Dr. Matthew Levering

Matthew Levering is James N. Jr. and Mary D. Perry Chair of Theology at Mundelein Seminary, and Co-Director of the Chicago Theological Initiative. He is the author or co-author of over thirty-five books including such works as Scripture and Metaphysics, Participatory Biblical Exegesis, Biblical Natural Law, Proofs of God, Aquinas’s Eschatological Ethics and the Virtue of Temperance, Did Jesus Rise from the Dead?, The Abuse of Conscience, and Reconfiguring Thomistic Christology. He is currently at work on a multi-volume dogmatics, whose first five volumes have appeared (most recently Engaging the Doctrine of Israel). He is the editor or co-editor of over twenty books including such works as The Oxford Handbook of Sacramental Theology, Aristotle in Aquinas’s Theology, and The Reception of Vatican II. He is the translator of Gilles Emery, O.P.’’s The Trinity. He co-edits two quarterly journals, Nova et Vetera and the International Journal of Systematic Theology. He is the past president (2021-22) of the Academy of Catholic Theology, and served as its founding Chair of the Board from 2007-2016. He has been a member of Evangelicals and Catholics Together since 2004. With Thomas Joseph White, O.P., he co-edits the Thomistic Ressourcement series for Catholic University of America Press. He is a Distinguished Fellow of the St. Paul Center, and he edits the Renewal within Tradition series for Emmaus Academic Press.

Curriculum Vitae

 

Education:

Boston College, Ph.D. in Systematic Theology, Spring 2000

Duke Divinity School, Master of Theological Studies, Spring 1996

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, B.A. in History, Spring 1993

Wesleyan University, Fall 1989-Spring 1991

 

Teaching Positions:

James N. Jr. and Mary D. Perry Chair of Theology, Mundelein Seminary, 2013-

Professor of Theology, University of Dayton (tenured), 2009-2013

Associate Professor of Theology, Ave Maria University, Naples, FL, 2004-2009

Assistant Professor of Theology, Ave Maria College, Ypsilanti, MI, 2000-2004

 

Editorial and Leadership Positions, Fellowships, Prizes:

Co-editor with Thomas Joseph White, O.P. of Nova et Vetera, English edition, 2003-

Co-editor with Paul Nimmo and Han-luen Kantzer Komline of International Journal of Systematic Theology, 2012-

Co-Director with George Kalantzis, Chicago Theological Initiative, 2015-

Director, Center for Scriptural Exegesis, Philosophy, and Doctrine, 2011-

President, Academy of Catholic Theology, 2021-2022

Vice President, Academy of Catholic Theology, 2019-2021

Chair of the Board / Secretary-Treasurer, Academy of Catholic Theology, 2007-2016

Myser Fellow, Center for Ethics and Culture, University of Notre Dame, 2006-2007 academic year

Guest editor with Piotr Roszak and Jörgen Vijgen of Studium vol. 24, no. 48 (2021) (special issue on Biblical Thomism entitled Tomismo bíblico: Actualidad y desafíos)

Guest editor with George Kalantzis of Modern Theology 35:3 (2019) (special issue on Divine Simplicity)

Guest editor with William C. Mattison III of Journal of Moral Theology 10:Special Issue 1 (2021) (on Scripture and Moral Theology)

Guest editor with William C. Mattison III of Journal of Moral Theology 8:Special Issue 2 (2019) (on Servais Pinckaers, O.P. and Contemporary Moral Theology)

Guest editor with Hans Boersma of Modern Theology 28:4 (2012) (special issue on spiritual exegesis)

Member, Editorial Board, Newman Studies Journal, 2018-

Member, Advisory Board, Maria: Journal of Marian Studies, 2020-

Member, Editorial Board, Saint Paul Seminary Press, 2020-

Member, International Advisory Board for Thomas Aquinas through the Ages: An Encyclopedia (in preparation)

Associate Editor of Sapientia Press of Ave Maria University, 2002-2011

Contributing Editor for 2009, Assembly: A Journal of Liturgical Theology (Notre Dame Center for Liturgy)

Distinguished Fellow, St. Paul Center, 2010-

Senior Research Fellow, Kirby Laing Centre for Public Theology, 2021-

Participant, Evangelicals and Catholics Together, 2004-

Advisory Board, Leo J. Elders Foundation, Amsterdam (the Netherlands), 2020-

Advisory Board, Center for Catholic-Jewish Studies, Saint Leo University, 2019-

Advisory Board, Association of Hebrew Catholics, 2021-

Steering Committee, Consultation on Jewish-Christian Dialogue and Sacred Texts, Society of Biblical Literature, 2012-2014

Co-Director with Hans Boersma, Center for Catholic-Evangelical Dialogue, 2009-2013

Co-Director with Michael Dauphinais, Aquinas Center for Theological Renewal, Ave Maria University, 2001-2009

2022 Third Prize, Catholic Press Association, Theology— Morality, Ethics, Christology, Mariology, and Redemption category, for The Abuse of  Conscience: A Century of Catholic Moral Theology

2020 First Prize, Catholic Press Association, Theology— Morality, Ethics, Christology, Mariology, and Redemption category, for Aquinas’s Eschatological Ethics and the Virtue of Temperance

2019 Christianity Today Book Awards, Award of Merit (second place), Theology/Ethics category, for Dying and the Virtues

2018 Academy of Catholic Theology Medallion (for service)

2016 Veritas Medal, given by the Aquinas Center of Ave Maria University

2015 Cardinal Wright Award for Scholarly Service to the Church, given by the Fellowship of Catholic Scholars

2015 First Prize, Catholic Press Association, Theology category, for Mary’s Bodily Assumption

 

Publications:

Books Authored or Co-Authored

Reconfiguring Thomistic Christology.  Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023.

Newman on Doctrinal Corruption.  Park Ridge, IL: Word on Fire Academic, 2022.

The Abuse of Conscience: A Century of Catholic Moral Theology.  Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 2021.

Engaging the Doctrine of Israel: A Christian Israelology in Dialogue with Ongoing Judaism.  Eugene, OR: Cascade, 2021.

The Wisdom of the Word: Biblical Answers to Ten Pressing Questions about Catholicism.  Co-authored with Michael Dauphinais.  Park Ridge, IL: Word on Fire Institute, 2021.

Engaging the Doctrine of Marriage: Human Marriage as the Image and Sacrament of the Marriage of God and Creation.  Eugene, OR: Cascade, 2020.

Aquinas’s Eschatological Ethics and the Virtue of Temperance.  Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 2019.

Five Views on the Extent of the Atonement.  Co-authored with Andrew Louth, Michael Horton, Fred Sanders, and Tom Greggs.  Edited by Adam Johnson.  Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan, 2019.

The Indissolubility of Marriage: Amoris Laetitia in Context.  San Francisco: Ignatius Press, 2019.

The Achievement of Hans Urs von Balthasar: An Introduction to His Trilogy. Washington, D.C.: Catholic University of America Press, 2019.

Did Jesus Rise from the Dead? Historical and Theological Reflections.  Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019.

Dying and the Virtues.  Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 2018.

Was the Reformation a Mistake? Why Catholic Doctrine Is Not Unbiblical.

With a Response by Kevin J. Vanhoozer.  Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan, 2017.

* Romanian edition published as: A fost Reforma o Eroare? De ce doctrina catolică nu este nebiblică.  Trans. Gheorghe Fedorovici. Târgu-Lăpuş: Galaxia Gutenberg, 2022.

An Introduction to Vatican II as an Ongoing Theological Event.  Washington, D.C.: Catholic University of America Press, 2017.

Engaging the Doctrine of Creation: Cosmos, Creatures, and the Wise and Good Creator.  Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Academic, 2017.

Engaging the Doctrine of the Holy Spirit: Love and Gift in the Trinity and the Church.  Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Academic, 2016.

Proofs of God: Classical Arguments from Tertullian to Barth.  Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Academic, 2016.

Mary’s Bodily Assumption.  Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 2015.

Engaging the Doctrine of Revelation: The Mediation of the Gospel through Church and Scripture.  Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Academic, 2014.

Natural Law: A Jewish, Christian, and Islamic Trialogue.  Co-authored with David Novak and Anver Emon.  Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014.

Paul in the Summa Theologiae.  Washington, D.C.: Catholic University of America Press, 2014.

The Theology of Augustine: An Introductory Guide to His Most Important Works. Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Academic, 2013.

The Feminine Genius of Catholic Theology.  London: T. & T. Clark, 2012.

Jesus and the Demise of Death: Resurrection, the Afterlife, and the Fate of Christians.  Waco, TX: Baylor University Press, 2012.

Predestination: Biblical and Theological Paths.  Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011.

The Betrayal of Charity: The Sins that Sabotage Divine Love.  Waco, TX: Baylor University Press, 2011.

Jewish-Christian Dialogue and the Life of Wisdom: Engagements with the Theology of David Novak.  New York: Continuum, 2010.

Christ and the Catholic Priesthood: Ecclesial Hierarchy and the Pattern of  the Trinity.  Chicago: Hillenbrand Books, 2010.

Participatory Biblical Exegesis: A Theology of Biblical Interpretation.  Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 2008.

Biblical Natural Law: A Theocentric and Teleological Approach.  Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008.

Ezra and Nehemiah: A Theological Commentary.  Grand Rapids, MI: Brazos Press, 2007.

Sacrifice and Community: Jewish Offering and Christian Eucharist.  Oxford: Blackwell, 2005.

* Romanian edition published as: Sacrificiu şi comunitate: Ofranda iudaică şi euharistia creştină.  Trans. Alex Moldovan and Ana Lăcan. Târgu-Lăpuş: Galaxia Gutenberg, 2015.

Holy People, Holy Land: A Theological Introduction to the Bible.  Co-authored with Michael Dauphinais.  Grand Rapids, MI: Brazos Press, 2005.

Scripture and Metaphysics: Aquinas and the Renewal of Trinitarian Theology. Oxford: Blackwell, 2004.

* Polish edition published as: Pismo Święte i metafizyka. Tomasz z Akwinu i odnowa teologii trynitarnej.  Trans. Michał Romanek.  Krakow: Kolegium Filozoficzno-Teologiczne Polskiej Prowincji Dominikanów, 2016.

* Romanian edition published as: Scriptura şi metafizica: Toma de Aquino şi Renaşterea teologiei trinitare.  Trans. Dan Tomulet.  Iaşi: Sapientia, 2020.

Christ’s Fulfillment of Torah and Temple: Salvation According to Thomas Aquinas.  Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 2002.

Knowing the Love of Christ: An Introduction to the Theology of St. Thomas Aquinas.  Co-authored with Michael Dauphinais.  Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 2002.

* French edition published as: À la découverte de l’amour de dieu. Une  Introduction à la théologie de saint Thomas d’Aquin.  Trans. Giovanna Brianti.  Paris: Parole et Silence, 2005.

 

Books Edited or Co-Edited

Africae Munus: Ten Years Later.  Co-edited with Maurice A. Agbaw-Ebai. South Bend, IN: St. Augustine’s Press, 2022.

Joseph Ratzinger and the Future of African Theology.  Co-edited with Maurice Ashley Agbaw-Ebai.  Eugene, OR: Pickwick, 2021.

The Oxford Handbook of the Reception of Aquinas.  Co-edited with Marcus Plested.  Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021.

The Achievement of David Novak: A Catholic-Jewish Dialogue.  Co-edited with Tom Angier.  Eugene, OR: Pickwick, 2021.

Evil and Creation: Historical and Constructive Essays in Christian Dogmatics. Co-edited with David J. Luy and George Kalantzis.  Bellingham, WA: Lexham, 2020.

Reading Job with St. Thomas Aquinas.  Co-edited with Piotr Roszak and Jörgen Vijgen.  Washington, D.C.: Catholic University of America Press, 2020.

Dogma and Ecumenism: Vatican II and Karl Barth’s Ad Limina Apostolorum. Co-edited with Bruce L. McCormack and Thomas Joseph White, O.P. Washington, D.C.: Catholic University of America Press, 2020.

Joseph Ratzinger and the Healing of the Reformation-Era Divisions.  Co-edited with Emery de Gaál.  Steubenville, OH: Emmaus Academic, 2019.

Ressourcement after Vatican II: Essays in Honor of Joseph Fessio, S.J.  Co-edited with Nicholas J. Healy, Jr.  San Francisco: Ignatius Press, 2019.

Christian Dying: Witnesses from the Tradition.  Co-edited with George Kalantzis. Eugene, OR: Cascade, 2018.

The Reception of Vatican II.  Co-edited with Matthew L. Lamb.  Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017.

Aristotle in Aquinas’s Theology.  Co-edited with Gilles Emery, O.P.  Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015.

