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Academic degrees earned

B.A. Northwestern University

M.A.R. Yale Divinity School

M.A., M.Phil., Ph.D., Yale University

Courses at the Angelicum

Brief biography

Bruce D. Marshall is Lehman Professor of Christian Doctrine in the Perkins School of theology at Southern Methodist University (Dallas, Texas, USA), where he has taught since 2001. He is the author of Trinity and Truth (2000) and Christology in Conflict (1987), and over 100 articles and reviews in academic and popular journals. At present he is completing a book entitled The Primacy of Christ: Faith, Reason, and the Cross, and another book, co-authored with Prof. Michael Root, entitled Justification and Grace: Cross-Border Reflections. For the 2018-19 academic year he served as Rev. Robert. J. Randall Distinguished Professor in Christian Culture at Providence College, and is a past president of the Academy of Catholic Theology.

Areas of Academic Specialization and Interest

Trinitarian theology

Christology

Sacramental theology (especially Eucharist)

Catholic – Protestant dialogue

Associations and Memberships

Academy of Catholic Theology (President, 2008-09)

American Theological Society

Editorial Board, Thomistic Ressourcement Series, Catholic University of America Press

Editorial Board, Nova et Vetera (English edition)

Editorial Board, International Journal of Systematic Theology

Academic honors and awards

Festschrift, Love Become Incarnate: Essays in Honor of Bruce D. Marshall, ed. Justus H. Hunter, T. Adam Van Wart, & David L. Whidden III (2023)

Veritas Medal, Aquinas Center for Theological Renewal, Ave Maria University (2020)

Ford Senior Research Fellowship, Southern Methodist University (2017)

Current research/writing projects

The Primacy of Christ: Faith, Reason, and the Cross; Justification and Grace: Cross-Border Reflections (with Michael Root)

Select Publications

“Presence and Sacrifice: The Eucharist at the Council of Trent,” The Cambridge Companion to the Council of Trent, ed. Nelson H. Minnich (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023), 156-179

“Karl Barth: A Catholic Appraisal” and “Reasons to Say Farewell” (response to symposium on “A Catholic Appraisal”), Pro Ecclesia 31/4 (2022), 504-20, 569-84

“The Eucharist in Late Medieval Theology,” in Luther and the Shaping of the Catholic Tradition, ed. Nelson H. Minnich & Michael Root (Washington, D.C., Catholic University of America Press, 2021), 109-162

“God Almighty in the Flesh: Christology and the Crisis of Faith,” Thomas Aquinas and the Crisis of Christology, ed. Michael Dauphinais, Andrew Hofer, OP, & Roger W. Nutt (Sapientia Press of Ave Maria University, 2021), 345-67

Curriculum Vitae