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Associate Professor of Church History
Kenrick-Glennon Seminary, St Louis MO
Education
Ph.D. Historical Theology.
Saint Louis University. 2001
S.T.L. Systematic and Sacramental Theology. Mundelein Seminary. 2003
M.A. Moral Theology.
University of Dallas. 1997
B.A. Philosophy, Christianity & Culture. St. Michael’s
College, University
of Toronto. 1994
Articles
“Ancient Baptismal Fonts,” Homiletic and Pastoral Review
108.4 (January 2008) 30-31, 44-47.
“The Changing Meanings of sacramentum:
Historical Sketches," Antiphon 11.2 (2007) 245-279.
“Breathing Blessing, Bestowing the Spirit: Insufflatio as
a Distinct Ritual Gesture in Ancient Christian Initiation,” Ephemerides
Liturgicae 121 (2007) 301-327.
“Demonology,” “Diabolical Possession,” and “Exorcism” entries
revised for The New Catholic Encyclopedia, revised electronic edition,
forthcoming.
“Baptism,” “Confirmation,” “Healing, Religious,” and “Latin Rite”
entries in the Westminster Dictionary of Church History, new edition
(Philadelphia: Westminster) forthcoming.
“The Ancestry and Theology of the Rite of Major
Exorcism (1999/2004),” Antiphon 10 (2006) 70-116.
“The Devil and His Pomps in Fifth-Century
Carthage: Renouncing spectacula with Spectacular Imagery,” Dumbarton
Oaks Papers 59 (2005) 111-152.
“Sacramentum in Ancient Non-Christian
Authors,” Antiphon 9.2 (2005) 167-206.
“A New Agenda for Research in Divine Worship,” CIEL-USA
Newsletter 2.1 (2005) 1-15.
“Lex orandi lex credendi:
Liturgy as locus theologicus
in the Fifth Century?” Josephinum Journal of Theology 11 (2004) 130-151.
“Augustine and Catechumenal
Exsufflatio:
An Integral Element of Christian Initiation,” Ephemerides Liturgicae 118 (2004) 175-208.
“Imperial Catholicism in
Late Antiquity? A North
African Illustration,”
Providence: Studies in Western Civilization
8.2 (2004) 14-28.
“The Order for Blessing Water: Past and
Present,” Antiphon 8.2 (2003) 12-23.
“Geiseric,” “Quodvultdeus,” and “Vandals” entries in The New Catholic Encyclopedia, 2nd
edition (Washington
DC: Thomson / Gale, 2003), vol. 6, p. 118;
vol. 11, p. 874.
“The Theological
Use and Abuse of History,” The Latin Mass 11.3 (2002) 40-43.
“Is the End of the Empire the End of the
World? Exegetical Traditions,” in Theology and Sacred Scripture, ed. Carol J. Dempsey and William P. Loewe (Maryknoll NY:
Orbis, 2002) 85-102.
“The Churching of Women: Its Introduction and
Spread in the Latin West,” Ephemerides liturgicae 115 (2001) 208-238.
“Claude Heithaus,
S.J., and the Integration of Saint
Louis University:
The Mystical Body of Christ and University Politics,” in Theology and Lived Christianity, ed. David M. Hammond (Mystic CT: Twenty-Third
Publications, 2000) 139-173.
“The Moral Conscience in
the Teaching of John Paul II: Law, Freedom, and the Dignity of the Human Person”
(M.A. thesis, University of Dallas Press, 1997).
Books
Sacramentum in the Latin Fathers. Contracted for the Hillebrand Series of
Liturgy Training Publications.
Quodvultdeus of
Carthage:
The Apocalyptic Theology of a Roman African in Exile, Early Christian Studies 5 (Sydney:
St. Paul’s
Publications, 2003).
Trying Times: Essays on Catholic Higher Education in the 20th
Century, edited with William
Shea (Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1999).
