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Dr. Matthew Levering
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Bio
Dr. Matthew Levering
Matthew Levering is Perry Family Foundation Professor of Theology at Mundelein Seminary, Co-Director of the Chicago Theological Initiative, and Director of the Center for Scriptural Exegesis, Philosophy, and Doctrine. He has also served as Professor of Theology at the University of Dayton, and Associate Professor of Theology at Ave Maria University. He is the author or editor of over thirty books and is the translator of Gilles Emery’s The Trinity. His most recent books include Proofs of God: From Tertullian to Karl Barth (forthcoming); Natural Law: A Jewish-Christian-Islamic Trialogue (co-authored with David Novak and Anver Emon); Paul in the Summa Theologiae; Engaging the Doctrine of Revelation; The Theology of Augustine; Jesus and the Demise of Death;and Predestination. His Mary’s Bodily Assumption won first prize from the Catholic Press Association in the category of theology. His interests include dogmatic and historical Catholic theology, Thomas Aquinas, biblical and ecumenical theology, philosophical reflection on God, and Vatican II. He serves as Co-Editor of two quarterly journals, Nova et Vetera and International Journal of Systematic Theology. Since 2007, he has served as Chair of the Board of the Academy of Catholic Theology.
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| Cardinal O’Boyle Award |
Most Rev. Thomas J Olmsted
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Bio
Most Rev. Thomas J Olmsted
The Most Reverend Thomas J. Olmsted was ordained a priest for the Diocese of Lincoln, Neb., July 2, 1973. He was ¬installed as the fourth Bishop of the Diocese of Phoenix December 20, 2003.
Prior to his arrival in Phoenix he served as Bishop of Wichita, Kansas, after being ordained Coadjutor Bishop on April 20, 1999. Before serving in Wichita, he served as the Rector / President of the Pontifical College Josephinum, a Catholic Seminary in Columbus, Ohio.
Since 1974, Bishop Olmsted has been a member of the Jesus Caritas ¬fraternity of priests, and thus has been deeply influenced by the witness and wisdom of Charles de Foucauld and by the prayers and encouragement of many brother priests.
For 16 years, Bishop Olmsted lived in Rome, Italy, where he obtained a master’s degree in theology, a doctorate in Canon Law, and worked more than nine years in the Secretariat of State of the Holy See. During the nine years of serving in the Holy See, he resided at the Pontifical North American College and assisted seminarians with spiritual direction.
Having been reared on a family farm on the Kansas-Nebraska border, he attended a single-room grade school near Oketo, Kansas, and a small rural high school in Summerfield, Kansas. His first contact with Catholic schools came when he entered St. Thomas Seminary College in Denver, Colo., from which he graduated in 1969 with a bachelor’s degree in philosophy.
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| Founders Award |
Rev. Joseph Walter Koterski, SJ
Associate Professor, Fordham University |
Bio
Rev. Joseph Walter Koterski, SJ
Rev. Joseph W. Koterski, S.J., is a member of the Philosophy Department at Fordham University, where he has taught since his ordination as a Catholic priest in 1992. At Fordham he also serves as the Editor-in-Chief of International Philosophical Quarterly and as Master of Queen’s Court Residential College for Freshmen. In 2011 he was re-elected to a second term as the President of the Fellowship of Catholic Scholars. He regularly teaches courses on natural law ethics and on medieval philosophy. He has produced videotaped lecture-courses on “Aristotle’s Ethics,” on “Natural Law and Human Nature,” and on “Biblical Wisdom Literature” for The Teaching Company, and most recently one on “St John Paul II’s Veritatis Splendor” for the International Catholic University. In addition to publishing various articles and book chapters, he has authored a monograph entitled Introduction to Medieval Philosophy: Basic Concepts (Wiley-Blackwell, 2009).
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