Simboli Hall 307
Telephone: 617-552-1315
Email: brian.dunkle@bc.edu
Patristics, especially Fourth-century Christology and Trinitarian Theology; Ambrose of Milan, the Cappadocians, and Augustine; Early Christian Hymns and Poetry, Nature and Grace in Early Christianity
Rev. Brian Dunkle, S.J., grew up in Freeport, NY, before leaving to attend Harvard University, where he studied Classics. After graduation he taught in Rome and studied at Oxford (M.St.) before joining the Jesuits, which led him to the novitiate in Syracuse, philosophy studies at Fordham University, and theology at the Gregorian University in Rome (S.T.B.) and at 涩里番下载STM (S.T.L.). He also taught Classics at Canisius College in Buffalo and regularly offers philosophy courses at the St. Joseph Scholastic in Vietnam. While serving on the faculty at the CSTM he offers pastoral assistance at local parishes and the correctional institutes of Concord, MA. He remains active in retreat direction and enjoys running and basketball.
St. Ambrose of Milan: Treatises on Noah and David. Introduction and translation. Fathers of the Church 146. Washington, D.C.: Catholic University of America Press, 2020.
Enchantment and Creed in the Hymns of Ambrose of Milan. Oxford Early Christian Studies. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2016.
Articles and Book Chapters
"Ambrose鈥檚 Hymns as Modes of Knowing the 鈥楻eal鈥." In The Intellectual World of Late Antiquity, edited by Lewis Ayres, Michael Champion, and Matthew Crawford. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, forthcoming 2023.
鈥溾楾he Twofold Affection鈥: The Background to John Chrysostom鈥檚 Use of 桅蠉蟽喂蟼 and 围维蟻喂蟼.鈥 Vigiliae Christianae 75.2 (2021): 355鈥374. 鈥溾
Made Worthy of the Holy Spirit鈥: A Hymn of Ambrose in Augustine鈥檚 Nature and Grace.鈥 Augustinian Studies 50 (2018): 1鈥12.
鈥淛ohn Chrysostom鈥檚 Community of Anger Management.鈥 In Studia Patristica 83: Papers Presented at the Seventeenth International Conference on Patristic Studies held in Oxford 2015. Volume 9: Emotions (separate volume of contributions), edited by Markus Vinzent and Yannis Papadogiannakis, 217鈥230. Leuven: Peeters, 2017