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Matthew Levering Professor of Theology
Education: Boston College, Ph.D. in Systematic Theology, Spring 2000 Duke Divinity School, Master of Theological Studies, Spring 1996 University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, B.A. in History, Spring 1993 Wesleyan University, Fall 1989-Spring 1991
Honors, Grants, and Fellowships: Senior Fellow, Centre for the Theological Interpretation of Scripture, Wycliffe College, University of Toronto, 2008- Contributing Editor for 2009, Assembly: A Journal of Liturgical Theology (Notre Dame Center for Liturgy) Myser Fellow, Center for Ethics and Culture, University of Notre Dame, 2006-2007 academic year 2006 Book Award, Third Place in Theology, Catholic Press Association of the United States and Canada, for Holy People, Holy Land Institute of Medieval Philosophy and Theology Bradley Grants, 1997-2000 University Fellowship, Boston College, 1996-2000
Teaching Positions: Professor of Theology (tenured), University of Dayton, 2009- Associate Professor of Theology, Ave Maria University, Naples, FL, 2004-2009 Assistant Professor of Theology, Ave Maria College, Ypsilanti, MI, 2000-2004 Lecturer, Boston College, 1999-2000
Publications: Books Authored
Books Co-Authored
Scholarly Books Co-Edited
Popular Books Edited On the Priesthood: Classic and Contemporary Texts. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2003. On Christian Dying: Classic and Contemporary Texts. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2004. On Marriage and the Family: Classic and Contemporary Texts. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2005. On Prayer and Contemplation: Classic and Contemporary Texts. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2005.
Current Projects Reading Romans with St. Thomas Aquinas: Ecumenical Explorations. To be co-edited with Michael Dauphinais. Origen: Exegesis, Metaphysics, Doctrine (in planning stage for Brazos Press) Just War in the Catholic Tradition. To be co-edited with Gregory Reichberg (intended for Cambridge University Press) Catholic Theology: A Doctrinal Guide (contracted with Continuum)
Articles
Articles and Reviews in Popular Journals "Messianic Gentiles and Messianic Jews: A Response to Mark S. Kinzer." First Things no. 189 (January 2009): 47-49. Review of Randi L. Rashkover and Martin Kavka, ed., Tradition in the Public Square: A David Novak Reader (Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 2008). First Things 187 (November 2008): 60.
Translations and Annotations Translation of Gilles Emery, O.P., "The Holy Spirit in the Commentary of St. Thomas Aquinas on the Epistle to the Romans." Forthcoming in Reading Romans with St. Thomas Aquinas, ed. Michael Dauphinais and Matthew Levering. New edition (introduction and notes) with Daniel Keating of St. Thomas Aquinas, Commentary on the Gospel of John, trans. Fabian Larcher, O.P. and James Weisheipl, O.P. in 2 vols. (Magi Books and St. Bede's Publications, 1980 and 1999). Washington, D.C.: Catholic University of America Press, forthcoming. Revision of Robert Williams's translation of Surnaturel, ed. Serge-Thomas Bonino, O.P. Naples, FL: Sapientia Press, forthcoming. Translation of Emmanuel Perrier, O.P., "The Election of Israel Today: Supersessionism, Post-Supersessionism, and Fulfillment." Forthcoming in Nova et Vetera. Translation of Gilles Emery, O.P., "Thomas Aquinas, Postliberal? George Lindbeck's Reading of St. Thomas," in Emery, The Trinity, the Church, and the Human Person (Naples, FL: Sapientia Press, 2007), 263-90. Translation of Charles Morerod, O.P., "The Senses in the Relationship of Man with God." Nova et Vetera 5 (2007): 789-816. Translation of Gilles Emery, O.P., "The Personal Mode of Trinitarian Action in St. Thomas Aquinas." The Thomist 69 (2005): 31-77. Translation with Teresa Bede of Gilles Emery, O.P., "The Treatise on the Trinity in the Summa Theologiae," in his Trinity in Aquinas (Ypsilanti, MI: Sapientia Press, 2003). Translation of Gilles Emery, O.P., "Essentialisme ou personnalisme dans le traité de Dieu chez saint Thomas d'Aquin?" [Revue Thomiste 98 (1998): 5-38] The Thomist 64 (2000): 521-563.
