Fr. Michael Mascari, OP, PhD

Vice President and Academic Dean

mascari@ai.edu

314-256-8852

Education
 
PhD, The Catholic University of America
 
JD, DePaul University
 
MDiv, Aquinas Institute of Theology
 
MA, The Catholic University of America
 
MA, Aquinas Institute of Theology
 
BA, Georgetown University
 
 
About
Fr. Mascari  is a Dominican Friar of the Province of St. Albert the Great (Central). Before coming to Aquinas Institute of Theology Fr. Mascari was the Socius for the Intellectual Life of the Dominican Order, President of the Board of Directors of the Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas (Angelicum) in Rome, Italy and twice Provincial superior of the Dominican Friars of Province of St. Albert the Great.  Mascari's scholarly interests are focused on Latin Patristics and the thought of Thomas Aquinas.

Selected Courses

  • Church History II
  • Uses of Philosophy and Theology
  • Thomas Aquinas: Life, Thought and Works
  • Christ/Sacraments: Tertia Pars

Selected Publications 

Into the Courtyard of the Gentiles: Reflections on Dominican Mission (with Archbishop Joseph Tobin and Scott Appleby), (Chicago: New Priory Press, 2014)

"Recovering Patristic Prayer: Gregory of Nyssa and the Christian Life Today," Chicago Studies (2001) 91-106

"Access to Health Care by the Poor: Two Solutions to a Growing Crisis," Linacre Quarterly 54 (1987) 79-86.

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