Vincent Strand

Department

  • Historical and Systematic Theology
  • School

  • School of Theology and Religious Studies
  • Expertise

  • Theology of Grace
  • Christology
  • 19th and 20th Century Catholic Theology
  • Rev. Vincent L. Strand, S.J., is a priest of the Society of Jesus and Assistant Professor of Historical and Systematic Theology. His research and teaching focuses on the theology of grace, Christology, fundamental theology, and political theology. Among his other scholarly publications, Fr. Strand has written numerous articles on the nineteenth-century German theologian Matthias Joseph Scheeben and is currently working on a monograph on Scheeben’s theology of deification. He has also published a series of articles on the political thought of Joseph Ratzinger/Pope Benedict XVI and is presently writing on Ratzinger’s theology of the priesthood.

    Born and raised in Wisconsin, Fr. Strand entered the Society of Jesus in 2005, was ordained a priest in 2016, and joined the School of Theology and Religious Studies faculty of The Catholic University of America in 2022. He holds degrees from the University of Notre Dame (Ph.D.), Boston College (S.T.L.), the Pontifical Gregorian University (S.T.B.), Fordham University (M.A.), and Marquette University (B.S.). In 2023–2024, Fr. Strand served as a visiting (digital) professor at the Katholische Universität Eichstätt-Ingolstadt, where he has also conducted research funded by the Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst. Fr. Strand is an associate editor of The New Ressourcement and serves on the Board of Advisors of Nova et Vetera.

    Publications

    • Scheeben in the Kulturkampf: The Ernstfall and the Theo-Politics of Grace

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    • Uncreated Grace and Merit: Scheeben Interprets Aquinas,

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    • Seeing Christ, Seeing the Trinity: Beyond Boersma’s Trinitarian Deficit

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    • Rahner and Scheeben on Grace: Reexamining a Forgotten Resemblance

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    • Nineteenth-Century Ressourcement: The Greek Patristic/Latin Scholastic Synthesis of Scheeben’s Theology of Grace

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    • Beyond Ratzinger’s Republic: Communio’s Postliberal Turn

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    • Evangelization in the Theology of Avery Dulles

      “Evangelization in the Theology of Avery Dulles,” in The Survival of Dulles: Reflections on a Second Century of Influence, Michael Canaris (ed.), 130–146. New York: Fordham University Press, 2021.

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    • Ratzinger’s Republic: Pope Benedict XVI on Natural Law and Church and State

      “Ratzinger’s Republic: Pope Benedict XVI on Natural Law and Church and State,” co-authored with Sam Zeno Conedera, SJ, Nova et Vetera (English) 18, no. 2 (2020): 669–694.

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    • The Ontology of Grace of Alexander of Hales and John of la Rochelle

      “The Ontology of Grace of Alexander of Hales and John of la Rochelle,” in The Summa Halensis: Doctrines and Debates, Lydia Schumacher (ed.), 171–191. Veröffentlichungen des Grabmann-Institutes zur Erforschung der mittelalterlichen Theologie und Philosophie 66. Berlin, Boston: De Grutyer, 2020.

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    • On Method, Nature and Grace in Caritas in Veritate

      “On Method, Nature and Grace in Caritas in Veritate,” Nova et Vetera (English) 15, no. 3 (2017): 835–852.

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    • To Imitate the Angels’ Purity: Ignatius’s and John Paul’s Counsel

      “To Imitate the Angels’ Purity: Ignatius’s and John Paul’s Counsel,” Review for Religious 69, no. 2 (2010): 180–193.

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