Curiculum Vitae
Curriculum Vitae
(updated March 2025)
Reginald Lynch, OP
Dominican House of Studies
487 Michigan Ave. NE
Washington, DC 20017
Education:
PhD, University of Notre Dame, Theology (History of Christianity), 2020.
Concentrations: Medieval and Patristic Theology; Philosophical Theology minor
STL, Dominican House of Studies, 2012.
Concentration: Thomistic Studies
MDiv, Dominican House of Studies, 2011.
STB, Dominican House of Studies, 2010.
BA, St. Lawrence University, 2003.
Major: Philosophy; Religious Studies minor
Academic Appointments:
2025 (Michaelmas Term): Faculty Visitorship at the Faculty of Theology and Religion, University of Oxford
Concurrent: Visiting Research Scholar at Blackfriars Hall, University of Oxford
2025 (Spring semester): Val McInnes Chair awarded (Angelicum, Rome)
2024-25: Visiting Professor (Professore Invitato), Faculty of Theology, Angelicum (Rome)
2021-present: Assistant Professor, Dogmatic and Historical Theology,
Dominican House of Studies
2020-2021: Instructor, Dominican House of Studies
2019-20: Adjunct Professor, University of Notre Dame, Department of Theology
2016-18: Teaching/Research Assistant, University of Notre Dame, Department of Theology
2014-15: Adjunct Instructor, Pontifical College Josephinum, College of Liberal Arts
Teaching:
Spring 2025-present: Angelicum (Rome)
dP3753: “Presence and Sacrifice: The Eucharist in Aquinas and early modern Thomism” (Spring 2025)
2020-present: Dominican House of Studies
ST 824: “Thomism in Modernity” (Spring 2024)
ST 821: “Aquinas and the Masters of the Medieval University” (Spring 2023)
ST 631: “Sacraments: Theology and Initiation” (Fall 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024)
ST 636: “Penance and Anointing” (Spring 2021, 2022)
ST 637: “Sacrament of the Eucharist” (Spring 2022, 2023, 2024)
ST 638: “Sacrament of Orders” (Fall, 2023, 2024)
ST 611: “Creation and the Human Person” (Fall 2022, 2024)
ST 650a: “Eucharist and Ecclesiology” (Summer 2023)
Books:
2. Aquinas’s Summa theologiae and Eucharistic Sacrifice in the Early Modern Period, Changing Paradigms in Historical and Systematic Theology series, Sarah Coakley and Richard Cross, eds. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2023).
Reviews in refereed journals: The Journal of Theological Studies 20, 1-2 (2025): (*advanced access publication, February 1, 2025) (Sarah Mortimer) ; Church History 1-2 (2025): (*advanced access publication, February 19, 2025) (Matthew Levering) ; Gregorianum 106.1 (2025): 182-84 (Anthony Lusvardi, S.J.) ; Theological Studies 85.4 (2024): 698-99 (John F. Baldovin, S.J.) ; Catholic Historical Review 110.3 (2024): 585-86 (Michael G. Witczak) ; Antiphon 28 n. 2 (2024): 244-47 (Jose Isidro Belleza).
Mentions: The Journal Church History’s online list of “recent books in the History of Christianity”, June 2024. https://churchhistory.org/books-of-the-month/recent-books-in-church-history-june-2024/
1. The Cleansing of the Heart: the Sacraments as Instrumental Causes in the Thomistic Tradition, Thomistic Ressourcement Series vol. 9, Matthew Levering and Thomas Joseph White, eds. (Washington, DC: The Catholic University of America Press, 2017). *Paperback edition, March 2025.
*Awarded The Charles Cardinal Journet Prize (2018). Previous recipients include: Ralph McInerny, Alastair MacIntyre, Reinhard Hütter, Michael Sherwin, OP, Thomas Hibbs, Thomas Osborne, Steven Brock, and Thomas Joseph White, OP.
