Frederick Christian Bauerschmidt

Department of Theology, Loyola College in Maryland

4501 N. Charles St.

Baltimore, Maryland 21210

tel.: (410) 617-2042

fax: (410) 617-2628

fbauerschmidt@loyola.edu

Birth date: 9/21/61

Academic Positions

      Associate Professor of Theology, Loyola College, Baltimore, MD, 2000-present.

      Director, Loyola International Nachbahr Huis, Leuven, Belgium, 2001-2003.

      Visiting Professor, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium, 2001-2003.

      Assistant Professor of Theology, Loyola College, Baltimore, MD, 1994-2000.

      Lecturer in the Department of Religion, Duke University, Durham, NC, 1993.

Education

 Ph.D.        1996    Duke University, Graduate Program in Religion.

Major Field: Theology and Ethics. Minor Field: History of Christianity. External Minor Field: English.

Dissertation: “Julian of Norwich and the Mystical Body Politic of Christ.” Co-advisors: Stanley Hauerwas and Sarah Beckwith.

 M.A.R.     1989    Yale Divinity School. Concentration: Systematic Theology.

 B.A.          1984    The University of the South. Major: Religion.

Honors, Awards, Fellowships

Loyola College Center for the Humanities, Junior Faculty Sabbatical, Fall 1997.

Summer Research Grant from the Dean of Arts and Sciences, Loyola College, 1995, 1999.

Summer Research Grant, Loyola College, 2004, 2005.

Duke University, Departmental Fellowship, 1989-1994.

University of the South, Departmental Honors in Religion, 1984.

Publications

Books Authored

Holy Teaching: Introducing the Summa Theologiae of St. Thomas Aquinas. Grand Rapids, MI: Brazos Press, 2005.

Why the Mystics Matter Now. Notre Dame, IN: Sorin Books, 2003.

Julian of Norwich and the Mystical Body Politic of Christ. South Bend, IN: The University of Notre Dame Press, 1999.

Books Edited

The Blackwell Companion to Catholicism. Frederick Christian Bauerschmidt, James Buckley, and R. Trent Pomplun, eds. Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, 2007.

Aquinas in Dialogue: Thomas for the 21^st Century. Jim Fodor and Frederick Christian Bauerschmidt, eds. Oxford, Blackwell Publishers, 2004.

Books Under Contract

Thomas Aquinas: Faith, Reason and Following Christ. Under contract with Oxford University Press. Manuscript to be delivered in August 2009.

The Blackwell Introduction to Catholic Theology (with James Buckley). Under contract with Blackwell Publishers. Manuscript to be delivered in August 2008.

Essays in Scholarly Journals

•    “Incarnation, Redemption, and the Character of God.” Nova et Vetera, English Edition, Vol. 3, No. 3, Summer 2005, 459–472.

•    “Confessions of an Evangelical Catholic: Five Theses Related to Theological Anthropology.” Communio: International Catholic Review 31. Spring 2004, 67-84.

•    “The Lamb of God in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction.” Communio: International Catholic Review 30. Winter 2003, 582-598.

•    “Order, Freedom and ‘Kindness’: Julian of Norwich at the Edge of Modernity.” Theology Today, April 2003, 63-81.

•    “The Politics of Disenchantment.” New Blackfriars 82: 965/966. July-August 2001, 313-334.

•    “The Otherness of God.” South Atlantic Quarterly 100:2. Spring 2001, 349-364.

•    “The Word Made Speculative: John Milbank’s Christological Poetics.” (Review Essay of John Milbank’s The Word Made Strange) Modern Theology 15:4, October 1999, 417-432.

•    “Theodrama and Political Theology.” Communio: International Catholic Review 25 (Fall 1998), 532-552.

•    “Seeing Jesus: Julian of Norwich and the Text of Christ’s Body.” Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies 27:2, Spring 1997, 189-214.

•    “Julian of Norwich -- Incorporated.” Modern Theology 13:1, January 1997, 75-100.

•    “Absolutely Fabulous and Civil: John Milbank’s Postmodern Critical Augustinianism.” Theology & Philosophy 9/3-4 (1996), 435-446 (with John Berkman).

•    “Walking in the Pilgrim City.” New Blackfriars 77:909, November, 1996, 504-518.

•    “The Abrahamic Voyage: Michel de Certeau and Theology.” Modern Theology 12:1, January 1996, 1-26.

•    “Eruditio without Religio? The Dilemma of Catholics in the Academy.” Communio: International Catholic Review 22:2, Summer 1995, 284-302 (with Michael J. Baxter).

•    “The Wounds of Christ.” Journal of Literature and Theology 5:1, March 1991, 83-100.

•    “Doing Theology in Light of Divine Aniconicity.” St. Luke’s Journal of Theology 29:2, March 1986, 117-135.

