- mP3070
- Licentiate
- Moral, Spirituality, Thomistic
- Semester I
- Moral Section Coordinator
- Fr.
- Kevin E.
- O'Reilly, O.P.
- Professore Aggregato
- Section: Moral
Academic degrees earned
B.A., Trinity College, Dublin
H.Dip.Ed., Trinity College, Dublin
B.A., University College, Dublin
PhD., National University of Ireland, Maynooth
B.D., St. Patrick’s College, Maynooth
PhD., Tilburg University, Netherlands
Courses at the Angelicum
Brief biography
Kevin O’Reilly entered the Irish Province of the Dominican Order in 2011. Prior to that he taught philosophy at the Milltown Institute of Theology and Philosophy, Dublin, from 2003 to 2010, and then at Strathmore University for one semester in 2010. After ordination to the priesthood, he came to teach moral theology at the Angelicum, where he is currently the Head of the Moral Section. The author of two books, he has also published in the areas of both philosophy and theology in a range of journals. In addition to academic degrees in philosophy and theology, he also holds a licentiate in performance on pipe organ from the London College of Music (LLCM).
Areas of Academic Specialization and Interest
Natural Law, the Old Law, and the New Law
Grace and the dynamics of moral/spiritual transformation
Christology, Sacraments, and the moral life
Virtue of religion
Priesthood
Anthropological foundations of Catholic moral teaching
Thomistic aesthetics
Engaging the thought of St. Thomas with contemporary hermeneutics
Current research/writing projects
A monograph on priestly perfection
A monograph on the fulfillment of the virtue of religion in Christ
Select Publications
Books
Aesthetic Perception: A Thomistic Perspective (Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2007)
The Hermeneutics of Knowing and Loving in the Thought of St. Thomas Aquinas (Leuven/Utrecht: Peeters/Thomas Instituut, 2013
Journal Articles
`By Nature and By Grace: The Life of Mind in Aquinas’s Summa Theologiae,’ Angelicum 91 (2014): 609-636
`The Vision of Virtue and Knowledge of the Natural Law in the Thought of Thomas Aquinas,’ Nova et Vetera 5 (2007): 41-65
`The Temporality of Prudence in Thomas Aquinas: Towards a Participatory Construal of Heidegger’s Sorge,’ American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly 90 (2016): 499-538
`Aesthetics, Hermeneutics, and the Liturgical Transmission of the Word,’ Angelicum 93 (2016): 631-654
‘“Father, if it be possible, let this chalice pass from me”: Christ’s Prayer in Gethsemane according to St. Thomas,’ Nova et Vetera 15 (2017): 503-526
`St. Thomas on Adoration: Some Reflections,’ Nova et Vetera 16 (2018): 861-879
`Thomas Aquinas on Abstinence and Fasting: Participating in Christ’s Cruciform Wisdom,’ Pro Ecclesia 28 (2019): 385-402
`The Psychology of Lust,’ Divinitas (2019): 301-320
`The Theological Hermeneutics of St. Thomas and Benedict XVI,’ Angelicum 97 (2020): 39-67
`The Epistemic Wreckage Wrought by Lust: St. John Paul II’s Theology of the Body Illuminated by St. Thomas Aquinas’s Moral Psychology,’ Angelicum 97 (2020): 177-199
`St. Thomas Aquinas and Ratzinger/Benedict XVI on the Body and Adoration,’ Nova et Vetera 19 (2021): 613-632
`“The Light of Thy Countenance, O Lord, Is Signed Upon Us’: Ps. 4:7 and the Christological Foundations of the Natural law,” The Thomist 86 (2022): 335-72
“The Gift of Counsel, Infused Prudence, and the Natural Law,” European Journal for the Study of Thomas Aquinas 40 (2022): 45-77
“Virtue Theory and Musical Appreciation,” Angelicum 99 (2022): 591-611
Book Chapters
`Patiens Divina in the Summa Theologiae: A Key to Understanding Thomas’s Experience during Mass at the Chapel of St. Nicholas, Naples, on 6 December 1273,’ in Initiation and Mystagogy in Thomas Aquinas: Scriptural, Systematic, Sacramental and Moral, and Pastoral Perspectives, eds. H.J.M. Schoot, J. Verburgt, and J. Vijgen (Utrecht/Leuven: Thomas Instituut/Peeters, 2019), 223-250
`St. Thomas and Gadamer on Phronesis, Tradition, and Authority,’ in The Enduring Significance of Thomas Aquinas: Essays in Honor of Henk Schoot and Rudi te Velde, ed. Anoton ten Klooster, Harm Goris, and Marcel Sarot (Utrecht/Leuven: Thomas Instituut/Peeters, 2023), 1-23
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