Dr. Vennerstrom is an Assistant Professor of Theology and the Assistant Dean of Resident Students at the Augustine Institute. He studies patristic theology in general but in particular its monastic expressions, East and West. He earned his PhD in Early Christian Studies at the Catholic University of America and is the author of "'To those who have ears to hear': Clement of Alexandria on the Parables of Jesus" in Open Theology. At present, he is revising a translation of Evagrius' corpus of exegetical writings for publication at Oxford University Press.