Faculty Directory

Brian Dunkle, S.J.

Associate Professor of Historical Theology

Selected Courses

  • History of Western Christianity I: 100-850
  • The Trinity in the Early Church
  • Introduction to Patristic Theology
  • Theology and Literature

Selected Publications

St. Ambrose of Milan: Treatises on Noah and David. Introduction and translation. Fathers of the Church 146. Washington, D.C.: Catholic University of America Press, 2020.

Enchantment and Creed in the Hymns of Ambrose of Milan. Oxford Early Christian Studies. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2016.

Articles and Book Chapters

"Ambrose’s Hymns as Modes of Knowing the ‘Real’." In The Intellectual World of Late Antiquity, edited by Lewis Ayres, Michael Champion, and Matthew Crawford. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, forthcoming 2023.

“‘The Twofold Affection’: The Background to John Chrysostom’s Use of Φύσις and Χάρις.” Vigiliae Christianae 75.2 (2021): 355–374. “‘

Made Worthy of the Holy Spirit’: A Hymn of Ambrose in Augustine’s Nature and Grace.” Augustinian Studies 50 (2018): 1–12.

“John Chrysostom’s Community of Anger Management.” In Studia Patristica 83: Papers Presented at the Seventeenth International Conference on Patristic Studies held in Oxford 2015. Volume 9: Emotions (separate volume of contributions), edited by Markus Vinzent and Yannis Papadogiannakis, 217–230. Leuven: Peeters, 2017