Essays in Books

•    “The Trinity: Imitation and Improvisation.” In Gathered for the Journey, Therese Lysaught and David McCarthy, eds. London: SCM Press / Grand Rapids, MI: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishers (forthcoming).

•    “The Middle Ages.” In The Blackwell Companion to Catholicism, James J. Buckley, Frederick C. Bauerschmidt and Trent Pomplun, eds. Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, 2007, 49-62.

•    “‘That the Faithful Become the Temple of God’: The Church Militant in Aquinas’ Commentary on John.” In Reading John with St. Thomas Aquinas, Matthew Levering and Michael Dauphinais, eds. Washington DC, Catholic University of America Press, 2005, 293-311.

•    “Baptism in the Diaspora.” In On Baptism, Peter C. Erb, ed. Pandora Press, 2004, 16-61.

•    “Making Religion Safe for Democracy: William James and the Monotony of Religious Experience.” In Divinising Experience: Essays in the History of Religious Experience from Origen to Ricoeur (Studies in Philosophical Theology 23), Lieven Boeve and Laurence Hemming, eds. Leuven, Peeters Press, 2004, 113-131.

•    “Shouting in the Land of the Hard of Hearing: On Being a Hillbilly Thomist.” In Aquinas in Dialogue: Thomas for the 21^st Century. Jim Fodor and Frederick Bauerschmidt, eds. Oxford, Basil Blackwell, 2004, 163-183.

•    “Bodies: Baptism and Abortion.” In The Blackwell Companion to Christian Ethics. Stanley Hauerwas and Sam Wells, eds. Oxford, Basil Blackwell, 2003, 250-262.

•    “Aquinas.” In The Blackwell Companion to Political Theology. William Cavanaugh and Peter Scott, eds. Oxford, Basil Blackwell, 2003, 48-61.

•    “Too Much Authority?” (Review Essay of Aquinas as Authority, Paul van Geest, et al., eds) Thomas Instituut te Utrecht, Jaarboek 2002. Thomas Instituut te Utrecht, 2003, 105-111.

•    “Aesthetics: The Theological Sublime.” In Radical Orthodoxy: A New Theology. John Milbank, Catherine Pickstock and Graham Ward, eds. London: Routledge, 1999, 201-219.

•    “Michel de Certeau.” In The Postmodern God. Graham Ward, ed. Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1997, 135-142.

•    “The Politics of the Little Way: Dorothy Day Reads Thérèse of Lisieux.” In American Catholic Traditions: Resources for Renewal. Sandra Yocum Mize and William L. Portier, eds. Maryknoll, N.Y.: Orbis Books, 1997, 77-95.

Other Publications

•    “Loosening Our Grip.” Christian Reflection: A Series in Faith and Ethics 17, 2005, 29-36.

•    “The Apocalypse of Peace.” The Sign of Peace: Journal of The Catholic Peace Fellowship. November 2002.

•    “Michel de Certeau: Theologian.” Introduction to the “Theology” section of The Certeau Reader. Graham Ward, ed. Oxford, Basil Blackwell, 1999, 209-213.

•    “Will Everything Really be O.K.?: The Spirituality of Julian of Norwich.” Commonweal, February 27, 1998, 13-14.

•    “Liturgy of the World -- Liturgy of the Church.” Antiphon: Publication of the Society for Catholic Liturgy 2:2, Fall 1997, 13-16.

•    “Liturgical Rites and Wrongs: The Temptation to be Relevant.” Commonweal, November 17, 1995, 14-16.

Book Reviews

•    John McGuckin, Saint Cyril of Alexandria and the Christological Controversy in Pro Ecclesia, 15:1, Winter 2006.

•    Christopher Steck, The Ethical Thought of Hans Urs von Balthasar, in The Thomist, July 2003.

•    Clayton Crockett, A Theology of the Sublime, in Modern Theology, October 2002.

•    Gary Macy, Treasures from the Storeroom: Medieval Religion and the Eucharist, in The Anglican Theological Review, LXXXIII:2.

•    Gerhard Lohfink, Does God Need the Church? Toward a Theology of the People of God, in Modern Theology, 2001.

•    Robert Barron, And Now I See. . . : A Theology of Transformation, in Modern Theology 15:4, October 1999.

•    Ellen Charry, By the Renewing of Your Minds: The Pastoral Function of Christian Doctrine, in Pro Ecclesia VII:2, Spring 1999.

•    David Aers and Lynn Staley, Powers of the Holy, in The Anglican Theological Review LXXIX:4, 1997.

•    Grace Jantzen, Power, Gender and Christian Mysticism, in Modern Theology 13:3, July 1997.

•    P. J. Fitzpatrick, In Breaking of Bread, in Pro Ecclesia, November 1995.

