Academic History
A.B., Highest Honors, Religion and History, Oberlin College, Oberlin, Ohio, 1980
M.A., Medieval Studies, Centre for Medieval Studies, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, 1981
M.S.L. [Licentiate in Mediaeval Studies], magna cum laude, sectio theologica, Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, Toronto, Ontario, 1985
Ph.D., Medieval Studies, Centre for Medieval Studies, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, 1989
Expertise
Theology in the Middle Ages
Thomas Aquinas
Awards & Honors
1995 University of St. Thomas Distinguished Educator of the Year
Selected Publications
Editor with L. E. Boyle of Thomas Aquinas, Lectura romana in primum Sententiarum Petri Lombardi (Toronto: Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, 2006). The critical Latin edition of Thomas Aquinas' recently discovered second commentary on Book I of Peter Lombard's Liber sententiarum.
"Aquinas' Roman Commentary on Peter Lombard," Anuario Filosofico 39 (2006), 477-96.
"Authorial Intention and the divisio textus," in Reading John with St. Thomas Aquinas: Theological Exegesis and Speculative Theology (Washington, D.C.: Catholic University of America Press, 2005), 3-8.
"The Theological Character of the Scholastic 'Division of the Text' with Particular Reference to the Commentaries of St. Thomas Aquinas," in With Reverence for the Word: Medieval Scriptural Exegesis in Judaism, Christianity and Islam (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003), 276-83.
Introduction to new edition of Christopher Dawson, Medieval Essays, part of the Collected Works of Christopher Dawson (Washington: The Catholic University of America Press, 2002), vii-xviii
"St. Thomas Aquinas and the analogy of potentia generandi," The Thomist 64 (2000), 581-92
"The Two-fold Division of St. Thomas' Christology in the tertia pars," The Thomist 60 (1995), 439-447
"The Ordering of Trinitarian Teaching in Thomas Aquinas' Second Commentary on Lombard's Sentences," Recherches de Th?ologie ancienne et m?di?vale, Supplementa 1 (1995), 125-36
"Thomas Aquinas and Sacred Scripture," Pro Ecclesia 4 (1995), 92-104
"Is the tertia pars of the Summa theologiae misplaced?" in Proceedings of the PMR Conference 18 (1993-1994), 103-109
Selected Presentations
"Aquinas' Lost Roman Commentary: An Historical Detective Story," The Annual Aquinas Lecture, National University of Ireland, Maynooth, March 21, 2006
"Aquinas' Roman Commentary on Peter Lombard," Plenary address at the XLIII Navarre Philosophical Meeting, University of Navarra, Pamplona, Spain, April 25-27, 2005
"Religion, Utopia, and The City of God" at the Thomas More Conference sponsored by the Center for Thomas More Studies, University of Dallas, November 5-6, 2004
"Chesterton's St. Thomas Aquinas" at the Twenty-first Annual G. K. Chesterton Conference, University of St. Thomas, June 14, 2002
"Thomas Aquinas' Understanding of the 'Intention' of Biblical Authors," at "Religious Thought and Action in Medieval and Early Modern Europe: A Symposium in Honor of Marcia L. Colish" at Oberlin College, May 12, 2001
"Josef Pieper's On Hope," the Steven Kostick Memorial Lecture, University of St. Thomas, 1999
"Theology as the Perfection of the Sciences According to St. Thomas Aquinas," 19th International Conference on Patristic, Mediaeval, and Renaissance Studies, Villanova University, 1994
"Richard of St. Victor's Response to Andrew of St. Victor on the Literal Sense of Scripture," International Congress on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University, 1984
Professional Memberships
Medieval Academy of America
GRADUATE PROGRAM
