Spring, 2021 Fr. David Vincent Meconi, S.J. ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF HISTORICAL THEOLOGY 3838 West Pine Blvd. DIRECTOR, CATHOLIC STUDIES CENTRE Catholic Studies Centre SAINT LOUIS UNIVERSITY St. Louis, MO 63108 314.644.8445 [email protected] Areas and Figures of Specialty Christology and Soteriology in the Early Church Late Antiquity and the Emergence of a Christian Culture The History of Christian Deification St. Augustine of Hippo Dionysius the Areopagite Education D.Phil. (Oxon.), University of Oxford (Ecclesiastical History) Lic. Theol., University of Innsbruck (Greek & Latin Patrology) M.A., Marquette University (Ancient Philosophy) M.A., Marquette University (Systematic Theology) B.A., Hope College (Economics & Finance) Invited Appointments Adjunct Instructor in Patristic Theology, Kenrick-Glennon Seminary (2017-present) Visiting Professor of Theology, Franciscan University, Steubenville, OH (2014-present; summer sessions) Invited Scholar, The St. Paul School of Divinity at Saint Thomas University, St. Paul, MN (Summers, 2014, 2019) The Patricia H. Imbesi Fellow, The Augustinian Institute at Villanova University (Spring, 2014) Visiting Instructor in the Department of Philosophy and Department of Classics, Xavier University, Cincinnati, OH (1996-2000; these years are part of Jesuit formation known as “Regency”) 1 Publications Monographs and (Co-) Edited Volumes 24. 101 Surprising Facts About the Saints & Martyrs (Charlotte, NC: TAN Books, under contract) 23. The Cambridge Companion to Augustine’s Sermons, co-edited with Fr. Andrew Hofer, O.P. (Cambridge University Press; forthcoming) 22. Augustine 101 (Notre Dame: Ave Maria Press; forthcoming) 19-21. Augustine: City of God, editor and co-translator with Brian Dunkle, S.J., John Gavin, S.J., and Bryan Norton, S.J., (Aris & Philips Classical Texts Series, Liverpool University Press) Books 17 & 18 (due out 2021) Books 19 & 20 (due out 2022) Books 21 & 22 (due out 2023) 18. Five Encyclicals That Changed the World (Charlotte, NC: St. Benedict’s Press; forthcoming) 17. Late Have We Loved Thee. St. Augustine for Today (Ignatius Press; forthcoming) 16. Augustine’s Confessions and Contemporary Culture, editor (St. Paul, MN: St. Paul Seminary Press; forthcoming) 15. The Ongoing Incarnation: A Spirituality of the Mystical Body (Steubenville: Emmaus Road Academic Press, 2021) 138 pages. 14. The Cambridge Companion to Augustine’s City of God, editor (Cambridge University Press, 2021) xx + 347 pages. 13. Christ Unfurled: The First 500 Years of Jesus’ Life (Charlotte, NC: Saint Benedict Press, 2021) viii + 248 pages. 12. Peter Chrysologus in The Early Church Fathers Series, editor and translator (London: Routledge Press, 2020) xii + 158 pages. 11. 101 Surprising Facts About Mary, Mother of God (Charlotte, NC: TAN Books, 2020) xii + 112 pages. 10. Reading Augustine: On Self-Harm, Narcissism, Atonement and the Vulnerable Christ (London: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2019) xv + 165 pages. 9. Called to be the Children of God: The Catholic Theology of Human Deification, co- editor with Carl Olson (San Francisco: Ignatius Press, 2016) 304 pages. 8. On Earth as It Is in Heaven: Cultivating a Contemporary Theology of Creation in the Catholic Theological Formation Series, editor (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans Press, 2016) vi + 326 pages. 7. 101 Surprising Facts About Church History (Charlotte, NC: Saint Benedict Press, 2 2016) x + 108 pages. 6. Sacred Scripture and Secular Struggles in The Bible in Ancient Christianity Series, editor (Leiden: Brill Press, 2015) x + 289 pages. 5. The Cambridge Companion to Saint Augustine, co-editor with Eleonore Stump, (Cambridge University Press, 2014) xxiv + 379 pages. 4. The One Christ: St. Augustine’s Theology of Deification (Washington, D.C.: The Catholic University of America Press, 2013) xx + 261 pages. 3. Augustine’s Confessions: Annotated Edition with Introduction, editor (San Francisco: Ignatius Press, 2012) xxv + 522 pages. 2. Frank Sheed and Maisie Ward: Spiritual Writings, editor (Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Press, 2010) 190 pages. 