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 ā€˜Real’." In The Intellectual World of Late Antiquity, edited by Lewis Ayres, Michael Champion, and Matthew Crawford. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, forthcoming 2023.

ā€œā€˜The Twofold Affection’: The Background to John Chrysostom’s Use of Ī¦ĻĻƒĪ¹Ļ‚ and Χάρις.ā€ Vigiliae Christianae 75.2 (2021): 355–374. ā€œā€˜

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

ā€œJohn Chrysostom’s Community of Anger Management.ā€ 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