Education
Ph.D. in Medieval Studies (1990)
University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario: Dissertation: “The Sapiential Character of Sacra Doctrina in the Thought of St. Thomas Aquinas: The Appropriation of Aristotle’s Intellectual Virtue of Wisdom,” (Director: Joseph Goering).
License in Mediaeval Studies (M.S.L.) (1988)
Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, Toronto, Ontario: License Thesis: “St. Thomas and the Literal Sense of Scripture: Alia lectura fratris Thome?” (Director: E.A. Synan).
M.A. in Medieval Studies (1984)
University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario: Interdisciplinary study of the Middle Ages, including studies of philosophy, theology, canon law, liturgy, history, paleography, editing of Latin texts, art and architecture, and literature.
B.A. in History (1983)
Cornell College, Mount Vernon, IA: Special studies in medieval intellectual history, Reformation, Galileo and the history of science.
Teaching
Marquette University, Milwaukee, WI: Assistant/Associate Professor of Theology (1996—; tenure in 2003).
Saint Joseph’s College, Rensselaer, IN: Assistant Professor of Philosophy and Religion (1990–1996).
Writing
Edited Books
St. Thomas Aquinas and the Mendicant Controversies: Three Translations. Trans. John Procter, edited with Introduction by Mark F. Johnson (Leesburg, VA: Alethes Press, 2007). Pp. 570. ISBN 9781934182000. Reprinted by Thomas More College Press, 2022.
Chapters in a book
“Paul of Hungary’s Summa de penitentia,” in Tristan Sharp (ed.) From Learning to Love: Schools, Law, and Pastoral Care in the Middle Ages. Essays in Honour of Joseph W. Goering (Toronto: Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, 2017). Pp. 402–418.
“Augustine and Aquinas on Original Sin: Doctrine, Authority, and Pedagogy,” in Aquinas the Augustinian, eds. Michael Dauphinais, Barry David, Matthew Levering (Washington, DC: Catholic University of America Press, 2007), pp. 145–158.
“La «Summa de poenitentia» attribuita a Paolo Ungaro,” in L’origine dell’Ordine dei Predicatori e l’Università di Bologna, Collana «Philosophia» 32, Giovanni Bertuzzi, OP, ed., (Bologna: Edizioni Studio Domenicano, 2006), pp. 136–145. Same as article with identical title below, in Divus Thomas.
“Aquinas’s Summa theologiae as Pedagogy,” in Joseph W. Koterski, S.J. and Ronald Begley, eds., Medieval Education (Bronx, NY: Fordham University Press, 2005), pp. 133–142.
“An Accomplishment of the Moral Part of Aquinas’s Summa theologiae,” in James R. Ginther and Carl N. Still eds., Essays in Medieval Theology and Philosophy in Memory of Walter H. Principe: Fortresses and Launching Pads (Aldershot: Ashgate Publishers, 2004), pp. 85–104.
“The Moral Status of Embryonic Human Life.” In What is Man, O Lord? The Human Person in a Biotech Age: Eighteenth Workshop for Bishops, edited by Edward J. Furton and Louise A. Mitchell (Boston: The National Catholic Bioethics Center, 2002), 181–198.
“The Theological Character of Aquinas’s Five Ways,” in Studies in Thomistic Theology, ed. Paul Lockey (Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 1996). Pp. 137–73.
“St. Thomas, Obediential Potency, and the Infused Virtues: De virtutibus in communi, a. 10, ad 13.” In Thomistica. Recherches de théologie ancienne et médiévale. Supplementa 1. E. Manning, ed. (Louvain: Peeters, 1995). Pp. 27–34.
“Why Five Ways?” in Religions and the Virtue of Religion: Proceedings of the American Catholic Philosophical Association, vol. 65 (Washington, DC: The American Catholic Philosophical Association, 1992). Pp. 107–21.
“The Sapiential Character of the First Article of the Summa theologiae,” in Philosophy and the God of Abraham: Essays in Memory of James A. Weisheipl, OP. Papers in Mediaeval Studies 12 (Toronto: Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, 1991). Pp. 85–98.
Articles in Journals
“A Note on Thomas and the Divine Mercy,” The Thomist 80.3 (2016): 355–362.
“La «Summa de poenitentia» attribuita a Paolo Ungaro,” Divus Thomas 109/2 (2006): 136–145.
“Evolutionary Psychology and the Metaphysics of Being Human,” Providence: Studies in Western Civilization 7:1 (2002): 40–51.
“The Future of Thomistic Bibliography,” Doctor Angelicus 2 (2002): 193–198.
“A Toronto MS of St. Thomas’s Sententia libri ethicorum: Corrections for the Leonine Edition?” Dominican History Newsletter 9 (2000): 206–214.
“St Thomas and the ‘Law of Sin’,” Recherches de théologie et philosophie médiévale 67 (2000): 90–106.
“God’s Knowledge in Our Frail Mind: The Thomistic Model of Theology,” Angelicum 76 (1999): 25–46.
“Apophatic Theology’s Cataphatic Dependencies,” The Thomist 62 (1998): 519–531.
“Quaestio Disputata. Delayed Hominization: A Rejoinder to Thomas Shannon,” Theological Studies 58 (1997): 708–714.
“Quaestio Disputata. Delayed Hominization: Reflections on Some Recent Catholic Claims for Delayed Hominization,” Theological Studies 56 (1995): 743–763.
“The Principle of Double Effect and Safe Sex in Marriage: Reflections on a Suggestion,” The Linacre Quarterly 60 (1993): 82–89.
“Proportionalism and a Text of the Young Aquinas: Quodlibetum IX, q. 7, a. 2,” Theological Studies 53 (1992): 683–699.
