Faculty & Staff Directory
Edmondo F. Lupieri, LLC, Lic.
Title/s: John Cardinal Cody Endowed Chair and
Section Coordinator, New Testament and Early Christianity
Office #: Crown Center 439
Phone: 773.508.2363
Email: elupier@luc.edu
CV Link: Lupieri CV 11.2022
About
Edmondo Lupieri is an alumnus of the University of Pisa, where he earned the Laurea in Classical Studies with the distinction of summa cum laude, and of the Scuola Normale Superiore of Pisa, where he earned the Licenza in Lettere. His doctoral dissertation was on the treatise On the Resurrection, attributed to Athenagoras, the 2nd century Christian apologist and philosopher. He taught at the universities of Rome, Turin, and Udine, and was named the 3rd recipient of the John Cardinal Cody Endowed Chair in Theology at Loyola University, Chicago, in 2006, where he established the annual Cody Lecture to address the relation of theology and the sciences. He has published a number of books and articles on New Testament, Early Christianity, Christian and non-Christian Gnosticism, various phenomena of religious Syncretism involving Christian elements.
Degrees
Laurea in Lettere Classiche (LLC), University of Pisa
Licenza (Lic.) Scuola Normale Superiore of Pisa
Research Interests
Book of Revelation. Apocalypticism. Gospel of Matthew. Synoptic Gospels. Figures of the New Testament. Gnosticism. Religious Syncretism with Christian Elements.
Selected Publications
Books in English
- The Synoptic Problem: Preceedings from the Loyola University Conference (2023)
- Mary Magdalene from the New Testament to the New Age and Beyond (2020)
- Golden Calf Traditions in Early Judaism, Christianity, and Islam (2018)
- Where Have All the Heavens Gone? Galileo’s Letter to the Grand Duchess Christina (2017)
- In the Name of God: The Making of Global Christianity (2011) - Reviews
- Commentary on the Apocalypse of John (2006)
- The Mandaeans: The Last Gnostics (2002)
Books in Italian
- Non uno itinere. Ebraismi, cristianesimi, modernità. Studi in onore di Mauro Pesce in occasione del suo ottantesimo compleanno (2021)
- Cronache dal Trumpistan. Diario di un teologo italiano in America [Chronicles From Trumpistan: A Diary of an Italian Theologian in America] (2020)
- I mille volti della Maddalena. Saggi e studi (2020)
- Chi ha rubato i cieli? Galileo, la Lettera a Cristina e le origini della modernità (2019)
- Una sposa per Gesù. Maria Maddalena tra antichità e postmoderno (2017)
- In Nome Di Dio (2014)—Reviews
- Giovanni e Gesù: Storia di un antagonismo (2013) - Reviews
- Identita e conquistà. Esiti e conflitti di un'evangelizzazione (2005)
- L'Apocalisse di Giovanni (1999)
- Storia del cristianesimo (co-author) (1997)
- Gesú Cristo e gli altri dei. Diffusione e modificazione del cristianesimo nei paesi extraeuropie (1994)
- I Mandei. Gli ultime gnostici (1993)
- Giovanni e Gesù: Storia di un antagonismo (1991)
- Giovanni Battista relle tradizioni sinottiche (1988)
- Giovanni Battista fra storia e leggenda (1988)
- Il cielo è il mio trono. Isaia 40.12 e 66, 1 nella tradizione testimoniaria (1980)
Non-Scholarly Books (with Linda Foster)
- Nel segno del sangue (2003)
- Il patto. Un thriller teologico (2005)
- Il peccato dei padri (2009)