About

Mark Johnson is Associate Professor of Theology at Marquette University (Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA) and author of the “Tommaso d’Aquino Newsletter and RSS newsfeed.” He keeps his Curriculum vitae, projects list, image gallery and blog on this site. More…

Here is my Curriculum vitae (i.e., my résumé; we academics describe the thing with Latin words because it makes us sound smarter). There is also a PDF version for download.

Education

Ph.D. in Medieval Studies, specialization in Theology (1990)
University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario: Dissertation: “The Sapiential Character of Sacra Doctrina in the Thought of St. Thomas Aquinas: The Appropriation of Aristotle’s Intellectual Virtue of Wisdom,” (Director: Joseph Goering).

License in Mediaeval Studies (M.S.L.), specialization in Theology (1988)

Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, Toronto, Ontario: License Thesis: “St. Thomas and the Literal Sense of Scripture: Alia lectura fratris Thome?” (Director: E.A. Synan).

M.A. in Medieval Studies (1984)

University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario: Broad-based, interdisciplinary study of the Middle Ages, including studies of philosophy, theology, canon law, liturgy, history, paleography, editing of Latin texts, art and architecture, and literature.

B.A. in History (1983)

Cornell College, Mount Vernon, IA: Special studies in medieval intellectual history, Reformation, Galileo and the history of science.

Teaching

Assistant/Associate Professor of Theology (1996—; tenure in 2003)

Marquette University, Milwaukee, WI

Classes: Theo 001 (General Introduction to Theology) and Theo 175 (Christian Medical Ethics), Theo 205 (Graduate Introduction to Christian Ethics), Theo 385 (The Moral Universe of St. Thomas Aquinas), Theo 383 (Christology in the High Middle Ages); usual dissertation-advising and committee work.

Assistant Professor of Philosophy and Religion (1990-1996)

Saint Joseph’s College, Rensselaer, IN

Classes: A wide range of philosophy, theology, and Core Curriculum courses, including: Topics in Christian Medical and Sexual Morality, Fundamental Theology, The New Testament, Thomistic Ethics and Doctrine of God, Logic, Philosophy of Human Nature, Catholic Natural Law Tradition, Core Curriculum Seminar on Vatican II.

Academic writing

Chapters in a Book

  • “The Sapiential Character of the First Article of the Summa theologiae,” in Philosophy and the God of Abraham: Essays in Memory of James A. Weisheipl, OP, Papers in Mediaeval Studies 12 (Toronto: Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, 1991). Pp. 85-98.
  • “Why Five Ways?” in Religions and the Virtue of Religion: Proceedings of the American Catholic Philosophical Association, vol. 65 (Washington, DC: The American Catholic Philosophical Association, 1992). Pp. 107-21.
  • “St. Thomas, Obediential Potency, and the Infused Virtues: De virtutibus in communi, a. 10, ad 13.” In Thomistica. Recherches de théologie ancienne et médiévale. Supplementa 1. E. Manning, ed. (Louvain: Peeters, 1995). Pp. 27-34.
  • “The Theological Character of Aquinas’s Five Ways,” in Studies in Thomistic Theology, ed. Paul Lockey (Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 1996). Pp. 137-73.
  • “The Moral Status of Embryonic Human Life.” In What is Man, O Lord? The Human Person in a Biotech Age: Eighteenth Workshop for Bishops, edited by Edward J. Furton and Louise A. Mitchell (Boston: The National Catholic Bioethics Center, 2002), 181–198.
  • “An Accomplishment of the Moral Part of Aquinas’s Summa theologiae,” in James R. Ginther and Carl N. Still eds., Essays in Medieval Theology and Philosophy in Memory of Walter H. Principe: Fortresses and Launching Pads (Aldershot: Ashgate Publishers, 2004), pp. 85-104.
  • “Aquinas’s Summa theologiae as Pedagogy,” in Joseph W. Koterski, S.J. and Ronald Begley, eds., Medieval Education (Bronx, NY: Fordham University Press, 2005), pp. 133-142.
  • “La «Summa de poenitentia» attribuita a Paolo Ungaro,” in L’origine dell’Ordine dei Predicatori e l’Università di Bologna, Collana «Philosophia» 32, Giovanni Bertuzzi, OP, ed., (Bologna: Edizioni Studio Domenicano, 2006), pp. 136-145. Same as article with identical title below, in Divus Thomas.
  • “Augustine and Aquinas on Original Sin: Doctrine, Authority, and Pedagogy,” in Aquinas the Augustinian, eds. Michael Dauphinais, Barry David, Matthew Levering (Washington, DC: Catholic University of America Press, 2007), pp. 145-158.

