Sacraments and Sacramental Significance: on reading Bonaventure s Breviloquium as a nuptial analogy, The Patristic, Medieval, and Renaissance Studies

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1 DANIEL WADE McCLAIN St. David s Episcopal Church Baltimore, MD & Director of Program Operations for Graduate Programs in Theology Visiting Assistant Professor of Theology (202) dwmcclain@loyola.edu EDUCATION Ph.D. Systematic and Historical Theology, Catholic University of America (2016) Dissertation: An Hexaëmeral Reading of Bonaventure s Breviloquium Language competency: Greek, Latin, French, German M.Phil. Systematic and Historical Theology, Catholic University of America (2015) Pennsylvania Teacher Certification in Special Education, Eastern University (2005) M.A. (cum laude) Christian Thought, Trinity Evangelical Divinity School (2003) Thesis: Action, Image, and Practice: The Revival of Aesthetics in the Theologies of Nicholas Wolterstorff and Frank Burch Brown Director: Dr. Kevin J. Vanhoozer; Reader: Dr. Daniel J. Treier B.A. Philosophy and Religious Studies, Liberty University (2000) ECCLESIAL & LEADERSHIP APPOINTMENTS Associate Rector for Formation & Education, St. David s Episcopal Church, Baltimore, Maryland, May 2017 Present. Director of Program Operations, Graduate Theology Programs, Loyola University Maryland, January 2012 Present. Graduate Student Academic Advising and Support; Program Administration, Assessment, Creation, and Development; Course Scheduling; Recruitment, Promotion, and Publicity/Social Media. President & Vice President, Mid-Atlantic Region, American Academy of Religion, ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS Visiting Asst. Professor of Theology and Director of Program Operations, Master of Theological Studies,, January 2012 Present Visiting Lecturer, Graduate Theology Program, LaSalle University, July 2015 Lecturer in Writing, The George Washington University, Teaching Fellow, First Year Experience, Catholic University of America, Affiliate Instructor, Loyola College in Maryland, Teaching Fellow, Catholic University of America, 2008

2 SCHOLARLY PUBLICATIONS BOOKS Reading Scripture as a Political Act: Essays on the Theopolitical Interpretation of the Bible. Edited by Daniel Wade McClain and Matthew Tapie. Fortress Press, To Love As We Are Known: Creation, Formation, and Theological Education in Bonaventure s Breviloquium (tentative title; in progress). Theology and Children s Literature: An Introduction (under contract with Wipf & Stock Publishers; anticipated submission date: August 2017). PEER-REVIEWED ARTICLES, ESSAYS, AND BOOK CHAPTERS The Soul is for Service: Anthropology, Ecology, and Ecumenical Rapprochement in the Dialogue between Theology and Science. Invited for inclusion in an edited volume published by the McGrath Institute for Church Life and Notre Dame Press, and sponsored the Templeton Foundation, Summer The Structure of Theology: Creation and Recreation in the Breviloquium and Hugh of St. Victor's De sacramentis." Invited for inclusion in forthcoming volume on the 700 th Anniversary of Bonaventure s anniversary, Franciscan Studies, What (Not) to do with the Trinity: Doctrine, Discipline, and Doxology in Contemporary Trinitarian Discourse. Submitted to Anglican Theological Review (Dec. 2017). Contemplating Genesis 1 as a Political Act in Late Antiquity, in Reading Scripture as a Political Act. Edited by Daniel Wade McClain and Matthew Tapie. Fortress Press, Culture, in the Oxford Encyclopedia of the Bible and Ethics. Edited by Robert Brawley, Kathy Ehrensperger, Stephen Fowl, Isaac Kalimi, Ralph W. Klein, Jan G. van der Watt. Oxford University Press, Repurposing the Body: Sacramentality and the Poetics of Discipleship, Anglican Theological Review. Spring REVIEWS, REVIEW ESSAYS, & OTHER ESSAYS Our Children Might Return to the Church, but Our Grandchildren Most Likely Won t, in Church Life Journal (Notre Dame University, The McGrath Institute for Church Life. Feb History and the Hexaëmeron: Bonaventure s Reading of Genesis 1, in Sapientia, an online publication of the Henry Center at Trinity International University, May Imaginative Apologetics: Theology, Philosophy, and the Catholic Tradition, ed. Andrew Davison, Anglican Theological Review 95 (2013): The Politics of Discipleship: Becoming Post-material Citizens, by Graham Ward, New Blackfriars 92 (2011): Sacramental Poetics at the Dawn of Secularism: When God Left the World, by Regina Mara Schwartz, Journal of Cultural and Religious Theory 11.2 (2011). 2