Reviews in refereed journals: Nova et Vetera (English) 20 n. 2 (Spring, 2022): 696-700 (Joshua H. Lim); Antiphon: A Journal for Liturgical Renewal 22, no. 3 (2018): 299-302 (Thomas M. Kocik); The Journal of Theological Studies 70, Iss. 2 (October, 2019): 936-38 (Therese Scarpelli Cory); New Black Friars 101 Iss. 1093 (May, 2020): 343-45 (Dominic Ryan, OP); European Journal for the Study of Thomas Aquinas 38 (2020): 52-53 (Catherine Peters); The Thomist: a Speculative Quarterly Review 84 n. 3 (2020): 489-93 (Roger W. Nutt).
Mentions: Jahrbuch für Liturgik und Hymnologie, vol. 57 (Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2018), 121 (E. Byron Anderson); The Chronicle of Higher Education, vol. 64, iss. 2 (Sept. 8, 2017), 3 (Nina C. Ayoub).
Reviews and mentions in popular and trade publications: First Things, August/September (2018): 63 (Thomas Sundaram); The Catholic Library World 90 iss. 2 (2019), 116-17 (Thomas M. Dousa).
Refereed articles and book chapters:
20. “Wisdom and the Sacraments,” in Christ the Wisdom of God, Boyd Taylor Coolman and Daria Spezzano, eds. (Emmaus Academic, forthcoming).
19. “Sign, Sacrifice, and Moral Virtue: Aquinas and the Thomistic Tradition on Moral and Mystical Signification in the Eucharist,” in Thomas Aquinas and the Eucharist: Pathways to Revival, Roger Nutt, Michael Dauphinais and Andrew Hofer, eds. (Naples, FL: Ave Maria Press, forthcoming).
18. “The Eucharist in the Summa theologiae: Christ’s Presence in the Sacrament (qq. 75-78),” in Sacrament of Sacraments: Thomas Aquinas on the Eucharist as the Consummation of Theology, Daria Spezzano and Shawn Colburg, eds. (Washington, D.C.: The Catholic University of America Press, forthcoming).
17. “Gabriel Vázquez and the Law of the Gospel: Faith, Justification, and the Textuality of Scripture in the Early Jesuit Tradition,” in The Jesuits and the Secunda Pars, Matthew Levering, Aaron Pidel, and Justin Anderson, eds. (Washington, DC: The Catholic University of America Press, forthcoming).
16. “Augustine’s De trinitate, book 8: an introduction,” in a companion to Augustine’s De trinitate (title pending), John Cavadini and Thomas Clemons, eds. (Washington, DC: Catholic University of America Press, forthcoming).
15. “Domingo Bañez on the Nature of Theology and Theological Reasoning,” in the Proceedings of the Society for the European History of Ideas (Springer, forthcoming).
14. “Rahner’s Trinitarian Ontology: Eschatology and the First Principles of Theology,” The Heythrop Journal (forthcoming).
13. “The influence of Gratian’s De consecratione on Aquinas’ Eucharistic theology,” in Thomas Aquinas and Medieval Canon Law, Justin Anderson and Atria Larson, eds. (Washington, DC: The Catholic University of America Press, 2025).
12. “Thomas Aquinas and Priestly Formation: From His Life to Vatican II,” The Thomist 88 n. 2 (2024): 181-213.
11. “Creation and Grace: Understanding the Pre-Modern Frame of Aquinas’ Approach to Sanctification,” in the special issue, “Medieval Philosophy and Religious Thought,” Mirela Oliva, ed., Religions 15.2 (2024).
10. “Thomas Aquinas on the Priesthood: Temple, Allegory, and the Humanities of Christ,” Nova et Vetera (English) 22 n. 3 (2024): 789-810.
9. “Sacramental Character and the Pattern of Theological Life: Medieval Context and Early-Modern Reception,” Nova et Vetera (English) 21 n. 4 (2023): 1337-70.
8. “Causality and the Procession of the Holy Spirit in Manuel Kalekas’s De fide deque principiis catholicae fidei,” Harvard Theological Review 116.2 (2023): 254-75.
7. “Image, Necessity, and Trinitarian psychology in Anselm and Augustine,” Theological Studies 82.2 (2021): 332-50.
6. “Cajetan on Christ’s Priestly Sacrifice: Ressourcement Thomism in the Sixteenth Century,” in Thomas Aquinas and the Crisis of Christology, Roger Nutt, Michael Dauphinais and Andrew Hofer, eds. (Naples, FL: Ave Maria Press, 2021).
