| ECCLESIASTICAL LIFE
Received into the Catholic Church, Campion Hall, Oxford, 10
October 1979
Ordained deacon for the Archdiocese of Birmingham, 21 June 2003
Ordained priest, 13 December 2003
CLERICAL APPOINTMENTS
Assistant priest
St Gregory & St Augustine’s Church, Oxford 2003–
ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS
Visiting Senior Professor
The International Theological Institute, Gaming, Austria 2004–
Senior Professor
St Francis of Assisi Chair in Dogmatic Theology
The International Theological Institute, Gaming, Austria 1998–2004
Professor of Systematic Theology
St. Charles Borromeo Seminary, Wynnewood, Pennsylvania, USA 1992–1998
Lecturer in Dogmatic Theology
St. Cuthbert’s College, Ushaw, Durham 1980–1992
Tutor in the Faculty of Theology, University of Durham 1988–1992
Tutorial work for Theology
Faculty, Oxford University 1979–1980
Tutoral work for Centre for Medieval & Renaissance Studies,
Oxford 1979–1980
ANGLICAN CLERICAL AND ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS
[Anglican] Priest-in-charge, St. Cuby, Tregony 1979
Vice Principal, Chancellor’s School [ordination training
course], Truro 1979
Chaplain & Junior Research Fellow in Theology, Lincoln College,
Oxford 1974–1979
Member of the Theology Faculty,
Oxford University 1974–1979
Honorary Assistant Priest, St.
Mary Magdalen’s, Oxford
1974–1979
Assistant Priest, St. Andrew’s, Orford, Warrington 1972–1974
Ordained Anglican Priest Sep.
1972
Deacon, St. Mary’s Bayswater, Oxford 1971–1972
Ordained Anglican Deacon June
1971
OTHER ACTIVITIES AND POSITIONS
Examiner of Ph. D. thesis, University of Durham 2004
Fellow, Greyfriars Hall, Oxford
2004–
Member, Theology Faculty, Oxford
University 2004–
Consultant International Committee
on English in the Liturgy 2004–
Member planning committee for
philosophy degree, Maryvale Institute 2003–
Pentecost Lectures, Pluscarden
Abbey 2003
Examiner of D. Phil. theses in
theology, Oxford University 2003
Member advisory board, Nova et
Vetera 2002–
Member editorial board, The St
Austin Review 2001–
Participant in the Thomistic
Institute, University of Notre Dame 2001
Visiting Lecturer, Master’s Programme, Newman Institute
Ireland 2001–2003
Visiting Lecturer, John Paul
II Institute, Melbourne, Australia 2001–
Examiner for D. Phil. Thesis
in theology, Oxford University 2000
Lecturer and Tutor in Theology,
Blackfriars, Oxford 1999–
Aquinas Fellow, Centre for Faith
and Culture, Oxford 1999–2001
Trustee, Chesterton Institute
UK 1998–Honorary Advisor,
Society of Blessed Gianna Beretta Molla 1998–Advisor, The
Oratory of Our Lady, Camden, New Jersey 1998–Gilpin Lectures,
University of Durham May 1996
Member of Board of Advisors,
Centre for Faith and Culture, Oxford 1994–
TV, radio, and newspaper interviews
for Philadelphia Archdiocese 1994–1998
Consulting editor, North American
Edition of Communio 1991–2003
Consulting editor, La Nuova Europa
1991
Examiner for D. Phil. Thesis
in theology, Oxford University 1990
Fisher Lectures, Fisher House,
Cambridge Mar. 1989
Member of editorial board, Communio
1988–1991
Christopher Morris Memorial Lecture,
Society of St John Chrysostom Oct. 1987
Martin Gillett Memorial Lecture,
Society of St John Chrysostom Oct. 1983
Member of editorial board, Eastern
Churches Review 1974–1978
Member of editorial board, Sobornost
1974–1979
EDUCATION
St. John’s College, Oxford 1965–1972
B.A. (Philosophy and Psychology)
1968
Postgraduate Diploma in Theology
1969
M.A. 1973
M. Litt. 1973
[The M. Litt. degree is a graduate research degree. The candidate
has to submit a 50,000 word dissertation. Mine was a critical
study of the theology of death in P. Glorieux, K. Rahner,
and others. The supervisor was the late Father Cornelius
Ernst OP of Blackfriars, Oxford.]
St. Stephen’s House, Oxford 1969–1971
General Ordination Examination
1970
COURSES TAUGHT
Revelation and Faith
The Existence and Attributes
of God
The Blessed Trinity
Christology
Mariology
Atonement, Grace, and Justification
The Holy Spirit
Creation (including Theological
Anthropology)
Eschatology
Ecclesiology
The Sacraments
The Eucharist
Holy Order, Christian Marriage,
and Virginity
Patrology
Dogmatic Themes in Church History
The History of Christian Spirituality
[from the Apostolic Fathers to St Edith Stein]
The Theology of the Mystical
Life
The Spirituality of the Fathers
The Life and Works of Cardinal
Newman
Ecclesiastical Latin
The Catechism of the Catholic
Church
The Spiritual Tradition of Catholic
England [from Bede to Belloc]
St Bonaventure, Collations on
the Six Days
Medieval Exegesis
The Theology of the Icon
The Theology of the Body (Pope
John Paul II)
GENERAL RESEARCH INTERESTS
Dogmatic Theology (Trinity, Christology, Mariology, Eucharist,
Eschatology)
Medieval Philosophy and Theology (St Thomas Aquinas, St Bonaventure,
Denys the Carthusian)
Nineteenth and Twentieth-Century Theology (Scheeben, Balthasar)
Ascetical and Mystical Theology
The History of Catholic
Spirituality (Patristic, Dominican [SS. Thomas & Catherine], Carthusian, the French School [Bérulle
and St Louis de Montfort], St. Thérèse of Lisieux)
Theology and Literature
(Péguy, Claudel, Bernanos, Chesterton)
The History and Theology of Christian Art
Faith and culture
CURRENT RESEARCH PROJECTS
Catena Eucharistica [A spiritual commentary on the Roman rite
of Holy Mass, modelled on the Catena aurea of St Thomas and drawing
on the tradition of spiritual exegesis of the rites and ceremonies
of the Mass in the writings of the Fathers and medieval Doctors]
Dumb Ox and Little Flower
[A comparative study of two Doctors of the Church, St Thérèse
of Lisieux and St Thomas Aquinas; to be written in collaboration
with Dr Dagny Kjaergaard]
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