The Oxford Handbook of Sacramental Theology.  Co-edited with Hans Boersma. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015.

Heaven on Earth? Theological Interpretation in Ecumenical Dialogue.  Co-edited with Hans Boersma.  Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2013.

Reading Romans with St. Thomas Aquinas.  Co-edited with Michael Dauphinais.  Washington, D.C.: Catholic University of America Press, 2012.

The Oxford Handbook of the Trinity.  Co-edited with Gilles Emery, O.P. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011.

Ressourcement Thomism: Sacra Doctrina, the Sacraments, and the Moral Life. Co-edited with Reinhard Hütter.  Washington, D.C.: Catholic University of America Press, 2010.

Rediscovering Aquinas and the Sacraments: Studies in Sacramental Theology. Co-edited with Michael Dauphinais.  Chicago: Hillenbrand Books, 2009.

Vatican II: Renewal within Tradition.  Co-edited with Matthew L. Lamb. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008.

John Paul II and the Jewish People: A Jewish-Christian Dialogue.  Co-edited with David G. Dalin.  Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2008.

Wisdom and Holiness, Science and Scholarship: Studies in Honor of Matthew L. Lamb.  Co-edited with Michael Dauphinais.  Naples, FL: Sapientia Press, 2007.

Aquinas the Augustinian.  Co-edited with Michael Dauphinais and Barry David.  Washington, D.C.: Catholic University of America Press, 2007.

John Paul II and St. Thomas Aquinas.  Co-edited with Michael Dauphinais. Naples, FL: Sapientia Press, 2006.

Reading John with St. Thomas Aquinas: Theological Exegesis and Speculative Theology.  Co-edited with Michael Dauphinais.  Washington, D.C.: Catholic University of America Press, 2005.

On Marriage and the Family: Classic and Contemporary Texts.  Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2005.

On Prayer and Contemplation: Classic and Contemporary Texts.  Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2005.

On Christian Dying: Classic and Contemporary Texts.  Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2004.

On the Priesthood: Classic and Contemporary Texts.  Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2003.

 

Articles

“Afterword.”  In The Word on Fire Vatican II Collection: Declarations and Decrees.  Elk Grove Village, IL: Word on Fire Institute, 2023: 451-461.

“What God qua God Must Do: Providence, Predestination, and the Limits of Sacra Doctrina.”  In Love Become Incarnate: Essays in Honor of Bruce D. Marshall.  Ed. Justus H. Hunter, T. Adam Van Wart, and David L. Whidden III.  Steubenville, OH: Emmaus Academic, 2023: 193-213.

“Israel.”  In The New Cambridge Companion to Christian Doctrine.  Ed. Michael Allen.  Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023: 53-69.

“The Church as the Family of God: Benedict XVI’s Africae Munus and Joseph Ratzinger’s The Meaning of Christian Brotherhood.”  In Africae Munus: Ten Years Later.  Ed. Maurice A. Agbaw-Ebai and Matthew Levering. South Bend, IN: St. Augustine’s Press, 2022: 168-205.

“Trinity and Word: On Proving the Trinity.”  In Une théologie à l’école de saint Thomas d’Aquin: Hommage au prof. Gilles Emery op à l’occasion de ses  60 ans.  Ed. Nicole Awais, Benoît-Dominique de La Soujeole, O.P., and Doris Rey-Meier.  Paris: Cerf, 2022: 355-370.

“Recentering Christian Eschatology upon God: A Necessity for Evangelization.” Evangelization and Culture no. 11 (Spring 2022): 96-102.

“The Intercession of the Holy Spirit: Pneumatology and Prayer.”  In T&T Clark Handbook of Christian Prayer.  Ed. Ashley Cocksworth and John C. McDowell.  London: T&T Clark, 2022: 191-205.

“Christ the New Joshua.”  Studium 24 (2021): 117-136.

“Revelation and the Trinity.”  In The Oxford Handbook of Divine Revelation. Ed. Balázs M. Mezei, Francesca Aran Murphy, and Kenneth Oakes. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021: 123-138.

“Thomas Aquinas and the Book of Jeremiah.”  In Hearing and Doing the Word: The Drama of Evangelical Hermeneutics in Honor of Kevin J.  Vanhoozer.  Ed. Daniel J. Treier and Douglas A. Sweeney.  London: Bloomsbury, 2021: 143-156.

“Refusing to Resolve Tensions.”  International Journal of Systematic Theology 23 (2021): 422-427.

“Froude, Newman, and Doctrinal Corruption.”  Newman Studies Journal 18 (2021): 24-55.

“Webster’s Theological Exegesis of Christian Scripture.”  In A Companion to the Theology of John Webster.  Ed. Michael Allen and R. David Nelson. Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 2021: 102-116.

“Trinitarian Christology in the Gospel of Matthew.”  In The Center Is Jesus Christ Himself: Essays on Revelation, Salvation, and Evangelization in Honor of Robert P. Imbelli.  Ed. Andrew Meszaros.  Washington, D.C.: Catholic University of America Press, 2021: 130-152.

“Robert Barron’s The Priority of Christ: An Introduction.”  Evangelization and Culture no. 7 (Spring 2021): 81-88.

“Sin and Grace in the Church according to Paul and Aquinas.”  In Thomas Aquinas, Biblical Theologian.  Ed. Michael Dauphinais and Roger Nutt. Steubenville, OH: Emmaus Academic, 2021: 185-206.

“Introduction: A Master of Jewish-Christian Dialogue.” In The Achievement of David Novak: A Catholic-Jewish Dialogue.  Ed. Matthew Levering and Tom Angier.  Eugene, OR: Pickwick, 2021: 1-21.

“Pope Pius IX and the Mortara Case: A Catholic Critique.”  In The Achievement of David Novak: A Catholic-Jewish Dialogue.  Ed. Matthew Levering and Tom Angier.  Eugene, OR: Pickwick, 2021: 199-219.

“‘Who Together with the Father and Son Is Worshipped and Glorified’: Roman Catholic Perspectives.” In T&T Clark Handbook of Pneumatology.  Ed. Daniel Castelo and Kenneth M. Loyer.  London: T&T Clark, 2020: 181-88.

“The Gospel of John in Aquinas’s Literal Exposition on Job.”  In Reading Job with St. Thomas Aquinas.  Ed. Matthew Levering, Piotr Roszak, and Jörgen Vijgen.  Washington, D.C.: Catholic University of America Press, 2020: 68-89.

“Biblical Renewal and Vatican II: Karl Barth’s Contributions.”  In Dogma and Ecumenism: Vatican II and Karl Barth’s Ad Limina Apostolorum.  Ed. Matthew Levering, Bruce L. McCormack, and Thomas Joseph White, O.P.  Washington, D.C.: Catholic University of America Press, 2020: 22-41.

“Mystagogy and Aquinas’s Commentary on Isaiah: Initiating God’s People into Christ.”  In Initiation and Mystagogy in Thomas Aquinas: Scriptural, Systematic, Sacramental and Moral, and Pastoral Perspectives.  Ed. Henk Schoot, Jacco Verburgt, and Jörgen Vijgen.  Leuven: Peeters, 2019: 17-40.

“Liturgy and Trinity.”  Antiphon 23 (2019): 225-260.

“Introduction: Doctrine and Ecumenism.”  In Joseph Ratzinger and the Healing of  the Reformation-Era Divisions.  Ed. Emery de Gaál and Matthew Levering.  Steubenville, OH: Emmaus Academic, 2019: ix-xxvii.

“Mary and Grace.”  In The Oxford Handbook of Mary.  Ed. Chris Maunder. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019: 289-302.

“Acts 7 and the Stoning of Stephen.”  In The Book of Acts: Catholic, Orthodox, and Evangelical Readings.  Ed. Charles Raith II.  Washington, D.C.: Catholic University of America Press, 2019: 92-115.

“Introduction: Why Think about Divine Simplicity?”  Modern Theology 35 (2019): 411-417.

“Blood, Death, and Sacrifice in the Epistle to the Hebrews According to Thomas Aquinas.”  In So Great a Salvation: A Dialogue on the Atonement in Hebrews.  Ed. Jon C. Laansma, George H. Guthrie, and Cynthia Long Westfall.  London: T. & T. Clark, 2019: 120-143.

“Retrievals in Contemporary Christian Theology.”  In The Oxford Handbook of Early Christian Biblical Interpretation.  Ed. Paul M. Blowers and Peter Martens. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019: 723-739.

“The Scriptures and Their Interpretation.”  In The Oxford Handbook of Catholic Theology.  Ed. Lewis Ayres and Medi Ann Volpe, with Thomas L. Humphries.  Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019: 42-54.

“Pinckaers and Häring on Conscience.”  Journal of Moral Theology 8:Special Issue 2 (2019): 134-165.

“Catholic Tradition: Invented or Received?”  In Living the Catholic Tradition: Philosophical and Theological Considerations.  Ed. Renée Köhler-Ryan. Steubenville, OH: Franciscan University Press, 2019: 3-57.

“Contemplating Jesus Risen.”  In Culture, Contemplation, and Seminary Formation.  Ed. James Keating.  Omaha, NE: Institute for Priestly Formation, 2018: 1-27.

“Introducción” to Santo Tomás de Aquino, Commentario al Libro de los Salmos. Tomo III (Salmos 28 al 40).  Trans. Carlos A. Casanova.  Santiago, Chile: Centro de Estudios Tomistas, 2018: 9-22.

“Brant Pitre and Thomas Aquinas on Jesus’ Dying and Ours.”  In Sobre los Tipos y Grados de Conocimiento: Cognoscens in Actu Est Ipsum Cognitum in Actu.  Santiago, Chile: Centro de Estudios Tomistas, 2018: 397-419.

“The Unbearability of Annihilation: Job’s Challenge to His Creator.”  In Christian Dying: Witnesses from the Tradition.  Ed. George Kalantzis and Matthew Levering.  Eugene, OR: Cascade, 2018: 11-40.

“Nature and Grace in Gaudium et spes: The Status of the Theory of the Natural Desire for the Supernatural.”  In Enlightening the Mystery of Man: Gaudium et spes Fifty Years Later.  Ed. Antonio López.  Washington, D.C.: Humanum Academic Press, 2018: 124-147.

“Aquinas on the Indissolubility of Marriage.”  In Towards a Biblical Thomism: Thomas Aquinas and the Renewal of Biblical Theology.  Ed. Piotr Roszak and Jörgen Vijgen.  Pamplona: EUNSA, 2018: 243-271.

“Historical Memory and the Resurrection of Jesus: Encountering the Risen Christ.”  International Journal of Systematic Theology 20 (2018): 157-185.

“The Eucharist, the Risen Lord, and the Road to Emmaus: A Road to Deeper Unity?”  In Come, Let Us Eat Together: Sacraments and Christian Unity. Ed. George Kalantzis and Marc Cortez.  Downers Grove, IL: IVP Academic, 2018: 150-169.

“Tilting a Little More in the Direction of Thomas Aquinas.”  Pro Ecclesia 27 (2018): 48-55.

“Theology and Conversion: Anthropocentric or Theocentric?”  Warszawskie Studia Teologiczne 30 (2017): 7-14.

“Thomas Aquinas on Sexual Ethics.”  In Beauty, Order, and Mystery: A Christian Vision of Human Sexuality.  Ed. Gerald Hiestand and Todd Wilson. Downers Grove, IL: IVP Academic, 2017: 165-180.

“Thomas Aquinas on Law and Love.”  Angelicum 94 (2017): 413-441.

“On Humility.”  International Journal of Systematic Theology 19 (2017): 462-490.

“Mary and the Holy Spirit in the 1950s: Presaging Lumen Gentium.”  In Mary on  the Eve of the Second Vatican Council.  Ed. John C. Cavadini and Danielle M. Peters.  Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 2017: 133-155.

“The Dying of Macrina and Death with Dignity.”  Trinity Journal 38 (2017): 29-52.

“Aquinas on the Sacramental Life.”  In Christian Theologies of the Sacraments: A Comparative Introduction.  Ed. Justin S. Holcomb and David A. Johnson.  New York: New York University Press, 2017: 81-99.

“Christus Dominus.”  In The Reception of Vatican II.  Ed. Matthew L. Lamb and Matthew Levering.  Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017: 147-169.

“Aquinas and Supersessionism One More Time: A Response to Matthew A. Tapie’s Aquinas on Israel and the Church.”  Pro Ecclesia 25 (2016): 395-412.

“Augustine on Creation: An Exercise in the Dialectical Retrieval of the Ancients.”  In Wisdom and the Renewal of Catholic Theology: Essays in Honor of Matthew L. Lamb.  Ed. Thomas P. Harmon and Roger W. Nutt. Eugene, OR: Pickwick, 2016: 49-65.

