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Robert Grant, PhD

Reverend Grant teaches Environmental Theology, especially from a Thomistic perspective in the Roman Catholic tradition, but also philosophy (esp. Kant and Aristotle).  He also teaches Historical Theology, especially IV Century, west, with an emphasis of Saint Ambrose of Milan. In 2014 he was inducted into the academy of Biblioteca Ambrosiana, in Milan.

Reverend Grant is also the director of the Academy for the Study of St. Ambrose of Milan and Sacramental Minister at St. Andrew's Parish, Blue Grass, Iowa.

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Contact Robert Grant for information on Theology

Christ the King Chapel 108

563-333-6419

GrantRobert@sau.edu

Education and Training

  • PhD, University of Iowa, Environmental Ethics
  • MA, Creighton University, Western Spirituality
  • STB, Georgian University, Rome, Italy, Theology

Areas of Professional Interest

  • Environmental Theology
  • Saint Ambrose of Milan
  • Historical Theology

Recent Publications

  • Co-Editor and Contributor to "Ambrose of Milan and Community Formation in Late Antiquity" with Dr. Ethan Gannaway, Cambridge Scholar's Press 2021.
  • Co-Editor and Contributor to "Studia Patristica : Vol. CXIII - Papers presented at the Eighteenth International Conference on Patristic Studies held in Oxford 2019 : Volume 10: Ambrose of Milan's Misericordia" with Drs. Ethan Gannaway, and Marcus Vinzent, Peeters Publishing, 2021.
  • Mons. Cesare Pasini: Ambrogio di Milano: Azione e pensiere di un Vescovo, translated 2012.
  • "Weapons Strong for God," Studia Ambrosiana, 2011.
  • A Case Study in Thomistic Environmental Ethics, Edwin Millen Press, 2007.
  • THEO 110 Introduction to Moral Issues
  • THEO 141 Ambrose of Milan
  • THEO/PHIL 311 Environmental Ethics
  • THEO 344 Rome & Christianity
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