Articles in Journals

  • “St. Thomas’s De trinitate, Q. 5, A. 2, ad 3: A Reply to John Knasas,” The New Scholasticism 63 (1989): 58-65.
  • “Did St. Thomas Attribute a Doctrine of Creation to Aristotle?” The New Scholasticism 63 (1989): 129-55.
  • “Immateriality and the Domain of Thomistic Natural Philosophy,” The Modern Schoolman 67 (1990): 285-304.
  • “Alia lectura fratris Thome: A List of the New Texts of St. Thomas Aquinas found in Lincoln College, Oxford, MS. Lat. 95,” Recherches de théologie ancienne et médiévale 57 (1990): 34-61.
  • “Does Natural Philosophy Prove the Immaterial? A Rejoinder,” American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly 65 (1991): 97-105.
  • “Aquinas’s Changing Evaluation of Plato on Creation,” American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly 66 (1992): 39-46.
  • “A Note on the Dating of St. Thomas Aquinas’s Expositio super primam et secundam decretalem,” Recherches de théologie ancienne et médiévale 59 (1992): 155-65.
  • “Another Look at St. Thomas and the Plurality of the Literal Sense of Scripture,” Medieval Philosophy and Theology 2 (1992): 118-42.
  • “Proportionalism and a Text of the Young Aquinas: Quodlibetum IX, q. 7, a. 2,” Theological Studies 53 (1992): 683-99.
  • “The Principle of Double Effect and Safe Sex in Marriage: Reflections on a Suggestion,” The Linacre Quarterly 60 (1993): 82-9.
  • “Quaestio Disputata — Delayed Hominization: Reflections on Some Recent Catholic Claims for Delayed Hominization,” Theological Studies 56 (1995): 743-63.
  • “Quaestio Disputata. Delayed Hominization: A Rejoinder to Thomas Shannon,” Theological Studies 58 (1997): 708-14.
  • “Apophatic Theology’s Cataphatic Dependencies,” The Thomist 62 (1998): 519-31.
  • “God’s Knowledge in Our Frail Mind: The Thomistic Model of Theology,” Angelicum 76 (1999): 25-46.
  • “St Thomas and the ‘Law of Sin’,” Recherches de théologie et philosophie médiévale 67 (2000): 90-106.
  • “A Toronto MS of St. Thomas’s Sententia libri ethicorum: Corrections for the Leonine Edition?” Dominican History Newsletter 9 (2000): 206-14.
  • “The Future of Thomistic Bibliography,” Doctor Angelicus 2 (2002): 193-98.
  • “Evolutionary Psychology and the Metaphysics of Being Human,” Providence: Studies in Western Civilization 7:1 (2002): 40-51.
  • “La «Summa de poenitentia» attribuita a Paolo Ungaro,” Divus Thomas 109/2 (2006): 136-145.

Notes, etc.