5. “18th Century Catholic Reception of Aquinas: Scholastic Synthesis in the Age of Enlightenment,” in The Oxford Handbook of the Reception of Aquinas, Matthew Levering and Marcus Plested, eds. (Oxford University Press, 2021).
4. “Divine Causality and Human Freedom: Aquinas, Bañez and premotion after Descartes,” in Beyond Dordt and De Auxiliis: The Dynamics of Protestant and Catholic Soteriology in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries, Studies in the History of Christian Traditions, vol. 192, Jordan J. Ballor, Matthew T. Gaetano and David S. Sytsma, eds. (Leiden: Brill, 2019).
3. “Cajetan’s Harp: Sacraments and the Life of Grace in Light of Perfective Instrumentality,” The Thomist: a Speculative Quarterly Review 78 n. 1 (January, 2014): 65-106.
2. “The Sacraments as Causes of Sanctification,” Nova et Vetera (English) 12 n. 3 (2014): 791-836.
1. “Domingo Bañez on Moral and Physical Causality: Christic Merit and Sacramental Realism,” Angelicum 91 n. 1 (2014): 105-26.
Encyclopedia Articles, Book reviews, Translations, and Popular Writing:
“Scholastic Textualities in Early Modernity.” A blog post for “OUPblog” by Oxford University Press, published 8/5/24. https://blog.oup.com/2024/08/scholastic-textualities-in-early-modernity/
“Contemplata Aliis Tradere.” An essay for the Christmas edition of From This Holy Mountain: A Publication of the Dominican Nuns of St. Dominic’s Monastery (Linden, VA) (Winter, 2023).
Invited blurb for Reading Hebrews with St. Thomas Aquinas, Matthew Levering, Piotr Roszak, and Jörgen Vijgen, eds. (Emmaus Academic, 2024)
Honorius Augustodunensis, Exposition of Selected Psalms, David Welch, ed., Catena Scholarium (Myles Casanova, Thomas Graff, Reginald Lynch, Amy Maxey, Emily Nye, Bruno Shah, Liam de Los Reyes, J. Colum Dever, Sebastian Ekberg, Nicholas Ogle, David Welch, Grant Gasse, Judy Kim, Taylor Nutter), trans., with an introduction by Ann W. Astell (Kalamazoo MI: Medieval Institute Publications, 2023).
“Illusion,” in New Catholic Encyclopedia Supplement 2012-2013: Ethics and Philosophy, ed. Robert L. Fastiggi, Vol. 2 (Detroit: Gale, 2013), 741-742.
Review of Aidan Nichols, The Poet as Believer (Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2011), for Dominicana 54 n. 2 (2011): 86-88.
Conference Papers:
“Divinization and the Powers of the Soul.” An invited paper to be given at the Institute of Philosophy of the Russian Academy of Sciences, held in Moscow (both in-person and online), September 24-25, 2025.
“The Nature of Theology in the Sacra Theologiae Summa (1955).” An invited paper to be given at the conference, “Twentieth-Century Jesuit Manuals: An Assessment” sponsored by the Center for Scriptural Exegesis, Philosophy, and Doctrine, held at Mundelein Seminary from September 4-6, 2025. (*papers to be published in an edited volume).
“An Indwelt Image: Trinity and Grace.” An invited paper given at the Symposium Thomisticum 2025, held in Prague, June 5-7, 2025.
“Aquinas on Eucharistic presence and conversion.” An invited semi-plenary paper, given at the conference, “Aquinas at 800: Ad multos annos,” held at the University of Notre Dame, September 22-25, 2024.
“The Eucharist in the Summa theologiae: Christ’s Presence in the Sacrament (qq. 75-78).” An invited presentation at the Boston College Colloquy in Historical Theology (BCHT), July 31-August 3, 2024.
“Re-reading as Contemplation: The political theologies of Augustine and Cicero as Sources for Thomas Aquinas’ account of religion.” An invited paper given at the Symposium Thomisticum 2024, held in Vienna, June 6-8, 2024.
“Thomas Aquinas on the Eucharist and Trinitarian Communion.” A paper given at the University of Notre Dame, February 28, 2024.
