David Francis Sherwood, STL
Adjunct Instructor of Theology
Ph.D. Candidate in Theology
Ave Maria University: Ave Maria, FL
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I am a PhD theology candidate at Ave Maria University in Florida, where I study systematic and biblical theology. Since January 2025, I have also been an adjunct instructor of theology—teaching in the core curriculum—at Ave Maria University. Originally from Washington State, I arrived in Florida in the summer of 2022, after having studied in Trumau, Austria, at the (Pontifical) ITI Catholic University for four years. While in Austria, I received theology licentiate and master's degrees from this institute. I began my academic journey at Thomas Aquinas College in Santa Paula, California, studying theology and philosophy alongside the humanities and liberal arts.
My academic writing has appeared in The Aquinas Review, The Downside Review, The Heythrop Journal, and Ephemerides Theologicae Lovanienses, and my academic translations are forthcoming in The Aquinas Review and Lux Veritatis. My popular work may be found in the Homiletic and Pastoral Review and VoegelinView. My work has centered on Saint Thomas Aquinas's theology and philosophy, especially in the tradition of Laval Thomism. Specifically, my work has been focused on the Blessed Virgin Mary and sacramental theology, though I also write on late Patristics, particularly Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite and Saint Augustine of Hippo.
I passed my comprehensive exams in October 2025 and am currently preparing my dissertation proposal on the philosophical and theological principles of the Mariology of Charles De Koninck, the leader of Laval Thomism and a seminal figure in 20th-century Thomism.
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