  • “Bioethics: The Human Status of the Preembryo,” Catholic Theological Society of America Proceedings 49 (1994): 156-8.
  • “Foreword,” in Charles E. Curran, Moral Theology at the End of the Century. The Père Marquette Lecture in Theology 1999. Milwaukee: Marquette University Press, 1999. Pp. iii-vi .
  • “Bibliographia de Sancto Thoma de Aquino,” annual contribution for Dominican History Newsletter 9 (2000): 148-165; 10 (2001): 166-87; 11 (2002): 149-177; 12 (2003): 106-121; 13 (2004): 195-221; 14 (2005): 168-191.
  • Two articles for the revision of the New Catholic Encyclopedia (Washington, DC: Catholic University Press of America, 2002): “Thomas Aquinas, Saint,” “Moral Theology: Methodology of.”
  • Response to John Gabrowski, “Natural Family Planning and Marital Spirituality,” in Richard J. Fehring and Theresa Notare, eds., Integrating Faith and Science through Natural Family Planning. Milwaukee: Marquette University Press, 2004. Pp. 46-48.

Book Reviews

  • Santiago M. Ramírez, De vitiis et peccatis: In I-II Summae Theologiae Divi Thomae Expositio, 2 vols. (Salamanca: Dominicos Provincia de España, 1990), The Thomist 56 (1992): 344-8.
  • Brian Davies, OP, The Thought of Thomas Aquinas, (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1992), The Thomist 58 (1994): 166-9.
  • Bernard J. Verkamp, The Moral Treatment of Returning Warriors in Early Medieval and Modern Times, (Scranton: University of Scranton Press, 1993), Theological Studies 55 (1994): 394-5.
  • Paul J. Wadell, C.P., The Primacy of Love: An Introduction to the Ethics of Thomas Aquinas, (Mahwah, NJ: The Paulist Press, 1992), and Friends of God: Virtues and Gifts in Aquinas (New York: Peter Lang, 1991), The Thomist 59 (1995): 508-12.
  • Luke Gormally, ed. Moral Truth and Moral Tradition: Essays in Honour of Peter Geach and Elizabeth Anscombe, (Dublin: Four Courts Press, 1994), The Thomist, 61 (1997): 493-97.
  • Thomas Hibbs, Dialectic and Narrative: An Interpretation of the Summa contra gentiles, (Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 1995), The Thomist 62 (1998): 141-44.
  • Pierre Conway, OP, Aristotelian Formal and Material Logic, (Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 1995) and The Metaphysics of Aquinas: A Summary of Aquinas’s Exposition of Aristotle’s Metaphysics, (Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 1996), The Thomist 62 (1998): 490-93.
  • St. Thomas Aquinas, Quaestiones de quolibet, in Sancti Thomae de Aquino Opera Omnia, vol. 25/1 and 25/2, ed. Leonine (Roma: Ad sanctae Sabinae, 1996), The Thomist 63 (1999): 319-23.
  • John Inglis, Spheres of Philosophical Inquiry and the Historiography of Medieval Philosophy, Brill’s Studies in Intellectual History 81 (Leiden: Brill, 1998), The Thomist 65 (2001): 301-04.
  • John Bowlin, Contingency and Fortune in Aquinas’s Ethics , Cambridge Studies in Religion and Critical Thought 6 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999), The Thomist 65 (2001): 492-96.
  • Lesley Smith, Masters of the Sacred Page: Manuscripts of Theology in the Latin West to 1274, The Medieval Book vol. 2 (Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 2001), Theological Studies 64 (2003): 661-662.
  • Thomas F. Ryan, Thomas Aquinas as Reader of the Psalms, Studies in Spirituality and Theology 6 (Notre Dame, Ind.: University of Notre Dame Press, 2000), Theological Studies 65 (2004): 642-646.
  • Jean-Pierre Torrell, OP, Recherches thomasiennes: études revues et augumentées, Bibliotèque thomiste 52 ( Paris: J. Vrin, 2000), Theological Studies 65 (2004): 646-648.
  • Augustine Thompson, OP, Cities of God: The Religion of the Italian Communes, 1125-1325 (University Park, Penn.: Pennsylvania State University, 2005), Theological Studies 67 (2006): 417-418.