Book Reviews Review of Markus Bockmuehl, Seeing the Word: Refocusing New Testament Study (Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Academic, 2006); R. W. L. Moberly, Prophecy and Discernment (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006); Simon J. Gathercole, The Pre-existent Son: Recovering the Christologies of Matthew, Mark, and Luke (Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 2006); Christopher R. Seitz, Prophecy and Hermeneutics: Toward a New Introduction to the Prophets (Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Academic, 2007); A. K. M. Adam, Stephen E. Fowl, Kevin J. Vanhoozer, and Francis Watson, Reading Scripture with the Church: Toward a Hermeneutic for Theological Interpretation (Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Academic, 2006); Francis Watson, Paul and the Hermeneutics of Faith (New York: T. & T. Clark, 2004). The Thomist Review of Craig Steven Titus, ed., On Wings of Faith and Reason: The Christian Difference in Culture and Science (Arlington, VA: Institute of Psychological Sciences, 2008). Forthcoming in National Catholic Bioethics Quarterly. Review of Jean Porter, Nature as Reason: A Thomistic Theory of Natural Law (Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 2005). Pro Ecclesia 17 (2008): 469-473. Review of C. Kavin Rowe, Early Narrative Christology: The Lord in the Gospel of Luke (Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 2006). Nova et Vetera 6 (2008): 460-464. Review of John F. Haught, Is Nature Enough? Meaning and Truth in the Age of Science (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006). Review of Metaphysics 61 (2007): 135-137. Review of Nancey Murphy, Bodies and Souls, or Spirited Bodies? (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006). National Catholic Bioethics Quarterly 7 (2007): 635-638. Review of Anselm K. Min, Paths to the Triune God: An Encounter between Aquinas and Recent Theologies (Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 2005). Modern Theology 23 (2007): 304-307. Review of G. J. McAleer, Ecstatic Morality and Sexual Politics: A Catholic and Antitotalitarian Theory of the Body (New York: Fordham University Press, 2005). National Catholic Bioethics Quarterly 5 (2005): 846-849. Review of Frederick Christian Bauerschmidt, Holy Teaching: Introducing the Summa Theologiae of St. Thomas Aquinas (Grand Rapids, MI: Brazos Press, 2005). The Thomist 70 (2006): 140-142. Review of Anscar Vonier, O.S.B., A Key to the Doctrine of the Eucharist (Bethesda, MD: Zaccheus Press, 2003 [1925]). Nova et Vetera, forthcoming. Review of Catherine Keller, Face of the Deep: A Theology of Becoming (New York: Routledge, 2003). Theological Studies 66 (2005): 905-907. Review of Oliver Davies, The Creativity of God (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004). Modern Theology 22 (2006): 150-152. Review of Stephen Pope, ed., The Ethics of Aquinas (Washington, D.C.: Georgetown University Press, 2002). National Catholic Bioethics Quarterly 5 (2005): 430-432. Review of Russell Hittinger, The First Grace: Rediscovering the Natural Law in the Post-Christian World (Wilmington, DE: ISI Books, 2003). Nova et Vetera 2 (2004): 223-228. Review of Paul Gondreau, The Passions of Christ's Soul in the Theology of St. Thomas Aquinas (Münster: Aschendorff, 2002). Doctor Angelicus 4 (2004): 242-247. Review of Charles Taylor, Varieties of Religion Today: William James Revisited (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2002). Modern Theology 21 (2005): 163-165. Review of Aidan Nichols, O.P., Discovering Aquinas (London: Darton, Longman and Todd, 2002). Saint Austin Review 3 (2003): 39-41. Review of Romanus Cessario, O.P., The Virtues, or the Examined Life (New York: Continuum, 2002). The Thomist 67 (2003): 143-147. Review of Philip W. Butin, The Trinity (Louisville, KY: Geneva Press, 2001). Pro Ecclesia 11 (2002): 497-498. Review of David Coffey, Deus Trinitas: The Doctrine of the Triune God (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999). Pro Ecclesia 11 (2002): 238-240. Review of Wilhelmus G. B. M. Valkenberg, Words of the Living God: Place and Function of Holy Scripture in the Theology of St. Thomas Aquinas (Leuven: Peeters, 2000). Theological Studies 62 (2001): 378-379. Review of Aidan Nichols, O.P., No Bloodless Myth: A Guide Through Balthasar's Dramatics (Washington, D.C.: The Catholic University of America Press, 2000). The Thomist 65 (2001): 319-323.
