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Taylor Patrick

O'Neill 

Assistant Professor of Religious Studies

 

Mount Mercy University

Education

  • 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 

  • 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). ​​​​​

    • 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 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 (published online October 17th, 2016; forthcoming in print).

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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:

    • Divine Providence: God's Love and Human Freedom, by Bruce R. Reichenbach (Cascade Books, 2016). Published on Reading Religion. ​

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Areas of Interest

  • 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 

Popular Appearances

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