Curriculum Vitae Breve
Curriculum Vitae Breve
Updated on November 13, 2025.
EDUCATION
Ph.D. Candidate in Theology, passed comprehensive exams in October 2025.
Ave Maria University: Ave Maria, FL.
Specializations: Systematic Theology (major) and Biblical Theology (minor).
Planned Dissertation Topic: “The Dogmatic Mariology of Charles De Koninck: Philosophical and Theological Principles of the Assumption and Marian Mediation in Piety of the Son and Scandal of Mediation.”
Director: Daniel Lendman.
Licentiate in Sacred Theology (S.T.L.), graduated in June 2022 summa cum laude.
Katholische Hochschule ITI (Ecclesiastical): Trumau, Austria.
Master’s in Sacred Theology (S.T.M.) / Magister theologiae (Mag. theol.), graduated in June 2020 magna cum laude.
International Theological Institute (Ecclesiastical): Trumau, Austria.
B.A. in the Liberal Arts, graduated in May 2018.
Thomas Aquinas College: Santa Paula, CA.
TEACHING AND RESEARCH EXPERIENCE
Adjunct Instructor of Theology: 2025–Present.
Ave Maria University, Department of Theology: Ave Maria, FL.
Courses Taught:
1. Sacred Scripture, Undergraduate Core (Fall Semester 2025).
2. Sacred Doctrine, Undergraduate Core (Spring Semester 2025 and Spring Semester 2026).
Graduate Research Assistant: 2025–Present.
Ave Maria University, Department of Theology: Ave Maria, FL.
Graduate Teaching Assistant: 2022–2024.
Ave Maria University, Department of Theology: Ave Maria, FL.
PUBLICATIONS
Journal Articles:
1. “A Suggestive Note on the esse of the Eucharist.” European Journal for the Study of Thomas Aquinas 43, no. 1 (2025).
[In Press.]
2. “On Saint Augustine and ‘Analogy.’ A Historical Note on the Philosophico-Theological Terminology of ‘Analogy’ in Latin Theology.” Ephemerides Theologicae Lovanienses: Louvain Journal of Theology and Canon Law.
[In Press.]
3. “Note on the Fittingness of Negative Naming in Sacred Theology: The Corpus Dionysiacum and Father Bernard Lonergan.” The Heythrop Journal: A Bimonthly Review of Philosophy and Theology 66, no. 1 (2025): 24–37. Early View: November 16, 2024. DOI.
4. “The Virtue of Religion and the Act of Doing Sacred Theology.” The Downside Review 143, no. 2 (2025): 61–79. OnlineFirst: September 23, 2024. DOI.
5. “Theological Systematization and the Order between the Literal and Allegorical Senses of Scripture.” The Aquinas Review of Thomas Aquinas College 26, no. 2 (2023): 151–77. URL.
Book Chapters:
1. “On the Blessed Mother and Re-Creation: An Essay into Charles De Koninck’s Mariology.” All Things That Were Made: On Creation, Creatures, and Their Creator. Edited by Daniel Lendman and Brandon L. Wanless. Catholic Theological Formation Series. Saint Paul Seminary Press, 2026.
[In Press.]
Translated Articles:
1. Dionne, Maurice. “The Grace of Mary is of the Hypostatic Order.” Translated and introduced by David Francis Sherwood. Lux Veritatis: A Journal of Speculative Theology.
[Conditionally Accepted.]
2. De Koninck, Charles. “On the Definition of the Assumption.” Translated and selected by David Francis Sherwood. The Aquinas Review of Thomas Aquinas College 28, no. 2 (2025).
[In Press.]
Book Reviews:
1. Review of Mary & the Church at Vatican II: The Untold Story of Lumen Gentium VIII, by Laurie Olsen. The Heythrop Journal: A Bimonthly Review of Philosophy and Theology.
[Forthcoming.]
2. Review of Unity in Christ: Bishops, Synodality, and Communion, by Anthony Fisher, O.P. Nova et Vetera: The English Edition of the International Theological Journal.
[Forthcoming.]
3. Review of Thomistic Mystagogy: St. Thomas Aquinas’s Commentaries on the Mass, by Urban Hannon, forward by Hugh Barbour, O.Praem. Nova et Vetera: The English Edition of the International Theological Journal 24, no. 1 (2026).
[In Press.]