“Sign, Sacrifice, and Moral Virtue: Aquinas and the Thomistic Tradition on Moral and Mystical Signification in the Eucharist.” An invited plenary address, to be given at the conference, “Thomas Aquinas and the Eucharist: Pathways to Revival” sponsored by The Aquinas Center for Theological Renewal and the Thomistic Institute at Ave Maria University, February 1-3, 2024. (*papers to be published in an edited volume).
“The Sacraments in Early Modernity: Gabriel Vásquez and John of St. Thomas on Symbolism and Human Action.” An invited paper given at the inaugural “New Ressourcement” conference sponsored by Word on Fire Academic in Rochester, MN, October 5-7, 2023. (*papers to be published in the first volumes of The New Ressourcement journal).
“Aquinas on the Quiddity of Sacramental Grace in Light of the Division of Grace (ST Ia IIae Q. 111).” A paper given at a conference titled “Aquinas After 750 Years: Still the Common Doctor?” held at the Dominican House of Studies, September 14-16, 2023.
“Gabriel Vásquez on the Law of the Gospel: Faith, Justification, and the Textuality of Scripture in the Early Jesuit Tradition.” An invited paper given at the conference “Jesuit Readers of the Secunda Pars” sponsored by the Center for Scriptural Exegesis, Philosophy, and Doctrine, held at Mundelein Seminary from September 7-9, 2023. (*papers to be published in an edited volume).
“Wisdom, creation, and the Sacraments.” An invited paper given at a conference titled “Science for Seminaries,” held at St. Patrick’s Pontifical University in Maynooth, Ireland, April 18-19, 2023.
“Thomas Aquinas on the Priesthood: temple, allegory, and the humanities of Christ.” An invited lecture given at the University of Oxford (Blackfriars), as part of the Aquinas Lectures held during Hilary Term (2023): “Aquinas and the Future of Christian Thought,” February 1, 2023.
“Bañez on the Eucharist: the Good Friday Liturgy in Sixteenth Century Thomism.” A paper given at “Vetera novis augere: the resources of the Thomist tradition in the current context,” the Eleventh International Thomistic Congress sponsored by the Pontifical Academy for Saint Thomas Aquinas and the Angelicum Thomistic Institute, held in Rome, September 19-24, 2022.
“Domingo Bañez on the Nature of Theology and Theological Reasoning.” A paper given at the annual meeting of the Society for the European History of Ideas (SEHI) at the University of Lisbon, August 4, 2022.
“The Sacramental Character and the Pattern of Theological Life in Aquinas and his Early-Modern Reception.” An invited paper presented at the Academy of Catholic Theology, May 25, 2022.
“Friendship and Proportionality.” A paper presented at the conference, St. Thomas Aquinas as Spiritual Teacher: Theology in a Culture of Grace, held at Ave Maria University, February 10-12, 2022, co-sponsored by the Aquinas Center for Theological Renewal and the Thomistic Institute.
“Melchior Cano’s Reception of the Berengarian Oath: Tradition and Magisterial Authority in Eucharistic theology.” A paper presented at the International Congress, The School of Salamanca and its Ibero-American Projection, October 13-15, 2021, hosted virtually and in person by the faculty of philosophy at the Universidad San Dámaso (Spain), in collaboration with the Pontifical Catholic University of Campinas (Brazil), the Instituto de Historia y Ciencias Eclesiásticas at the Universidad Pontificia de Salamanca (Spain), and the Instituto de Estudios Hispánicos en la Modernidad at the Universitat de les Illes Balears (Spain).
“Thomas Aquinas and Nicholas Cabasilas: grace, character, and sacramental sealing.” A paper presented at the conference, Tasting the Lotus: Reception of and Reaction to the Transmission of Latin Works in Byzantium, hosted virtually by the Byzantine Catholic Seminary of Sts. Cyril and Methodius, July 31-August 1, 2021.
“Cajetan on Christ’s Priestly Sacrifice.” A paper presented at the conference, Thomas Aquinas and the Crisis of Christology, held at Ave Maria University, February 6-8, 2020, co-sponsored by the Aquinas Center for Theological Renewal and the Thomistic Institute.