“Aquinas’s Reception of Paul: Reading the Testaments Together.”  Letter & Spirit 11 (2016): 83-101.

“Looking Ahead by Glancing Back: John Calvin and Thomas Aquinas on the Church.”  In Protestantism after 500 Years.  Ed. Thomas Albert Howard and Mark A. Noll.  Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016: 303-318.

“‘Be Fruitful and Multiply, and Fill the Earth’: Was and Is This a Good Idea?” In On Earth as It Is in Heaven: Cultivating a Contemporary Theology of Creation.  Ed. David Vincent Meconi, S.J.  Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 2016: 80-122.

“Response to Michał Paluch’s ‘Analogical Synthesis: An Impossible Project?’” Nova et Vetera 14 (2016): 609-617.

“The Holy Spirit and the Old Testament.”  The Thomist 79 (2015): 345-381.

“Aristotle and the Mosaic Law.”  In Aristotle in Aquinas’s Theology.  Ed. Gilles Emery, O.P. and Matthew Levering.  Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015: 70-93.

“What Is the Gospel?”  In Theological Theology: Essays in Honour of John B. Webster.  Ed. R. David Nelson, Darren Sarisky, and Justin Stratis. London: Bloomsbury, 2015: 149-166.

“Creation and Atonement.”  In Locating Atonement: Explorations in Constructive Dogmatics.  Ed. Oliver D. Crisp and Fred Sanders.  Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan, 2015: 43-70.

“Supplementing Pinckaers: The Old Testament in Aquinas’s Ethics.”  In Reading Sacred Scripture with Thomas Aquinas. Hermeneutical Tools, Theological Questions and New Perspectives.  Ed. Piotr Roszak and Jörgen Vijgen. Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols, 2015: 349-373.

“Jonathan Edwards and Thomas Aquinas on Original Sin.”  In The Ecumenical Edwards: Jonathan Edwards and the Theologians.  Ed. Kyle C. Strobel. Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2015: 133-148.

“Rationalism or Revelation? St. Thomas Aquinas and the Filioque.”  In Spirit of God: Christian Renewal in the Community of Faith.  Ed. Jeffrey W. Barbeau and Beth Felker Jones.  Downers Grove, IL: IVP Academic, 2015: 59-73.

“Jesus and Metaphysics: Knowledge of God according to Joseph Ratzinger/ Pope Benedict XVI.”  Josephinum Journal of Theology 21 (2014): 292-312.

“A Note on John Milbank and Thomas Aquinas.”  New Blackfriars 95 (2014): 525-534.

“The Holy Spirit in the Trinitarian Communion: ‘Love’ and ‘Gift’?” International Journal of Systematic Theology 16 (2014): 126-142.

“The Holy Spirit and the Unity of the Church.”  Pro Ecclesia 23 (2014): 33-45.

“Paul in the Summa theologiae’s Treatise on the Triune God.”  Angelicum 90 (2013): 87-127.

“Variations on a Theme by Paul: Romans 1:20 in the Summa Theologiae.”  Pro Ecclesia 22 (2013): 153-166.

“Mary in the Theology of Joseph Ratzinger/Pope Benedict XVI.”  In Explorations in the Theology of Benedict XVI.  Ed. John C. Cavadini.  Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 2012: 276-297.

“Thomas Aquinas.”  In The Decalogue through the Centuries: From the Hebrew Scriptures to Benedict XVI.  Ed. Jeffrey P. Greenman and Timothy Larsen.  Louisville, KY: Westminster John Knox Press, 2012: 67-80.

“Readings on the Rock: Typological Exegesis in Contemporary Scholarship.” Modern Theology 28 (2012): 707-731.

“The Book of Job and God’s Existence.”  In A Man of the Church: Honoring the  Theology, Life, and Witness of Ralph Del Colle.  Ed. Michel René Barnes. Eugene, OR: Wipf and Stock, 2012: 231-240.

“Aquinas on Romans 8: Predestination in Context.”  In Reading Romans with St. Thomas Aquinas.  Ed. Matthew Levering and Michael Dauphinais.  Washington, D.C.: Catholic University of America Press, 2012: 196-215.

“Scriptural and Sacramental Signs: Augustine’s Answer to Faustus.”  Letter & Spirit 7 (2011): 91-118.

“Predestination in John 13-17? Aquinas’s Commentary on John and Contemporary Exegesis.”  The Thomist 75 (2011): 393-414.

“Linear and Participatory History in Augustine’s City of God.”  Journal of Theological Interpretation 5 (2011): 175-196.

“Eternity, History, and Divine Providence.”  Angelicum 88 (2011): 403-423.

“Christ, the Trinity, and Predestination: McCormack and Aquinas.”  In Trinity and Election in Contemporary Theology.  Ed. Michael T. Dempsey.  Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 2011: 244-273.

“Aquinas.”  In The Blackwell Companion to Paul.  Ed. Stephen Westerholm. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2011: 361-374.

“Ockham on the Papacy.”  In Philosophy and Theology in the Long Middle Ages: A Tribute to Stephen F. Brown.  Ed. Kent Emery, Jr., Russell Friedman, and Andreas Speer.  Leiden: Brill, 2011: 749-780.

“Eternal Life, a Merited Free Gift?”  Nova et Vetera 9 (2011): 149-162.

“Providence and Predestination in Al-Ghazali.”  New Blackfriars 92 (2011): 55-70.

“Aquinas on the Christian Life.”  Journal of Lutheran Ethics (online journal). May 2, 2011.

“The Inspiration of Scripture: A Status Quaestionis.”  Letter & Spirit 6 (2010): 281-314.

“God and Greek Philosophy in Contemporary Biblical Scholarship.” Journal of Theological Interpretation 4 (2010): 169-185.

“Ordering Wisdom: Aquinas, the Old Testament, and Sacra Doctrina.”  In Ressourcement Thomism.  Ed. Reinhard Hütter and Matthew Levering. Washington, D.C.: Catholic University of America Press, 2010: 80-91.

“Biblical Thomism and the Doctrine of Providence.” American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly 83 (2009): 339-362.

“Holy Orders and Ecclesial Hierarchy in Aquinas.”  In Rediscovering Aquinas and the Sacraments: Studies in Sacramental Theology.  Ed. Matthew Levering and Michael Dauphinais.  Chicago, IL: Hillenbrand Books, 2009: 85-101.

“Charity and Empire: Is Trinitarian Monotheism Violent?”  Letter & Spirit 5 (2009): 155-171.

“A Note on Scripture in the Summa Theologiae.”  New Blackfriars 90 (2009): 652-658.

“Aquinas on the Book of Job: Providence and Presumption.”  In The Providence of God: Deus Habet Consilium.  Ed. Francesca Aran Murphy and Philip G. Ziegler.  London: T. & T. Clark, 2009: 7-33.

“Liturgical Mediation: Help or Hindrance to the Unity of the People of God?” Assembly: A Journal of Liturgical Theology 35 (2009): 50-54.

“Knowing What Is ‘Natural’: Thomas Aquinas and Luke Timothy Johnson on Romans 1-2.”  Logos 12 (2009): 117-142.

“Original Sin and the Anthropological Principles of Humanae Vitae.”  Nova et Vetera 6 (2008): 779-799.

“The Imago Dei in David Novak and Thomas Aquinas: A Jewish-Christian Dialogue.”  The Thomist 72 (2008): 259-311.

“Religious Freedom, State Neutrality, and Divine Authority.”  In Ethics without God? The Divine in Contemporary Moral and Political Thought.  Ed. Fulvio Di Blasi, Joshua P. Hochschild, and Jeffrey Langan.  South Bend, IN: St. Augustine’s Press, 2008: 114-118.

“God and Natural Law: Reflections on Genesis 22.”  Modern Theology 24 (2008): 151-177.

***Reprinted (slightly modified) under the same title in The Threads of Natural Law: Unravelling a Philosophical Tradition.  Ed. Francisco José Contreras.  New York: Springer, 2013: 65-83.

“Principles of Exegesis: Toward a Participatory Biblical Exegesis.”  Pro Ecclesia 17 (2008): 35-51.

“Reclaiming God’s Providence: John Paul II, Maimonides, and Aquinas.” In John Paul II and the Jewish People.  Ed. David G. Dalin and Matthew Levering.  Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2008: 95-112.

“Pastoral Perspectives on the Church in Modern World.”  In Vatican II: Renewal within Tradition.  Ed. Matthew L. Lamb and Matthew Levering.  Oxford:Oxford University Press, 2008: 165-183.

“Christ the Priest: An Exploration of Summa Theologiae III, q. 22.”  The Thomist 71 (2007): 379-417.

***Czech translation: “Kristus knĕz: Prohloubení 22. otázky třetí části Summy Theologiae,” Salve: Revue pro teologii, duchovní život a kulturu  20 (2010): 59-91.

“A Note on Joseph Ratzinger and Contemporary Theology of the Priesthood.” Nova et Vetera 5 (2007): 271-283.

“The Brothers and Sisters of Jesus.”  Published on FirstThings.com, November 30, 2007.

“Hierarchy and Holiness.”  In Wisdom and Holiness, Science and Scholarship. Ed. Michael Dauphinais and Matthew Levering.  Naples, FL: Sapientia Press, 2007: 143-172.

“Friendship and Trinitarian Theology: Response to Karen Kilby.”  International Journal of Systematic Theology 9 (2007): 39-54.

“Augustine and Aquinas on the Good Shepherd: The Value of an Exegetical Tradition.”  In Aquinas the Augustinian.  Ed. Michael Dauphinais, Barry David, and Matthew Levering.  Washington, D.C.: Catholic University of America Press, 2007: 205-242.

“St. Thomas Aquinas and William Abraham.”  New Blackfriars 88 (2007): 46-55.

“Natural Law and Natural Inclinations: Rhonheimer, Pinckaers, McAleer.” The Thomist 70 (2006): 155-201.

“Ecclesial Exegesis and Ecclesial Authority: Childs, Fowl, and Aquinas.” The Thomist 69 (2005): 407-467.

“Reading John with St. Thomas Aquinas.”  In Aquinas on Scripture: An  Introduction to His Biblical Commentaries.  Ed. Thomas Weinandy, O.F.M. Cap., Daniel Keating, and John Yocum.  New York: T. & T. Clark, 2005: 99-126.

“Participation and Exegesis: Response to Catherine Pickstock.”  Modern Theology 21 (2005): 587-601.

“John Paul II and Aquinas on the Eucharist.”  Nova et Vetera 3 (2005): 637-659.

*** French trans.: “Jean-Paul II et S. Thomas d’Aquin sur l’eucharistie.” Nova et Vetera [French ed.] 80 (2005): 7-32.

“Does the Paschal Mystery Reveal the Trinity?”  In Reading John with St. Thomas Aquinas.  Ed. Michael Dauphinais and Matthew Levering. Washington, D.C.: Catholic University of America Press, 2005: 78-91.

“The Pontifical Biblical Commission and Aquinas’s Exegesis.”  In a symposium on the Pontifical Biblical Commission’s The Jewish People and Their Sacred Scriptures in the Christian Bible.  Pro Ecclesia 13 (2004): 25-38.

“Aquinas on the Liturgy of the Eucharist.”  In Aquinas on Doctrine: A Critical Introduction.  Ed. Thomas Weinandy, O.F.M. Cap., Daniel Keating, and John Yocum.  New York: T. & T. Clark, 2004: 183-197.

“Metaphysics and Contemporary Sacramental Theology: Retrieving Anscar Vonier, O.S.B.’s A Key to the Doctrine of the Eucharist.” In Indubitanter ad veritatem: Studies Offered to Leo J. Elders, S.V.D. Ed. Jörgen Vijgen.  Budel: Damon, 2003: 281-300.

“Juridical Language in Soteriology: Aquinas’s Approach.”  Angelicum 80 (2003): 309-326.

“Beyond the Jamesian Impasse in Trinitarian Theology.”  The Thomist 66 (2002): 395-420.

“Contemplating God: YHWH and Being in the Theology of St. Thomas Aquinas.” Irish Theological Quarterly 67 (2002): 17-31.

“Balthasar on Christ’s Consciousness on the Cross.”  The Thomist 65 (2001): 567-581.

“Speaking the Trinity: Anselm and His 13th-Century Interlocutors on Divine Intelligere and Dicere.”  In Saint Anselm—His Origins and Influence. Ed. John R. Fortin.  Lewiston, NY: Edwin Mellon Press, 2001: 131-143.

“Wisdom and the Viability of Thomistic Trinitarian Theology.”  The Thomist 64 (2000): 593-618.

“Israel and the Shape of Thomas Aquinas’s Soteriology.”  The Thomist 63 (1999): 65-82.