1. Catherine Doherty: Essential Writings, editor (Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Press, 2009) 192 pages. Select Essays and Contributions to Collections “Christian Self-Reflection, the Augustinian Antidote to Modern Day Boredom”, Augustine and Contemporary Issues, eds., Paul Allen and Joanna Ledienhag (London: T & T Clark; submitted) “Augustine’s View of the New Jerusalem,” The Patristic Reception of “The New Jerusalem, ed., Nathan Betz and Anthony DuPont (submitted) 73. “The Threefold Body of Christ: The Heart of Catholicism,” New Oxford Review (forthcoming) 72. “At Once What Christ Is: The Deifying Poetry of Gerard Manley Hopkins”, Logos: A’ Journal of Catholic Thought and Culture (submitted) 71. “Lest Loves Compete: St. Augustine’s Theology of Charity,” Studia Patristica (forthcoming) 70. “Sacred Scripture in Augustine’s The City of God,” The Bible in Christian North Africa, vol. 2: Scripture Among Christians of Roman North Africa, edd., Anthony Dupont and Jonathan Yates (Berlin: DeGruyter; forthcoming) 69. “John Paul II (1920-2005),” T & T Clark Handbook of Modern Theology, ed., Philip G. Zeigler and R. David Nelson (London: T&T Clark; forthcoming) 68. “Unus Christus Amans Se Ipsum: Latin Deification Through Augustine,” The Oxford Handbook to Deification, ed., Matthew Levering, Andrew Hofer, and Paul Gavrilyuk (Oxford University Press; forthcoming) 67. “Confessions 2 and the Acidic Allure of Self-Loathing,” The Confessions and Contemporary Culture, ed., David Vincent Meconi, SJ (St. Paul, MN: St. Paul Seminary Press; forthcoming) 3 66. “Augustine the Apologist,” Dictionary of Christian Apologists and Their Critics, ed., Robert Stewart and R. Douglas Geivett (London: Wiley-Blackwell; forthcoming) 65. “The Trinity From Nicaea to Boethius,” The Edinburgh Critical History of Apostolic and Patristic Christian Theology (Edinburgh Critical History of Christian Theology, vol. 1), ed., Mark Edwards (Edinburgh University Press; forthcoming) 64. “Gender’s Divine Dignity in St. Augustine’s Theological Anthropology,” Nova et Vetera (forthcoming) 63. “Rome, Crumbling Yet Consecrated: The Beginnings of Augustinian Historiography”, The Cambridge Companion to Augustine’s City of God (Cambridge University Press, 2021) 19-38. 62. “Introduction” The Cambridge Companion to Augustine’s City of God (Cambridge University Press, 2021) 1-18. 61. “On the Uniqueness of the Catholic Mind,” New Oxford Review (Dec, 2020) 18-24. 60. “Scruples and the Saints,” Catholic Answers (Sep/Oct, 2020) 59. “The Seven Deadly Sins and How to Overcome them in your Life,” Catholic Answers (Jan/Feb, 2020) 28-32. 58. “The Ultimate Gift: The Transformative Indwelling of Christ and the Christian”, Noua et Vetera 17:1 (2019) 197-213. 57. “The Mystical Body and the Nouvelle Théologie”, Ressourcement after Vatican II: Essays in Honor of Joseph Fessio, S.J., ed., Matthew Levering and Nicholas Healy (Ignatius Press, 2019) 26-64. 56. “Between Empire and Ecclesia: Peter Chrysologus’ Theology of Deification”, Deification in the Latin Patristic Tradition, ed., Jared Ortiz (Catholic University of America Press, 2019) 190-207. 55. “The Dreadful Disguise: The Mystical Body and Saint Teresa of Calcutta”, Mother Teresa for Today, ed., Michael Dauphinais (Catholic University of America Press, 2018) 54-75. 54. “Augustine’s Thinking on the Atonement: Identity, Appropriation and Transformation”, T & T Clark Companion to the Atonement, ed., Adam Johnson (London: T & T Clark, 2017) 381-88. 53. “Heavier by the Weight: New Loves and the Daily Oblation of Self”, Priestly Formation and the Liturgy, ed., James Keating (Omaha: Institute for Priestly Formation Publications, 2017) 75-98. 52. “Participatory Priesthood: Contemporary Contributions of Presbyterorum Ordinis”, The Reception of Vatican II after 50 Years: Retrospect and Prospect, eds., Matthew Lamb and Matthew Levering (Oxford University Press, 2017) 170-90. 51. “A Few Obscure Men: Augustine’s Reception of Saint Paul’s Ignobilitas”, Letter and Spirit 12 (2017) 125-41. 4 50. “Conformed to Christ: Saint Augustine on True Salvation”, Christian Theologies of Salvation, ed., Justin Holcomb (New York University Press, 2016) 59-71. 49. “What a Catholic Education Owes its Students”, Fellowship of Catholic Scholars Quarterly 39.3 (Fall, 2016)1-10. 48. “The Consecrated Woman and Non-Competitive Charity”, Proceedings of the CMSWR (Washington, DC: Council of Major Superiors of Women Religious, 2016) 73-92. 47. “The Deacon as a Symbol of Unifying Loves”, Josephinum Diaconate Review (Fall, 2016) 8-18. 46. “Saint Augustine on ‘Saving both Man and Beast’”, Augustine on Ecology, eds., John Doody, Kim Paffenroth and Mark Smillie (Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 2016) 89-104. 45. “The Unity of Christ and Christian in St. Augustine”, Called to be Children of God: The Catholic Theology of Human Deification (Ignatius Press, 2016) 82-100. 44. “The Christian Roots of Christian Deification”, with Carl Olson, Called to be Children of God: The Catholic Theology of Human Deification (Ignatius Press, 2016) 17-39. 43. “Establishing an I-Thou Relationship with Creation”, On Earth as in Heaven: Cultivating a Catholic Theology of Creation, Catholic Theological Formation Series, ed., David Vincent Meconi, S.J. (Eerdmans Press, 2016) 273-94. 42. “From Ordo to Potestas: Augustine of Hippo’s Reading of Rom 13:1”, Sacred Scripture and Secular Struggles: The Bible in Ancient Christianity (Leiden: Brill Press, 2015) 250-63. 41. “Augustine of Hippo and Dionysius the Areopagite: Two Christian Responses