Brandon L. Wanless, Ph.D.

Dr. Brandon Wanless

Assistant Professor of Dogmatic Theology (2022)


Degree(s):

Ph.D., Ave Maria University, FL, 2022
M.A., The Saint Paul Seminary School of Divinity University of St. Thomas, MN, 2015
B.A., St. Mary’s University, MN, 2010

Office Location: Fr. Charles Froehle Administration Bldg., Room 138

Phone: (651) 962-5061

Fax: (651) 962-5790

Email: wanl0201@stthomas.edu

Mailing Address:

The Saint Paul Seminary School of Divinity
University of St. Thomas
2260 Summit Ave.
St. Paul, MN 55105

Curriculum Vitae: View PDF


Areas of Teaching and Research

  • St. Thomas Aquinas
  • Trinitarian Theology
  • Soteriology

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PUBLICATIONS AND PRESENTATIONS

Peer-Reviewed Articles
“St. Thomas Aquinas on Original Justice and the Justice of Christ: A Case Study in Christological Soteriology and Catholic Moral Theology.” Proceedings of the American Catholic Philosophical Association, vol. 90 (2017): 201-216.

“The Vocation of a Seminary Theologian.” Seminary Journal, vol. 20, no. 1 (May, 2023).

Book Reviews
Review of De Sortibus: A Letter to a Friend about the Casting of Lots, trans. Peter Carey, ed. Jane Shannon (Eugene, OR: Cascade, 2021), for Reading Religion, March 17, 2023.

Conference Presentations
“Aristotle’s ‘Metaphorical Justice’ and Paul’s ‘Justified by Faith’ in the ‘Justification of the Sinner’ of Thomas Aquinas’s Biblical Commentaries,” Annual Meeting of the International Society of Medieval Theology (IGTM), Nicolaus Copernicus University, June 29-July 1, 2023.

“Aquinas on the Justification of the Sinner and the Theological Virtues: Understanding the Perfective Causality of Faith in Terms of ‘Personal Justice’,” The Sacra Doctrina Project Conference, St. Mary’s Seminary and University, June 8-10, 2023.

Mysterium Fidei: Aquinas on the Eucharist as a Cause of Faith,” The Holiness of God and the Mystery of the Eucharist Conference, Ave Maria University, February 2-4, 2023.

“The Unity of the Universal Species as an Analogy for the Unity of the Trinity in the Prima pars,” 57th International Congress on Medieval Studies: May 9-14, 2022

“The Unity of the Divine Essence and the Unity of the Universal Species: Conclusions of Research in the Trinitarian Thought of St. Thomas Aquinas,” American Catholic Philosophical Association Meeting: November 19-21, 2021

“The Unity of the Trinity and the Universal Species in the Scriptum super Sententiis of St. Thomas Aquinas,” 56th International Congress on Medieval Studies: May 10-15, 2021

“The Unity of Species and the Unity of the Trinity in the Lectura Romana: St. Thomas Aquinas and St. John of Damascus,” 54th International Congress on Medieval Studies: May 9-12, 2019

“The Unity of the Triune Godhead in St. Thomas Aquinas’s Lectura in evangelium Ioannis,” Aquinas the Biblical Theologian, Ave Maria University: February 7-9, 2019

“Aquinas and Damascene on the Common Nature of the Triune Godhead,” Thomas Aquinas and the Greek Fathers Conference, Ave Maria University: January 26-27, 2018

“Mother Teresa and the Pauline Mysticism of Living in Christ,” Mother Teresa and the Mystics Conference, Ave Maria University: February 10-11, 2017

“St. Thomas Aquinas on Original Justice and the Justice of Christ: A Case Study in Christological Soteriology and Catholic Moral Theology,” American Catholic Philosophical Association Meeting: November 3-6, 2016

“Education, the Basis of Culture: Reading Gravissimum Educationis with Josef Pieper,” The Gravity of Education Conference, Donahue Academy: May 13-14, 2016

“The Signification of the ‘Name’ of the Trinity in Sacramental Formulae,” Archbishop Iakovos Graduate Student Conference in Patristic Studies: March 6-8, 2014

“St. Thomas Aquinas and the Eastern Fathers on the Union of the Incarnation,”
Archbishop Iakovos Graduate Student Conference in Patristic Studies: March 8-10, 2012

Awards Received
Karen Chan Young Scholar’s Award, American Catholic Philosophical Association, 2016

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