Core Statement (After Proclus, Platonic Theology Book I, Chapter 3):
Theology concerns those things first by nature according to a given philosophy. Thus, for the philosophy which takes the unit as its highest principle, theology is the study of the divine individuals, and as such concerns not what they are, but Who.
Theological Hermeneutics
Being is conceived theologically as the result of the action of divine individuals. The form of this action is iconic and narrative. The theological interpretation of such icons or narratives consists in explicating the plane or region of Being enacted in them.
Goddesses and Gods of the Ancient Egyptians: A Theological Encyclopedia
Book
Essays on a Polytheistic Philosophy of Religion (New York, NY: Phaidra Editions, 2012). Contains my two articles from The Pomegranate as well as two never-before-published essays.
Articles
“The Theological Interpretation of Myth,” The Pomegranate: The International Journal of Pagan Studies, Vol. 7, No. 1, 2005, pp. 27-41. Republished in Essays on a Polytheistic Philosophy of Religion.
“Polycentric Polytheism and the Philosophy of Religion,” The Pomegranate: The International Journal of Pagan Studies, Vol. 10, No. 2, 2008, pp. 207-229. Republished in Essays on a Polytheistic Philosophy of Religion.
“Flower of Fire: Hekate in the Chaldean Oracles,” pp. 140-157 in Bearing Torches: A Devotional Anthology for Hekate, ed. Sannion et al. (Bibliotheca Alexandrina, 2009). [paperback/ebook]
“The Platonic Zeus,” pp. 139-167 in From Cave to Sky: A Devotional Anthology for Zeus, ed. Melia Suez (Bibliotheca Alexandrina, 2010).
“The Nature and Functions of Thoth in Egyptian Theology,” pp. 143-157 in The Scribing Ibis: An Anthology of Pagan Fiction in Honor of Thoth, ed. Rebecca Buchanan et al. (Bibliotheca Alexandrina, 2011).
“The Ashwins and the Dioskouroi: A Theological Comparison,” in Megaloi Theoi: A Devotional Anthology for the Dioskouroi and Helen of Troy (Bibliotheca Alexandrina, forthcoming).
Edward, a special thanks for “Offering to the Gods: A Neoplatonic Perspective.” For me, it’s just what the doctor ordered, as I’m trying to bridge the gap between Plotinus and cultus.
Thank you, Todd, that means a lot coming from you. That piece had such a winding road to publication, changing so much along the way, that I always worried it lacked a certain thematic unity. It had its origins in a nine-page conference paper that was purely a commentary on a few pages of Simplicius.