Courses
Kenrick-Glennon Seminary
HST 310, Church History I
HST 311, Church History II
HST 511, Patristic Church
LS 513, Baptism & Confirmation
LS 514, Eucharist
Paul VI Institute
ST 101, Catechism I
SP 104, Catholic Spirituality: Praying the
Divine Office [online]
ST 114, Good Angels, Bad Angels
[online]
ST/LT 137, Holy Mass and the
Eucharist [online]
SS 174, The Psalms as Christian Prayer [online]
Institute of
Pastoral
Theology
IPT 5121, Catholic Theological Tradition
IPT
5211, Christian Anthropology
IPT 5311, Liturgy
and Sacraments
THL 5312, Moral Theology
Ave
Maria
College
THL 205, Sacred Doctrine
THL 301, Western Theological Tradition
THL 305, Triune God
THL 307, Sacraments
THL 309, Christ and His Church
THL 315, Moral Theology
THL 413, Theology
of St Augustine
THL 490, Senior Seminar in Theology
The Liturgical Institute, Mundelein Seminary
LI 521, History of Sacramental Theology
LI 531, Biblical Studies and the Renewal of
Sacramental Theology
LI 532,
Patristic Sacramental
Thought and Liturgical Ressourcement
LI 533, Medieval Sacramentology and its
Modern Reformulation
LI 534,
Sixteenth-Century Sacramental Doctrine
LI 540, Ordination, Lay Ministry, Marriage
LI 542, Blessings, Sacramentals,
Devotions
LI 547, Sources and Methods in Liturgiology
LI 556, Eucharist I: History and Structure
HI 307, Liturgy and History of Italy and
Byzantium (team taught with David Fagerberg)
Caldwell
College
TH 101, Religion: Experience and Tradition
TH 201, Christian Responsibility (an introduction to moral theology)
TH 303, American Catholic Experience
TH 317, Marriage and Catholic Thought
TH 334, Jesus Christ: Yesterday, Today and Forever
Saint
Louis
University
TH 100, Theological Foundations
Reviews
The
Organic Development of the Liturgy, Alcuin Reid, Nova et Vetera 4 (2006) 235-240.
Quodvultdeus of Carthage:
The Creedal Homilies, Thomas M. Finn (trans.), Journal
of Early Christian Studies 13 (2005) 401-403.
Catholic for a Reason III:
Scripture and the Mystery of the Mass, Hahn and Flaherty (eds.), Fellowship
of Catholic Scholars Quarterly 28.1 (2005) 44-46.
For the full issue including the review, click
here.
The Reception of Vatican II Liturgical Reforms in the Life of the
Church, Pierre-Marie Gy, Horizons
31 (2004) 443.
La liturgie oubliée: la prière eucharistique en
Gaule antique et dans l’Occident non romain, Matthieu Smyth, Journal of Early Christian Studies 12
(2004) 385-387.
Order
and Exclusion: Cluny
and Christendom Face Heresy, Judaism, and Islam (1000-1150), Dominique Iogna-Prat,
Fides et Historia 36 (2004) 135-137.
Icons
of Power: Ritual Practices in Late Antiquity, Naomi Janowitz, Journal of Early Christian Studies 11 (2003) 579-581.
The
Holy Blood: King Henry III and the Westminster
Blood Relic, Nicholas
Vincent, Fides et
Historia 35 (2003) 137-139.
The
Search for the Origins of Christian Worship: Sources and Methods for the Study
of Early Liturgy,
2nd
edition, Paul F. Bradshaw, Journal of
Early Christian Studies 11 (2003) 119-121.
This review is quoted in
full
here, on the amazon.com web site.
Christian
Marriage: A Historical Study, Glenn W. Olsen (ed.), Antiphon 7.2 (2002) 37-40.
The
Social Structure of Christian Families: A Historical Perspective, Brian W. Grant, Catholic Studies, online journal at
http://home.adelphi.edu/~catissue/ 2002.
For the full review, click
here.
Sacramenta Bibliographia Internationalis vols. 5-7, Maksimilijan
Zitnik, Antiphon
7.1 (2002) 29.
Sanctity
and Secularity During the Modernist Period: Six
Perspectives on Hagiography around 1900, L. Barmann and É. Goichot
(eds), Church
History 71 (2002) 422-424.
Expositions
of the Psalms, 1-32, Saint Augustine, Maria Boulding (trans.), Journal
of Early Christian Studies 9 (2001) 605-606.
Francis
of Assisi: A
Revolutionary Life, Adrian
House, Horizons 28 (2001) 340-341.
Carthage: une
métropole chrétienne, Liliane Ennabli, Journal of
Early Christian Studies 7 (1999) 628-629.
Web Editing
Editor, web site of the Research Institute for Catholic Liturgy:
www.liturgicalrenewal.org
Designer and editor, web site of the Society for Catholic Liturgy:
www.liturgysociety.org
Pastoral Publications
“Marriage:
School of Chastity,”
Family Foundations, 30.6 (2004)
12-13.
“De profundis for the Married Man,” Lay Witness 25.3 (2004) 56.
Letter to the Editor entitled “Natural
Procreative Technology,” Homiletic &
Pastoral Review 104.2 (2003) 5-6.
Interviewed by Ann
Carey, “Why There’s a Duty to Correct Mass ‘Distortion,’” Our Sunday Visitor 93.3 (16 May 2004) 4-5, see also
93.6 (6 June 2004)
23.
Editorships
Copy Editor,
Antiphon: A Journal for
Liturgical Renewal, 2003 –
2005.
Assistant Editor,
Antiphon: A Journal for
Liturgical Renewal, 2005 –
2007.
Convener of History of Christianity section for College Theology Society
conventions. 2003 – 2005.
