- dP3753
- Licentiate
- Dogmatic and Fundamental, Thomistic
- Semester II
- Reginald M.
- Lynch, OP
- Professore Invitato
Academic degrees earned
PhD, University of Notre Dame
STL, Dominican House of Studies (Washington, DC)
STB, Dominican House of Studies (Washington, DC)
BA, St. Lawrence University
Brief biography
Fr. Reginald Lynch, OP is a member of the Province of St. Joseph (USA) and an assistant professor of dogmatic and historical theology at the Dominican House of Studies in Washington, DC (USA), where he teaches courses on sacramental and systematic theology. His research focuses on a variety of topics in historical and systematic theology, especially the sacramental theology of Thomas Aquinas. His most recent work has focused on Aquinas’ reception history in the early-modern West. He has recently completed Aquinas’s Summa Theologiae and Eucharistic Sacrifice in the Early Modern Period (Oxford University Press, 2023), which focuses on Dominican and Jesuit receptions of Aquinas in the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. He is also the author of The Cleansing of the Heart: The Sacraments as Instrumental Causes in the Thomistic Tradition (Catholic University of America Press, 2017).
Areas of Academic Specialization/Interest
Dogmatic and sacramental theology; early modern receptions of Thomas Aquinas
Associations and Memberships
Board of Advisors, the journal Nova et Vetera (English); Board of Advisors, the journal New Ressourcement ; Book Review Editor, The Thomist; Executive Committee, Society for the European History of Ideas; member, American Academy of Religion, Medieval Academy of America, Catholic Theological Society of America, North American Patristics Society, Academy of Catholic Theology
Academic honors and awards
Charles Cardinal Journet Prize (2018); McDonald Agape Fellowship (2025) ; Departmental Fellowship , University of Notre Dame (2015-2020)
Current research/writing projects
Trinity, image, and grace in 13th century theology
Select Publications
BOOKS:
Aquinas’s Summa theologiae and Eucharistic Sacrifice in the Early Modern Period, Changing Paradigms in Historical and Systematic Theology series, Sarah Coakley and Richard Cross, eds. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2023).
The Cleansing of the Heart: the Sacraments as Instrumental Causes in the Thomistic Tradition, Thomistic Ressourcement Series vol. 9, Matthew Levering and Thomas Joseph White, eds. (Washington, DC: The Catholic University of America Press,
2017).
Articles and book chapters
“Domingo Bañez on the Nature of Theology and Theological Reasoning,” in the Proceedings of the Society for the European History of Ideas (Springer, forthcoming).
“The influence of Gratian’s De consecratione on Aquinas’ Eucharistic theology,” in Thomas Aquinas and Canon Law, Justin Anderson and Atria Larson, eds. (Washington, DC: The Catholic University of America Press, forthcoming).
“Thomas Aquinas on the Priesthood: Temple, Allegory, and the Humanities of Christ,” Nova et Vetera (English) (2024, forthcoming).
“Thomas Aquinas and Priestly Formation: From His Life to Vatican II,” The Thomist 88 n. 2 (2024): 181-213. “Creation and Grace: Understanding the Pre-Modern Frame of Aquinas’ Approach to Sanctification,” (*an invited contribution to the special issue, “Medieval Philosophy and Religious Thought,” edited by Mirela Oliva) Religions 15.2 (2024).
“Sacramental Character and the Pattern of Theological Life: Medieval Context and Early-Modern Reception,” Nova et Vetera (English) 21 n. 4 (2023): 1337-70.
“Causality and the Procession of the Holy Spirit in Manuel Kalekas’s De fide deque principiis catholicae fidei,” Harvard Theological Review 116.2 (2023): 254-75.
“Cajetan on Christ’s Priestly Sacrifice: Ressourcement Thomism in the Sixteenth Century,” in Thomas Aquinas and the Crisis of Christology, Roger Nutt, Michael Dauphinais and Andrew Hofer, eds. (Naples, FL: Ave Maria Press, 2021).
“Image, Necessity, and Trinitarian psychology in Anselm and Augustine,” Theological Studies 82.2 (2021): 332-50.
“18th Century Catholic Reception of Aquinas: Scholastic Synthesis in the Age of Enlightenment,” in The Oxford Handbook of the Reception of Aquinas, Matthew Levering and Marcus Plested, eds. (Oxford University Press, 2021).
“Divine Causality and Human Freedom: Aquinas, Bañez and premotion after Descartes,” in Beyond Dordt and De Auxiliis: The Dynamics of Protestant and Catholic Soteriology in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries, Studies in the History of Christian Traditions, vol. 192, Jordan J. Ballor, Matthew T. Gaetano and David S. Sytsma, eds. (Leiden: Brill, 2019).
“Cajetan’s Harp: Sacraments and the Life of Grace in Light of Perfective Instrumentality,” The Thomist: a Speculative Quarterly Review 78 n. 1 (January, 2014): 65-106.
“The Sacraments as Causes of Sanctification,” Nova et Vetera (English) 12 n. 3 (Summer, 2014): 791-836.
“Domingo Bañez on Moral and Physical Causality: Christic Merit and Sacramental Realism,” Angelicum 91 n. 1 (2014): 105-26.
Curriculum Vitae
