Jordan Parro
Doctoral Candidate
Historical Theology
Minor: Systematic Theology
Jordan Parro
Contact
Stokes Hall N 36
Telephone: 617-552-3843
Email: jordan.parro@bc.edu
Education
- Th.M., Systematic and Historical Theology, Boston College School of Theology and Ministry, 2019
- M.Div., Highest Honors, Holy Cross Greek Orthodox School of Theology, 2017
- B.A., Major: Philosophy, Minor: Mathematics, magna cum laude, University of New Mexico, 2010
Courses
Teaching Fellow
- Engaging Catholicism (2 sections), Fall 2023
Teaching at Hellenic College Holy Cross and Greek Orthodox School of Theology
- Seminar on the Ecumenical Patriarchate
- Basic Doctrine and Dogma
Dissertation
Title: “Maximus the Confessor: Symbolic Theology and the Dialectic of Sexual Difference”
Director: Dr. David Hunter
Readers: Dr. Paul Blowers, Dr. Maximos Constas, and Dr. Michael Magree, S.J.
Biography
Jordan Parro is a doctoral candidate in History of Christianity with a minor in Systematic Theology. Jordan’s research interests include Late Antique theologies (especially the works of Maximus the Confessor), Neoplatonism, theological anthropology, contemplative, ascetic, and mystical traditions, as well as issues pertaining modern philosophies of religion, metaphysics, hermeneutics, and embodiment.
His dissertation “Maximus the Confessor: Symbolic Theology and the Dialectic of Sexual Difference” is a study of the Confessor’s hermeneutic approach to materiality. It explores Maximus's underlying theology of the material-as-symbol and sheds new light on the Confessor’s labyrinthine and, at times, seemingly ambiguous treatment sexual difference.