4. Review of Co-Redemptrix: The Relevance of a Marian Doctrine for Our Time, ed. Serafino M. Lanzetta. Maria: A Journal of Marian Studies, n. s., 5, no. 2 (2025).
[Forthcoming.]
5. Review of A Short History of the Roman Mass, by Uwe Michael Lang. The Chesterton Review 51, no. 1/2 (2025): 142–44. DOI.
6. Review of In Defense of Latin in the Mass: The Case for the Church’s Timeless Liturgical Language, by Pope Benedict XIV, tr. by Robert Nixon, OSB. Antiphon: A Journal for Liturgical Renewal 28, no. 2 (2024): 250–53. DOI.
Magazine Articles:
1. “Faith in the Gospel of John as the Content of Truth: Πίστ- Root Words and Theological Exegesis.” Homiletic and Pastoral Review. March 28, 2025. URL.
2. “On the Need to Focus on a Catholic Theologate.” Homiletic and Pastoral Review, October 24, 2024. URL.
3. “The Common Good and Human Participation.” VoegelinView: A Review of Art, Culture, Politics, Science, and Divine Ground, June 17, 2024. URL.
4. “Aristotelianism in Eucharistic Theology: Father Thomas Reese and Transubstantiation.” Homiletic and Pastoral Review, May 26, 2023. URL.
CONFERENCE PARTICIPATION
Panels Organized:
1. “Satellite Session I: ‘Concept, (inner) Word, and the Work of the Agent Intellect in Thomism.’” Sponsored by The Sacra Doctrina Project for Esse, Vivere, Intelligere: A Triad at the Heart of the Philosophical Tradition, 99th Annual Meeting of the American Catholic Philosophical Association, Notre Dame, IN, October 30–November 2, 2025.
Conference Papers:
1. “Charles De Koninck’s Refutation of Certain Protestant Errors Regarding the Blessed Mother’s Sinlessness and Universal Causality.” Thomas Aquinas & Sin, Aquinas Center for Theological Renewal and Thomistic Institute of the Pontifical Faculty of the Immaculate Conception, Ave Maria, FL, February 5–7, 2026.
2. “The Range of Reason and a Tempering of Philosophizing in Mary.” The Range of Reason: From Empirioschematic Science to Natural and Supernatural Mysticism, 48th Annual Meeting of the American Maritain Association, Ave Maria, FL, April 3–5, 2025.
3. “Marriage and the Sexes: Mutual Real Relations in the Sacramental Theology of Saint Thomas Aquinas.” What Would Aquinas Do? The Crises of Our Age and the 800th Anniversary of the Birth of Thomas Aquinas, Aquinas Center for Theological Renewal and Institute of Spirituality at the Pontifical University of Saint Thomas Aquinas, Ave Maria, FL, January 30–February 1, 2025.
4. “Mutual Real Relations in Saint Thomas Aquinas: Coniunctio and Marriage.” Satellite Session I: “Scholastic Views on the Nature of Marriage,” sponsored by The Sacra Doctrina Project for “Male and Female He Created Them,” 98th Annual Meeting of the American Catholic Philosophical Association, Chicago, IL, November 14–17, 2024.
5. “On the Blessed Mother and Re-Creation: Charles De Koninck’s Ego Sapientia.” All Things That Were Made: On Creation, Creatures, and Their Creator, The Sacra Doctrina Project and The Institute for Catholic Theological Formation at the Saint Paul Seminary, Saint Paul, MN, June 6–8, 2024.
6. “The esse of the Eucharist.” Thomas Aquinas and the Eucharist: Pathways to Revival, Aquinas Center for Theological Renewal and The Thomistic Institute, Ave Maria, FL, February 1, 2024.
7. “They Must Fall into Being: The Son’s Power as Quasi-Subject of the Accidents of Bread and Wine in the Sacrament of the Eucharist.” The Holiness of God and the Mystery of the Eucharist, Aquinas Center for Theological Renewal and The St. Paul Center for Biblical Theology, Ave Maria, FL, February 4, 2023.
Posters Presented:
1. “Natural Philosophy in Mariology: Philosophical loci in the Mariology of Charles De Koninck.” Esse, Vivere, Intelligere: A Triad at the Heart of the Philosophical Tradition, 99th Annual Meeting of the American Catholic Philosophical Association, Notre Dame, IN, October 30–November 2, 2025.