“Image and Necessity in the Trinitarian Grammar of Anselm and Augustine.” A paper presented at the 2019 Conference of International Association for Anselm Studies held at Durham University, July 9-11, 2019.
“Habit or Power? Bonaventure and the Early Aquinas on the nature of Sacramental Character as a Species of Quality.” A paper presented at the Symposium Thomisticum 2019, held in Rome, July 4-6, 2019.
“Augustine’s De Trinitate as Context for Anselm’s Ontological Argument.” A paper presented at The International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, MI, May 9-12, 2019, as part of a session sponsored by the Society of Medieval and Renaissance Philosophy.
“Eucharistic Sacrifice and Moral Virtue in Aquinas and Augustine.” A paper presented at a conference titled “Thomas Aquinas and the Church Fathers,” sponsored by the Research Center for Biblical Thomism at Nicolaus Copernicus University in conjunction with the Thomistic Institute of Warsaw, in Torún (Poland), April 4-6, 2019.
“Foolishness and Desire: Trinitarian Image and Knowing God in Augustine of Hippo and Anselm of Canterbury.” A paper presented at the Patristic, Medieval and Renaissance Studies Conference (PMR), held at Villanova University, October 5-7, 2018.
“The Trinity in 14th Century Byzantium.” A paper presented at the Symposium Thomisticum 2018, held in Athens, Greece, June 7-9, 2018.
“Friendship and Justice.” A paper presented at The International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, MI, May 10-13, 2018, as part of a session sponsored by the Thomas Aquinas Society (University of St. Thomas, St. Paul MN).
“Grace and Instrumental Causality.” A paper presented at The Morris Colloquium in Medieval Philosophy: Boulder 2018, April 5-8, 2018, hosted by the Center for Western Civilization, Thought & Policy at the University of Colorado (Boulder).
“Trinitarian Procession in Thomas Aquinas and Manuel Kalekas.” A paper presented at the conference, Thomas Aquinas and the Greek Fathers, held at Ave Maria University, January 26-27, 2018, co-sponsored by the Aquinas Center for Theological Renewal and the Thomistic Institute.
“John of St. Thomas on the Sacrifice of the Mass.” A paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Catholic Philosophical Association (ACPA), November 16-19, 2017 (Dallas) as part of a session sponsored by the Society for Medieval and Renaissance Thomism.
“Divine Causality and Created Grace.” A paper presented as part of the Symposium Thomisticum 2017, held in Porto, Portugal, June 22-24, 2017.
“Augustine’s De doctrina and Theological Method in Hugh of St. Victor.” A paper presented at The International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, MI, May 11-14, 2017 as part of a special session titled: “Medieval Reception of Augustine of Hippo I.”
“Rahner’s Trinitarian Ontology.” A paper presented as part of the Symposium Thomisticum 2016, held at the Centre Culturel Irlandais in Paris, June 23-25, 2016.
“Friendship and the Theological Life.” A paper presented as part of a conference titled “The Virtuous Life: Thomas Aquinas on the Theological Nature of Moral Virtues,” sponsored by the Thomas Instituut te Utrecht at Tilburg University (Netherlands) December 16-19, 2015.
“Divine Exemplarity and the Integrity of Created Natures: Aquinas, the Summa Fratris Alexandri, and Avicenna.” A paper presented at The International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, MI, May 14-17, 2015, as part of a session sponsored by the Aquinas and ‘the Arabs’ International Working Group, May 15, 2015.
“Domingo Bañez on Moral and Physical Causality.” An invited paper given at the Angelicum in Rome on June 26, 2014, as part of a conference titled, “Recovering Causality: Historical Sources and Systematic Challenges from a Thomistic Perspective.”
“The Concept of Organum in Aquinas’ Scriptum Super Sententiis.” A paper presented at The International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, MI, May 9-12, 2013, as part of a session sponsored by the Center for Thomistic Studies at the University of St. Thomas in Houston: “Philosophy of Saint Thomas Aquinas III: History,” May 11, 2013.
“Cajetan’s Harp.” A paper presented at the Dayton Graduate Student Conference held at the University of Dayton, October 24, 2012. *Prize awarded.
