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Dr. Aaron Canty is Professor of Religious Studies and Theology at Saint Xavier University. He is author of Light and Glory: The Transfiguration of Christ in Early Franciscan and Dominican Theology (The Catholic University of America Press, 2011), co-editor, with Franklin T. Harkins, of A Companion to Job in the Middle Ages (Brill, 2017) and has published numerous articles on medieval theology, spirituality, and exegesis.
Education:
2006 – Ph.D., Theology, University of Notre Dame. Dissertation – “The Transfiguration of Christ among the Early Franciscans and Dominicans.”
1997 – M.A., History, University of Wisconsin-Madison. Thesis – “The Origins and Development of Mendicant Education at Paris, Oxford, and Cambridge.”
1995 – B.A., History, Lawrence University
Selected publications:
Books
A Companion to Job in the Middle Ages, eds. Franklin T. Harkins and Aaron Canty (Leiden: Brill, 2017)
Light and Glory: The Transfiguration of Christ in Early Franciscan and Dominican Theology (Washington, D.C.: The Catholic University of America Press, 2011)
Articles
“Christ’s Co-assumed Defects according to the Summa fratris Alexandri,” in “Non enim fuerat Evangelii surdus auditor…” (1 Celano 22): Essays in Honor of Michael W. Blastic, O.F.M. on the Occasion of His 70th Birthday, eds. Michael F. Cusato and Steven J. McMichael (Leiden-Boston: Brill, 2020), pp. 363-381
“The Influence of Anselm of Canterbury on the Summa Halensis’ Theology of the Divine Substance,” in The Summa Halensis: Sources and Context, ed. Lydia Schumacher (Berlin-Boston: De Gruyter, 2020), pp. 171-185
“Aquinas and Scotus on God as Object of Beatific Enjoyment,” in The Discovery of Being and Thomas Aquinas: Philosophical and Theological Perspectives, eds. Christopher M. Cullen, S.J. and Franklin T. Harkins (Washington, D.C.: The Catholic University of America Press, 2019), pp. 267-281
“Vision and Sacrament: Christ’s Humanity in the Spirituality of Gertrude the Great of Helfta,” in Illuminating Jesus in the Middle Ages, ed. Jane Beal (Leiden: Brill, 2019), pp. 240-254
“Bonaventure and the Franciscan Tradition,” in The Oxford Handbook of Catholic Theology, eds. Lewis Ayres and Medi Ann Volpe (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019), pp. 551-562
“Scholastic Theologies of the Resurrection in the Early Fourteenth Century,” in Studies in Later Medieval Intellectual History in Honor of William J. Courtenay, eds. William O. Duba, Russell L. Friedman, and Chris Schabel (Leuven: Peeters, 2017), pp. 113-144
“Nicholas of Lyra’s Literal Commentary on Job,” in A Companion to Job in the Middle Ages, eds. Franklin T. Harkins and Aaron Canty (Leiden: Brill, 2017), pp. 225-253
“Hugh of St. Cher and Thomas Aquinas: Time and the Interpretation of the Psalms,” in Time: Sense, Space, Structure, eds. Nancy van Deusen and Leonard Michael Koff (Leiden: Brill, 2016), pp. 160-176
“Saint Paul in Augustine,” in A Companion to St. Paul in the Middle Ages, ed. Steven R. Cartwright (Leiden: Brill, 2013), pp. 115-142
“Christ’s Transfiguration in the Postillae of John of La Rochelle,” Archivum Franciscanum Historicum 3-4 (2011): 421-483
“The Nuptial Imagery of Christ and the Church in Augustine’s Enarrationes in psalmos,” in Early Christian Literature and Intertextuality, Vol. 1: Thematic Studies, eds. Craig A. Evans and H. Daniel Zacharias (London-New York: T & T Clark, 2009), pp. 225-235
“Augustine’s Totus Christus Hermeneutic for Interpreting the Psalms,” Biblical Research 53 (2008): 59-67
“Bonaventurian Resonances in Benedict XVI’s Theology of Revelation,” Nova et Vetera 5(2) (2007): 249-266