Thomistic Principles of Contemporary Theology of Revelation

Bernhard Blankenhorn, OP

Université de Fribourg

Fr. Bernhard Blankenhorn is a Dominican friar of the Western U.S. province. He studied philosophy and theology at the Dominican School of Philosophy and Theology (DSPT) in Berkeley California and at the Dominican studium in Toulouse. He earned his doctorate in theology from the University of Fribourg (Switzerland) in 2012. He taught at the Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas (Angelicum) in Rome from 2013 until 2021. Since 2021, he is ordinary professor of dogmatic theology at the University of Fribourg. He has published The Mystery of Union with God Dionysian Mysticism in Albert the Great and Thomas Aquinas (2015) and Bread from Heaven: An Introduction to the Theology of the Eucharist (2021), both with The Catholic University of America Press. His current research focuses on the theology of Albert the Great and its influence on the Rhineland mystics, as well as on ecclesiology and mystical theology.