Professional Activities:
Invited Speaker, “Memory, Intellect, and Will: the 13th Century Reception of Augustine,” a summer seminar sponsored by the Thomistic Institute (Washington, DC) and held at Schloss St. Emmeram, Regensburg (Germany), June 15-18, 2025. *Other speakers include Julie Casteigt, Katja Krause, Dominic Legge, Philip-Neri Reese, and Albert von Thurn und Taxis.
McInnes Chair Lecture, Angelicum (Rome), May 2, 2025.
Invited Speaker, Inaugural Aquinas Lecture, St. Patrick Parish in Columbus OH, March 12, 2024.
Invited Speaker, Rome Seminar, “Virtue, Law, and Grace,” sponsored by the Institute for Human Ecology and held at the Angelicum in Rome, June 22-29, 2024. *Other speakers include Wojciech Giertych, Michael Sherwin, Kevin Flannery, and Thomas Joseph White.
Invited Respondent, Cardinal Gerhard Meuller Symposium, held in Philadelphia, October 7-9, 2022.
Invited Panelist, “Art, the Sacred, and the Common Good,” a panel discussion held at Princeton Theological Seminary and sponsored by the Scala Foundation, May 1, 2022.
Invited Speaker, Civitas Dei Fellowship, sponsored by the Thomistic Institute and the Institute for Human Ecology, June 13-18, 2021.
Invited Respondent, Society for Medieval and Renaissance Thomism, Nov. 21-24, 2019. Held at the annual meeting of the American Catholic Philosophical Association (Minneapolis, 2019).
Invited Speaker, Annual Graduate Theological Retreat (August 24, 2018). A theological retreat given for the faculty and graduate students of the Theology Department at Ave Maria University.
Invited participant, Aquinas Colloquium (January 10, 2018). Led by Stephen Brock: Summa theologiae I, qq. 12-13. Sponsored by the Center for Scriptural Exegesis, Philosophy and Doctrine at Mundelein Seminary.
Invited participant, Aquinas Colloquium (January 11, 2017). Led by Bernard McGinn: Summa theologiae I-II, qq. 109-114. Sponsored by the Center for Scriptural Exegesis, Philosophy and Doctrine at Mundelein Seminary.
Professional Academic Service:
Member, Academic Affairs Committee (Internal, Dominican House of Studies), appointed from August 1, 2023-present.
Board of Advisors, the journal New Ressourcement, invited member, 2023-present.
Board of Advisors, the journal Nova et Vetera (English edition), invited member, 2023-present.
Book Review Editor, The Thomist: A Speculative Quarterly Review, September 2021-present.
Member, Thomistic Studies Committee (Internal, Dominican House of Studies), appointed from 2021-24; reapointed September 2024-present.
Executive Committee, Society for the European History of Ideas (SEHI), invited member, 2022-present.
Member, Society for the European History of Ideas (SEHI) grant proposal committee, 2022.
Organizer, graduate colloquia (two one-week seminars each summer, held at the Dominican House of Studies), 2021 and 2022.
Co-organizer (w. Joseph Capizzi), Civitas Dei Summer Fellowship, 2021 and 2022.
Organizer, “Scholasticism and the Sacraments: Sacramental Anthropology,” a special session held at The International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, MI, May 13-16, 2021.
Coordinator, systematic theology faculty area group, Washington Theological Consortium, 2020-21, and 2023-24. 2020-21: *Organized a faculty book discussion of Rowan Williams’ Christ: The Heart of Creation for faculty members of the consortium (bi-monthly discussion group held on Zoom throughout the academic year).
Peer reviewer for The Catholic University of America Press, The Thomist, Emmaus Academic, Antiphon, Springer, New Ressourcement, Verbum Vitae, American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly.
External reviewer (Revisori esterni) for the journal Angelicum, invited member, 2020-present.
Professional service outside the Academy:
Member, Sacramental Validity Advisory Team (SVAT II), Archdiocese of Detroit, appointed May 2023-present.
Member, Board of Directors, The Servants of Relief for Incurable Cancer (Hawthorne, NY), appointed December 2023-present.
