Dr Paul Dominiak

Biography

Paul Dominiak received his Doctor of Philosophy from the University of Durham, having previously completed undergraduate and postgraduate degrees in Theology from the University of Cambridge and an undergraduate degree in Early Modern Studies and Philosophy from Sewanee: The University of the South. He is an Affiliated Lecturer in the Faculty of Divinity alongside working as the Senior Tutor at Jesus College, Cambridge. Formerly he taught on the Common Awards degree programs for Durham University and was a Lecturer in Christian Doctrine in the Cambridge Theological Federation while he worked as Vice Principal of Westcott House, Cambridge. His research ranges from the influence of philosophical thought on early modern theology through to contemporary social, political and ethical implications of Christian doctrinal loci.

Research

Anglican Social Theology, natural law, metaphysics, scholasticism, systematic theology, theological education, Thomism, Reformed Orthodoxy

Publications

Key publications:

‘The natural desire for God: early modern Catholic and Reformed interpretations of Aquinas’, in Ben Guyer & Bill Engel, editors, Researching the English Reformation (Brill, 2025).
‘"The Law of a Commonweale": Richard Hooker on Civil Society, Civic Virtue, and Religion’, in Scott Kindred-Barnes & Daniel Graves, editors, Richard Hooker and the Christian Virtues (Brill, 2024).
‘Richard Hooker, Evil, and the Limits of Theology’, in Matthias Grebe & Johannes Grössl, editors, T & T Clark Handbook on Suffering and the Problem of Evil (T & T Clark, 2023).
'"All Things are Lawful": Adiaphora, Permissive Natural Law, Christian Freedom and Defending the English Reformation', Perichoresis 20.2 (2022). https://doi.org/10.2478/perc-2022-0011
Richard Hooker. The Architecture of Participation (T & T Clark, 2020; pb. 2021).
‘An Augustinian Sensibility: The Whole Christ in Hooker’s Lawes of Ecclesiastical Polity,’ in George Westhaver and Rebecca Vince, editors, Christ Unabridged: Knowing and Loving the Son of Man (SCM Press, 2019).
‘Moses the Magistrate: The Mosaic Theological Imaginary of John Jewel and Richard Hooker in Elizabethan Apologetics,’ in Angela Ranson, Andre Gazal, and Sarah Bastow, editors, Defending the Faith. John Jewel and the Elizabethan Church (Pennsylvania State University Press, 2018).
‘Hooker, scholasticism, Thomism, and Reformed orthodoxy,’ in W. Bradford Littlejohn, editor, Richard Hooker & Reformed Orthodoxy (Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht, 2017).
Issue Editor for ‘Established and Emerging Voices in Richard Hooker Research,’ Perichoresis 12.1 (2014).
'“From the Footstool to the Throne of God”: Methexis, Metaxu, and Eros in Richard Hooker’s Of the Lawes of Ecclesiastical Polity,” Perichoresis 12.1 (2014): 57-76. https://doi.org/10.2478/perc-2014-0004
‘The logic of desire: a reappraisal of reason and the emotions in Richard Hooker’s Lawes,’ Reformation & Renaissance Review 16.1 (2014): 37-51. https://doi.org/10.1179/1462245914Z.00000000044

Other publications:

Selected long review articles:

'Visions of the whole: Scripture, the life of Christian doctrine and formation', Reviews in Religion & Theology 31.4 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1111/rirt.14351
'Reconstructing Atonement: Some New Lines of Enquiry', Reviews in Religion & Theology 30.4 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1111/rirt.14264
'Decolonising Theological Education: Learning from LatinX, Womanist and Asian Theologies for Transformative Pedagogy', Reviews in Religion & Theology 29.1-2 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1111/rirt.14075
'Participants of the Divine Nature: The Modern Retrieval of Participation', Reviews in Religion & Theology 27.2 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1111/rirt.14264