Matthew Levering

Professor and James N. Jr. and Mary D. Perry Chair of Theology at University of Saint Mary of the Lake

Biography

Professor Levering received his B.A. from University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, his M.T.S., Duke University, and his Ph.D., from Boston College. He is the author or co-author of over thirty-five books including such works as Scripture and Metaphysics, Participatory Biblical Exegesis, Biblical Natural Law, Proofs of God, Aquinas’s Eschatological Ethics and the Virtue of Temperance, Did Jesus Rise from the Dead?, The Abuse of Conscience, and Reconfiguring Thomistic Christology. Professor Levering is currently at work on a multi-volume (quasi-)dogmatics, whose first five volumes have appeared (most recently Engaging the Doctrine of Israel). Additionally, he is the editor or co-editor of over twenty books including such works as The Oxford Handbook of Sacramental Theology, Aristotle in Aquinas’s Theology, and The Reception of Vatican II. He is also the translator of Gilles Emery, O.P.’’s The Trinity and the co-editor of two quarterly journals, Nova et Vetera and the International Journal of Systematic Theology. Professor Levering is also the Director of the Center for Scriptural Exegesis, Philosophy, and Doctrine; past president (2021-22) of the Academy of Catholic Theology; and longtime member of Evangelicals and Catholics Together.