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Theology \ Faculty \
Franklin T. Harkins
 Assistant Professor
Duane Library, Rm. 143
(718) 817-0522
fharkins@fordham.edu
Ph.D. University of Notre Dame (2005)
M.Div. Duke Divinity School (1999)
B.S. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (1996)
Research interests: Historical theology: Medieval Scholasticism, Medieval and Patristic Exegesis, History of Jewish-Christian Relations
Dr. Harkins’ research and teaching interests are in the areas of medieval theology and scriptural exegesis, particularly in the 12th and 13th centuries. He is especially interested in the Victorines, Peter Lombard, Thomas Aquinas, and the scholastic reception of Augustine. His forthcoming monograph, Reading and the Work of Restoration (Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, Toronto), considers Hugh of St. Victor’s use of Augustine in the development of a program of secular and sacred reading aimed at the student’s restoration to the image of God.
Dr. Harkins is currently working on an edition and translation of the Filia Magistri, an anonymous mid-thirteenth-century abridgment of Peter Lombard’s Sentences, to be published in the Dallas Medieval Texts and Translations series.
Publications:
Reading and the Work of Restoration: History and Scripture in the Theology of Hugh of St. Victor (Toronto: Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, forthcoming Fall 2009).
“Primus doctor Iudaeorum: Moses as Theological Master in the Summa Theologia of Thomas Aquinas,” in Illuminating Moses: A History of Reception, 2nd-15th Century, ed. Jane Beal (Brill, projected 2010).
“Homo Assumptus at St. Victor: Reconsidering the Relationship between Victorine Chistology and Peter Lombard’s First Opinion,” The Thomist 72 (2008) 595-624.
“Unwitting Witnesses: Jews and Judaism in the Thought of Augustine,” in Augustine and World Religions, ed. Brian Brown, John Doody, and Kim Paffenroth (Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2008), 37-69.
“Secundus Augustinus: Hugh of St. Victor on Liberal Arts Study and Salvation,” Augustinian Studies 37/2 (2006): 219-46.
“Nuancing Augustine’s Hermeneutical Jew: Allegory and Actual Jews in the Bishop’s Sermons,” Journal for the Study of Judaism 36 (2005): 41-64 (winner of the 2006 North American Patristics Society Best First Article Prize).
Courses Taught, Fall 2009:
THEO 2745-R01 Augustine, Aquinas, and Luther, TF 2:30-3:45.
THEO 2745-R02 Augustine, Aquinas, and Luther, TF 1:00-2:15.
THEO 5300-R01 History of Christianity I, T 5:15-7:45.
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