Gregory Cruess, PhD

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Assistant Professor, Director of Graduate Ministry Program, Theology

Phone: (972) 721-5239

Email: gcruess@udallas.edu

Office: Braniff Graduate Building #132A

Office Hours: MW 1:45 - 2:45 p.m.

Dr. Gregory M. Cruess obtained his PhD in Theology from the University of Notre Dame. He has been actively involved in parish ministry since 2013 where he began as an Adult Faith Formation Catechist (RCIA) at St. Joseph's Parish in South Bend, IN. 

EDUCATION
PhD, Theology, University of Notre Dame
M.A., Theological Studies, Boston College
B.A., Architecture, University of Notre Dame

RECENT COURSES
THE 1310 Understanding the Bible
THE 2311 Western Theological Traditions
THE 5300 Patristic / Byzantine Theology
THE 6351 Church History II
TMIN 5330 Systematic Theology
TPAS 3V50 Evangelization
NSOM 5340 Church History
 
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
Three Pseudo-Bernardine Works, Edited by Ann Astell and Joseph Wawrykow. Collegeville, MN: Liturgical Press, 2018. [As Member of the Catena Scholarium translating team at the University of Notre Dame.]

Aelred of Rievaulx, The Liturgical Sermons: The Durham and Lincoln Collections, Sermons 47-83 Translated by Kathryn Krug, Lewis White, and the Catena Scholarium. Collegeville, MN: Liturgical Press, 2018. [As Member of the Catena Scholarium translating team at the University of Notre Dame.

PRESENTATIONS
“An Inculturated Introduction: Reintroducing Christianity in the Context of U.S. Hispanic Catholicism." Ratzinger's Introduction to Christianity at 50” , University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN, 2018

“Preaching the Fourfold Gospel: Augustine's Exegetical Method in the Sermones ad populum.”, North American Patristics Society, Chicago, IL, 2018

“Augustine's Influence on the Developing Theology of the Gifts and Beatitudes: A Medieval Reception History." Pinckaers Symposium, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN, 2018

“‘De humilitate Christi loquor’: Augustine’s Preaching on the Union of Natures in his In Iohannis Evangelium Tractatus.” North American Patristics Society, Chicago, IL, 2017

Augustine and Aquinas on the Gifts of the Holy Spirit. International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, MI,2017