Memberships: Academy of Catholic Theology Chair of the Board, 2007- Society of Biblical Literature American Maritain Association
Quarterly Journal: Co-editor with Michael Dauphinais of Nova et Vetera, English edition, (first issue Spring 2003, published quarterly since Spring 2005).
Book Series: Reading the Scriptures. Co-edited with Gary A. Anderson and Robert Louis Wilken (University of Notre Dame Press). Classical Christianity. Co-edited with Hans Boersma (Brazos Press).
Other Editorial Responsibilities: Associate Editor of Sapientia Press, the academic imprint of Ave Maria University Communications, 2002-2009. (Commissioned books by Avery Cardinal Dulles, S.J., Gilles Emery, O.P., Mary Ann Glendon, Aidan Nichols, O.P., Francis Martin, Guy Mansini, O.S.B, among others.)
Conference Planning: Conceived and organized with Gregory Reichberg a conference entitled "Just War in the Catholic Tradition: Continuity or Rupture?" to be held June 25-27, 2009 at the Ritz Carlton in Naples, Florida. Conceived and organized with Michael Dauphinais a conference entitled "Reading Paul with St. Thomas Aquinas," February 5-7, 2009 at Ave Maria University in Ave Maria, Florida. Conceived and organized with Michael Dauphinais a conference entitled "Humanae Vitae: Forty Years Later," held February 1-2, 2008 at Ave Maria University in Ave Maria, Florida. Conceived and organized with Michael Dauphinais a conference entitled "Sacraments in Aquinas," held February 1-3, 2007 at Ave Maria University in Naples, Florida. Conceived and organized with Rabbi David Dalin a conference entitled "John Paul II and the Holy Land," held February 8-9, 2006 at Ave Maria University in Naples, Florida. Conceived and organized with Michael Dauphinais a conference entitled "Aquinas the Augustinian," held at Ave Maria University in Naples, Florida on February 3-5, 2005. Conceived and organized with Michael Dauphinais a conference entitled "John Paul II and the Renewal of Thomistic Theology," held at Ave Maria College on August 8-9, 2003. Conceived and organized with Michael Dauphinais a conference entitled "Reading John with St. Thomas Aquinas: Ressourcement and the Fourth Gospel" held at the Hyatt Regency in Dearborn, Michigan, on October 5-6, 2001.
Aquinas Center for Theological Renewal: Co-director with Michael Dauphinais, 2001-2009. For further information,
Ecumenical and Interreligious Dialogue: Participant, Evangelicals and Catholics Together, 2004-present Participant, Catholic-Jewish Theological Studies Group, Consultation on the Pontifical Biblical Commission document "The Jewish People and Their Sacred Scriptures in the Christian Bible," Pope John Paul II Cultural Center, Washington, D.C., October 24, 2002.
Presentations: "Hierarchical Priesthood: Numbers 16 and Schism according to Aquinas." Hillenbrand Distinguished Lecture, Liturgical Institute at Mundelein Seminary, April 21, 2009. "Aquinas on Romans 8: Predestination in Context." Presented to a conference entitled Reading Romans with St. Thomas Aquinas," Ave Maria University, February 6, 2009. "Providence and Predestination in Scripture." Presented to the Doctoral Colloquium in Theology and Biblical Studies at Wheaton College, November 7, 2008. "Aquinas on the Decalogue." Presented to a conference entitled Reading the Decalogue through the Centuries, Wheaton College, November 6, 2008. "Response to Cessario, Hibbs, and McAleer" (panel symposium on my Biblical Natural Law). Presented at the American Maritain Association Annual Meeting, Boston, Massachusetts, October 25, 2008. "Humanae Vitae and Original Sin." Presented to a conference entitled Humanae Vitae: 40 Years Later, Ave Maria University, February 1, 2008. "Principles of Exegesis: Toward a Participatory Biblical Exegesis." Presented to the Postgraduate Scripture and Theology Seminar at the University of St. Andrews, January 10, 2008. "Aquinas and Gersonides on Job." Presented to a conference entitled Deus Habet Consilium: An International Conference on the Career and Prospects of Providence in Modern Theology, University of Aberdeen, January 9, 2008. "A Preacher's Vision of the Old Testament: The Case of St. Thomas Aquinas." Presented to the Fifteenth Annual Aquinas-Luther