Research
Research
Books:
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, 2024).
ISBN: 978-0-19-287478-8
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).
ISBN: 978-0-8132-2944-7
*Paperback edition, 2025. ISBN: 978-0-8132-3984-2
Representative chapters and articles:
“Re-reading as Contemplation: The political theologies of Augustine and Cicero as Sources for Thomas Aquinas’s account of religio” The Journal of Theological Studies (forthcoming, 2026).
“The Presence of Christ: the senses, sacra doctrina, and the food of eternal life,” in Aquinas at 800: Ad multos Annos, Therese Cory, William Mattison, John O’Callaghan, Michael Waddell, and David Cory, eds. (Washington, DC: The Catholic University of America Press, forthcoming 2026).
“Rahner’s Trinitarian Ontology: Eschatology and the First Principles of Theology,” The Heythrop Journal vol. 66 iss. 3 (2025): 209-22.
DOI: 10.1111/heyj.14419
“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, Michael Dauphinais, Andrew Hofer, and Roger Nutt, eds. (Naples, FL: Ave Maria Press, 2025), 192-211.
“Thomas Aquinas on the Priesthood: Temple, Allegory, and the Humanities of Christ,” Nova et Vetera (English) 22 n. 3 (2024): 789-810.
“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.
DOI: 10.1017/S0017816023000135
“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).
“Image, Necessity, and Trinitarian psychology in Anselm and Augustine,” Theological Studies 82.2 (2021): 332-50.
DOI: 10.1177/00405639211013573
“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).
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198798026.013.18
“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).
ISBN: 9789004377110
“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.