Academic degrees earned
B.A., University of Dallas
M.A., Boston College
Ph.D., The Catholic University of America
Courses at the Angelicum
Brief biography
David Dawson Vasquez holds a Ph.D. in Systematic Theology from The Catholic University of America. He has been teaching in Rome since 2001, at the Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas (the Angelicum), the Pontifical Beda College, and various study abroad programs. His interests are in theological anthropology and the intersections between philosophy and theology and the arts. Also, he is Associate Editor of the journal Marriage, Families, and Spirituality published by the International Academy for Marital Spirituality, Leuven, Belgium.
Areas of Academic Specialization and Interest
Christology
Theological Anthropology
Deification
Theology of Sexuality
Associations and Memberships
Editorial Board, The INTAMS Review
European Society of Catholic Theology
The Catholic Theological Society of America
The College Theology Society
The American Academy of Religion
North America Patristics Society
Current research/writing projects
Proposal for an apophatic anthropology from the writings of Dionysius the Areopagite
Select Publications
“Pope Leo I the Great (ca. 400-461, r. 440-61 CE) at the Basilica di S. Pietro and the Basilica dei Santi Giovanni e Paolo,” in: Peter Hatlie, ed., People and Places of the Roman Past (York: Arc Humanities Press, 2019), 5-16.
“Gregory of Nyssa and the Regularity of Marriage”, Marriage, Families & Spirituality 24 (2018): 208-220.
“St. Thomas Aquinas and Dionysius the Areopagite”, in Harm Goris, Herwi Rikhof, Henk Schoot (eds.), Divine Transcendence and Immanence in the Work of Thomas Aquinas (Leuven: Peeters, 2009), 81-98.
“Negative Theology and Jesus Christ”, Josephinum Journal of Theology 12 (2005): 57-67.
Curriculum Vitae