Conference, entitled Aquinas and Luther on Preaching the Old Testament, Lenoir-Rhyne College, October 26, 2007. "The Church as the Image of the Trinity." Presented at the International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, Michigan, May 11, 2007. "Aquinas on the Priesthood." Presented to a conference entitled Sacraments in Aquinas, Ave Maria University, February 1, 2007. "Ecclesial Hierarchy and Modernity." Presented to a conference entitled Modernity: Yearning for the Infinite, University of Notre Dame, December 1, 2006. Invited participant, "Columbus Day Weekend Conference," St. John's Seminary, October 6-8, 2006. "The Holy Land in the Poetry of John Paul II." Presented to a conference entitled John Paul II and the Holy Land, Ave Maria University, February 8, 2006. "Catholic Biblical Exegesis 1280-1750: What Happened?" Presented to the Christian Theology and the Bible Session convened by Stephen Fowl at the Society of Biblical Literature, November 21, 2005. "On the Value of an Exegetical Tradition: Aquinas's Use of Augustine's Commentary on John 10." Presented to a conference entitled Aquinas the Augustinian, Ave Maria University, February 3, 2005. "Charity and the Eucharist." Presented at the International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, Michigan, May 6-9, 2004. "Aquinas on Transubstantiation." Dean's Lecture to the faculty andstudents of Ave Maria College, April 6, 2004. "John Paul II and St. Thomas Aquinas on the Eucharist." Presented to a conference entitled John Paul II and the Renewal of Thomistic Theology, Ave Maria College, August 8, 2003. "Response to Russell Hittinger's The First Grace." Presented to a conference entitled Ethics without God?, University of Notre Dame, July 17, 2003. Invited participant, "The Anthropology Project," Institute for Psychological Sciences, Arlington, VA, July 15-17, 2002. "St. Thomas Aquinas and David Coffey on Analogies for the Trinity." Presented at the International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, Michigan, May 2, 2002. "Does the Paschal Mystery Reveal the Trinity?" Presented to a conference entitled Reading John with St. Thomas Aquinas, Dearborn, Michigan, October 5, 2001. "Is Thomistic Theology Possible Today?" Presented to a conference entitled Challenges to Catholic Theology in the New Millennium, Archdiocese of Boston (St. John's Seminary), September 30, 2000. "Aquinas on the ‘Faith of Christ.'" Presented at the International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, Michigan, May 6, 2000. "Speaking the Trinity: Anselm and His 13th-Century Interlocutors on Divine Intelligere and Dicere." Presented to a conference entitled Saint Anselm, His Origins and Influence at Saint Anselm College, Manchester, New Hampshire, April 1, 2000. "St. Thomas Aquinas and the Fides Christi." Presented to the faculty and students of St. John Vianney Major Seminary, Denver, Colorado, January 2000. "Israel and the Shape of Thomas Aquinas's Soteriology." Bradley Medieval Lecture, Boston College, October 30, 1999. "Aquinas and the Medieval Debate about Christ's Saving Work: From Gilbert the Universal to the Summa Fratris Alexandri." Presented to the Medieval Theology Group of the Catholic Theological Society of America, June 11, 1999. "Aquinas on Christ's Transfiguration and Resurrection." Presented at the International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, Michigan, May 6, 1999.
Internet Publications: "The Brothers and Sisters of Jesus," published on FirstThings.com, November 30, 2007. Interview on the Website of the Thomas Instituut te Utrecht, February 2003. "John Paul II and St. Thomas Aquinas on the Eucharist," published on Zenit.org, September 9-10, 2003.
Courses Taught: History of Christian Theology, Part I History of Christian Theology, Part II Sacred Scripture Old Testament New Testament Sacred Doctrine The Church Christ and His Church Sacraments Triune God Creation and Grace Moral Theology Christ and Salvation (M.A.) Sacraments and Liturgy (M.A.) Aquinas on Salvation (Ph.D.) Scripture and Metaphysics (Ph.D.) Human Sexuality and Divine Providence (Ph.D.) Praeambula Fidei (Ph.D.)
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