Translations

•    Emmanuel Perrier, OP, “Europe,” in The Blackwell Companion to Catholicism. Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, 1997, 143-158.

•    Emmanuel Perrier, OP, “Duns Scotus Facing Reality: Between Absolute Contingency and Unquestionable Consistency,” Modern Theology 21:4, October 2005, 619-643.

•    Olivier Boulnois, “Reading Duns Scotus: From History to Philosophy,” Modern Theology 21:4, October 2005, 603-608.

•    Michel de Certeau, “White Ecstasy,” in The Postmodern God. Graham Ward, ed. Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1997, 155-158 (with Catriona Hanley).

Professional Presentations and Invited Academic Lectures

•    “Between Creation and Change: Thomas Aquinas on Transubstatiation.” Boston Historical Theology Colloquium. Boston MA, August 5, 2006.

•    “Masaccio’s ‘Trinity.’” International Conference on Theological Aesthetics. Denver CO, May 26, 2006.

•    “Transubstantiation and Transcendence: the logic of eucharistic presence in Thomas Aquinas.” Divine Transcendence and Immanence in the Thought of Thomas Aquinas. Thomas Instituut te Utrecht. Utrecht, the Netherlands, December 17, 2005.

•    “Trinitarian Doctrine and Moral Theology: Reflections after Balthasar.” Love Alone Is Credible: Hans Urs von Balthasar as Interpreter of the Catholic Tradition. Washington, D.C., April 16, 2005.

•    “Incarnation, Redemption and the Character of God.” John Paul II and the Renewal of Thomistic Theology Conference. Ave Maria College, Ypisilanti, Michigan, August 8, 2003.

•    “The Lamb of God in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction.” Katholieke Universiteit Leuven Hooger Instituut voor Wijsbegeerte, March 20, 2003.

•    “Doctrines, Contemplation, and Texts of Terror,” a response to papers on “Divine Initiative and Human Response” in the Christian Theology and the Bible Group, AAR/SBL Annual meeting, Toronto, Canada, November 24, 2002.

•    “‘That the Faithful Become the Temple of God’: The Church Militant in Aquinas’ Commentary on John.” Reading John with St. Thomas Aquinas: Ressourcement and the Fourth Gospel, Dearborn, MI, October 6, 2001.

•    “What Sort of Re-enchantment?: A Response to John Milbank.” The North American Karl Barth Society, Nashville, TN, November 17, 2000.

•    “Order, Freedom and Caritas: Julian of Norwich at the Edge of Modernity.” Yves Simon Lecture Series, The University of Chicago, January 13, 2000.

•    “The Politics of Disenchantment.” Christian Theological Research Fellowship, Boston, MA, November 20, 1999.

•    “Disenchantment and Mysticism: The Case of Max Weber.” The Peter Braeger Memorial Lecture, Loyola College, Baltimore, MD, March 12, 1999.

•    “Liturgy as Culture: A Response to Geoffrey Wainwright.” The Society for Catholic Liturgy, Chicago, IL, September 24, 1998.

•    “Does Hans Urs von Balthasar Have a Political Theology?” The Catholic Theological Society of America, Ottowa, Canada, June 12 ,1998.

•    “The Otherness of God.” De Certeau: A Symposium, University of Tasmania, Hobart, Australia, January 1998.

•    “The Threefold Body: Theology After Suspicion.” Christian Theological Research Fellowship, San Francisco, CA, November 1997.

•    “Neoplatonic Elements in the Christology of Julian of Norwich.” American Academy of Religion, Platonism and Neoplatonism section, New Orleans LA, November, 1996.

•    “The Politics of the Little Way: Dorothy Day Reads Thérèse of Lisieux.” The College Theology Society, Consultation on Mysticism and Politics, Dayton OH, May 1996.

•    “‘Not Without’: Michel de Certeau and a Future for Christian Theology.” American Academy of Religion, Critical Theory section, Washington DC, November 1993.

Editorial Positions

Co-Editor (with James Fodor) of the journal Modern Theology (Blackwell Publishers), 2001-present.

Other Professional Activities

•       Editorial Board member, Brazos Press.

•       Editorial Board member, The Sign of Peace: Journal of the Catholic Peace Fellowship.

Courses Taught

•       Introduction to Theology

•       The Roman Catholic Tradition

•       Christian Sacraments

•       The Pilgrim Community of Jesus: An Overview of the Church

•       Who is Jesus?

•       Introduction to Christian Ethics

•       Marriage and Sexuality

•       The Medieval World (Honors Core Sequence)

•       Medieval Women Authors

•       The Theology of Thomas Aquinas

•       The Tradition of Catholic Radicalism

•       Catholic Theology in Modernity

•       Philosophical Anthropology

Memberships in Professional Organizations

•       The American Academy of Religion