Taylor Patrick O'Neill
Teaching Faculty
Thomas Aquinas College - New England
Education
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PhD - Ave Maria University
(Systematic Theology)
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MA - The Catholic University of America
(Historical and Systematic Theology)​
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BS - University of Wisconsin - Oshkosh
(Religious Studies)​
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Publications
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Grace, Predestination, and the Permission of Sin: A Thomistic Analysis (Catholic University of America Press, Fall 2019).
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She Orders All Things Sweetly: Sacra Doctrina and the Sapiential Unity of Theology, edited by Joshua Madden and Taylor Patrick O'Neill (under review with Cluny Media). ​​​​​
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Contributing chapter:“The Primacy of the Speculative in All Things Practical: A Thomistic Critique of a So-Called Practical or Experiential Theology."
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“The Thomistic Doctrine of Exhaustive Divine Providence,” in T&T Clark Companion to Divine Providence, edited by Timothy G. Hardman (London: T&T Clark/Bloomsbury).Forthcoming.
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"Was Reginald Garrigou-Lagrange a Personalist: A Rapprochement Between the Individual-Person Distinction and the Primacy of the Common Good Contra Maritain," in Reality: A Journal for Philosophical Discourse, vol. 1, no. 2 (Mar. 20, 2020).
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“The Meeting of Time and Eternity: Philosophy, Revelation, and The Book of Ecclesiastes,” in a forthcoming festschrift for Peter Kreeft, edited by Brandon Vogt. Ignatius Press. Forthcoming.
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“The Dark Night of Mother Teresa, the Three Ages of the Spiritual Life, and the Witness of the Mystics” in Mother Teresa and the Mystics: Toward a Renewal of Spiritual Theology, edited by Michael Dauphinais, Brian Kolodiejchuk, M.C., and Roger W. Nutt (Ave Maria, FL: Sapientia Press, 2018).
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“Jacques Maritain and Reginald Garrigou-Lagrange on the Permission of Evil” in The Heythrop Journal, vol. 60, issue 5 (Sept. 2019): 699 - 710.
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"Mater Dei Ergo Gratia Plena: On the Predestination of Mary to Divine Maternity as the Reason for Her Radical Plenitude of Grace" in Ecce Mater Tua: A Journal of the International Marian Association, vol. 2 (May 31st, 2019): 25 - 44.
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Book Reviews:
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That All Shall be Saved, by David Bentley Hart (Yale University Press, 2019), in Nova et Vetera, English Edition, Vol. 18, No. 4 (2020): 1399 - 1403.
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Divine Providence: God's Love and Human Freedom, by Bruce R. Reichenbach (Cascade Books, 2016). Published on Reading Religion. ​
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Popular Appearances
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"Doctor of Providence," in First Things, print edition, Dec. 2020.
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"Vatican II and the Lasting Influence of Garrigou-Lagrange's Mystical Theology," in Church Life Journal. 2022.
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"Self-Destruction and the Sin of Heresy," in Church Life Journal. 2020.
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"Deciphering the CDF on Hysterectomy and Sterilization," in Church Life Journal. 2019.
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"A Defense of Ultramontanism Contra Gallicanism," in Church Life Journal. 2018. ​
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Areas of Interest
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St. Thomas Aquinas and the Thomistic Commentatorial Tradition
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Providence, Grace, and Predestination
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The Permission of Sin
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The Moral Object and the Role of the Passions in the Moral Life
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The Natural Desire to See God/The Relationship Between Nature and Grace
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Theology as Foundation for Political Theory and Distributive Justice
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Spiritual Theology and the Three Ages of the Spiritual Life
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Thomism and Nouvelle Théologie
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The Sacraments and Sacramental Causality