Matthew Levering

Professor
Full-Time Faculty
College of Arts and Sciences: Religious Studies

  • Location: HM 325
  • Phone: 937-229-4671
  • Email: Contact

Profile

Dr. Matthew Levering is a professor of theology. He came to the University of Dayton in 2009. His dissertation director was Stephen F. Brown. With Reinhard Hütter, Dr. Levering is co-editor of the quarterly journal Nova et Vetera (English edition). He also serves with John Webster, Paul Nimmo, and Steve Holmes as co-editor of the International Journal of Systematic Theology. Since 2007 he has served as Chair of the Board of the Academy of Catholic Theology. Dr. Levering is the director of the Center for Scriptural Exegesis, Philosophy, and Doctrine at UD. With Hans Boersma, he is also a co-director of the Center for Catholic-Evangelical Dialogue. He currently co-edits book series for the University of Notre Dame Press, Catholic University of America Press, Sapientia Press, and Baker Academic Press.

Faculty Perspective

I am interested in how to receive and pass on the faith and sacramental/moral life that characterize believers on the way to eternal life with the triune God through the mediation of Jesus Christ by the power of the Holy Spirit. The relationship of theology, philosophy, and biblical exegesis interests me, particularly as this shapes the doctrinal articulation of the Fathers as received by the high medieval theologians and by the later theological tradition. I frequently engage Jewish philosophy and theology.

Degrees

  • Ph.D., Boston College, 2000
  • M.T.S., Duke University, 1996
  • B.A., University of North Carolina (Chapel Hill), 1993

Selected Publications

BOOKS

Christ’s Fulfillment of Torah and Temple (Notre Dame, 2002)

Scripture and Metaphysics (Blackwell, 2004)

Sacrifice and Community (Blackwell, 2005)

Participatory Biblical Exegesis (Notre Dame, 2008)

Biblical Natural Law (Oxford, 2008)

Ezra and Nehemiah (Brazos, 2007)

Jewish-Christian Dialogue and the Life of Wisdom (Continuum, 2010)

Christ and the Catholic Priesthood (Hillenbrand, 2010)

Predestination (Oxford, 2011)

The Betrayal of Charity (Baylor, 2011)

Jesus and the Demise of Death (Baylor, 2012)

The Feminine Genius of Catholic Theology (T & T Clark, 2012)

The Theology of Augustine (Baker Academic, 2013)

Co-authored Holy People, Holy Land (Brazos, 2005)

Co-authored Knowing the Love of Christ (Notre Dame, 2002)

Co-edited Vatican II: Renewal within Tradition (Oxford, 2008)

Co-edited Aquinas the Augustinian (CUA, 2007)

Co-edited Reading John with St. Thomas Aquinas (CUA, 2005)

Co-edited Wisdom and Holiness, Science and Scholarship (Sapientia, 2007)

Co-edited John Paul II and the Jewish People (Rowman & Littefield, 2008)

Co-edited Rediscovering Aquinas and the Sacraments (Hillenbrand, 2009)

Co-edited Ressourcement Thomism (CUA, 2010)

Co-edited the Oxford Handbook of the Trinity (Oxford, 2011)

Co-edited Reading Romans with St. Thomas Aquinas (CUA, 2012)

Co-edited Heaven on Earth? (Wiley-Blackwell, 2013)

Translated Gilles Emery, O.P., The Trinity (CUA, 2011)

ARTICLES

Dr. Levering has published articles and reviews in numerous journals including: Nova et Vetera, The Thomist, Letter and Spirit, Pro Ecclesia, Modern Theology, New Blackfriars, International Journal of Systematic Theology, Irish Theological Quarterly, Angelicum, Logos, American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly, Journal of Theological Interpretation, and First Things.