Academic Degrees
- Ph.D. in Philosophy (2011)
University of Dallas - M.A. in Philosophy (2009)
University of Dallas - Certificate in Anglican Studies (2005)
Nashotah House Theological Seminary - M.A. in Religion Systematic Theology (2003)
Westminster Theological Seminary - B.A. in Philosophy (2000 magna cum laude)
Texas A&M University
Experience
- Dean of the College
and Professor of Philosophy
at College of Saints John Fisher & Thomas More (2012-present) - Logic
- Philosophy of Nature (Plato, Aristotle, Porphyry, Thomas Aquinas)
- Adjunct Instructor
at University of Dallas (2009-2011) - Philosophy of Being (Plato, Aristotle, Plotinus, Porphyry, Dionysius the Areopagite, Thomas Aquinas, Immanuel Kant)
- Dean of Student Life
and Teacher of Latin and Philosophy
at Faustina Prep (2007-2011) - Moral Theology
- Sacred Scripture: Old and New Testament
- Church History
- Apologetics
- Latin I
- Latin II
- Latin III
- Geometry
- Pre-Calculus
Languages
- Greek, Classical and Koine
- Latin
- Hebrew
- French
Scholarships & Awards
- Endorsed Rhodes Scholar Candidate
- Texas A&M University, 1999
- Braniff Scholarship plus Stipend
- University of Dallas, 2007-Present
- Fellow at the Saint Paul Center for Biblical Theology, 2011-Present
Research Interests
Ethics, Natural Law, Philosophy of Religion, Metaphysics, Philosophy of Mind, Plato, Aristotle, Paul of Tarsus, Neoplatonism, Dionysius the Areopagite, Thomas Aquinas, Second-Temple Judaism
Doctoral Course Work
- Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey
- Vergil’s Aeneid
- Plato’s Republic, Theaetetus, Statesman, Sophist
- Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics, Organon, Physics, Metaphysics
- Cicero’s De officiis, De legibus, De re publica
- Latin Translation Seminar of Cicero’s De officiis
- Synoptic Tradition: Matthew, Mark, and Luke
- Thomas Aquinas’ Summa theologiae, Prima secundae
- Thomas Aquinas’ Summa theologiae I-III Theological Survey
- John Duns Scotus: Will and Morality Text Seminar
- Dante’s Divine Comedy
- Machiavelli’s The Prince
- John Milton’s Paradise Lost and Regained
- Francis Bacon’s New Organon
- Descartes’ Discourse on Method, Meditations, Passions of the Soul
- Hobbes’ Leviathan
- Jean Jacques Rousseau
- Philosophy of Mind (Descartes to Contemporary Scholarship)
- G.W.F. Hegel’s Philosophy of Mind
- Friedrich Nietzsche’s Thus Spoke Zarathustra
- Fyodor Dostoevsky’s The Brothers Karamazov
- Studies in Phenomenological Thought
- Robert Sokolowski’s Phenomenology of the Human Person
Published Books
- The Crucified Rabbi: Judaism and the Origins of Catholic Christianity (Saint John, 2009)
- The Catholic Perspective on Paul: Paul and the Origins of Catholic Christianity (Saint John, 2010)
- The Eternal City: Rome and the Origins of Catholic Christianity (forthcoming)
- Introduction to the Philosophy of Thomas Aquinas (forthcoming)
- Saint Augustine’s On Nature and Grace – A Strict Translation with Commentary (forthcoming)
Published Articles & Chapters
- “New Wineskins: Fresh Presentations of Ancient Traditions” in The Church and New Media, ed. Brian Vogt (Huntington, IN: Our Sunday Visitor, 2011), pp. 89-98.
- “The Rhone to the Thames to the Tiber,” New Oxford Review Volume LXXVIII, Number 1 (2011).
Sample Public Presentations
- “Thomas Aquinas’ Natural Law and Contemporary Positive Law” for the Saint Thomas More Society (March 3, 2011)
- “Jewish Liturgy and Catholic Liturgy” at Franciscan University (January 6-7, 2009)
- “The New Anglican Ordinariate and It’s History” at University of Dallas (November 12, 2009)
- “The Jewish Origins of Catholic Ecclesiology and Liturgy” at St Theresa Catholic Church, Sugarland, Texas (February 12, 2011)
- “My Conversion to the Catholic Faith” Legatus Fort Worth (March 11, 2010)
- “The Gospel of Saint John and His Apocalypse” at Augustine Institute in Denver (September 23, 2010)
- “Do the Undead Have Minds: Philosophical Zombies and the Philosophy of Mind” at University of Dallas (March 25, 2011)
- “How Not to Lose Your Faith in College” at Cistercian Prep in Dallas (March 22, 2011)
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