Benedictus
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| Gender | Male |
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| Industry | Education |
| Location | La Mirada, California, United States |
| Introduction | Ph.D., History (Medieval and Early Modern Studies) Claremont Graduate University, Claremont, CA. I work as a full-time lecturer at the Torrey Honors Institute, a Christian Great Books program at Biola University. I serve as a subdeacon at St. Michael Orthodox Church in Whittier, CA (Western Rite). |
| Interests | Reading Classical Literature,classical languages (esp. Latin)Patristic Theology (St. Maximus the Confessor and St. Augustine), Philosophy (Medieval and Early Modern), History (medieval), Latin, Italian, L.A. Opera, L.A. Philharmonic, Deep-Sea Fishing |
| Favorite movies | Casablanca, L.A. Confidential, El Cid, A Man for All Seasons (the Paul Scoffield version), Andrei Rublev, Amadaeus, Gladiator, Lord of the Rings, Excalibur, Fellini's La Dolce Vita, Zorba the Greek, How Green was My Valley, Judgement at Nuremberg, The Longest Day, Ostrov, Into Great Silence, A Fish Called Wanda, Monty Python's The Holy Grail |
| Favorite music | Gregorian and Byzantine Chant, Renaissance (Taverner, Tallis, Byrd, Palestrina), Baroque (Correlli, Bach, Handel), Big Band (Goodman, Miller, Ellington), Anything played by Glenn Gould |
| Favorite books | Dante's Divine Comedy, Shakespeare's Tragedies and Histories, Boethius' Consolatio Philosophiae, Brothers Karamozov, Evlyn Waugh's Brideshead Revisited, The Philokalia (especially St. Maximos the Confessor), St. Gregory Palamas , The Way of the Pilgrim, Alexander Schmemann, Georges Florovsky, Jacques Maritain, C.S. Lewis, J.R.R. Tolkien, Charles Williams, Eric Voegelin's Order and History, T.S. Eliot, Cervantes, St. Augustine's Confessions and De Doctrina Christiana, St. John of Damascus, Umberto Eco's Baudolino |