3 The Complete Works of Hans R. Rookmaaker, by H.R. Rookmaaker, ed. Marleen Hengelaar-Rookmaaker, Veritasse Magazine (Oxford, UK) (January 2007). Rediscovering the Triune God: The Trinity in Contemporary Theology, by Stanley Grenz, The Princeton Theological Review 12 (2006): PANELS AND SYMPOSIA ORGANIZED (selected; complete list available) Thinking Prayer: A Conversation with Andrew Prevot. Willie Jennings, Rebekah Eklund, Kevin Hughes, Dan Castillo, and Andrew Prevot. The American Academy of Religion. Boston, MA, November, Hannah Arendt and Theology. John Kiess, Ted Smith, Esther Reed, Frederick Bauerschmidt. The American Academy of Religion. San Antonio, TX, November, Discussing Decreation with Paul Griffiths. Paul Griffiths, Bill Cavanaugh, Trent Pomplun, and Jame Schaefer. The American Academy of Religion. San Diego, CA, November, The Disciplines of Wonder: Bonaventure on Theological Method. Kevin Hughes, Andrew Davison, Holly Taylor Coolman, Peter S. Dillard, Travis Ables. The American Academy of Religion. San Diego, CA, November Theology, Religion, and Lived Experience Conference, Mid-Atlantic Regional Conference, American Academy of Religion. Newburgh, NY, March Diagonal Advance: Discussing Christian Perfection with Anthony D. Baker. Sarah Coakley, D. Stephen Long, Frederick C. Bauerschmidt. American Academy of Religion. Chicago, IL, November, PhD Student Formation. American Academy of Religion, Mid-Atlantic Regional Conference. New Brunswick, NJ, March Forms of Theology: The Interplay of Genre and Interpretive Modes in Boethius, Dante, and Shakespeare. Ellen Charry, Kristen Poole, Brendan Sammon, Daniel Wade McClain. The Patristic, Medieval, Renaissance Studies Conference. Villanova, PA, October INVITED PRESENTATIONS All of the things which should be sought : The Lord's Prayer as the Summit of Desire in Bonaventure's Breviloquium. Baylor University Honors College, October Seeing the Beautiful in Creation in Bonaventure and the Church Fathers, Summer Theology Institute, LaSalle University, Philadelphia, PA, July 2015 Learning through Writing in the Theology Classroom, Bexley Hall Episcopal Seminary. Bexley, OH, February Rowan Williams as Systematic Theologian, The Ecumenical Institute, Baltimore, MD, March, 2014 SCHOLARLY PRESENTATIONS (selected; complete list available) The Structure of Theology: Creation and Recreation in the Breviloquium and Hugh of St. Victor s De Sacramentis, Frater, Magister, Minister et Episcopus: The Works and Worlds of Saint Bonaventure. St. Bonaventure University, NY, July

4 Sacraments and Sacramental Significance: on reading Bonaventure s Breviloquium as a nuptial analogy, The Patristic, Medieval, and Renaissance Studies Conference. Villanova, PA, October Between the Angel and the Animal: Creaturely Telos and Human Particularity, American Academy of Religion, San Diego, November Narrative Paideia: Reconsidering Bonaventure s Model of Theological Education in Light of His Social and Institutional Contexts, The Patristic, Medieval, and Renaissance Studies Conference. Villanova, Pennsylvania, October Poetics and Pain: Exploring Martyr Accounts and Anglican Verse as Sources for Theological Anthropology, North American Patristics Society. Chicago, Illinois, May Mensura, Numerus, and Pondus in Augustine s De Genesis ad litteram, North American Patristics Society. Chicago, IL May The Patristic Spring of Medieval Hexaëmera, North American Patristic Society. Chicago, IL, May The Cosmic Mirror: Divine Image in the Theological Anthropologies of Ibn al- Arabi and Bonaventure, Christian Systematic Theology Section, American Academy of Religion. San Francisco, CA, November Bonaventure Writes an Aristotelian Prologue : Re-reading the De reductione in light of the Omnium artifex, The Patristic, Medieval, and Renaissance Studies Conference. Villanova, PA, October Sacramental Bodies and Sacramental Politics: Discipleship at the Horizon of Secularism, Theology and Continental Philosophy Section, American Academy of Religion. Atlanta, GA, October The Doctrine of Creation in Bonaventure s Breviloquium, The Patristic, Medieval, and Renaissance Studies Conference. Villanova, PA, October GRANTS, AWARDS, AND SCHOLARSHIPS Course Development Grant, Catholic Studies Program, Loyola University Maryland, 2016 Team-Taught Course Development Grant, Center for the Humanities, Loyola University Maryland, 2016 The Hubbard Dissertation Fellowship, The Catholic University of America, Regional Development Grant, The American Academy of Religion, Regional Development Grant, The American Academy of Religion, The First Year Experience Teaching Fellowship, The Catholic University of America, Regional Development Grant, The American Academy of Religion, Provost Award, The Catholic University of America, Regional Development Grant, The American Academy of Religion, University Scholarship, The Catholic University of America, Teaching Fellowship, The Catholic University of America,

