Professor, Torrey Honors College
Greg is a native Virginian who loves traveling (especially to monasteries in Europe) and reading. He enjoys the fiction of Chinua Achebe, Georges Bernanos and the nineteenth century Russian novelists; and the poetry of George Herbert, John Donne and Gerard Manley Hopkins. He is an ordained priest in the Anglican Church of North America, serving as rector at the Anglican Church of the Epiphany, La Mirada.
Books
Peters, G., Jenson, M. (2019). Distinguishing the church: Explorations in word, sacrament and discipline. Eugene, OR: Pickwick Publications.
Peters, G. (2018). The monkhood of all believers: The monastic foundation of christian spirituality. Ada, MI: Baker Academic.
Peters, G. (2015). The story of monasticism: Retrieving an ancient tradition for contemporary spirituality. Ada, MI: Baker Academic.
Peters, G. (2014). Reforming the monastery: Protestant theologies of religious life. Eugene, OR: Cascade Books
Peters, G. (2011). Peter of Damascus: Byzantine monk and spiritual theologian. Toronto: Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies.
Book Chapters
Peters, G. (2018). Medieval ressourcement. In Embracing contemplation: Reclaiming a christian spiritual practice. Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press.
Peters, G. (2014). Monasticism: Instrument of the holy spirit in the renewal, revival and revitalization of today’s church. In The holy spirit and the christian life. London: Palgrave Macmillan.
Peters, G. (2013a). Spiritual theology: An historic overview and the medieval traditions. In Reading the christian spiritual classics: A guide for evangelicals. Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press.
Peters, G. (2013b). The medieval traditions. In Reading the christian spiritual classics: A guide for evangelicals. Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press.
Articles
Peters, G. (2018). Imitating christ: Thomas à kempis and the brothers and sisters of the common life. Christian History.
Peters, G. (2017). A call for evangelical monasticism. Journal of Spiritual Formation and Soul Care.
Peters, Greg, Downside Review (2016) / Peters, G. (2016). A ‘pretensed and counterfeit holiness’ or Sowers of ‘spiritual things’?. John Jewel and Thomas Harding on Monasticism.
Peters, G. (2016). The journey of our life: Dante as a spiritual theologian of grace. Journal of Spiritual Formation and Soul Care.