“Another Look at St. Thomas and the Plurality of the Literal Sense of Scripture,” Medieval Philosophy and Theology 2 (1992): 118–42.
“A Note on the Dating of St. Thomas Aquinas’s Expositio super primam et secundam decretalem,” Recherches de théologie ancienne et médiévale 59 (1992): 155–165.
“Aquinas’s Changing Evaluation of Plato on Creation,” American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly 66 (1992): 39–46.
“Does Natural Philosophy Prove the Immaterial? A Rejoinder,” American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly 65 (1991): 97–105.
“Alia lectura fratris Thome: A List of the New Texts of St. Thomas Aquinas found in Lincoln College, Oxford, MS. Lat. 95,” Recherches de théologie ancienne et médiévale 57 (1990): 34–61.
“Immateriality and the Domain of Thomistic Natural Philosophy,” The Modern Schoolman 67 (1990): 285–304.
“Did St. Thomas Attribute a Doctrine of Creation to Aristotle?,” The New Scholasticism 63 (1989): 129–155.
“St. Thomas’s De trinitate, Q. 5, A. 2, ad 3: A Reply to John Knasas,” The New Scholasticism 63 (1989): 58–65.
Notes, Prefaces, Encyclopedia entries
One article for the revision of the New Catholic Encyclopedia (Detroit: Gale Publishing Group, 2013): “Aristotelianism.”
“Bibliographia de Sancto Thoma de Aquino,” annual contribution for Dominican History Newsletter 9 (2000): 148–165; 10 (2001): 166–87; 11 (2002): 149–177; 12 (2003): 106–121; 13 (2004): 195–221; 14 (2005): 168–191.
Response to John Gabrowski, “Natural Family Planning and Marital Spirituality,” in Richard J. Fehring and Theresa Notare, eds., Integrating Faith and Science through Natural Family Planning. Milwaukee: Marquette University Press, 2004. Pp. 46–48.
Two articles for the revision of the New Catholic Encyclopedia (Washington, DC: Catholic University Press of America, 2002): “Thomas Aquinas, Saint,” “Moral Theology: Methodology of.”
“Foreword,” in Charles E. Curran, Moral Theology at the End of the Century. The Père Marquette Lecture in Theology 1999. Milwaukee: Marquette University Press, 1999. Pp. iii-vi .
“Bioethics: The Human Status of the Preembryo,” Catholic Theological Society of America Proceedings 49 (1994): 156–8.
Book Reviews
The Cambridge Companion to the Summa Theologiae, Edited by Phillip McCosker and Denys Turner. Cambridge Companions to Religion (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2016), Church History 86.2 (2017): 500–502.
Augustine Thompson, OP, Cities of God: The Religion of the Italian Communes, 1125–1325 (University Park, Penn.: Pennsylvania State University, 2005), Theological Studies 67 (2006): 417–418.
Jean-Pierre Torrell, OP, Recherches thomasiennes: études revues et augumentées, Bibliothèque thomiste 52 ( Paris: J. Vrin, 2000), Theological Studies 65 (2004): 646–648.
Thomas F. Ryan, Thomas Aquinas as Reader of the Psalms, Studies in Spirituality and Theology 6 (Notre Dame, Ind.: University of Notre Dame Press, 2000), Theological Studies 65 (2004): 642–646.
Lesley Smith, Masters of the Sacred Page: Manuscripts of Theology in the Latin West to 1274, The Medieval Book vol. 2 (Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 2001), Theological Studies 64 (2003): 661–662.
John Bowlin, Contingency and Fortune in Aquinas’s Ethics, Cambridge Studies in Religion and Critical Thought 6 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999), The Thomist 65 (2001): 492–96.
John Inglis, Spheres of Philosophical Inquiry and the Historiography of Medieval Philosophy, Brill’s Studies in Intellectual History 81 (Leiden: Brill, 1998), The Thomist 65 (2001): 301–04.
St. Thomas Aquinas, Quaestiones de quolibet, in Sancti Thomae de Aquino Opera Omnia, vol. 25/1 and 25/2, ed. Leonine (Roma: Ad sanctae Sabinae, 1996), The Thomist 63 (1999): 319–23.
Pierre Conway, OP, Aristotelian Formal and Material Logic, (Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 1995) and The Metaphysics of Aquinas: A Summary of Aquinas’s Exposition of Aristotle’s Metaphysics, (Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 1996), The Thomist 62 (1998): 490–93.
Thomas Hibbs, Dialectic and Narrative: An Interpretation of the Summa contra gentiles, (Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 1995), The Thomist 62 (1998): 141–44.
Luke Gormally, ed. Moral Truth and Moral Tradition: Essays in Honour of Peter Geach and Elizabeth Anscombe, (Dublin: Four Courts Press, 1994), The Thomist, 61 (1997): 493–97.
Paul J. Wadell, C.P., The Primacy of Love: An Introduction to the Ethics of Thomas Aquinas, (Mahwah, NJ: The Paulist Press, 1992), and Friends of God: Virtues and Gifts in Aquinas (New York: Peter Lang, 1991), The Thomist 59 (1995): 508–12.
Bernard J. Verkamp, The Moral Treatment of Returning Warriors in Early Medieval and Modern Times, (Scranton: University of Scranton Press, 1993), Theological Studies 55 (1994): 394–5.
Brian Davies, OP, The Thought of Thomas Aquinas, (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1992), The Thomist 58 (1994): 166–169.
Santiago M. Ramírez, De vitiis et peccatis: In I-II Summae Theologiae Divi Thomae Expositio, 2 vols. (Salamanca: Dominicos Provincia de España, 1990), The Thomist 56 (1992): 344–8.