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 religious studies. He came to the University in 2009. His dissertation director was Stephen F. Brown.

The 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. 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.  With Reinhard Hütter, I am co-editor of the quarterly journal Nova et Vetera (English edition). Since 2007 I have served as Chair of the Board of the Academy of Catholic Theology. With Hans Boersma, I am co-director of the Center for Catholic-Evangelical Dialogue. I currently co-edit book series for the University of Notre Dame Press, Catholic University of America Press, Sapientia Press, and Brazos Press.

Degrees

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

Selected Publications

BOOKS

Co-editor of the theological quarterly Nova et Vetera

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)

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)

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.