Advising:
Director (STL):
Cyril Stola, OP, “Useful for Teaching: Old Testament Signs and New Law Sacramental Efficacy” (current)
Linus Martz, OP “Faith Judging Reason: Theology, Philosophy, and the Analogy of Wisdom in Vatican I’s Dogmatic Constitution Dei Filius” (current)
Luke VanBerkum, OP, “Take up your cross: penance and perfection according to Thomas Aquinas,” (Theology, completed May, 2023)
Lectio Coram board member (praeses) (STL):
Luke VanBerkum, OP, “The Voice of Psalm 22: Critical and Theological Analysis,” (Theology, defended May 2023)
Second reader (STL):
Christopher Daniel, OP, “Icons of Deification: The Saints as Images of God in Thomas Aquinas and Gregory Palamas” (Theology, completed May 2024)
Reginald Hofer, OP, “The History and Theology of Eucharistic Concelebration in the West” (Theology, completed May 2022)
Second reader/defense committee (MA):
Mary Katherine Starnes, “Redemption in the Theology of St. Thomas Aquinas” (Theology, defended May 2024)
Jack Boczar, “Aquinas and Avicenna on the Derivation of Many from One” (Theology, defended May 2024)
Sr. Mariana Koonce, RSM, “The Sapiential Physician: Practicing Medicine Under the Lights of Faith and Reason” (Theology, defended May 2023)
Sr. Marie Bernadette Thompson, OP, “Deification through the Eucharist: A Mystery Believed, Celebrated, and Lived” (Theology, defended May 2023)
Braxton Silva, “The Trinitarian Character of the Beatific Vision” (Theology, defended May 2022)
Zachary Beckman, “Stand Firm and Hold to the Traditions Which You Were Taught (2 Thess 2:15): The Role of Tradition in Theology” (Theology, defended May 2022)
Theresa Ryland, “Participation: Metaphysical, Trinitarian, and Personal” (Theology, defended May 2021)
Public Theology, Popular Talks, and Media:
“The Eucharist and Growth in Holiness: Sacrifice and Sacrament,” a talk to be given to the Thomistic Institute Chapter at Williams College (Williamstown, MA), 2/10/25.
“Grace in the Prima secundae,” a class taught for the Dominican Nuns at Monastery of Our Lady of Grace (North Guilford, CT), 12/18/24.
“The Trinity: Image and Shadow,” a two-day intellectual retreat for the Thomistic Institute, co-taught with Kevin Hart, 12/6-7/24.
“Ecclesiology and the Sacraments,” a one-week course taught for the Theological Formation Program at the Dominican House of Studies (for contemplative Dominican Nuns), 6/10-14/24.
“Contemplation and Dominican Life,” a one-week retreat (ten conferences) given at Our Lady of Perpetual Help Home for Incurable Cancer (Hawthorne Dominican Sisters, Atlanta GA), 6/2-8/24.
“Thomas Aquinas on the Eucharist and Trinitarian Communion,” a talk given to the Thomistic Institute Chapter at the University of Edinburgh (UK), 3/19/24.
“Holiness and the Eucharist,” the (inaugural) Aquinas Lecture given at St. Patrick’s Parish, Columbus OH, 3/12/24.
“The Eucharist and the contemplative Life,” a short course (six lectures) to be given at the Monastery of the Holy Name of Jesus, Discalced Carmelite Nuns (Denmark, WI), 1/3-5/24.
“The Trinity and the Eucharist,” a talk given to the Thomistic Institute Chapter at Georgetown Law School (Washington, DC), 10/12/23.
“The Eucharist and Christian Perfection,” a talk given at the Monastery of Our Lady of Guadalupe (Ada, MI), 6/29/23.
“Grace, participation, and Trinitarian life,” a talk given for the Thomistic Institute chapter at the University of Oregon, 11/5/22.
Short course (four classes) on the sacrament of baptism, given at St. Dominic’s Monastery (Linden VA), 10/28-29/22 and 11/11-12/22.
“The Eucharist and growth in holiness: Sacrifice and Sacrament,” a talk given at St. Rita’s Catholic Church (Alexandria, VA), sponsored by “DC Young Adults”, 10/19/22.
Interview on the sacrament of anointing on “Catholic Drivetime” (Guadalupe Radio Network), hosted by Joe McClane, 9/16/22.
“The Eucharist,” as week-long course at St. Dominic’s Monastery (Linden VA), 6/19-25/22.
