- Thomistic Section Coordinator
- Fr.
- Simon
- Gaine, O.P.
- Professore Aggregato
- Section: Thomistic
Academic degrees earned
STLect Dominican Order
MA Univeristy of Oxford
DPhil University of Oxford
BD University of Oxford
Courses at the Angelicum
- sP1993
- Licentiate, Diploma
- Biblical, Dogmatic and Fundamental, Ecumenical, Moral, Spirituality, Thomistic
- Semester I
Brief biography
Fr Simon is a Dominican friar of the English Province. He studied theology in Oxford before joining the Order in 1995. He has served as both Prior and Regent of Blackfriars, Oxford. Before coming to Rome, he was a member of the Faculty of Theology and Religion in the University of Oxford. He is currently the Pinckaers Professor of Theological Anthropology and Ethics in the Angelicum Thomistic Institute, of which he is also the Director.
Areas of Academic Specialization and Interest
Theological anthropology
Christology
Eschatology
Thomism
Associations and Memberships
International Theological Commission
Pontifical Academy of St Thomas Aquinas
Société Thomiste, Paris
Catholic Theological Association of Great Britain
Angelicum Editoral Board
New Blackfriars Editorial Board
Nova et Vetera Advisory Board
Current research/writing projects
Introduction to Theological Anthropology
Select Publications
Will There Be Free Will in Heaven? Freedom, Impeccability and Beatitude (London and New York: T&T Clark, 2003).
Did the Saviour See the Father? Christ, Salvation and the Vision of God (London: Bloomsbury T&T Clark, 2015).
‘Aristotle’s Philosophy in Aquinas’s Theology of Grace in the Summa Theologiae’, in Matthew Levering and Gilles Emery (eds.), Aristotle in Aquinas’s Theology (Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2015).
‘How Could the Earthly Jesus Have Taught Divine Truth?’, in G. Westhaver and R. Vince (eds.), Christ Unabridged: Knowing and Loving the Son of Man (London: SCM, 2020), pp. 82-93.
‘Jesus Christ’, in Matthew Levering and Marcus Plested, (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of the Reception of Aquinas (Oxford: OUP, 2021), pp. 673-88.
‘Must an Incarnate Divine Person Enjoy the Beatific Vision?’, in Michael A. Dauphinais, Andrew Hofer and Roger W. Nutt (eds.), Thomas Aquinas and the Crisis in Christology (Ave Maria FL: Sapientia, 2021), pp. 126-38.
‘Resurrection and Eschatology’, in Eleonore Stump and Thomas Joseph White OP (eds.), The New Cambridge Companion to Thomas Aquinas (Cambridge: CUP, 2022), pp. 361-80.