 

Forewords, Afterwords, Editorials, and Short Pieces (not a comprehensive list)

“Introduction to the Second Edition.”  Co-authored with David Augustine.  In Matthias Joseph Scheeben, The Mysteries of Christianity, trans. Cyril Vollert, S.J., 2nd ed.  Steubenville, OH: Emmaus Academic, 2023, xii-xxxi.

“Foreword.”  In Ambroise Gardeil, O.P., The True Christian Life: Thomistic Reflections on Divinization, Prudence, Religion, and Prayer, trans. Matthew K. Minerd.  Washington, D.C.: Catholic University of America Press, 2022: vii-xvii.

“Foreword.”  In By Strange Ways: Theologians and Their Paths to the Catholic Church, ed. Jonathan Fuqua and Daniel Strudwick.  San Francisco: Ignatius Press, 2022: 9-15.
“Tracts for the Times 1.” [Published anonymously.] Nova et Vetera 20 (2022):1-9.

“St. Augustine.”  In The New Apologetics: Defending the Faith in a Post-Christian Era.  Ed. Matthew Nelson.  Park Ridge, IL: Word on Fire Institute, 2022: 71-74.
“Afterword.”  In The Word on Fire Vatican II Collection.  Ed. Robert Barron. Park Ridge, IL: Word on Fire Institute, 2021: 347-356.

“Foreword.”  In Réginald Garrigou-Lagrange, Thomistic Common Sense: The Philosophy of Being and the Development of Doctrine, trans. Matthew K. Minerd.  Steubenville, OH: Emmaus Academic Press, 2021: xi-xxi.

“Foreword.”  In Donald Haggerty, Contemplative Enigmas: Insights and Aid on the Path to Deeper Prayer.  San Francisco: Ignatius Press, 2020: 9-18.

“Afterword.”  In The Theology of Benedict XVI: A Protestant Appreciation. Ed. Tim Perry.  Bellingham, WA: Lexham Press, 2019: 279-82.

“Foreword.”  In Thomas Aquinas and the Greek Fathers.  Ed. Michael A. Dauphinais, Andrew Hofer, O.P., and Roger W. Nutt.  Ave Maria: Sapientia Press, 2019: xi-xviii.

“Foreword.”  In Dennis D. Kasule, Tillard and von Balthasar: A Quest for Rapprochement.  Jerusalem: STS Publications, 2017: v-ix.

“Foreword.”  In Brendan Lupton, St. Paul as an Exemplar of Holiness and Pastoral Leadership in the Writings of Pope Gregory the Great: A Study of Personal Sanctity.  Lewiston, NY: Edwin Mellen Press, 2017: i-iii.

Editorial, International Journal of Systematic Theology 18 (2016): 376-78.

“The Life and Teaching of St. Thomas Aquinas.”  In Catholicism: The Pivotal Players: Facilitator Guide.  Based on the Series Created by Bishop Robert Barron.  Skokie, IL: Word on Fire Catholic Ministries, 2016: 3-8.

Editorial, International Journal of Systematic Theology 17 (2015): 128-130.

“Foreword.”  In Divinization: Becoming Icons of Christ Through the Liturgy, ed. Andrew Hofer, O.P. Chicago: Hillenbrand Books, 2015: vii-xi.

“Foreword to the North American Edition.”  In Aidan Nichols, O.P., Conversation of Faith and Reason: Modern Catholic Thought from Hermes to Benedict XVI.  Chicago: Hillenbrand Books, 2011: iv-viii.

“The Audacity of Abortion.”  Co-authored with Peter J. Leithart.  Nova et Vetera 7 (2009): 295-299.

“Messianic Gentiles and Messianic Jews: A Response to Mark S. Kinzer.” First Things no. 189 (January 2009): 47-49.

“Editorial: Deus Caritas Est.”  Nova et Vetera 4 (2006): 223-226.

 

Translations and Editions

Translation of Gilles Emery, O.P., “The Holy Spirit in Aquinas’s Commentary on Romans.”  In Reading Romans with St. Thomas Aquinas, ed. Matthew Levering and Michael Dauphinais (Washington, D.C.: Catholic University of America Press, 2012), 127-62.

Translation of Gilles Emery, O.P., The Trinity: An Introduction to Catholic Doctrine on the Trinity.  Washington, D.C.: Catholic University of America Press, 2011.

New edition (introduction and notes) with Daniel Keating of St. Thomas Aquinas, Commentary on the Gospel of John, trans. Fabian Larcher, O.P. and James Weisheipl, O.P. in 2 vols. (Magi Books and St. Bede’s Publications, 1980 and 1999).  3 vols.  Washington, D.C.: Catholic University of America Press, 2010.

Revision of Robert Williams’s translation of Surnaturel, ed. Serge-Thomas Bonino, O.P.  Ave Maria, FL: Sapientia Press, 2009.

Translation of Emmanuel Perrier, O.P., “The Election of Israel Today: Supersessionism, Post-Supersessionism, and Fulfillment.” Nova et Vetera 7 (2009): 485-503.

Translation of Gilles Emery, O.P., “Thomas Aquinas, Postliberal? George Lindbeck’s Reading of St. Thomas,” in Emery, The Trinity, the Church, and the Human Person (Naples, FL: Sapientia Press, 2007), 263-290.

Translation of Charles Morerod, O.P., “The Senses in the Relationship of Man with God.”  Nova et Vetera 5 (2007): 789-816.

Translation of Gilles Emery, O.P., “The Personal Mode of Trinitarian Action in St. Thomas Aquinas.”  The Thomist 69 (2005): 31-77.

Translation with Teresa Bede of Gilles Emery, O.P., “The Treatise on the Trinity in the Summa Theologiae,” in his Trinity in Aquinas (Ypsilanti, MI: Sapientia Press, 2003).

Translation of Gilles Emery, O.P., “Essentialism or Personalism in the Treatise on God in St. Thomas Aquinas?” The Thomist 64 (2000): 521-563.

 

Book Reviews

Review of Peter Cajka, Follow Your Conscience: The Catholic Church and the Spirit of the Sixties (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2021).  U.S. Catholic Historian 40 (2022): 96-101.

Review of David W. Kling, A History of Christian Conversion (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020).  Horizons 49 (2022): 252-253.Review of Jon Kirwan, An Avant-garde Theological Generation: The Nouvelle Théologie and the French Crisis of Modernity (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018).  Nova et Vetera 20 (2022): 352-357.

Review of Justus H. Hunter, If Adam Had Not Sinned: The Reason for the Incarnation from Anselm to Scotus (Washington, D.C.: Catholic University of America Press, 2020).  Wesleyan Theological Journal 56 (2021): 242-244.

Review of David Aers, Versions of Election: From Langland and Aquinas to Calvin and Milton (Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 2020).
Church History: Studies in Christianity and Culture 90 (2021): 689-691.

Review of Brian Brock and Bernd Wannenwetsch, The Malady of the Christian Body: A Theological Exposition of Paul’s First Letter to the Corinthians, vol. 1 (Eugene, OR: Cascade, 2016) and Brian Brock and Bernd Wannenwetsch, The Therapy of the Christian Body: A Theological Exposition of Paul’s First Letter to the Corinthians, vol. 2 (Eugene, OR: Cascade, 2018).  Modern Theology 37 (2021): 543-549.

Review of Kelley Nikondeha, Adopted: The Sacrament of Belonging in a Fractured World (Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 2017).  National Catholic Bioethics Quarterly 20 (2020): 633-634.

Review of Tyler R. Wittman, God and Creation in the Theology of Thomas Aquinas and Karl Barth (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019).  The Thomist 84 (2020): 161-165.

Review of Robert Jenson, The Triune Story: Collected Essays on Scripture, ed. Brad East (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019).  Pro Ecclesia 29 (2020): 239-243.

Review of Jan-Heiner Tück, A Gift of Presence: The Theology and Poetry of the Eucharist in Thomas Aquinas, trans. Scott G. Hefelfinger (Washington, D.C.: Catholic University of America Press, 2018).  The Thomist 83 (2019): 488-492.

Review of Paul R. Hinlicky, Luther vs. Pope Leo: A Conversation in Purgatory (Nashville, TN: Abingdon Press, 2017).  Pro Ecclesia 28 (2019): 98-101.

Review of Philip McCosker and Denys Turner, eds., The Cambridge Companion to the Summa Theologiae (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2016).  Reviews in Religion & Theology 26 (2019): 288-291.

Review of Thomas Joseph White, O.P., The Light of Christ: An Introduction to Catholicism (Washington, D.C.: Catholic University of America Press, 2017).  Newman Studies Journal 15 (2018): 69-71.

Review of Andrew Meszaros, The Prophetic Church: History and Doctrinal Development in John Henry Newman and Yves Congar (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016).  Louvain Studies 41 (2018): 94-95.

Review of Benjamin D. Sommer, Revelation and Authority: Sinai in Jewish Scripture and Tradition (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2015). Nova et Vetera 16 (2018): 1019-1024.

Review of Kenneth Oakes, ed., Christian Wisdom Meets Modernity (London: Bloomsbury, 2016).  Theologische Literaturzeitung 143 (2018): 253-255.

Review of David Bentley Hart, The Hidden and the Manifest: Essays in Theology and Metaphysics (Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 2017).  Horizons 45 (2018): 197-199.

Review of Shimon Cowen, Homosexuality, Marriage and Society (Brisbane: Connor Court Publishing, 2016).  National Catholic Bioethics Quarterly 17 (2017): 554-556.

Review of Aaron Riches, Ecce Homo: On the Divine Unity of Christ (Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 2016).  Nova et Vetera 15 (2017): 1284-1291.

Review of Kevin J. Vanhoozer, Faith Speaking Understanding: Performing the Drama of Doctrine (Louisville, KY: Westminster John Knox Press, 2014). International Journal of Systematic Theology 19 (2017): 230-233.

Review of Kevin J. Vanhoozer and Daniel J. Treier, Theology and the Mirror of Scripture: A Mere Evangelical Account (Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, 2015).  Modern Theology 33 (2017): 303-306.

Review of Mats Wahlberg, Revelation as Testimony: A Philosophical-Theological Study (Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 2014).  Nova et Vetera 15 (2017): 334-342.

Review of Reinhard Hütter, Dust Bound for Heaven: Explorations in the Theology of Thomas Aquinas (Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 2012). Nova et Vetera 14 (2016): 353-362.

Review of Peter J. Leithart, Traces of the Trinity: Signs of God in Creation and Human Experience (Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Academic, 2015). http://www.reformation21.org/articles/traces-of-the-trinity.php  July 2015.

Review of David Bentley Hart, The Experience of God: Being, Consciousness, Bliss (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2013).  International Journal of Systematic Theology 17 (2015): 488-491.

Review of Peter Ochs, Another Reformation: Postliberal Christianity and the Jews (Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Academic, 2011).  International Journal of Systematic Theology 17 (2015): 234-237.

Review of Peter W. Martens, Origen and Scripture: The Contours of the Exegetical Life (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012).  The Thomist 78 (2014): 315-319.

Review of William Hasker, Metaphysics and the Tri-Personal God (Oxford:Oxford University Press, 2013).  Journal of Analytic Theology 2 (2014): 294-298.

Review of James Monti, A Sense of the Sacred: Roman Catholic Worship in the Middle Ages (San Francisco: Ignatius Press, 2012).  Sacred Architecture Issue 26 (2014): 39.

Review of Alexander Pruss, One Body: An Essay in Christian Sexual Ethics (Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 2013).  National Catholic Bioethics Quarterly 13 (2013): 560-564.

Review of Marcus Plested, Orthodox Readings of Aquinas (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012).  Logos: A Journal of Eastern Christian Studies 54 (2013): 145-148.

Review of Denys Turner, Thomas Aquinas: A Portrait (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2013).  The Tablet (31 August 2013): 17-18.

Review of Edward T. Oakes, S.J., Infinity Dwindled to Infancy: A Catholic and Evangelical Christology (Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 2011).  Modern Theology 29 (2013): 416-419.

Review of Pope Benedict XVI, Saint Paul (San Francisco: Ignatius Press, 2009). Saint Austin Review 12 (July/August 2012): 42-43.

Review of Christopher Kaczor, The Ethics of Abortion: Women’s Rights, Human Life, and the Question of Justice (New York: Routledge, 2011). National Catholic Bioethics Quarterly 11 (2011): 603-605.

Review of Edward Feser, The Last Superstition: A Refutation of the New Atheism (South Bend, IN: St. Augustine’s Press, 2008).  The Thomist 75 (2011): 156-159.

Review of Russell L. Friedman, Medieval Trinitarian Thought from Aquinas to Ockham (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010).  Journal of the History of Philosophy 49 (2011): 374-375.

