Brendan T. Sammon, PhD

• PhD The Catholic University of America
• MA (Theo.) Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
• MA (Rel. St.) Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
• BA Loyola University Maryland

• Member of the American Academy of Religion
• The Catholic Theological Society of America
• The American Catholic Philosophical Association
• The Metaphysical Society of America
• The American Society of Aesthetics

Select Publications

• The God Who is Beauty: Beauty as a Divine Name in Thomas Aquinas and Dionysius the Areopagite (Eugene, OR: Pickwick Publications, 2013)
• Called to Attraction: An Introduction to the Theology of Beauty (Eugene, OR: Cascade, 2017)
• Co-editor William Desmond and Contemporary Theology (South Bend, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 2017).
• “Theology, Art, and the Beautiful Bridging of Difference,” in Theology Syndicate, Oct/Nov, 2014.
• “The Reawakening of the Between: William Desmond and Reason’s Intimacy with Beauty,” in William Desmond and Contemporary Theology (South Bend, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 2017)
• “Beauty and the Good in Dionysius the Areopagite,” in Beauty and the Good: Past Interpretations and Their Contemporary Relevance. Edited by Alice Ramos, forthcoming.
• “Redeeming Chenu: A Reconsideration of the Neoplatonic Influence on Aquinas’s Summa Theologiae” Heythrop Journal, June, 2017.
• “Hillbillies at the Gates: Frederick Christian Bauerschmidt’s Thomas Aquinas: Faith, Reason, and Following Christ,” Radical Orthodoxy: Theology, Philosophy, and Politics, Vol. 3, no. 1 (Sept. 2015), 88–103.
• "The Metaxology of the Divine Names," in Metaxologically: William Desmond’s Philosophy between Metaphysics, Religion, Ethics and Aesthetics​, Palgrave, 2018.

• Systematic and Historical Theology
• Theological Aesthetics
• Metaphysics/Philosophiscal Theology
• Theological Anthropology
• Theology of Disability
• Addiction Recovery Education