 2006-07 Flagship Grant, Centre for Flexible Learning, Macquarie University . 2006 UNESCO Travelling Research Grant. 2005 Division of Humanities Equipment Fund. 2004-05 Chiang Ching-Kuo Foundation Research Scholarship.