Review of Joseph Ratzinger, Faith and the Future (San Francisco: Ignatius Press, 2009).  Saint Austin Review 11 (Jan/Feb 2011): 43-44.

Review of Michael Pasquarello, We Speak Because We Have First Been Spoken: A “Grammar” of the Preaching Life (Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 2009).  The Thomist 74 (2010): 645-648.

Review of John Rziha, Perfecting Human Actions: St. Thomas Aquinas on Human Participation in Eternal Law (Washington, D.C.: Catholic University of America Press, 2009).  Theological Studies 71 (2010): 977-978.

Review of Michael Fishbane, Sacred Attunement: A Jewish Theology (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2008).  Nova et Vetera 8 (2010): 711-716.

Review of Edgardo A. Colón-Emeric, Wesley, Aquinas, and Christian Perfection: An Ecumenical Dialogue (Waco, TX: Baylor University Press, 2009).  Modern Theology 26 (2010): 674-677.

Review of Francesca Aran Murphy, God Is Not a Story: Realism Revisited (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007).  Nova et Vetera 8 (2010): 494-499.

Review of José Granados, Carlos Granados, and Luis Sánchez-Navarro, eds., Opening Up the Scriptures: Joseph Ratzinger and the Foundations of Biblical Interpretation (Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 2008). Theological Studies 71 (2010): 251-52.

Review of Hans Boersma, Nouvelle Théologie and Sacramental Ontology: A Return to Mystery (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009).  www.FirstThings.com March 31, 2010.

Reviews of Markus Bockmuehl, Seeing the Word: Refocusing New Testament Study (Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Academic, 2006); R. W. L. Moberly, Prophecy and Discernment (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006); Simon J. Gathercole, The Pre-existent Son: Recovering the Christologies of Matthew, Mark, and Luke (Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 2006); Christopher R. Seitz, Prophecy and Hermeneutics: Toward a New Introduction to the Prophets (Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Academic, 2007); A. K. M. Adam, Stephen E. Fowl, Kevin J. Vanhoozer, and Francis Watson, Reading Scripture with the Church: Toward a Hermeneutic for  Theological Interpretation (Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Academic, 2006); Francis Watson, Paul and the Hermeneutics of Faith (New York: T. & T. Clark, 2004).  The Thomist 73 (2009): 313-338.

Review of Craig Steven Titus, ed., On Wings of Faith and Reason: The Christian Difference in Culture and Science (Arlington, VA: Institute of Psychological Sciences, 2008).  National Catholic Bioethics Quarterly 9 (2009): 400-402.

Review of Randi L. Rashkover and Martin Kavka, ed., Tradition in the Public  Square: A David Novak Reader (Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 2008). First Things 187 (November 2008): 60.

Review of Jean Porter, Nature as Reason: A Thomistic Theory of Natural  Law (Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 2005).  Pro Ecclesia 17 (2008): 469-473.

Review of C. Kavin Rowe, Early Narrative Christology: The Lord in the Gospel  of Luke (Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 2006).  Nova et Vetera 6 (2008): 460-464.

Review of John F. Haught, Is Nature Enough? Meaning and Truth in the Age of Science (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006).  Review of Metaphysics 61 (2007): 135-137.

Review of Nancey Murphy, Bodies and Souls, or Spirited Bodies? (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006).  National Catholic Bioethics Quarterly 7 (2007): 635-638.

Review of Anselm K. Min, Paths to the Triune God: An Encounter between Aquinas and Recent Theologies (Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 2005).  Modern Theology 23 (2007): 304-307.

Review of Oliver Davies, The Creativity of God (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004).  Modern Theology 22 (2006): 150-152.

Review of Frederick Christian Bauerschmidt, Holy Teaching: Introducing the Summa Theologiae of St. Thomas Aquinas (Grand Rapids, MI: Brazos Press, 2005).  The Thomist 70 (2006): 140-142.

Review of G. J. McAleer, Ecstatic Morality and Sexual Politics: A Catholic and Antitotalitarian Theory of the Body (New York: Fordham University Press, 2005).  National Catholic Bioethics Quarterly 5 (2005): 846-849.

Review of Catherine Keller, Face of the Deep: A Theology of Becoming (New York: Routledge, 2003).  Theological Studies 66 (2005): 905-907.

Review of Stephen Pope, ed., The Ethics of Aquinas (Washington, D.C.: Georgetown University Press, 2002).  National Catholic Bioethics Quarterly 5 (2005): 430-432.

Review of Charles Taylor, Varieties of Religion Today: William James Revisited (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2002). Modern Theology 21 (2005): 163-165.

Review of Russell Hittinger, The First Grace: Rediscovering the Natural Law in the Post-Christian World (Wilmington, DE: ISI Books, 2003).  Nova et Vetera 2 (2004): 223-228.

Review of Paul Gondreau, The Passions of Christ’s Soul in the Theology of St. Thomas Aquinas (Münster: Aschendorff, 2002).  Doctor Angelicus 4 (2004): 242-247.

Review of Aidan Nichols, O.P., Discovering Aquinas (London: Darton, Longman and Todd, 2002).  Saint Austin Review 3 (2003): 39-41.

Review of Romanus Cessario, O.P., The Virtues, or the Examined Life (New York: Continuum, 2002).  The Thomist 67 (2003): 143-147.

Review of Philip W. Butin, The Trinity (Louisville, KY: Geneva Press, 2001).  Pro Ecclesia 11 (2002): 497-498.

Review of David Coffey, Deus Trinitas: The Doctrine of the Triune God (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999).  Pro Ecclesia 11 (2002):  238-240.

Review of Wilhelmus G. B. M. Valkenberg, Words of the Living God: Place and Function of Holy Scripture in the Theology of St. Thomas Aquinas (Leuven: Peeters, 2000).  Theological Studies 62 (2001): 378-379.

Review of Aidan Nichols, O.P., No Bloodless Myth: A Guide Through Balthasar’s Dramatics (Washington, D.C.: The Catholic University of America Press, 2000).  The Thomist 65 (2001): 319-323.

 

Book Series:

Renewal within Tradition (Emmaus Academic), 2016-

Thomistic Ressourcement.  Co-editor with Thomas Joseph White, O.P.  (Catholic University of America Press), 2011-

Reading the Scriptures.  Co-editor with Gary A. Anderson and Robert Louis Wilken (University of Notre Dame Press), 2008-2021.

Foundations of Theological Exegesis and Christian Spirituality.  Co-editor with Hans Boersma (Baker Academic Press), 2011-2016.

Faith and Reason: Studies in Catholic Theology and Philosophy.  Co-editor with Reinhard Hütter and Michael Dauphinais (Sapientia Press), 2007-2017.

 

Conference Planning:

Conceived and organized with Joshua Brown and Xueying Wang a conference entitled “Aquinas and Chinese Thought,” March 23-25, 2023 at Mundelein Seminary.

Conceived and organized with George Kalantzis a conference entitled “Theologies of Peace,” March 16-18, 2023 at Wheaton College.

Conceived and organized with Frederick Aquino a conference entitled “Newman’s Grammar of Assent,” November 3-5, 2022 at Mundelein Seminary.

Conceived and organized with Edward Epsen a conference entitled “Jesus and Revelation,” September 16-17, 2022 at Mundelein Seminary.

Conceived and organized with Piotr Roszak and Jörgen Vijgen a conference entitled “Reading Hebrews with St. Thomas Aquinas,” September 1-3, 2022 at Mundelein Seminary.

Conceived and organized with George Kalantzis and David Luy a conference entitled “Deification: Ontology and Ethics,” April 1-2, 2022 at Wheaton College.

Conceived and organized with Aaron Pidel, S.J. and Justin Anderson a conference entitled “The Roman School,” March 24-26, 2022 at Mundelein Seminary.

Conceived and organized with Maurice Ashley Agbaw-Ebai a conference entitled “Africae Munus: Ten Years Later,” November 4-6, 2021 at Mundelein Seminary.

Conceived and organized with George Kalantzis and David Luy a conference entitled “Christian Holiness and Social Justice,” October 9, 2021 at Mundelein Seminary.

Conceived and organized with Emery de Gaál a conference entitled “St. John Henry Newman and Joseph Ratzinger/ Pope Benedict XVI: A Theological Encounter,” September 2-4, 2021 at Mundelein Seminary.

Conceived and organized with Aaron Pidel, S.J. and Justin Anderson a conference entitled “Ignatius the Thomist,” November 7-8, 2020, held on Zoom.

Conceived and organized with Maurice Ashley Agbaw-Ebai a conference entitled “Joseph Ratzinger and the Future of African Theology,” October 17-19, 2019 at Mundelein Seminary.

Conceived and organized a Reunion Seminar for my former STL/STD priest-students, July 9-10, 2019 (main presenter John Cavadini).

Conceived and organized with Bill Mattison the “Pinckaers Symposium,” May 6-7, 2019 at the University of Notre Dame.

Conceived and organized with Tom Angier a conference entitled “The Achievement of David Novak: A Catholic-Jewish Dialogue,” March 28-29, 2019 at Mundelein Seminary.

Conceived and organized with Bill Mattison the “Pinckaers Symposium,” May 7-8, 2018 at the University of Notre Dame.

Conceived and organized the Aquinas Colloquium (main presenter Steven Brock) and the Logos Colloquium for the New Evangelization (main presenters Bernard McGinn and Carlos Eire), Mundelein Seminary, January 11 and April 25, 2018.

Conceived and organized with George Kalantzis and David Luy a conference entitled “Creation and the Problem of Evil,” March 23-24, 2018 at Wheaton College.

Conceived and organized with Emery de Gaál a conference entitled “Joseph Ratzinger and the Healing of the Reformation-Era Divisions,” October 19-21, 2017 at Mundelein Seminary.

Conceived and organized the Aquinas Colloquium (main presenter Bernard McGinn) and the Logos Colloquium for the New Evangelization (main presenters Bishop Robert Barron and R. R. Reno), Mundelein Seminary, January 11 and April 18, 2017.

Conceived and organized with George Kalantzis a conference entitled “Imagining the Eschatological State,” March 24-25, 2017 at Wheaton College.

Conceived and organized the Aquinas Colloquium (main presenter Joseph Wawrykow) and the Logos Colloquium for the New Evangelization (main presenters Paul Griffiths and David Bentley Hart), Mundelein Seminary, January 26 and May 4, 2016.

Conceived and organized with George Kalantzis a conference entitled “On Christian Dying,” March 17-18, 2016 at Wheaton College.

Conceived and organized with Hans Boersma the “Wilken Colloquium for Catholic-Evangelical Dialogue,” sponsored by the Honors College, Baylor University, Waco, TX, held annually at Baylor from 2011-2016.

Conceived and organized with George Kalantzis a conference entitled “Divine Simplicity: A Necessary Doctrine?,” March 19-20, 2015 at Wheaton College.

Conceived and organized the Aquinas Colloquium (main presenter Reinhard Hütter) and the Logos Colloquium for the New Evangelization (main presenters Marilynne Robinson and Francesca Aran Murphy), Mundelein Seminary, January 28 and May 6, 2015.

Conceived and organized the Aquinas Colloquium (main presenter Marcus Plested) and the Logos Colloquium for the New Evangelization (main presenters George Weigel and Michael Baxter), Mundelein Seminary, January 29 and May 7, 2014.

Conceived and organized a conference entitled “Explorations in Catholic Mariology,” March 8, 2013 at the University of Dayton.

Conceived and organized Graduate Student Conferences in 2008, 2009, 2010, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018.

Conceived and organized a conference entitled “Dei Verbum at 50: Toward a Clarification of the Inspiration of Scripture,” October 25-27, 2012 at the University of Dayton.

Conceived and organized a symposium on “Jewish, Christian, and Muslim Natural Law Theories,” November 9-10, 2011 at the University of Dayton.

Conceived and organized with Hans Boersma a conference entitled “Heaven on Earth? The Future of Spiritual Interpretation,” September 16-17, 2011 at Regent College in Vancouver, Canada.

Conceived and organized with Timothy Gray and Jared Staudt a conference entitled “Sin and Redemption: Reflections on Gary Anderson’s Biblical Theology,” March 12-13, 2010 at St. John Vianney Major Seminary in Denver, Colorado.

Conceived and organized with Gregory Reichberg a conference entitled “Just War in the Catholic Tradition: Continuity or Rupture?,” June 25-27, 2009 at the Ritz Carlton in Naples, Florida.

Conceived and organized with Michael Dauphinais a conference entitled “Reading Paul with St. Thomas Aquinas,” February 5-7, 2009 at Ave Maria University in Ave Maria, Florida.