Short course (four classes) on the sacrament of penance at St. Dominic’s Monastery (Linden VA), 3/18-19/22 and 4/1-2/22.
“Thomas Aquinas and Catherine of Siena on Conformity to Christ in the Eucharist,” a talk given at a Thomistic Institute retreat held at the Dominican House of Studies, 1/7/22.
“Metaphysics and Speculative Theology,” a talk given for the Thomistic Institute chapter and philosophy club at the University of Rochester, 10/9/21.
“Image and Likeness: Personhood and Participation in the Life of the Trinity,” a talk given for the Thomistic Institute chapter at William and Mary on 9/28/21.
“Sacrament and Sacrifice: Thomas Aquinas on the Eucharist,” a talk given for the Thomistic Institute chapter at the University of Pittsburgh, 9/21/21.
“The Imago Dei in Catholic Theology,” a seminar given for the Beatrice Institute at the University of Pittsburg, 9/21/21.
“The Trinity,” a one-week course for the Theological Formation Program (Contemplative Dominican Nuns), 6/28-7/2/21.
“Sacraments,” a week-long course given at the at the Monastery of the Holy Name of Jesus, Discalced Carmelite Nuns (Denmark, WI), 8/2-8/20.
“The Trinity,” a week-long course given at the Dominican Monastery of our Lady of the Rosary (Buffalo, NY), 8/11-18/19.
“The Trinity,” a week-long course given at the at the Monastery of the Holy Name of Jesus, Discalced Carmelite Nuns (Denmark, WI), 5/27-31/19.
“The Eucharist,” a lecture given at St. Patrick Parish (Columbus, OH), 1/3/15.
Two theological series produced for St. Gabriel Catholic Radio (Columbus, OH): “The Four Marks of the Church” and “The Year of Consecrated Life,” 2014-15.
“Consecrated Life and the Year of Faith,” a short course (six lectures) at the Monastery of the Holy Name of Jesus, Discalced Carmelite Nuns (Denmark, WI), 11/20-24/13.
“The Seven Last Words,” Preached on Good Friday at St. Patrick Parish (Columbus, OH), 3/29/13.
Awards and Fellowships:
2025: McDonald Agape Fellowship awarded (Blackfriars, Oxford), to be held Fall semester, 2025
2025: McInnes Chair awarded (Angelicum, Rome), Spring semester, 2025
2019: Notebaert Professional Development Award (University of Notre Dame)
2018: PhD Candidacy exams, passed with the designation, ‘Passed with High Honors’
2018: Charles Cardinal Journet Prize awarded by the Aquinas Center for Theological Renewal for the publication of The Cleansing of the Heart (CUA Press, 2017)
2018: Graduate Advanced Language Training Grant (Nanovic Institute for European Studies)
2018: Graduate Professional Development Grant (Nanovic Institute for European Studies)
2017: Graduate Professional Development Grant (Nanovic Institute for European Studies)
2017: GSU Conference Presentation Grant (University of Notre Dame)
2017: Graduate Professional Development Grant (Nanovic Institute for European Studies)
2016: Graduate Professional Development Grant (Nanovic Institute for European Studies)
2016: Notebaert Professional Development Award (University of Notre Dame)
2015: GSU Conference Presentation Grant (University of Notre Dame)
2015-2020: Departmental Fellowship (University of Notre Dame)
2012: Graduate Student Conference, University of Dayton, paper presentation selected for prize
Professional Societies:
American Academy of Religion (2018-present)
Medieval Academy of America (Active member, 2018-present)
Catholic Theological Society of America (Active member, 2019-present)
North American Patristics Society (2018-present)
Academy of Catholic Theology (2021-present)
Society for the European History of Ideas (2021-present)
Ministerial Service:
2013: Priesthood Ordination (St. Dominic Church, Washington DC)
2012: Diaconate Ordination (Dominican House of Studies, Washington DC)
2011: Solemn Profession (Dominican House of Studies, Washington DC)
2008: Simple Profession (St. Gertrude Priory, Cincinnati OH)
2007: Entrance, Dominican Novitiate (St. Gertrude Priory, Cincinnati OH)
References available upon request