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Faculty Name:Jane Sloan Peters, PhD

Designation

Assistant Professor of Religious Studies

Education Qualification

  • PhD, Marquette University
  • MTS, Boston College School of Theology and Ministry
  • MA, University of Notre Dame du Lac
  • MEd, University of Notre Dame du Lac
  • BA, University of Notre Dame du Lac

Contact Email

barbara.sloan@umsv.edu

Publications

  • “Gregory Palamas’s Debt to Maximus the Confessor’s Dyenergist Christology.” Studia Patristica. Edited by Allen Brent and Markus Vinzent. Forthcoming, 2021.
  • “Quidam Graecus: Theophylact of Ochrid in the Catena Aurea in Ioannem and the Lectura Super Ioannem.” Thomas Aquinas and the Greek Fathers. Edited by Michael Dauphinais, Andrew Hofer, OP, and Roger Nutt. Ave Maria: Sapientia Press, 2019.

Book Reviews

  • The Glory of God’s Grace: Deification According to St. Thomas Aquinas by Daria E. Spezzano in Religious Studies Review. Forthcoming.
  • Speaking with Aquinas by David F. Turnbloom in AAR Reading Religion (12 December 2018)

Conference Presentations

  • “The Catena aurea as Source for Objections in the Tertia pars qq. 27–59″ 56th International Congress on Medieval Studies (Kalamazoo, MI, 10–15 May 2021)
  • “Cyril of Alexandria’s Exegetical Contribution to Thomistic Christology” Thomas Aquinas and the Crisis of Christology (Ave Maria University: Ave Maria, FL, 6–8 February 2020)
  • “We Have Been Friends Together: Friendship in the Life and Spirituality of Raïssa Maritain” De Nicola Center for Ethics and Culture 20th Annual Conference (Notre Dame, IN, 7–9 November 2019)
  • “Quidam Graecus: Theophylact of Ochrid in the Catena Aurea in Ioannem and the Lectura Super Ioannem” Thomas Aquinas and the Greek Fathers (Ave Maria University: Ave Maria, FL, 27 January 2018)
  • “Divine Magnanimity: Irenaeus as Evolutionary Theologian” Graduate Student Conference (Mundelein Seminary: Mundelein, IL, 19 October 2016)
  • “Instinctus Spiritus Sancti: Palamas’s Pneumatology and Aquinas’s Gifts of the Holy Spirit” Patristics, Medieval and Renaissance Conference (Villanova University: Villanova, PA, 16 October 2016)
  • “The Interpretation of John 14:9 in Athanasius, Marcellus of Ancyra and Eusebius of Caesarea” Upper Midwest AAR/SBL (University of St. Thomas: St. Paul, MN, 1 April 2016)
  • “Divine Longsuffering in the Irenaean Economy” New England/Maritime AAR/SBL (Boston College STM: Boston, MA, 28 February 2015)
  • “Christology and Deification in Maximos the Confessor,” Pappas Patristic Institute Conference (Holy Cross Greek Orthodox Seminary: Brookline, MA, 27 February 2014)
  • “Cultivating Wonder at the Abbey of Regina Laudis, OSB” Notre Dame Center for Ethics and Culture Conference (Notre Dame, IN, 20 November 2010)
  • Public Presentations
  • Panelist representing the thought of Jacques Maritain for “Visions of the Common Good” at Plough Quarterly‘s Conference: “Beyond Liberalism: Community, Culture, and Economy” (May 2018)
  • “The Gifts of the Holy Spirit in Christian Life” for St. Mark’s Episcopal Church Adult Education in Theology Series (June 2017)

Professional Associations

North American Patristics Society | 2016–2017; 2019–present