Member Profiles
Matthew K. Minerd
Byzantine Catholic Seminary of Ss. Cyril and Methodius
Education
Ph.D., Philosophy, Catholic University of America (2017)
Ph.L., Philosophy, Catholic University of America (2015)
B.A., Catholic Theology, St. Vincent College (2006)
B.S., Computer Science, St. Vincent College (2006)
AMA Presentations
(2024) “The Necessary of Acquired Virtue for the Political Life: A Critique of Certain Contemporary Claims Regarding the Relationship between Acquired and Infused Moral Virtues.”
(2023) “Practical Signs: A Thomistic Notion Hidden in Broad Daylight.”
(2022) “Art Imitates and Transfigures Nature: The Fulfillment of Nature’s Obediential Potency through Artistic Activity.”
(2020) “The Ontology of the Divine Indwelling: A Hard-Headed Thomist Meets with Palamas.”
(2019) “Wisdom be Attentive: The Noetic Structure of Sapiential Knowledge.”
(2018) “Getting the Middle Term Right: Cenoscopy, Ideoscopy, and the Formal Objects of Sciences.”
(2016) “Maritain and the Metaphysics of Sexual Differentiation.”
(2015) “The Practical Epistemology of the Ius Gentium.”
(2014) “Abrahamic Wisdom: Raïssa Maritain’s Influence on Jacques’s Conception of the Natural Law.”
(2012) “The Divine Ideas, Separate Substances, and Poetic Intuition.”
Publications
Books
(2023) The Thomistic Response to the Nouvelle Théologie: Concerning the Truth of Dogma and the Nature of Theology, with Jon Kirwan. Catholic University of America Press.
(2017) Made by God, Made for God: Catholic Morality Explained. Ascension Press.
Edited Books
(2020) Facts are Stubborn Things: Philosophy of Nature and the Philosophy of the Sciences from a Thomistic Perspective. Catholic University of America Press.
Translated Books
(2024) Jean-Hervé Nicolas, Catholic Dogmatic Theology: A Synthesis, Vol. 3: On the Church and the Sacraments. Catholic University of America Press.
(2023) Jean-Hervé Nicolas, Catholic Dogmatic Theology: A Synthesis, Vol. 2: On the Incarnation and the Redemption. Catholic University of America Press.
(2023) Augustine of Hippo. Confessions. Ascension Press.
(2022) Emmanuel Durand, O.P., Divine Names in Human Words Explorations in Theology. Catholic University of America Press.
(2022) Jean-Pierre Torrell, Saint Thomas Aquinas, Vol. 1: The Person and His Work, 3rd Edition with Robert Royal. Catholic University of America Press.
(2022) Benoît-Henri Merkelbach, Marie-Michel Labourdette, Reginald Beaudouin, and Matthew K. Minerd. Conscience: Four Thomistic Treatments. Cluny Media.
(2022) Reginald Garrigou-Lagrange, On Divine Revelation: The Teaching of the Catholic Faith, Vols. 1-2. Emmaus Academic.
(2022) Francis De Sales, Introduction to the Devout Life. Ascension Press.
(2022) Ambroise Gardeil, The True Christian Life: Thomistic Reflections on Divinization, Prudence, Religion, and Prayer. Catholic University of America Press.
(2021) Jean-Hervé Nicolas, Catholic Dogmatic Theology: A Synthesis, Vol. 1: On the Trinitarian Mystery of God. Catholic University of America Press.
(2021) Reginald Garrigou-Lagrange, Thomistic Common Sense: The Philosophy of Being and the Development of Doctrine. Emmaus Academic.
(2020) Reginald Garrigou-Lagrange, The Order of Things: The Realism of the Principle of Finality. Emmaus Academic.
(2019) Reginald Garrigou-Lagrange, Philosophizing in Faith: Essays on the Beginning and End of Wisdom. Cluny Media.
(2017) Reginald Garrigou-Lagrange, The Sense of Mystery: Clarity and Obscurity in the Intellectual Life. Emmaus Academic.
Academic Articles
(2023) “What You Don’t Know Can Still Harm You: Memory and Docility as Virtues for Forming an Unformed Conscience,” National Catholic Bioethics Quarterly 23 (4): 615–636.
(2023) “Ius Gentium as Publicly Articulated Moral Science,” Nova et Vetera 21 (3): 1043–1058.
(2023) “Patricia Kelly, A Ressourcement Reader: A Review Article,” Nova et Vetera 21 (1): 363–382.
(2022) “Cajetan, Twentieth-Century Thomism, and Eastern Christian Theology: A Review Essay,” Logos 62: 245-52.
(2022) “Ecclesia, magistra conscientiae: Catholic Teaching and the Formation of Conscience,” in The Dialogue Between Tradition and History: Essays on the
Formation of Catholic Moral Theology, ed. Benedict Ashley. National Catholic Bioethics Center.
(2021) “Humani Generis and the Nature of Theology: A Stereoscopic View from Rome and Toulouse,” Saint Anselm Journal 16 (2): 1–35.
(2021) “Jacques Maritain, “The Philosophy of the Organism: Notes on the Function of Nutrition” (Translation with Commentary),” Nova et Vetera 19 (2): 633-51.
(2020) “A Note on Synderesis, Moral Science, and Knowledge of the Natural Law,” Lex Naturalis 5: 43–55.
(2020) “Wisdom be Attentive: The Noetic Structure of Sapiential Knowledge,” Nova et Vetera 18 (4): 1103-1146.
(2020) “Ambroise Gardeil. “Human Life and the Divine Life.” (Translation with Commentary),” Homiletic & Pastoral Review.
(2020) “Benedict Merkelbach, “Where Should we place the Treatise on Conscience in Moral Theology?” (Translation with Commentary),” Nova et Vetera 18 (3): 1017–1037.
(2020) “The Analogy of Reality,” Reality 1: 124-45.
(2019) “Thomism and the Formal Object of Logic,” American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly 93 (3): 411–444.
(2019) “Réginald Garrigou-Lagrange, “Remarks Concerning the
Metaphysical Character of St. Thomas’s Moral Theology, in Particular as It Is
Related to Prudence and Conscience” (Translation with Commentary),” Nova et Vetera 17 (1): 245–270.
(2018) “The Formation of the Analogical Concept of Life: An Exposition of Metaphysical Methodology,” Maritain Studies 34: 39–57.
(2018) “Maritain and the Metaphysics of Sexual Differentiation,” in The Things that Matter: Essays on the Later Work of Jacques Maritain, ed Heidi Giebel. Catholic University of America Press.
(2018) “Revisiting Maritain’s Moral Philosophy Adequately Considered” Nova et Vetera 16 (2): 489–510.
(2018) “Intelligence and Morality: Translation and Comments on
an Article by Fr. Ambroise Gardeil, O.P.,” Nova et Vetera 16 (2): 643–664.
(2017) “Beyond Non-Being: Thomistic Metaphysics on Second Intentions, Ens morale, and Ens artificiale,” America Catholic Philosophical Quarterly 91 (3): 353-379.
(2011) “Not Our Loudest but Our Stillest Hours: A Dialogue Between Friedrich Nietzsche and the Monastic Spirit,” Downside Review 456: 36–53.