ERA Postdoctoral Research Fellow

daniel.heide@ifdt.bg.ac.rs

Daniel Heide

Daniel Heide is an ERA Research Fellow at the Institute for Philosophy and Social Theory, University of Belgrade. He has a Master’s Degree in Classics (Dalhousie, 2016) and a PhD in Religious Studies (McGill, 2022). He is a scholar of Greek Patristics and Neoplatonism, with a focus on St Maximus Confessor. He is the author of The World as Sacrament: The Eucharistic Cosmology of St Maximus Confessor, published by Brill. He is also a co-editor and contributor of Subsidia Maximiana (Brepols), a scholarly series which publishes monographs and conference proceedings dedicated to the study of St Maximus Confessor. Dr Heide has lectured at McGill University in Montréal, Canada, and is presently focused on organizing colloquia and study groups in the Balkans with the aim of furthering the study of St Maximus, especially from a philosophical perspective.

Latest publications

Monograph 

  • The World as Sacrament: The Eucharistic Cosmology of St Maximus Confessor, Brill. Forthcoming (2025).

 

Peer-Reviewed Articles

  • The Mystery Hidden from the Ages: Paul, Proclus, and the Ecclesial Cosmology of St Maximus Confessor, Subsidia Maximiana. Forthcoming (2026)
  • “‘And God Saw That It Was Good’: The Redemption of Plurality According to St Maximus Confessor”, Studia Patristica. Forthcoming (2026)
  • “Freedom as Mediation: The Synergy of Wills According to St Maximus Confessor”, Subsidia Maximiana. Forthcoming (2026)
  • “Maximus Confessor’s Threefold Doctrine of Creation Ex Nihilo”, Subsidia Maximiana. (2025)
  • “Cosmic Incarnation: Maximus’ Retrieval of Origen’s Logos-Theology as Christian Formal Principle”, Adamantia Series (Aschendorff). Forthcoming (2024)
  • “The Human as Cosmic Hierarch: The Theocentric Anthropology of Maximus Confessor”, Studia Patristica. (2024)
  • “A Transformation of Mediation: Procline Hypostases as Dionysian Processions”, Analogia. (2023)
  • “Beyond the Polemics: Freedom and Necessity in Plotinus and St Maximus Confessor”, Heythrop Journal. (2023)

Edited Volumes

  • (ed. with Miklos Vassanyi, Djakovac Alexandar), Studies in Maximus the Confessor’s Epistolary, Subsidia Maximiana. Forthcoming (2026).
  • (ed. with Vladimir Cvetković and Alex Leonas), Maximus the Confessor Chapters on Charity, Subsidia Maximiana, Brepols. Forthcoming (2025).
  • (ed. with Vladimir Cvetković and Sebastian Mateiescu), Proceedings from Origeniana Tertia Decima, Adamantiana. (2025).
  • (ed. with Vladimir Cvetković and Alex Leonas), Ambiguum 10 of Maximus the Confessor in Modern Study, Subsidia Maximiana 3, Brepols (2025).