Dr Joseph Grabau

Joseph Grabau

Lecturer The Pastoral Institute Office Location: González Building A-110 (MACC) Phone: (210) 731-3141

Dr. Grabau is Associate Professor of Philosophy and Theology at the Mexican American Catholic College (MACC) in San Antonio, TX. In this capacity, he serves as Lecturer for the Pastoral Institute at UIW, where he leads courses in the Collaborative B.A. Program in Pastoral Ministry.

  • Ph.D./S.T.D., M.A. Catholic University of Leuven
  • M.A. University of Kentucky
  • M.A. Villanova University
  • M.A. The Catholic University of America

Postdoctoral Researcher, History of Church and Theology, Catholic University of Leuven, 2019-2020

Publications

2022 “Methodological Approaches for Comparative Theological Research on St. Augustine of Hippo and the Gospel of John.” Cuestiones Teologicas (submitted).

2021 “The Limits of Grief in Augustine of Hippo’s Sermones 172-173 & Sermo 396.” Vox Patrum 78 (2021): 293-310. https://doi.org/10.31743/vp.12259.

2021 “Libelli pacis (libellatici).” In: D. Hunter, P. van Geest, B. Jan Lietaert Peerbolte (eds), Brill Encyclopedia of Early Christianity Online. Leiden: Brill, 2021. https://doi.org/10.1163/2589-7993_EECO_SIM_00001947.

2021 “Jn. 1:17 and Gal. 4:4-5 in Augustine of Hippo’s Anti-Donatist Polemics and Preaching: Johannine and Pauline Perspectives on Grace.” In: M. Vincent (ed), Studia Patristica CXIX, vol. 16: Augustine the Theologian and Polemicist, 97-108. Leuven: Peeters, 2021.

2021 “Anti-Donatist Polemic and Biblical Hermeneutics: Questions of Ecclesiology in Augustine of Hippo’s De doctrina christiana.” In: T. Nisula, A. Laato, & P. Irizar (eds), Religious Polemics and Encounters in Antiquity: Boundaries, Conversions and Persuasion (Studies on the Children of Abraham, 8), 144-163. Leiden: Brill, 2021. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004466845_009.

2021 “Pastoral Hermeneutics and Polemical Exegesis: Reflections on Method in Augustine of Hippo’s Io. eu. tr. (406-407).” In: A. Dupont, W. François, & J. Leemans (eds), ‘Nos sumus tempora’: Studies on Augustine and his Reception Offered to M. Lamberigts (Biblioteca Ephemeridum Theologicarum Lovaniensum, 316), 95-111. Leuven: Peeters, 2020. https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv1q26x87.9. Spanish trans., “Hermenéutica pastoral y exegesis polémica: reflexiones sobre el método en el Io. eu. tr. de Agustín de Hipona (406-407).” Augustinus 63, no. 250-251 (2018): 385-399.

2019 “‘On the Way to Truth and Peace’ ( ep. 33, 6): Augustine’s Anti-Donatist Readings of John 14, 27a.” In: A. Dupont, E. Bendímez, & C. Vargas (eds), Augustine as ‘Doctor Pacis’: Inquiries on Peace for People Living Today, vol. 2, 41-68 . Bogotá: Uniagustiniana Press, 2019. https://doi.org/10.28970/9789585498235.1.

Presentations

2021 “Augustine of Hippo’s Preaching on 1 Thess 4:13-14 and 1 Cor 15:32b-34.” Society of Biblical Literature Annual Meeting, “Contextualizing North African Christianity” program unit; San Antonio, TX; 20-23 November (abstract accepted, paper withdrawn).

2021 “Augustine of Hippo on Christ’s Emotions & Human Mortality.” North American Patristics Society Annual Meeting; 24-28 May (virtual event).

2020 “‘To grieve with a sorrow that will let itself be assuaged’ ( s. 172.3): Purifying Emotion in Augustine of Hippo’s s. 172-173 & s. 396.” International Patristic, Medieval, & Renaissance Conference; Villanova University, 16-18 October (virtual event).

2019 “Jn 1:17 & Gal 4:4-5 in Augustine of Hippo’s Anti-Donatist Polemics & Preaching: Johannine & Pauline Perspectives on Grace.” 18 th International Conference on Patristics Studies; University of Oxford, 19-24 August.

  • North American Patristics Society
  • Association Internationale d’Études Patristiques
  • Society of Biblical Literature
  • Roman Philosophy
  • Patristic Sermons
  • Philosophy in the Catholic Tradition
  • Ancient Philosophy
  • Philosophy of Nature and Being
  • Theology of the Creed: The Faith Professed
  • Jesus Christ: God and Man
  • Natural Theology
  • Theology of Grief, Trauma, and Healing
  • Ecclesiology