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S. A. Long Curriculum Vitae STEVEN A. LONG 1061 18TH AVENUE NE NAPLES, FL 34120 HM: (239) 352-9766 WK: (239) 280-1664 CELL: (239) 821-2647 WK EMAIL: [email protected] HM EMAIL: [email protected] ACADEMIC CURRICULUM VITAE ACADEMIC POSTS Corresponding Academician of the Pontifical Academy of St. Thomas Aquinas, appointed in 2011. Professor of Theology (from Spring of 2009 to the present), Ave Maria University. Associate Professor of Theology, Autumn 2005, Ave Maria University, principally teaching moral theology; systematic theology regarding nature and grace; natural law and metaphysics; directing MA theses and PhD dissertations within the graduate program, with some undergraduate teaching. Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of St. Thomas, (St. Paul, MN), 2000- 2005. Adjunct Professor of Philosophy at the University of St. Thomas, (St. Paul, MN), 1999- 2000. Adjunct Professor of Philosophy at NDI graduate facility for Christendom College (Front Royal, VA), 1996-1998. Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Saint Joseph's College (Rensselaer, IN), 1994/1995. Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Catholic University of America (Washington, DC), 1993/1994. ITINERARY OF STUDY Catholic University of America, 1983-1993 (pontifical degree, Ph.D.). Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium, 1981/1982 (postgraduate research at the Institute for Philosophy). University of Toledo, 1976-1978 (M.A.). University of Toledo, 1972-1976 (B.A.). GRADUATE STUDY Ph.D. Dissertation: Minimalist Natural Law: A Study of the Natural Law Theories of H. L. A. Hart, John Finnis, and Lon Fuller, directed by Dr. Russell Hittinger. M.A. Thesis: Contingency and Necessity: An Inquiry into the Existence of God, directed by Dr. Ramakrishna Puligandla. 1 AREAS OF EXPERTISE AND COMPETENCE Theology and philosophy; especially Thomistic moral theology & philosophy and natural law; systematic theology with regard to the relation of nature and grace, and regarding grace, freedom, and predestination; metaphysics; theological and philosophic anthropology; philosophy of law; Christian philosophy; Social and Political Theory. BOOKS 1) Analogia Entis: On the Analogy of Being, Metaphysics, and the Act of Faith. Published in November of 2011 by University of Notre Dame Press. 2) Natura Pura: On the Recovery of Nature in the Doctrine of Grace, regarding the doctrinal, speculative, moral, social, and political implications of the nature/grace question. Published in May of 2010 by Fordham University Press. 3)The Teleological Grammar of the Moral Act, published in 2007 by Sapientia Press of Ave Maria University. 4) Co-editor with Dr. Christopher Thompson of Reason and the Rule of Faith: Conversations in the Tradition with John Paul II--drawn from the Lilly funded seminars in the Habits of Mind: The Vocation of the Catholic Intellectual series—published by University Press of America, January, 2011. RECENT RESEARCH 1)I am engaged in preparatory research for a book regarding providence, freedom, predestination, and natural law. Initially, it had three components. One part involved the intention to translate, and then to author a commentary about, hitherto unpublished parts of the original 8 volumes submitted by the Dominicans to the Congregatio de Auxiliis. This has been delayed because the original volumes (as distinct from the final accepted redacted version) cannot to the present be found. The second part was originally to prepare a small primer on the subject of freedom, divine causality, providence, grace, and predestination; whereas the third was to publish a larger and more comprehensive work defending the high Thomistic reading associated with Bañez and what the Holy See has historically referred to as the Thomistic school. Because of the failure to find the original longer submission of the Dominican Order to the Congregatio de Auxiliis—although the search is ongoing--I have decided to undertake work on the latter two parts of the project. Nonetheless, the search for the original submission continues and one prominent hypothesis--that it may be an uncatalogued possession of the Vatican Library—would if true render the discover of the document still to be possible. 2)Work toward 2nd edition, with response to critics, of The Teleological Grammar of the Moral Act. 2 3)Research under way with respect to a book regarding the relation of normative natural teleology, the common good, and economic method, particularly with respect to the Church’s social teaching. The factive teleology of some Whig and Austrian economists, is both integrated within, and limited, ordered, constrained, and criticized by, the normative natural teleology of Aquinas and Aristotle. SELECT PUBLICATIONS (ESSAYS & BOOK CHAPTERS) “Fundamental Errors of the New Natural Law Theory,” forthcoming in the National Catholic Bioethics Quarterly. “On Natural Knowledge of God: Aquinas’s Debt to Aristotle,” forthcoming in Philosophy in Theological Education: Essays in Honor of Ralph McInerny. “Thoughts on Analogy and Relation” submitted for forthcoming volume honoring the thought of Fr. Norris