Jose Belleza

Selected works:

1. (Book Review). Daniel Joseph Gordon, The Passion of Love in the 'Summa Theologiae' of Thomas Aquinas (Washington: CUA Press, 2023). Heythrop Journal 65 (2024). In preparation.
2. “Of Mice, Men, and Manducation: Sacramental Semiotics and Revelation’s Rationes.” Nova et Vetera, English Edition 24 (2024). Approved; publication forthcoming.
3. “Priestly Renewal, Eucharistic Revival: The Place of the Corpus Christi Liturgy in Aquinas’s Sacramental Theology.” Nova et Vetera, English Edition 24 (2024). Approved; publication forthcoming.
4. (Book Review). Janet Martin Soskice, Naming God: Addressing the Divine in Philosophy, Theology, & Scripture (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023). Nova et Vetera, English Edition 23 (2023). Approved; publication forthcoming.
5. “On the Troped Kyrie Eleison: A Thomistic Perspective.” New Blackfriars 105 (2024). Approved; publication forthcoming.
6. “Football, Mysticism, Thomistic Poetics.” Modern Theology 39 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1111/moth.12864 (currently available only via Open Access online)
7. “Pleading nolo contendere? Aquinas vs. Bonaventure on Poetry.” New Blackfriars 104 (2023): pp. 352-372.             https://doi.org/10.1111/nbfr.12821 
8. “On Sanctitatis Nova Signa: A Provisional Case Against Celano’s Authorship.” New Blackfriars 103 (2022): pp. 745-760. https://doi.org/10.1111/nbfr.12787 
9. “Joseph Ratzinger, Student of Aquinas.” Berkeley Journal of Religion and Theology 5 (2019): pp. 94-120.
10. “The Petrine Primacy as the Origin of Christology: A Structural and Theological Re-examination of Matthew 16:13-20.” Writing for a Real World 8 (2010): pp. 12-32.
11. “Karol Wojtyla in the Trajectory of Polish History.” Writing for a Real World 7 (2009): pp. 108-120.

Selected presentations:

1. “Between Elitism and Egalitarianism: Dionysius and the Mysticism of Liturgy.” XIX International Conference on Patristics Studies. 5-9 August 2024. University of Oxford. (Forthcoming)
2. “The Place of the Corpus Christi Office in Aquinas’s Sacramental Theology.” The Aquinas Center: Thomas Aquinas and the Eucharist—Pathways to Revival. 1-3 February 2024. Ave Maria University, Florida. (Forthcoming)
3. “Semantic Satiation and the Sacred: Reassessing Repetitions in the Roman Rite.” Temenos Young Scholars Conference: Attention & Ritual. 3 June 2023. Faculty of Divinity, University of Cambridge.
4. “Maradona and Medieval Mysticism: Thomas Aquinas on the Poetics of Football Fandom.” D Society: The Graduate Seminar in Philosophy of Religion. 7 October 2022. Faculty of Divinity, University of Cambridge.
5. “Analogy in Thomistic and Bonaventurean Poetry.” LERU Conference: Second Doctoral Seminar in Theology and Religious Studies. 21 August 2022. Lund University, Sweden.
6. “Nec Laudare Sufficis: Aquinas on Analogy, Metaphor, & Poetry.” The Noesis Seminar. 11 March 2022. Faculty of Divinity, University of Cambridge.
7. “Spiritual Renewal of the Clergy: A Victorine-Thomist Perspective.” The Aquinas Center: St. Thomas Aquinas as Spiritual Teacher: Theology in a Culture of Grace. 10-11 February 2022. Ave Maria University, Florida.
8. “Towards a Thomistic Liturgical Hermeneutics.” The Society for Catholic Liturgy: That They May Be One: Liturgical Reconciliation. 25 September 2021. University of Notre Dame, Indiana.
9. “Reddeamus ad Philosophum: The Aristotelian Background of ‘Development.’” The Sacra Doctrina Project: The Development of Doctrine: Revelation, Magisterium, and Human Reason. 11 June 2021. St Bernard’s School of Theology & Ministry, Rochester, New York.

Research interests:

1.  Dionysian reception in medieval theology
2.  Thomistic and Franciscan studies
3.  Liturgical/sacramental theology
4.  Theological responses to postmodernity
5.  Metaphysics and poetics