Conceived and organized with Michael Dauphinais a conference entitled “Humanae Vitae: Forty Years Later,” February 1-2, 2008 at Ave Maria University in Ave Maria, Florida.

Conceived and organized with Michael Dauphinais a conference entitled “Sacraments in Aquinas,” held February 1-3, 2007 at Ave Maria University in Naples, Florida.

Conceived and organized with Rabbi David Dalin a conference entitled “John Paul II and the Holy Land,” held February 8-9, 2006 at Ave Maria University in Naples, Florida.

Conceived and organized with Michael Dauphinais a conference entitled “Aquinas the Augustinian,” held at Ave Maria University in Naples, Florida on February 3-5, 2005.

Conceived and organized with Michael Dauphinais a conference entitled

“John Paul II and the Renewal of Thomistic Theology,” held at Ave Maria College on August 8-9, 2003.

Conceived and organized with Michael Dauphinais a conference entitled “Reading John with St. Thomas Aquinas: Ressourcement and the Fourth Gospel” held at the Hyatt Regency in Dearborn, Michigan, on October 5-6, 2001.

 

Presentations:

“The Cross at the Center of the Mystical Body: A Thomistic Approach.” The Aquinas Lecture, Dominican School of Philosophy and Theology, St. Albert’s Priory, Oakland, CA, March 9, 2023.

“The Church as Temple of the Spirit: Is There Room for Magisterial Error?” The Lecture on Christian Ethics, St. Francis de Sales Seminary, Milwaukee, WI, February 27, 2023.

“The Twentieth-Century Shift from Preconciliar Conscience-Centered Morality to Postconciliar Conscience-Centered Morality.”  Presented (via Zoom) to a conference entitled A Response to the Pontifical Academy of Life’s Publication: Etica teologica della Vita. Scritta, tradizione, sfide pratiche, sponsored by the International Catholic Jurists Forum, Rome, Italy, December 9, 2022.

“Glorified Bodiliness: Christ’s Resurrection and Ours.”  Presented to the students  of Concordia Theological Seminary, Fort Wayne, IN, December 7, 2022.

“Catholicity and the Catholic Church: Protestant Concerns and (Roman) Catholic Perspectives.”  Presented to the faculty of Concordia Theological Seminary, Fort Wayne, IN, December 6, 2022.

“Introduction” and “Response to My Respondents.”  Presented to a symposium on Engaging the Doctrine of Israel, with responses by Matthew Tapie, Susannah Ticciati, Malka Simkovich, and Isaac Oliver.  Sponsored by the Post-Supersessionist Society at its annual pre-AAR Meeting, Denver, CO, November 18, 2022.

“Jesus and Revelation: Religious Liberalism Resurgent?”  Presented to a conference entitled Jesus and Revelation, Mundelein Seminary, September 17, 2022.

“The City of God: Ecclesiological Insights in Aquinas’s Commentary on Hebrews.”  Presented to a conference entitled Reading Hebrews with St. Thomas Aquinas, sponsored by the Center for Scriptural Exegesis, Philosophy, and Doctrine at Mundelein Seminary, the Faculty of Theology of Nicolaus Copernicus University, and Emmaus Academic Press, Mundelein Seminary, September 3, 2022.

“In Defence of Spirit Christology, contra Suárez.”  Keynote lecture presented (via Zoom) to a conference entitled Pneumatology at the Beginning of the Third Millennium, sponsored by the University of Notre Dame Australia, Sydney, Australia, July 23, 2022.

“Congar and Vonier on the Spirit and the Bride.”  Presented to a conference entitled Descent of the Dove: Knowing and Loving in Spirit and Truth, sponsored by Pusey House, Oxford, England, July 6, 2022.

“Theological Mentors.”  Presidential Address to the Academy of Catholic Theology, Washington, D.C., May 24, 2022.

“Reconfiguring Thomistic Christology.”  Presented to a conference entitled Une théologie à l’école de s. Thomas d’Aquin: Colloque international en l’honneur du prof. em. Gilles Emery o.p. à l’occasion de ses 60 ans, sponsored by the University of Fribourg, Fribourg, Switzerland, May 6, 2022.

“Brock on Natural Law in Light of African Ethics.”  Presented to a Lumen Christi book panel on Stephen L. Brock’s The Light That Binds: A Study in Thomas Aquinas’s Metaphysics of Natural Law (Eugene, OR: Pickwick, 2020), at the University of Chicago, April 13, 2022.

“Thomas Aquinas and the Book of Jeremiah.”  Presented to a conference entitled The Drama of Evangelical Hermeneutics: A Conference in Honor of Kevin J. Vanhoozer, sponsored by Trinity Evangelical Divinity School, Deerfield, IL, March 11, 2012.

“Reconfiguring Thomistic Christology.”  The Annual Intellectual Retreat of the Religious Sisters of Mercy, Alma, MI, June 21, 2021.

“Christ the New Joshua.”  The Annual Intellectual Retreat of the Religious Sisters of Mercy, Alma, MI, June 22, 2021.

“Christ the New Moses.”  The Annual Intellectual Retreat of the Religious Sisters of Mercy, Alma, MI, June 23, 2021.

“Newman and Döllinger.”  Keynote Address presented to a conference entitled Development of Doctrine: Revelation, Magisterium, and Human Reason, sponsored by the Sacra Doctrina Project, held at St. Bernard’s School of Theology and Ministry, Rochester, NY, June 10, 2021.

“Christ the New Joshua.”  Opening Address presented to the Eighth Day Institute’s Florovsky-Newman Week 2021 on The Patristic View of Baptism: Public Proclamation or Salvific Sacrament?, Wichita, KS, June 3, 2021.

“Response to Marcus Plested.”  Presented to the Eighth Day Institute’s Florovsky-Newman Week 2021 on The Patristic View of Baptism: Public Proclamation or Salvific Sacrament?, Wichita, KS, June 4, 2021.

“Response to Charles Raith.”  Presented to the Eighth Day Institute’s Florovsky-Newman Week 2021 on The Patristic View of Baptism: Public Proclamation or Salvific Sacrament?, Wichita, KS, June 5, 2021.

“A Kantian Critique of Kant.”  Presented via Zoom to the Romanian Theological Group organized by Alin Tat, in honor of the Romanian publication of Hans Urs von Balthasar’s Theological Aesthetics, May 25, 2021.

“Temperance: A Christian Perspective.”  Presented to a conference entitled What Happened to Virtue, the Common Good, and Pluralism? Teachings from Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, co-sponsored by The Religious Freedom Institute (D.C.) and The Martin Marty Center for the Public Understanding of Religion at the University of Chicago Divinity School, Chicago, IL, May 20, 2021.

“Aquinas, Mary, and the Bible.”  Keynote Address presented via Zoom to a conference entitled Mary and the Word of God, the 72nd annual meeting of the Mariological Society of America, May 11, 2021.

“The Christian Bible and the Land of Israel.”  Presented via Zoom to a conference entitled Catholic Theologies of Jews and Judaism and the Challenge of Theological Dialogue, sponsored by the Center for Catholic-Jewish Studies at Saint Leo University, St. Leo, FL, May 9, 2021.

“Christ the New Isaac.”  Presented via Zoom to a conference entitled Hope and Death: Christian Responses, co-sponsored by the Aquinas Center for Theological Renewal and the St. Paul Center for Biblical Theology, at Ave Maria University, Ave Maria, FL, February 12, 2021.

“Aquinas on the New Adam.”  The 2021 Aquinas Lecture sponsored by the Thomistic Institute, presented at the Dominican House of Studies, Washington, D.C., January 21, 2021. “Newman on Doctrinal Corruption.”  Presented via Zoom (due to coronavirus closures) for a symposium of the National Institute for Newman Studies, Pittsburgh, PA, March 13, 2020.

“Integrating (Neo-)Thomism and Ressourcement Against Modernism: Garrigou-Lagrange’s Christ the Savior as a Test-Case.”  Invited plenary lecture presented at the annual meeting of the American Maritain Association, held at the Cathedral Center of the Ruthenian Catholic Metropolia, Munhall, PA, March 7, 2020.

“Conscience and Christ: New Testament Background”; “Conscience and the Neo-Scholastic Manuals”; and “Conscience in Twentieth-Century German Thought: Rahner and Ratzinger.”  The annual Archbishop Robert J. Dwyer Lecture Series at Mount Angel Seminary, Mount Angel, OR, November 25-26, 2019.

“Response to David Fergusson’s The Providence of God: A Polyphonic Approach.”  Presented to a session of the Reformed Theology and History Unit, American Academy of Religion, San Diego, CA, November 23, 2019.

“Psalms and Providence.”  Presented to the theology/biblical studies faculty and students of Houston Baptist University, Houston, TX, October 11, 2019.

“What Was the Purpose of the Exodus?”  The A. O. Collins Lecture at Houston Baptist University, Houston, TX, October 10, 2019.

“The Holy Spirit and Salvation.”  Presented as one of the “Braaten-Benne Lectures in Theology” at the North American Lutheran Church Annual Gathering, Indianapolis, IN, August 7, 2019.

“Life and Suffering: Lessons from the Book of Exodus.”  Presented to the University Faculty for Life, 29th Annual Conference, Mundelein Seminary, Mundelein, IL, June 6, 2019.

“A Consideration of the Thought of David Novak.”  Presented to a conference entitled Religious Particularity and Moral Universality: Faith, Reason, and Natural Law, sponsored by the James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, May 15, 2019.

“Israel’s Scriptures and the Doctrine of Creation.”  Presented to a conference entitled Word and Wisdom: Exploring the Future of Biblical Studies, sponsored by the McGrath Institute for Church Life, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN, April 2, 2019.

“The Edgardo Mortara Case.”  Presented to a conference entitled The Achievement of David Novak: A Catholic-Jewish Dialogue, sponsored by the Center for Scriptural Exegesis, Philosophy, and Doctrine, Mundelein Seminary, Mundelein, IL, March 29, 2019.

“The Scriptures and Their Interpretation.”  Presented to a conference entitled Remembering Raymond E. Brown: A Symposium on the Impact of the Catholic Biblical Renewal on the Life of the Church in the United States, co-sponsored by the Catholic Theological Union and Mundelein Seminary, Chicago, IL, March 20, 2019.

“What Aquinas and Paul Have to Teach Us about Sin and Grace in the Church.” Keynote lecture presented to a conference entitled Aquinas the Biblical Theologian, co-sponsored by the Aquinas Center for Theological Renewal and the St. Paul Center for Biblical Theology, at Ave Maria University, Ave Maria, FL, February 8, 2019.

“Mystagogy and Aquinas’s Commentary on Isaiah: Initiating God’s People into Christ.”  Keynote lecture presented to a conference entitled Initiation and Mystagogy in Thomas Aquinas: Theological, Philosophical, Liturgical, and Pedagogical Perspectives, sponsored by the Thomas Instituut te Utrecht at Tilburg University, Utrecht, the Netherlands, December 14, 2018.

“Response to Timothy Pawl’s In Defense of Conciliar Christology.”  Presented to a panel discussion convened by Kevin Wong at the American Academy of Religion, Denver, CO, November 17, 2018.

“Prayer and the Doctrine of the Holy Spirit.”  Presented to the 2018 Theology Conference at Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, Louisville, KY, October 26, 2018.

“Responses to Bishop Michaels, Dr. Hamelis, and Dr. Roccas.”  Presented to a conference entitled Engaging Orthodoxy at Northpark University, Chicago, IL, October 6, 2018.

“The Strangeness of Christ’s Resurrection.”  The invited “Theological Lecture” at the 129th Alumni Reunion of the Pontifical North American College, Chicago, IL, June 26, 2018.

“The Necessity of a Historical Adam and Eve and of a Historical Fall.”  Presented to the 2018 Dabar Conference, sponsored by the Henry Center at Trinity International University, Deerfield, IL, June 16, 2018.

“Pinckaers and Häring on Conscience.”  Presented to the “Pinckaers Symposium,” sponsored by the Center for Ethics and Culture at the University of Notre Dame, May 8, 2018.

“What Counts as a Biblical Doctrine?: Exploring the Biblically Warranted Modes of Biblical Interpretation.”  The Osterhaven Lectures in Theology, sponsored by Western Theological Seminary, Holland, MI, March 12, 2018.

“Marriage and the Cross”; “Marriage and the Trinity”; “Marriage and Indissolubility.”  The Anthony Jordan Lectures, sponsored by Newman Theological College, Edmonton, Canada, March 2-3, 2018.

“The Strangeness of Christ’s Resurrection.”  Presented to a conference entitled Thomas Aquinas and the Greek Fathers, sponsored by the Aquinas Center of Ave Maria University and the Thomistic Institute, at Ave Maria University, Ave Maria, FL, January 26, 2018.

