Theology Department Faculty
Boyd Taylor Coolman
Professor
Boyd Taylor Coolman
Ph.D.
Contact
Stokes Hall 321N
Telephone: 617-552-3971
Email: boyd.coolman@bc.edu
Education
- A.B., Wheaton College
- M.Div., Princeton Theological Seminary
- Ph.D., University of Notre Dame
Courses
- Early Franciscan Theology: Trinity and Christology
- Dionysian Mysticism in the Middle Ages
- Medieval Eucharistic Theology
Research Interests
An historical theologian of medieval Catholicism, Coolman’s research interests lie in the twelfth and early thirteenth centuries, with a focus on the Victorine and early Franciscan traditions, on the emergence of scholastic theology, and on medieval mystical theologies.
Office Hours
Tu 12-1:30 p.m.
Recent Publications
Knowledge, Love, and Ecstasy in Thomas Gallus, Oxford University Press, 2017.
“On the Subject Matter of Theology in the Summa halensis and St. Thomas Aquinas,” The Thomist 79 (2015): 439-66.
“The Comprehensive Scope of Classical Christology in the Twelfth-Century,” The Thomist78:2 (2014): 219-45.
“In whom I am well pleased: Hugh of St. Victor’s Trinitarian Aesthetics,” Pro Ecclesia 23-N3 (2014): 331-54.
“Hugh of St. Victor’s Influence on the Halensian Definition of Theology,” Franciscan Studies70 (2012): pp. 367-84.