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Ph.D. in Church History, Boston University
M.Div. Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary
B.S. in History, Carnegie-Mellon University
Both my research and teaching draw upon the rich resources of the past 2000 years of Christian thought and experience in order to apply them to believers’ theology and spiritual formation today.
The more our graduates—and Christians as a whole—live under the kingship of Christ, the more they will be able to attract others to Christ and bring God’s reign into their families, communities, and churches.
PUBLICATIONS
“William of Saint Thierry’s Legacy: Progress toward Trinitarian Participation in the 2019
Unio Mystica in Johannes Tauler’s Sermons,” in Brill’s Companion to
William of Saint Thierry, ed. Tyler Sergent, E. J. Brill.
“Participation in Inner-Trinitarian Communion: The Golden Epistle’s Impact on 2015
Johannes Tauler’s Concept of the Unio Mystica,” Studies in Spirituality 25.
“Manuscript Evidence of the Golden Epistle’s Influence in the Sermons of Johannes Tauler,” 2013
Cistercian Studies Quarterly 48.4.
Seeking Spiritual Intimacy: Journeying Deeper with Medieval Women of Faith, 2011
Formatio Series, InterVarsity Press.
Articles in Dictionary of Christian Spirituality, Zondervan. 2011
“Angela of Foligno,” “Beguines,” “Bonaventure,” “Camaldolese Spirituality,”
“Carthusian Spirituality,” “John Scotus Eriugena,” “Gilbert of Sempringham,”
“Joachim of Fiore,” “Masculine Spirituality,” “Mendicant Spirituality,”
“Military Orders,” “Platonism and Neoplatonism.”
ACADEMIC PAPERS
“Adapting the Monastic Threefold Way: The Synthesis of Apophatic Darkness and the 2017
Existential Dark Night in the Sermons of Johannes Tauler,” Cistercian Studies Conf.
“Johannes Tauler: Sermons and the Cure of Souls,” International Congress for 2015
Medieval Studies
“The Golden Epistle’s Role in Johannes Tauler’s Theological Synthesis,” 2014
International Congress for Medieval Studies
“Manuscripts of the Golden Epistle in Fourteenth-Century Germany: Evidence of 2013
Johannes Tauler’s Dependence,” International Congress for Medieval Studies
“Honoring Stages of Spiritual Formation: William of St. Thierry’s Legacy in the 2012
Sermons of Johannes Tauler,” International Congress for Medieval Studies
ARTICLES IN CHRISTIAN HISTORY MAGAZINE
“Winds of Spiritual Renewal: Mystics Looked Inward to Revive and Renew the
Love of Christ,” in Christian History 149 2023
“To Make Whole: Hildegard of Bingen, Naturalist and Apothecary,” in
Christian History 134 2020
“A Spiritual Awakening for the Laity: For 300 Years, Renewal Swept Europe,” in
Christian History 127 2018
Advisory Editor for Christian History 127 “Medieval Lay Mystics” 2018
“The Heavens Declare the Glory of God: How Monks and Nuns Honored Nature,”
in Christian History 119 2016
ACADEMIC HONORS & SCHOLARSHIPS
Crown College Award for Distinguished Work in the Classroom 2023, 2016
Distinguished Member of the National Society of Collegiate Scholars 2012
Crown College Award for Distinguished Scholarship 2005, 2009
Crown College Award for Distinguished Work with Students 2001
Presidential Scholarship – Ph.D. Program Boston University 1986
Summa Cum Laude – M.Div., Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary 1986
Church History Department Award – M.Div., Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary 1986
