Publications

Book Chapters

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Books and Monographs

 

  1. Forthcoming. “The Splendor of Creation and the Path to Recovery,” the International Symposium on “Sustainability and Integral Ecology   in Business and Law: Ten Years after Laudato si’,” University of  Lima, Peru, in July, 2026. 

 

2026 Forthcoming. “Green Thomism and Ecological Conversion,”  Keynote address of the Sacra Doctrina Conference, June, 2025.  

 

2017  The Joyful Mystery: Field Notes Toward a Green Thomism Emmaus Road Publishing.  

 

2016 Senior Editor. The Vocation of the Agricultural Leader: Integrating Faith with Agriculture and the Environment. Published in Collaboration with The Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace, Catholic Rural Life (USA), and the International Catholic Rural Association, (Vatican City). Reprinted in Italian, French, and Tagalog. 

 

2012 Editor. Symposium on Aquinas and the Environment. Special volume in Nova et Vetera 10/1 (2012) 61-278. 

 

2011 Editor. Reason and the Rule of Faith: Conversations in the Tradition with John Paul II, with Steven A. Long, University Press of America.  

 

1999 Christian Doctrine, Christian Identity: Augustine and the Character of Narrative. Book. With a Foreword by Stanley Hauerwas. University Press of America, 1999.  

 

Series Editor: Catholic Theological Formation Series.  

 

2016 On Earth as it is in Heaven: Cultivating a Contemporary Theology of Creation. Edited by David V. Meconi, SJ. Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co. 

 

2015 Verbum Domini and the Complementarity of Exegesis and Theology. Edited by Fr. Scott Carl. Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co. 

 

2012 Celebrating a Century of Ecumenism. Edited by Msgr. John A. Radano with a Foreword by Walter Cardinal Kasper. Wm. B. Eerdmans Co. 

 

Articles:  

 

2022 “Narrating Radical Inclusivity and Dysmorphic Identities,” in Augustine’s ‘Confessions’ and Contemporary Concerns. Edited by David V. Meconi, SJ. Saint Paul Seminary Press.  

 

2016 “Laudato si’ and the Rise of Green Thomism,” Nova et vetera 14/3 (Summer, 2016) 745 – 750. 

 

2013 “At the Therapist’s Door,” in Philosophical Issues and Psychological Strengths: Building the Bridge. Edited by Romanus Cessario, O.P., Craig Steven Titus, and Paul C. Vitz (Sophia Institute Press) 31-46. 

 

2012 “Augustine’s Confessions and the Source of Christian Character,” in The Confessions of Saint Augustine of Hippo. Ignatius Critical Editions. Edited by David V. Meconi, SJ, (Ignatius Press, 2012) 505-519. 

 

2011 “In the Temple of Creation: American Agriculture Fifty Years after ‘Mater et Magistra.’ Giustizia e Globalizzazione: Dalla ‘Mater et Magistra’ Alla ‘Caritas in Veritate.’ Atti del Congresso Internazionale nel 50th Annivesario della ‘Mater et Magistra.’ Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace, Vatican City. 

 

2011 “Lest the Cross of Christ Be Emptied of Its Power: Negative Moral Norms in the Moral Life,” in Reason and the Rule of Faith (University Press of America, Lanham, MD) 13-142. 

 

2010 “From Conservation to Consecration: Toward a Green Thomism.” Homiletic and Pastoral Review (October).  

 

2009 Perennial Wisdom: Notes Toward a Green Thomism,” Nova et Vetera 10/1 (2012) 61-71.  

 

2009  “Beholding the Logos: The Church, the Environment and the Meaning of Man,” in Logos: A Journal of Catholic Thought and Culture vol. 12/3 (Summer, 2009) 33-52. 

 

2005 “Preliminary Remarks Toward a Constructive Encounter Between St. Thomas and Clinical Psychology,” Catholic Social Scientist Review 10.  

 

2002 “Freedom, Deliberation, and Natural Family Planning,” in Logos: A Journal of Catholic Thought and Culture (Fall, 2002). 

 

1999 “The Spirit and Limits of Prudential Reasoning,” The Thomist (1999) 425-437. 

 

1996 “Christian Identity and Augustine’s Confessions,” Proceedings of the American Catholic Philosophical Association (1996) 249-258. 

 

1995 “Benedict, Thomas or Augustine? The Character of MacIntyre’s Narrative,” The Thomist 59 (July, 1995) 379-407. 

 

1995 “Models of Education and a Catholic University: Preliminary Reflections,” Essays on the Catholic University in the 21st Century. 

 

1994 “The Theological Dimensions of Time in Confessions Book XI,”  

Collectanea Augustiniana III, (New York: Peter Lang Publishers, 1994) 187-193.