Boyd Taylor Coolman

EDUCATION
Wheaton College, B.A. in Philosophy/Economics, 1989
Princeton Theological Seminary, M. Div. in Historical Theology, 1995
University of Notre Dame, Ph. D. in History of Christianity, 2001

BIOGRAPHICAL SUMMARY
Prior to joining the faculty at Boston College, Coolman was a visiting professor at Duke Divinity School (2002-2005) and at Yale Divinity School (2004-2005).

RESEARCH  INTERESTS
His research interests are in the history of Christian theology, particularly in the medieval period. He is especially interested in the life and thought of the Victorines in the first half of the twelfth century and in developments in early thirteenth-century scholastic theology at the Universities of Paris and Oxford.

TEACHING
Introduction to Medieval Theology
The Victorine School in the Middle Ages: The Theology of Hugh of St. Victor
The Humanity of Jesus in the High Middle Ages
Dionysian Mysticism in the Middle Ages

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES AND AWARDS
- Co-founder of the "Boston Colloquy in Historical Theology"
- Founding member of the editorial board, Victorine Texts in English Translation (forthcoming with Brepols Publishers), to publish English language translations of the writings of the twelfth- and thirteenth-century Victorines.
- Book review editor (medieval) Religious Studies Review

PUBLICATIONS
Books:
The Theology of Hugh of St. Victor: An Interpretation, Cambridge University Press (forthcoming, 2009).

Knowing God by Experience: The Spiritual Senses in the Theology of William of Auxerre, Washington, D.C.: Catholic University of America Press, 2004.
Reviews of Knowing God by Experience:
- P.L. Urban Jr., Choice (January 2005).
- Susanne Kaup, Archa Verbi: Yearbook for the Study of Medieval Theology (Annuarium Societatis Internationalis pro Studiis Theologiae Mediae Aevi promovendis) 2 (2005): 205-07.
- Gillian R. Evans, Journal of Theological Studies 56, no. 1 (2005): 250-51.
- Keith J. Egan, Religious Studies Review, 32, no.2 (April 2006): 127-128.
- David N. Bell, Speculum: A Journal of Medieval Studies 81, no. 2 (2006): 496-97.
- Joan M. Nuth, Theological Studies 67, no. 2 (June 2006): 459-60.
- Kevin L. Hughes, The Thomist: A Speculative Quarterly Review 70, no. 3 (2006): 137-39.

Peer-Reviewed Articles:
“Hugh of St. Victor on ‘Jesus Wept’: Making Christological Sense of Jesus’s Tears and Conceiving Ideal humanitas,” Theological Studies [forthcoming, 2008].

“The Salvific Affectivity of Christ in Alexander of Hales,” The Thomist 71 (2007):1-38.

“Pulchrum Esse: The Beauty of Scripture, the Beauty of the Soul, and the Art of Exegesis in the Theology of Hugh of St. Victor,” Traditio: Studies in Ancient and Medieval Thought, History, and Religion, vol. 58 (2003): pp. 175-200.

Chapters in Books:
“The Theology of Hugh of St. Victor” in Teachers, Preachers and Mystics: The Abbey of Saint-Victor and the Creation of a New Christian Culture, eds. Grover Zinn, Leslie Smith, Michael Signer [forthcoming, University of Notre Dame Press].

"The Affective Dionysian Tradition in the Middle Ages” in Re-Thinking Dionysius, ed. Sarah Coakley [forthcoming,  Blackwell Publishing, 2008].

“Hugh of St. Victor” in Jeffrey P. Greenman, Timothy Larsen, and Stephen Spencer (eds), The Sermon on the Mount through the Centuries, (Grand Rapids: Brazos Press, 2007), 72-102.

Encyclopedia Entries:
"William of Auxerre" in Encyclopedia of Medieval Philosophy, Springer (forthcoming, 2008).

“Philip Melanchthon,” in Timothy Larsen (ed.), Biographical Dictionary of Evangelicals, Leicester, England: Inter-Varsity Press, May 2003.

Reviews:
Conrad Rudolph, "First, I FInd the Center Point": Reading the Text of Hugh of Saint Victor's "The Mystic Ark," Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, 94/4 (Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society, 2004), in Speculum: A Journal of Medieval Studies (forthcoming, July 2007).

David Aers, Sanctifying Signs: Making Christian Tradition in Late Medieval England, (Notre Dame, IN: The University of Notre Dame Press, 2004), in Religious Studies Review (forthcoming, summer 2007).

John R. Sommerfeldt, Bernard of Clairvaux: On the Spirituality of Relationship, Significant Scholarly Studies (New York/Mahway, NJ: The Newman Press, 2004) in Religious Studies Review 32 (2006): 263.

Translation Projects:
Victorine Texts in English Translation: In conjunction With another junior colleague, I have co-founded a seven member editorial board whose purpose is to publish English language translations of the writings of the twelfth- and thirteenth-century Victorines. By the end of the year, we anticipate signing a contract with Belgium-based Brepols Publishers, who in turn will co-publish and market the book in North America with New City Press.