“The Truth of Jesus’ Resurrection: Learning from Twentieth-Century Catholic Theological Approaches.”  Plenary Address presented to a conference entitled Lonergan on the Edge 2017: At the Level of Our Time: Philosophy and Theology between Today and Tomorrow, sponsored by the Lonergan Society at Marquette University, Milwaukee, WI, September 16, 2017.

“Contemplation and the Resurrection of Jesus.”  Presented to a conference entitled Western Culture, Contemplation, and Seminary Formation, sponsored by the Institute for Priestly Formation, Creighton University, Omaha, Nebraska, September 8, 2017.

“Response to Hans Boersma’s ‘The “Grand Medium”: An Edwardsean Modification of Thomas Aquinas on the Beatific Vision.’”  Presented to a conference entitled Rethinking the Resources of the Christian Tradition, July 13, 2017.

“Historical Memory and the Resurrection of Jesus: Encountering the Risen Christ.”  Presented to a conference entitled Rethinking the Resources of the Christian Tradition: Retrieval, Renewal, Reunion?, sponsored by the St. Paul School of Divinity and the University of St. Thomas, St. Paul, Minnesota, July 12, 2017.

“Creation and Atonement.”  Public Lecture, sponsored by the Thomistic Institute in Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland, April 28, 2017.

“Theology and Conversion: Anthropocentric or Theocentric?”  Presented to a conference entitled Is Theological Conversion Necessary?, sponsored by the Pontifical Faculty of Theology in Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland, April 27, 2017.

“The Context of Christ’s Resurrection: The Old Testament in Aquinas’s Commentary on John 20-21.”  Presented to a conference entitled Towards a Biblical Thomism: Aquinas and the Renewal of Biblical Theology, sponsored by the Faculty of Theology of the Nicolaus Copernicus University and the Thomistic Institute in Warsaw, Torun, Poland, April 26, 2017.

“The Eucharist, the Risen Lord, and the Road to Emmaus: A Road to Deeper Unity?”  Presented to a conference entitled Come, Let Us Eat Together! Sacraments and the Unity of the Church, sponsored by Wheaton College, Wheaton, Illinois, April 7, 2017.

“Dei Verbum in Context: Persons and Propositions.”  Presented as the annual Vatican II Lecture at St. Procopius Abbey, sponsored by St. Procopius Abbey, Benedictine University, and the Lumen Christi Institute, Lisle, Illinois, February 15, 2017.

“Aquinas on Studiousness.”  Presented as the annual Aquinas Lecture at Christendom College, Front Royal, Virginia, February 6, 2017.

“Brant Pitre and Thomas Aquinas on Christ’s Dying and Ours” and “Paul and Aquinas on Lust.”  Presented as a Theology Graduate Programs Master Seminar, Ave Maria University, Ave Maria, Florida, January 13-14, 2017.

“Response to Benjamin D. Sommer’s Revelation and Authority: Sinai in Jewish Scripture and Tradition.”  Presented to the Theological Interpretation of Scripture session convened by Michael Gorman at the Society of Biblical Literature, San Antonio, Texas, November 20, 2016.

“Proofs of God.”  Colloquium presentation and discussion, sponsored by the Duke University Thomistic Institute, at Duke University Divinity School, Durham, North Carolina, November 11, 2016.

“The Unbearability of Annihilation: Job’s Challenge to His Creator.”  Presented to the Duke University Thomistic Institute, at Duke University Divinity School, Durham, North Carolina, November 10, 2016.

“Natural Law and Christians.”  Presented as part of a panel on “Natural Law and Interfaith Relations: A Jewish, Christian, and Muslim Trialogue,” sponsored by the Collegium Institute for Catholic Thought and Culture, and co-sponsored by the Penn Muslim Law Student Association at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, October 27, 2016.

“Paul and Aquinas on Lust.”  Presented to a conference entitled Beauty, Order, and Mystery: The Christian Vision of Sexuality, sponsored by the Center for Pastor Theologians, Chicago, Illinois, October 25, 2016.

“Biblical Renewal and Vatican II: Karl Barth’s Contributions.”  Keynote presented to a conference entitled Ad Limina Apostolorum: Vatican II and the Future of Catholic-Protestant Ecumenism, sponsored by the Thomistic Institute (Dominican House of Studies) and the Center for Barth Studies (Princeton Theological Seminary), Washington, D.C., September 23, 2016.

“The Stoning of Stephen.”  Presented to a conference entitled Engaging the Book of Acts, Engaging One Another: Catholics, Orthodox, and Evangelicals, sponsored by the Paradosis Center at John Brown University, Siloam Springs, Arkansas, September 16, 2016.

“The Unbearability of Annihilation,” “The Dying of Macrina,” and “What Dying People Want—and Need.”  Presented to the 2016 CIT/NSP Summer Symposium, Newman University, Wichita, Kansas, August 9 and 10, 2016.

“Jesus’ Dying and Ours: Brant Pitre and Thomas Aquinas on Mortal Tribulation.” Presented to the III Congreso Internacional de Filosofía Tomista, Universidad Santo Tomás, Santiago, Chile, July 20, 2016.

“Reflection: Aquinas on Israel and the Church.”  Presented at the International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, Michigan, May 12, 2016.

“Natural Law: A Christian Perspective.”  Presented as part of a panel on Natural Law: A Jewish, Christian, and Islamic Trialogue, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL, April 14, 2016.

“Philosophy and the New Evangelization: A Response to William Lane Craig.” Presented as part of the Meyer Lectures given by William Lane Craig, Mundelein Seminary, Mundelein, IL, April 8, 2016.

“Job’s Challenge to the Creator God: The Unbearability of Annihilation.”  Presented to a conference entitled On Christian Dying, sponsored by the Wheaton Center for Early Christian Studies and the Center for Scriptural Exegesis, Philosophy, and Doctrine (Mundelein Seminary), at Wheaton College, Wheaton, IL, March 18, 2016.

“Christian Natural Law.”  Presented as part of a panel on Natural Law: A Jewish, Christian, and Islamic Trialogue, sponsored by the Center for the Study of Law and Religion, Emory University Law School, Atlanta, GA, February 15, 2016.

“God and Human Death.”  Presented as part of the Trinity Debates sponsored by the Henry Center, Trinity International University, Deerfield, Illinois, February 11, 2016.

“How We Die: From Sherwin Nuland to the Early Christians and Back Again.” Scripture & Ministry Lecture, Henry Center, Trinity International University, Deerfield, Illinois, January 20, 2016.

“The Death of Stephen (Acts 7): What His Death Teaches Us about Our Dying.” ST Symposium, Trinity Evangelical Divinity School, Deerfield, Illinois, January 20, 2016.

“How Do We ‘Inhabit the World’ as Christians?”  Presented to Evangelicals and Catholics Together, New York City, December 15, 2015.

“Death, Sacrifice, and Blood in Hebrews According to Thomas Aquinas.” Presented at a session on “Hebrews and the Atonement,” at the 67th Annual Meeting of the Evangelical Theological Society, Atlanta, Georgia, November 19, 2015.

“Nature and Grace in Gaudium et Spes.”  Presented to a conference entitled The Church in the Modern World: Fifty Years Later, at the Pontifical John Paul II Institute for Studies of Marriage and the Family, Washington, D.C., November 14, 2015.

“Persons and Propositions: Divine Revelation after Dei Verbum.”  Presented to a conference entitled Hearing and Proclaiming the Word of God: Dei  Verbum at 50, at Catholic University of America, Washington, D.C., November 6, 2015.

“Natural Law: A Jewish, Christian, and Islamic Trialogue: A Book Panel Discussion with the Authors.”  Sponsored by the James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions at Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, October 18, 2015.

“Supplementing Pinckaers: The Old Testament in Aquinas’s Ethics.”  Presented to the Boston Colloquy for Historical Theology, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts, August 1, 2015.

“Aquinas on Creation and Divine Simplicity.”  Presented to a conference entitled Divine Simplicity: A Necessary Doctrine?, sponsored by the Wheaton Center for Early Christian Studies and the Center for Scriptural Exegesis, Philosophy, and Doctrine (Mundelein Seminary), at Wheaton College, Wheaton, Illinois, March 19, 2015.

“Big Steps and Small Steps.”  Presented to a conference entitled Second Transdisciplinary Consultation, at Andrews University, Berrien Springs, Michigan, March 5, 2015.

“Eternity, Time, and the Doctrine of Creation.”  Presented to a conference entitled Wisdom and the Renewal of Catholic Theology, sponsored by Ave Maria University, Ave Maria, Florida, February 6, 2015.

“Atonement and Creation.”  Presented to the Los Angeles Theology Conference, sponsored by Biola University and Fuller Seminary, La Mirada, California, January 15, 2015.

“Law and Love: A Christian Perspective.”  Presented to a conference entitled Law and Love: A Jewish-Christian Dialogue, sponsored by the Center for Scriptural Exegesis, Philosophy, and Doctrine, Mundelein Seminary, Mundelein, Illinois, September 29, 2014.

“Creation and Election according to David Novak and Thomas Aquinas.” Presented to a conference entitled Rethinking the Covenant: Engagements with the Theology of David Novak, sponsored by the Centre for Jewish Studies, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, September 15, 2014.

“Response to Michał Paluch, O.P., on the Analogy of Being.”  Presented to a conference entitled What Has Athens to Do with Jerusalem? Philosophers and Theologians in Conversation, sponsored by the Dominican School of Philosophy and Theology, Berkeley, California, July 18, 2014.

“‘Be Fruitful and Multiply, and Fill the Earth’: Was and Is This a Good Idea?” Presented to a conference entitled Tilling and Keeping the Earth: The Evolving Theology of Creation, sponsored by the Center for Theological Formation at the Saint Paul School of Divinity, Saint Paul, Minnesota, June 19, 2014.

“Holy Spirit and Trinity: The Filioque.”  Presented to a conference entitled The Spirit of God: Christian Renewal in the Community of Faith, sponsored by Wheaton College, Wheaton, Illinois, April 4, 2014.

“Summary and Comment: Concluding Remarks.”  Presented to a conference entitled Beauty, Poverty, Simplicity and the Sacred Liturgy, sponsored by the Liturgical Institute, University of Saint Mary of the Lake, Mundelein, Illinois, March 14, 2014.

“Augustine on Creation.”  Presented to a conference entitled Creation and Creaturehood: The Doctrine of Creation in the Patristic Tradition: The Fourth Annual Symposium in Honor of Fr. Florovsky, sponsored by Princeton Theological Seminary, Princeton, New Jersey, February 15, 2014.

“Calvin, Aquinas, and the Church.”  Presented to a conference entitled Protestantism? Reflections in Advance of the 500th Anniversary of the Protestant Reformation, 1517-2017, sponsored by the Center for Faith and Inquiry at Gordon College, Wenham, Massachusetts, November 16, 2013.

“Mary and the Holy Spirit in René Laurentin, Otto Semmelroth, and Karl Rahner.”  Presented to a conference entitled Mary on the Eve of the of the Second Vatican Council, sponsored by the Institute for Church Life, University of Notre Dame, October 7, 2013.

“Francis Cardinal George on the Liturgy.”  Presented to a Symposium in honor of Cardinal George’s 50th Jubilee as a priest, Mundelein Seminary, Mundelein, Illinois, October 2, 2013.

“Calvin and Aquinas on the Holiness of the Church.”  In absentia.  Boston College Historical Theology Colloquy, Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts, August 1, 2013.

“Catholic Tradition: Invented or Received?”  Presented to a conference entitled Tradition, sponsored by the University of Notre Dame Australia, Sydney, Australia, July 3, 2013.

“Response to J. Todd Billings’s Inaugural Lecture as the Gordon H. Girod Research Chair of Reformed Theology.”  Western Theological Seminary, Holland, Michigan, April 17, 2013.

“A Note on Milbank and Aquinas.”  Presented to the Faculty Colloquium at Hope College, Holland, Michigan, April 17, 2013.

“Priesthood and Revelation: Addressing the Problem of Priestly Rivalry.”  The 2013 Thomas Lecture, sponsored by Saint Meinrad School of Theology, St. Meinrad, Indiana, March 12, 2013.

“Reflections on Chapter Two of Sacrifice and Community.”  Presented to the Atonement Seminar at Baylor University and Pruett Seminary, Waco, Texas, March 1, 2013.

“Thomas Aquinas and John Milbank on Nature and Grace.”  Presented to the Aquinas Seminar, organized by William Carroll of the University of Oxford (Blackfriars), January 31, 2013.

