The Vocation of the Patristic Theologian

Born and raised in Montana, Kevin Grove was ordained a Holy Cross priest at Notre Dame in 2010. He completed doctoral studies at the University of Cambridge in 2015. Before joining the faculty at Notre Dame, Grove was a post-doctoral researcher at L’Institut Catholique in Paris, France and a fellow at the Notre Dame Institute for Advanced Study. Grove’s interests include memory, Christology, and St. Augustine. He published his first monograph Augustine on Memory, with Oxford University Press. He’s working now on a monograph on twentieth century Catholic reception of Augustine.

Matthew Ian Dunch, S.J. is assistant professor of philosophy at Loyola University Chicago. He previously taught at Xavier University, Cincinnati. Dunch specializes in the relationship of religious language and practice, particularly through the dual lens of St. Thomas Aquinas and Ludwig Wittgenstein. He also writes on the philosophy and history of Jesuit education. Dunch holds degrees from the Catholic University of America, Loyola University Chicago, and Regis College, University of Toronto. His doctorate in philosophical theology is from Campion Hall, University of Oxford. He is also affiliate faculty in Catholic Studies.

Robin Darling Young (BA, Mary Washington College; MA, PhD, University of Chicago) is Ordinary Professor of Church History. She has published and lectured widely on topics in the history of early Christianity and its thought, including the areas of scriptural interpretation, the history of asceticism and monastic thought, and the Christian cultures of ancient Syria and Armenia.

Professor Darling Young is currently preparing an annotated translation of the Letters of Evagrius of Pontus from the surviving Syriac translation for the Fathers of the Church series (CUA Press), and directing a translation team that will produce English translations from the Greek texts and Syriac translations of the same author’s Gnostic Trilogy (Praktikos, Gnostikos, Kephalaia Gnostika) for Oxford University Press.