Rev. Reginald Lynch, O.P.
Associate Professor of Dogmatic Theology and Historical Theology
B.A., St. Lawrence University
MDiv./S.T.B., Pontifical Faculty of the Immaculate Conception
S.T.L., Pontifical Faculty of the Immaculate Conception
Ph.D., University of Notre Dame
About
Born in New Hampshire, Father Reginald Lynch, O.P., entered the Dominican Province of St. Joseph in 2007, and was ordained a priest in 2013. After ordination, he served at St. Patrick Parish in Columbus, Ohio, and taught at the Pontifical College Josephinum, before going on to complete a PhD in theology at the University of Notre Dame, with a major concentration in medieval theology and minor concentrations in patristics and philosophical theology. He has written on a variety of topics in sacramental, dogmatic and historical theology in journals like The Thomist, Theological Studies, and Harvard Theological Review. His first book, The Cleansing of the Heart: The Sacraments as Instrumental Causes in the Thomistic Tradition (Washington, D.C.: The Catholic University of America Press, 2017) received the Charles Cardinal Journet Prize in 2018. He has also written Aquinas’s Summa Theologiae and Eucharistic Sacrifice in the Early Modern Period (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2023), which focuses on the reception of Aquinas’ Eucharistic theology in the early modern period.
Select Publications
Books
The Cleansing of the Heart: the Sacraments as Instrumental Causes in the Thomistic Tradition, Thomistic Ressourcement Series vol. 9, Matthew Levering and Thomas Joseph White, eds. (Washington, DC: The Catholic University of America Press, 2017).
Aquinas’s Summa theologiae and Eucharistic Sacrifice in the Early Modern Period, Changing Paradigms in Historical and Systematic Theology series, Sarah Coakley and Richard Cross, eds. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2023).
Articles & Book Chapters
“Rahner’s Trinitarian Ontology: Eschatology and the First Principles of Theology,” The Heythrop Journal vol. 66 iss. 3 (2025): 209-22.
“Sign, Sacrifice, and Moral Virtue: Aquinas and the Thomistic Tradition on Moral and Mystical Signification in the Eucharist,” in Thomas Aquinas and the Eucharist: Pathways to Revival, Michael Dauphinais, Andrew Hofer, and Roger Nutt, eds. (Naples, FL: Ave Maria Press, 2025), 192-211.
“Thomas Aquinas on the Priesthood: Temple, Allegory, and the Humanities of Christ,” Nova et Vetera (English) 22 n. 3 (2024): 789-810.
“Causality and the Procession of the Holy Spirit in Manuel Kalekas’s De fide deque principiis catholicae fidei,” Harvard Theological Review 116.2 (2023): 254-75.
“Cajetan on Christ’s Priestly Sacrifice: Ressourcement Thomism in the Sixteenth Century,” in Thomas Aquinas and the Crisis of Christology, Roger Nutt, Michael Dauphinais and Andrew Hofer, eds. (Naples, FL: Ave Maria Press, 2021).
“Image, Necessity, and Trinitarian psychology in Anselm and Augustine,” Theological Studies 82.2 (2021): 332-50.
“18th Century Catholic Reception of Aquinas: Scholastic Synthesis in the Age of Enlightenment,” in The Oxford Handbook of the Reception of Aquinas, Matthew Levering and Marcus Plested, eds. (Oxford University Press, 2021).
“Divine Causality and Human Freedom: Aquinas, Bañez and premotion after Descartes,” in Beyond Dordt and De Auxiliis: The Dynamics of Protestant and Catholic Soteriology in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries, Studies in the History of Christian Traditions, vol. 192, Jordan J. Ballor, Matthew T. Gaetano and David S. Sytsma, eds. (Leiden: Brill, 2019).