“Aquinas on the Gospel.”  The 2013 Aquinas Lecture, sponsored by Blackfriars, Oxford, January 30, 2013.

“God and Greek Philosophy, Continued.”  Presented to faculty and graduate students of Keble College, University of Oxford, January 29, 2013.

“Propositions and Trinitarian Theology.”  Presented to the Christian Systematic  Theology Section at the American Academy of Religion, Chicago, Illinois, November 19, 2012.

“Jewish-Christian Dialogue and the Jewish Annotated New Testament.” Presented to the Jewish-Christian Dialogue and Sacred Texts Consultation at the Society of Biblical Literature, Chicago, Illinois, November 19, 2012.

“Christians and Natural Law.”  Presented to a workshop on Natural Law in Three Traditions, sponsored by the Schiff Chair at the University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada, September 21, 2012.

“Response to Geoffrey Wainwright: Are Methodists and Catholics United in Deviating from the Faith of the First Christians?”  Presented to a conference entitled Theology, Eucharist and Ministry, sponsored by United Theological Seminary, Dayton, Ohio, May 17, 2012.

“Mary in the Theology of Joseph Ratzinger/Pope Benedict XVI.”  Presented to a conference entitled God Is Love: Explorations in the Theology of Benedict XVI, sponsored by the Institute for Church Life at the University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Indiana, March 26, 2012.

“The Scriptures and Their Interpretation.”  Presented to a conference entitled Reading God’s Word: Ratzinger’s Erasmus Lecture a Generation Later, sponsored by Ave Maria University, Ave Maria, Florida, February 11, 2012.

“Aristotle and the Old Law in the Summa theologiae.”  Presented to the faculty and students of the Center for Thomistic Studies, University of St. Thomas, Houston, Texas, January 27, 2012.

“Romans 1:20 and Our Natural Knowledge of God.”  The 2012 Aquinas Lecture, sponsored by the Center for Thomistic Studies and the University of St. Thomas, Houston, Texas, January 26, 2012.

“Knowing God.”  Presented to a conference entitled Pope Benedict XVI’s Jesus of Nazareth, sponsored by the Augustine Institute, Denver, Colorado, November 11, 2011.

“Christian Scripture and Natural Law Doctrine: Friends or Enemies?” Presented to a symposium on Jewish, Christian, and Muslim Natural Law Theories, University of Dayton, November 9, 2011.

“Richard B. Hays on Typological Exegesis in First Corinthians and Today.” Presented to a conference entitled Heaven on Earth? The Future of Spiritual Interpretation, sponsored by the Center for Catholic-Evangelical Dialogue, Vancouver, Canada, September 17, 2011.

“Hans Urs von Balthasar and Matthias Joseph Scheeben on Dei Filius.” Presented to a conference entitled The Theology of Matthias Joseph Scheeben, sponsored by the Augustine Institute, Denver, Colorado, April 1, 2011.

“In the Footsteps of Rosenzweig and Buber.”  Presented to a Symposium on my Jewish-Christian Dialogue and the Life of Wisdom: Engagements with the Theology of David Novak, sponsored by the James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions and the Tikvah Project on Jewish Thought, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, March 3, 2011.

“God and the Natural Law.”  Presented to a Symposium on my Jewish-Christian Dialogue and the Life of Wisdom: Engagements with the Theology of David Novak, sponsored by Wycliffe College and the Center for Jewish Studies, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada, January 19, 2011.

“Augustine’s Theology of History.”  Presented to the Theological Hermeneutics of Christian Scripture Group convened by Joel Green at the Society of Biblical Literature, Atlanta, Georgia,

November 20, 2010.

“Learning to Receive: Christ and the Catholic Priesthood.”  Presented to a conference entitled Identity and Act: The Role of the Laity, the Parish, Schools, the Donor and the Economy in Advancing the Mission of the Church, sponsored by O’Meara, Ferguson, Whelan, and Conway, the Archdiocese of Chicago, and the Archdiocese of Cincinnati, Chicago, IL, October 20, 2010.

“Inviting David Novak to Re-Appraise ‘Natural Theology.’”  Presented to the American Maritain Association Annual Meeting, Canton, Ohio, October 15, 2010.

“Exegesis and Eschatology: Alexander Schmemann and St. Thomas Aquinas.”  Keynote presented to a conference entitled Biblical Exegesis as Mystical Experience in Judaism and Christianity, sponsored by Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, PA, April 22, 2010.

“Eternal Life: A Merited Free Gift.”  Presented to a conference entitled Sin and Redemption: Reflections on Gary Anderson’s Biblical Theology, sponsored by the Augustine Institute, Denver, Colorado, March 13, 2010.

“The Restoration of Israel and the Intermediate State: N. T. Wright and Thomas Aquinas.”  The Aquinas Lecture of the Aquinas Institute of Theology.  St. Louis, Missouri, January 31, 2010.

“God and Greek Philosophy in Contemporary Biblical Scholarship.” Presented to the Development of Early Trinitarian Theology session convened by Mark Weedman at the Society of Biblical Literature, New Orleans, Louisiana, November 21, 2009.

“Response to James K. A. Smith.”  Presented to the Athens and Jerusalem Seminar, sponsored by the John Wesley Honors College of Indiana Wesleyan University, Marion, Indiana, November 19, 2009.

“Response to Mary Healy and Daniel A. Keating.”  Presented to the fifth annual Letter and Spirit Conference, sponsored by the St. Paul Center for Biblical Theology, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, November 7, 2009.

“Human Suffering and Divine Governance.”  Presented to a conference entitled Thomism and the Renewal of Contemporary Theology, sponsored by the Dominican House of Studies, Washington, D.C., October 16, 2009.

“War and Christian Charity.”  Presented to a conference entitled Just War in the Catholic Tradition: Continuity or Rupture?, sponsored by the Peace Research Institute of Oslo (PRIO), Naples, Florida, June 26, 2009.

“Seeking Ecclesial Peace: Receiving the Second Vatican Council.” Presented to a conference entitled Vatican II: Its Continuing Challenge to All Churches, sponsored by the Center for Catholic and Evangelical Theology, Washington, D.C., June 10, 2009.

“Hierarchical Priesthood: Numbers 16 and Schism according to Aquinas.” Hillenbrand Distinguished Lecture of the Liturgical Institute at Mundelein Seminary, Mundelein, Illinois, April 21, 2009.

“Aquinas on Romans 8: Predestination in Context.”  Presented to a conference entitled Reading Romans with St. Thomas Aquinas,” Ave Maria University, February 6, 2009.

“Providence and Predestination in Scripture.”  Presented to the Doctoral Colloquium in Theology and Biblical Studies at Wheaton College, November 7, 2008.

“Aquinas on the Decalogue.”  Presented to a conference entitled Reading the Decalogue through the Centuries, Wheaton College, November 6, 2008.

“Response to Cessario, Hibbs, and McAleer” (panel symposium on my Biblical Natural Law).  Presented at the American Maritain Association Annual Meeting, Boston, Massachusetts, October 25, 2008.

“Humanae Vitae and Original Sin.”  Presented to a conference entitled Humanae Vitae: 40 Years Later, Ave Maria University, February 1, 2008.

“Principles of Exegesis: Toward a Participatory Biblical Exegesis.”  Presented to the Postgraduate Scripture and Theology Seminar at the University of St. Andrews, January 10, 2008.

“Aquinas and Gersonides on Job.”  Presented to a conference entitled Deus Habet Consilium: An International Conference on the Career and Prospects of Providence in Modern Theology, University of Aberdeen, January 9, 2008.

“A Preacher’s Vision of the Old Testament: The Case of St. Thomas Aquinas.” Presented to the Fifteenth Annual Aquinas-Luther Conference, entitled Aquinas and Luther on Preaching the Old Testament, Lenoir-Rhyne College, October 26, 2007.

“The Church as the Image of the Trinity.”  Presented at the International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, Michigan, May 11, 2007

“Aquinas on the Priesthood.”  Presented to a conference entitled Sacraments in Aquinas, Ave Maria University, February 1, 2007.

“Ecclesial Hierarchy and Modernity.”  Presented to a conference entitled Modernity: Yearning for the Infinite, University of Notre Dame, December 1, 2006.

Invited participant, “Columbus Day Weekend Conference,” St. John’s Seminary, October 6-8, 2006.

“The Holy Land in the Poetry of John Paul II.”  Presented to a conference entitled John Paul II and the Holy Land, Ave Maria University, February 8, 2006.

“Catholic Biblical Exegesis 1280-1750: What Happened?”  Presented to the Christian Theology and the Bible session convened by Stephen Fowl at the Society of Biblical Literature, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, November 21, 2005.

“On the Value of an Exegetical Tradition: Aquinas’s Use of Augustine’s Commentary on John 10.”  Presented to a conference entitled Aquinas the Augustinian, Ave Maria University, February 3,

2005.

“Charity and the Eucharist.”  Presented at the International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, Michigan, May 6-9, 2004.

“Aquinas on Transubstantiation.”  Dean’s Lecture to the faculty and students of Ave Maria College, April 6, 2004.

“John Paul II and St. Thomas Aquinas on the Eucharist.”  Presented to a conference entitled John Paul II and the Renewal of Thomistic Theology, Ave Maria College, August 8, 2003.

“Response to Russell Hittinger’s The First Grace.”  Presented to a conference entitled Ethics without God?, University of Notre Dame, July 17, 2003.

Invited participant, “The Anthropology Project,” Institute for Psychological Sciences, Arlington, VA, July 15-17, 2002.

“St. Thomas Aquinas and David Coffey on Analogies for the Trinity.” Presented at the International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, Michigan, May 2, 2002.

“Does the Paschal Mystery Reveal the Trinity?”  Presented to a conference entitled Reading John with St. Thomas Aquinas, Dearborn, Michigan, October 5, 2001.

“Is Thomistic Theology Possible Today?”  Presented to a conference entitled Challenges to Catholic Theology in the New Millennium, Archdiocese of Boston (St. John’s Seminary), September 30, 2000.

“Aquinas on the ‘Faith of Christ.’”  Presented at the International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, Michigan, May 6, 2000.

“Speaking the Trinity: Anselm and His 13th-Century Interlocutors on Divine Intelligere and Dicere.”  Presented to a conference entitled Saint Anselm, His Origins and Influence at Saint Anselm College, Manchester, New Hampshire, April 1, 2000.

“Israel and the Shape of Thomas Aquinas’s Soteriology.”  Bradley Medieval Lecture, Boston College, October 30, 1999.

“Aquinas and the Medieval Debate about Christ’s Saving Work: From Gilbert the Universal to the Summa Fratris Alexandri.”  Presented to the Medieval Theology Group of the Catholic Theological Society of America, June 11, 1999.

“Aquinas on Christ’s Transfiguration and Resurrection.”  Presented at the International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, Michigan, May 6, 1999.

 

Doctoral Theses Directed:

Jared Staudt, Ave Maria University, 2009

Charles Raith II, Ave Maria University, 2010

Benjamin Heidgerken, University of Dayton, 2015

Matthew Archer, University of Dayton, 2016

Fr. Jeff Njus, University of St. Mary of the Lake, 2016

Dawn Eden Goldstein, University of St. Mary of the Lake, 2016

Roland Millare, University of St. Mary of the Lake, 2018

Fr. Nick Parker, University of St. Mary of the Lake, 2020

Msgr. Marc Caron, University of St. Mary of the Lake, 2021

  

Courses Taught:

History of Christian Theology, Part I

History of Christian Theology, Part II

Sacred Scripture

Old Testament

New Testament

Sacred Doctrine

The Church

Christ and His Church

The Significance of Jesus

Sacraments

Triune God

Creation and Grace

Moral Theology

C. S. Lewis & G. K. Chesterton

Women Mystics

Christian Traditions of Prayer

Christ and Salvation (MA)

God and the Human Experience (MA)

Sacraments and Liturgy (MA)

Aquinas on Salvation (PhD)

Scripture and Metaphysics (PhD)

Aquinas on Charity (PhD)

Praeambula Fidei (PhD), co-taught with Steven Long

The Theology of Thomas Aquinas (PhD)

Sacraments in the Christian West (PhD)

Theology of Charity (PhD)

The Theology of John Henry Newman (PhD)

Philosophy of Nature (Pre-Theology)

Apologetics (MDiv)

The Theology of Augustine (STL)

Aquinas on Temperance (STL)

Twentieth-Century Catholic Theology (STL)

The Theology of Hans Urs von Balthasar (STL)

Trent and Vatican II (STL)

Prayer and Contemplation (STL)

Angels and Demons (STL)

The Resurrection of Jesus (STL)

The Theology of Matthias Joseph Scheeben (STL)

Aquinas’s Christology (STL)