5 COURSES TAUGHT (selected, complete list available) A Literary Theology of Children (Graduate, Spring 2018) Either/Or: Theological and Philosophical Perspectives on Existential Literature (Team-taught) Theology and Beauty (Graduate) Theology and Children s Literature The Theology of Aquinas and Bonaventure The Kingdom of God (Service-Learning) Introduction to Christian Ethics The Protestant Experience Creation and Evolution University Writing: The Politics of Religion University Writing: The Politics of Death, Dismemberment, and Resurrection in Harry Potter Introduction to Theology GUEST LECTURES & PRESENTATIONS Religious Experience Considered: Philosophical, Theological and Aesthetic Elements, Catholic University of America, Washington, DC, October 2008 Revelation: Defining the Doctrine, Catholic University of America, Washington, DC, October 2008 Proofs for God s Existence, Catholic University of America, Washington, DC, October 2008 Being of One Substance With the Father: The Nicene Doctrine of God, for The Triune God (TRS 365), Dr. Thomas Schärtl, Catholic University of America, October 2008 I & II Samuel, for Christianity and Culture (TRS 260), Dr. Joshua Benson, Catholic University of America, November 2008 ECCLESIAL & COMMUNITY St. Bonaventure (interview), Catholic Comments Podcast, Creighton University, July, 2016 Reading Scripture with Harry Potter (series), Adult forum, St. David s Episcopal Church, Baltimore, Maryland, May June, 2016 Archbishop Rowan Williams for the Interested Layperson, St. Anne s Episcopal, Annapolis, MD, May, 2015 The Poetic Body: Christian Formation and Martyrdom in a Secular Era, Theology on Tap, Boston, MA, January, 2015 Craft and Discipleship, Ekklesia Project, July, 2014 Desiring Images: Culture and Affection in Augustine and Bonaventure, Theology on Tap, Boston, MA, October, 2013 Gaudium et Spes, Church of the Ascension and St. Agnes, Washington, D.C., October, 2007 Hans Urs von Balthasar s Love Alone, Adult Education Forum, St. Marks Episcopal Church Locust St., Philadelphia, PA, June,

6 SERVICE (selected; complete list available) Spiritual Mentor to Episcopal Service Corps, Faculty, Messina (1 st Year Student Living and Learning program), Loyola University Maryland, 2015 Present Faculty Moderator, TAK Theology Honors Society,, Christian Systematic Theology Section Steering Committee, American Academy of Religion, 2014 present Ekklesia Project, Planning Committee, Art, Aesthetics, and Theology Steering Committee, American Academy of Religion, Mid-Atlantic Region, History of Christianity and Theology Steering Committee, American Academy of Religion, Mid-Atlantic Region, REFERENCES The Rev d. Sammy Wood St. Bartholomew s Episcopal Church 4800 Belmont Park Terrace Nashville, TN (615) swood@stbs.net Robert Helfenbein, Ph.D. Associate Dean of Education rjhelfenbein@loyola.edu Kevin Hughes, Ph.D. Professor of Theology Villanova University (610) kevin.hughes@villanova.edu ADDITIONAL REFERENCES R. Trent Pomplun, Ph.D. Assoc. Professor of Theology (410) Rpomplun@loyola.edu Frederick Bauerschmidt, Ph.D. Professor of Theology (410) FBauerschmidt@loyola.edu Joshua Benson, Ph.D. Assoc. Professor of Systematic & Historical Theology Spirituality Area Director The Catholic University of America (202) Bensonj@cua.edu 6