Affiliated Research Students
Philip Brandt
Philip was graduated with a BA in Theological Languages from Concordia University, Seward, Nebraska in 1987 and was granted an MA in Classics from Washington University, St. Louis in 1989 and an Master of Divinity from Concordia Seminary, also in St. Louis in 1991. He spent the next fourteen years serving as a pastor to Lutheran parishes in Utah and Oregon before being asked in 2005 to join the faculty of Concordia University, Portland, Oregon, a small Christian Liberal Arts University in the Pacific Northwest of the US. A long standing interest in Augustine, systematic and biblical theology, along with a love of classics and language brought the After Augustine Project to his attention and he was graciously admitted to pursue his interests in a part-time arrangement under the guidance of Professor Dr. Karla Pollmann while continuing to fulfill his teaching duties at Concordia University.
His research at St. Andrews centers on the reception and use of Augustine and other Patristic theologians in the Summa Theologiae of Thomas Aquinas in the 13^th century, specifically QQ 65-74 in the First Part of the ST, in which Aquinas treats the six days of creation. With obvious implications for current debates between science and theology, the research also prepares him to teach in biblical, practical, systematic, and historical theological disciplines. Teaching on a small faculty means that his other interests must be fairly broad. He teaches courses in Church history and especially Reformation history, the History and Literature of the New Testament, Religion and Literature, and the various denominations of the American religious experience. You can read more about him at his faculty website:
http://www.cu-portland.edu/ctas/faculty/pbrandt.cfm