Clarke, SJ. “St. Thomas Aquinas, the Analogy of Being, and the Analogy of Transferred Proportion” for the book volume deriving from the 31st Annual Conference of the Center for Medieval Studies at Fordham University held March 26-27, 2011—a conference devoted to “The Metaphysics of Aquinas and its Modern Interpreters: Theological and Philosophical Perspectives.” “Reflections on the ITC’s The Search for Universal Ethics: A New Look at Natural Law,” Nova et Vetera, English Edition,Vol. 9, No. 3 (2011): 775–789. “Teleology, Divine Governance, and the Common Good—Thoughts on the ITC’s The Search for Universal Ethics: A New Look at Natural Law,” invited chapter for book on the ITC document on natural law—title yet undetermined—forthcoming from Eerdman’s, edited by John Berkman and William C. Mattison III. “Thomistic Reflections on the Cosmos, Man, and Stewardship,” Nova et Vetera, English Edition,Vol. 10, No. 1 (2012): 193–213. “God, Freedom, and the Permission of Evil,” forthcoming in the book volume for the 2009 conference of the Maritain Association. “Engaging Thomist Interlocutors: Fr. Lawrence Dewan on St. Thomas Aquinas and Private Defense, and A Fresh Look at Keiser’s Moral Theology,” Nova et Vetera, English Edition,Vol. 9, No. 2 (2011): 267–295. “Natural Teleology, the Moral Life, and the Order of Being,” Communio 37 (Summer 2010). “Speculative Foundations of Moral Theology and the Causality of Grace,” invited essay for a symposium on grace in the moral life published in Studies in Christian Ethics, 23(4) 397–414, 3 2010. “The Perfect Storm: The Loss of Natura as a Theonomic Principle in Moral Philosophy,” to be published as a chapter in the book forthcoming from the University of Notre Dame Press derivative from the ‘MacIntyre at 80 conference,’ held at University College Dublin, Ireland, March 6-9, 2009. “Natural Law, the Moral Object, and Humanae Vitae,” published in Ressourcement Thomism, Sacred Doctrine, the Sacraments, and the Moral Life: Essays in Honor of Romanus Cessario, O.P.; Catholic University of America Press, 2010, pp. 285-311. “The Efficacy of God’s Sacramental Presence” English language edition of Nova et Vetera, English Edition,, Vol. 7, No. 4, Fall, 2009. “In Response to the False Theory Undergirding Condomitic Exceptionalism: A Response to Murphy and Rhonheimer,” National Catholic Bioethics Quarterly, Winter 2008, Nov. 15. “Veritatis Splendor #78 and The Teleological Grammar of the Moral Act,” Nova et Vetera, English Edition,Vol.6, No.1 (2008). “An Argument for the Embryonic Intactness of Marriage,” The Thomist 70 (2006): 267-88. “Remarks on David Schindler’s Heart of the World, Center of the Church,” from a plenary session of the Maritain Society, forthcoming in Communio. “Causal Entailment, Sufficient Reason, and Freedom,” published in The Human Person and a Culture of Freedom, Peter Pagan ed., (Washington, D.C.: The American Maritain Association: 2009). “On the Loss, and the Recovery, of Nature as a Theonomic Principle: Reflections on the Nature/Grace Controversy”—Nova et Vetera, English Edition, symposium regarding Lawrence Feingold’s book The Natural Desire for God According to St. Thomas Aquinas and His Commentators, Nova et Vetera, English Edition,Vol.5, No.1 (Winter, 2007). “Providence, Freedom, and Natural Law” republished in English in Nova et Vetera, English Edition, Vol.4, No.3 (Summer, 2006), with permission of Revue thomiste, where it initially appeared in French. Cf. reference to "Providence, Liberte Et Loi Naturelle" below. “Aquinas on Being and Logicism,” a response to Anthony Kenny, published in New Blackfriars, vol. 86, no. 1003, May 2005. Introduction to the section on “Metaphysics and Analogical Knowledge” in The Philosopher's Calling, edited by Professors Jack Carlson and Tony Simon. The book is a collection of writings of Yves Simon whose various sections are introduced by prominent authors well acquainted with Simon’s work. The book is currently being considered for publication by Catholic University of America Press. 4 “Regarding the Nature of the Moral Object and Intention: A Response to Steven Jensen,” Nova et Vetera, English Edition,, 3, no. 1 (Winter, 2005). “Evangelium Vitae and the Death Penalty,” originally delivered in debate with Christian Brugger at the Fellowship of Catholic Scholars, published in the book The Catholic Citizen: Debating the Issues of Justice, ed. Kenneth Whitehead, 2004, St. Augustine’s Press. “A Brief Disquisition Regarding the Nature of the Object of the Moral Act According to St. Thomas Aquinas,” The Thomist, January, 2003. “On the Natural Knowledge of the Real Distinction of Essence and Existence,” Nova et Vetera, English edition, Vol.1, No.1 (January, 2003). "Providence, Liberte et Loi Naturelle" translated by Hyacinthe Defos du Rau, O.P., and Fr. Serge-Thomas Bonino, O.P., and published in Revue thomiste, Sommaire du n° 3, du tome 102, December of 2002, pp. 355-406. “St. Thomas Aquinas, Natural Law, and the Doctrine of the Just War,” for the volume of essays proceeding from the 2002 Aquinas/Luther Conference regarding “Luther and Aquinas on War and Peace” for which I gave the keynote.
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