About Dr. Wood
Jacob W. Wood was born and raised in the New York City area, where he grew up in the Episcopal Church, learning to contemplate the love of the Lord in the beauty of the liturgy. After an initial period of theological study at the University of Saint Andrews, he followed the path of St. John Henry Newman through the Wisdom of the Tradition into full communion with the Catholic Church in 2008. Since earning a doctorate in Systematic Theology from the Catholic University of America in 2014, he has served as a theologian at Franciscan University of Steubenville, focusing his teaching and research on the theology of creation, sin, and grace. He lives with his family in the Ohio countryside, where he continues to cultivate the love of the Lord through liturgical beauty, and has followed the call that many a young Catholic family has answered to sanctify Creation through the work of homesteading.
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PhD in Systematic Theology, The Catholic University of America, 2014
Masters of Theology (Honours), First Class, University of St Andrews, 2007
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Franciscan University of Steubenville
Associate Professor of Theology, 2019-Present
Assistant Professor of Theology, 2014-2019
University of Dallas
Affiliate Instructor of Theology, 2013-2014
Augustine Institute
Adjunct Professor of Theology, 2012-13Catholic Distance University
Instructor of Moral Theology, 2010-2013
Loyola University Maryland
Affiliate Faculty of Theology, 2010-2013
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To Stir a Restless Heart: Thomas Aquinas and Henri de Lubac on Nature, Grace, and the Desire for God (CUA Press, 2019)
Speaking the Love of God: An Introduction to the Sacraments (Emmaus Publications, 2016)
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“From Pure Nature to Wounded Nature: Aquinas on the Effects of Original Sin.” The Thomist 86, no. 2 (April 2022): 173-217.
“It’s Not Just about Anselm: Aquinas’ ST Ia, q. 2, ar. 1 and Early Franciscan Illumination Theory.” In The Legacy of Early Franciscan Thought, 185-206. Edited by Lydia Schumacher. Berlin: Walter De Gruyter, 2021.
“Forging the Analogy of Being: John of La Rochelle’s De divinis nominibus (Trier, Abtei St. Matthias, 162) and the Summa Halensis on Knowing and Naming God.” In The Summa Halensis: Doctrines and Debates, 31-57. Edited by Lydia Schumacher. Berlin: Walter De Gruyter, 2020.
“Rebuilding the City of God: Locating the Politics of Virtue within the Politics of Sin and Grace.” Nova et Vetera, English Edition 16, No. 4 (2018): 1371–1414.
For a complete listing of academic publications, please see Dr. Wood’s Academia.edu page.
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Recording: “From Pure Nature to Wounded Nature: Aquinas on the Starting Point for Virtue Theory.” Thomistic Institute.
Interview with Chad Kim. A History of Christian Theology.
Essay: “Resisting Impossible Career Choices: My Family’s Move to the Farm.” Public Discourse.
A more complete list of Dr. Wood’s popular essays and publications can be found at the websites where they appear: New Polity, Word on Fire, Public Discourse, National Review, National Catholic Register, Aleteia, Crisis
Praise for Dr. Wood’s most recent book:
“A tour de force…” —Catholic Review of Books
“…a genuine milestone…” —Annales Theologici
“…unequivocally the most significant contribution to the nature-grace debate...” ―Nova et Vetera