Conference Papers
September 20-23, 2007. “‘Active Participation’ from Pius X to
Benedict XVI.” Annual Conference of the Society for Catholic Liturgy. [Accepted
for presentation]
August 6-11, 2007. “Martin of Tours and the Order of Exorcist.”
15th International Conference on Patristic Studies at Oxford,
England.
May 4-7, 2006. “The Emergence of insufflatio
as a Distinct Ritual Gesture in Christian Initiation.” 41st
International Congress on Medieval Studies at Kalamazoo, Michigan.
October 27-30, 2005. “De exorcismis: The
Ancestry and Theology of the New Rite of Exorcism.” Conference of the Research
Institute for Catholic Liturgy on “Sacrificium laudis: The Medina Years
(1996-2002).” See full conference information at
www.liturgicalrenewal.org
June 2-5, 2005.
“Words about Worship: The Power of Academic Scribblers.” 51st Annual
Convention of the College Theology Society.
October 27-29, 2004. “Translating sacramentum:
Lessons from the Early
Church.” Conference at the Liturgical Institute of the
University of St.
Mary of the Lake on
“Authentic Liturgy: Translation and Interpretation of Liturgical Texts.”
October 14-16, 2004. “Abuse of History in the ‘Restoration’ of the
Catholic Liturgy: What’s a Catholic
Historian to Do?”
24th Biennial Meeting of the Conference on
Faith and History.
June 3-6, 2004. “The Devil and the Liturgical Renewal:
Changing Attitudes towards the Demonic in Post-Conciliar
Liturgical Books.” 50th
Annual Convention of the College Theology Society.
May
27-29, 2004. “The Christianization of sacramentum and
the Romanization of Christianity in the Ante-Nicene Period.” 17th Annual Meeting of the North American Patristics Society.
June 5-8, 2003. “Patristic Theology as Liturgical Theology:
The Fifth Century Bishop and his Theological Context.” Annual Convention of the
Catholic Theological Society of America.
May 29-June 1, 2003. “Out
with the Unclean Spirit, In with the Holy Spirit: Breathing New Life into
Baptismal Exsufflations.” 49th Annual
Convention of the College Theology Society.
May
8-11, 2003. “What’s in a Sign? The Trajectory of
Augustinian Excerpts in the Development of Sacramental Theology.” 38th
International Congress on Medieval Studies at
Kalamazoo, Michigan.
April
5-6, 2003. “Towards a History of
Sacramental Theology.” Annual Northwest Region Meeting of the American
Academy of Religion,
Chicago.
May 30-June 2, 2002. “Lightening Rod for Ideologues: The Interpretation of Alfred Firmin Loisy.” 48th Annual
Convention of the College Theology Society.
May
23-25, 2002. “Exhuming an Old Corpus: Reconsidering
the Sermons of Quodvultdeus.” 16th Annual
Meeting of the North American Patristic Society.
May 31-June 3, 2001. “Is
the End of the Empire the End of the World?
Scriptural Motifs and the Age of the World in the Late
Western Empire.” 47th Annual
Convention of the College Theology Society.
May
14-16, 2001. “Drinking Blood with the
Eyes: The Limits of Language in the Lower Empire.” 15th Annual
Meeting of the North American Patristic Society.
June
1-4, 2000. “Jean Daniélou and
Paul Claudel in the Mid-20th Century
Debate Over Patristic Exegesis.” 46th Annual
Convention of the College Theology Society.
May
25-27, 2000. “Fifth Century Apocalypticism:
the Liber promissionum et praedictorum Dei of Quodvultdeus.” 14th Annual
Meeting of the North American Patristic Society.
May
4-7, 2000. “‘Churching’ of Women in the Middle Ages: The
Sources and Meaning of a Popular Rite.” 35th International Congress on Medieval Studies at Kalamazoo, Michigan.
March
18-19, 2000. “Dimidium temporis: Apocalypticism in
Fifth Century North Africa.” Annual Meeting of the Midwest
American Academy
of Religion.
June
3-6, 1999. “Devotion to the Mystical
Body of Christ and the Integration of
St. Louis University
in the Nineteen-Forties.” 45th Annual Convention of the College Theology Society.
March
20-21, 1999. “Shepherding a Doomed
Flock: Bishop Quodvultdeus and the Arian Conquest of Carthage.” Annual Meeting of the Midwest
American Academy
of Religion.
Educational
Radio
Co-host of “Across the
Generations.” Topic:
ancient Christian writings as resources for living the Christian life
today. WRYT Catholic Radio, St. Louis. 2001.
Professional Association Memberships
College Theology
Society of America
Conference on Faith
and History
Fellowship of
Catholic Scholars
North American
Patristic Society
Society for Catholic
Liturgy
Elected member of the Board of
Directors
American Academy of Religion
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