Timothy Patitsas
Assistant Professor of Ethics
BSFS, Georgetown University School of Foreign Service
MDiv, Holy Cross Greek Orthodox School of Theology
PhD, The Catholic University of America
Timothy G. Patitsas is the Assistant Professor of Ethics at Holy Cross. He taught at the St. Nicholas Orthodox Seminary in Seoul, Korea, and at Marymount University in Arlington, Virginia, before joining the faculty here in 2005. His dissertation, The King Returns to His City: An Interpretation of the Great Week and Bright Week Cycle of the Orthodox Church, combined interests in organic order, liturgy, popular piety, and the economic and political writings of Jane Jacobs.
He has published an article on patternlanguage.com, a website directed by the mystical architect Christopher Alexander. For the Spring 2007 edition of the St. Vladimir's Theological Quarterly he wrote, "The Marriage of Priests: Towards an Orthodox Christian Theology of Gender."
While his main current interest is the composition of an introduction to the mystical ethics of the Greek Orthodox tradition, he also continues research in epistemology, urban economics, and anthropology. And he regularly extends his fieldwork in the area of Orthodox spirituality, studying prayer and typicon in Orthodox monasteries and families across the world.
Curriculum Vitae 
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Courses:
- Orthodox Christian Ethics
- Orthodox Christian Social Ethics
- The Ethics of Beauty
- Bioethics Seminar
- The City as Liturgy
- Social Ethics in Byzantium and Holy Russia
- Modern Greek Orthodox Ethicists
- Ethics in the Church Fathers
