INSTITVTE
INSTITVTE
Dr Alan Fimister is Assistant Professor of Theology and Church History at St. John Vianney Seminary in Denver. He studied in Oxford, Austria and Aberdeen and has taught History, Catholic Social Teaching, Church History and Patrology in Austria and Britain. He has published on European Political History and Thomistic Political Philosophy.
Fr Thomas Crean O.P. is a friar of the English province of the Order of Preachers. He studied in Oxford, Toulouse and Austria and has published on Apologetics, Liturgy and Natural Theology.
Fr Gabriel Diaz-Patri is a bi-ritual Catholic priest (Roman and Byzantine). Formerly the parish priest of the Russian Catholic Parish of Paris, he studied Philosophy at the Catholic University of Argentina. He is a researcher of the Centre International d’Etudes Liturgiques (France), Adjunct Researcher at the Philosophy Institute of the Universidad Nacional de Cuyo (Argentina), and a member of a research project of the National Agency for the Promotion of Science (Argentina). He has published on the language and literature of Christian Latin and on Eastern and Western liturgy.
Dr Alyssa (Lyra) H. Pitstick studied in the U.S., Japan, Austria, Oxford, and Rome. She has taught across a broad range of dogmatic and moral theology, and also in philosophy. The recipient of a 2009 Templeton Award for Theological Promise for her work on Christ's descent into hell, her primary publications are on that topic. She has also presented on theology and art, the private and magisterial teaching of recent popes, the philosophy of the human person, and the philosophy of God.
Mark McLean is an education and curatorial officer in the field of Scottish cultural heritage. He is a graduate of the University of Aberdeen, where until 2005 he was Tutor in Extramural Philosophy. He has published on moral philosophy and eighteenth-century intellectual history. He is currently co-editing a volume in the Yale Edition of the papers of James Boswell.
Fr. Brian W. Harrison, O.S., is an Australian-born priest of the Oblates of Wisdom, now living in St. Louis, Missouri. He studied in Rome at the University of St. Thomas Aquinas (the 'Angelicum') and the University of the Holy Cross, and for many years lectured in Theology at the Pontifical Catholic University of Puerto Rico. He has published many articles, and written or contributed to six books, on biblical, theological and liturgical subjects. His particular interest is in interpreting and applying the documents of Vatican Council II according to a 'hermeneutic of continuity' with Catholic tradition.
Pater Edmund Waldstein O.Cist. is a monk of the Cistercian Abbey of Stift Heiligenkreuz in Austria, adjunct lecturer in moral theology at the Abbey's major seminary, the Philosophisch Theologische Hochschule Benedikt XVI, and parish priest of Gaaden in the Archdiocese of Vienna. He studied at Thomas Aquinas College in California, the Hochschule Benedikt XVI in Heiligenkreuz, and the University of Vienna. He edits The Josias and blogs at sancrucensis.
Fr Reto Nay is a priest of the diocese of Chur, Switzerland. He studied in Jerusalem and Rome (SSD) and taught in Austria, Germany and Switzerland. At the moment he is writing on a commentary on the prophet Ezekiel and has published on biblical topics in the past.
Derya Little has a PhD in politics from Durham University, England and an MA in history from Bilkent University, Turkey. She is the author of several books, including From Islam to Christ: One Woman's Path through the Riddles of God (Ignatius Press, 2017) and A Beginner's Guide to the Latin Mass (Angelico Press, 2019). She can be visited online at DeryaLittle.com.
John Joy is Senior Theologian to the Bishop of Madison and President of the Albertus Magnus Centre for Scholastic Studies. He studied in Michigan, Austria, and Switzerland and has taught ethics, logic, and natural theology in Indiana. He has published on liturgy, sacraments, and soteriology and the author of On the Ordinary and Extraordinary Magisterium from Joseph Kleutgen to the Second Vatican Council.
Dr Alexander O'Hara is Lecturer and Fellow in Historical Theology, Trinity College, Dublin. Dr O’Hara is a historian of Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages specialising in monastic history, the medieval cult of the saints, and medieval Latin literary culture. A graduate of the University of St Andrews and Oxford University, he has held Research Fellowships at the Austrian Academy of Sciences, the University of St Andrews, and the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton. He is author of Jonas of Bobbio and the Legacy of Columbanus: Sanctity and Community in the Seventh Century and editor of Columbanus and the Peoples of Post-Roman Europe, both published by Oxford University Press in 2018.
Dr Sean Innerst is the founding provost of St. John Vianney Theological Seminary, where he also served as head of Theology for a decade. He is currently the Academic Dean at the Augustine Institute’s Graduate School of Theology in Denver, Colorado. His primary interests are in Augustinian studies and in the Church’s mission to evangelize and catechize.
Dr Alan Fimister is the Direcor of the Dialogos Institute.
Daniel Campbell is the Director of the Lay Division at St. John Vianney Theological Seminary in Denver, where he also serves as an Instructor and Curriculum Coordinator. He graduated in 2004 with a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology and Preprofessional Studies from the University of Notre Dame. He then completed his Master's Degree in Systematic Theology at the Augustine Institute in 2012, focusing his studies on the works of St. Thomas Aquinas.