Distinguished Senior Fellow
Mark Clark
Ordinary Professor of Theology
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Professor Mark J. Clark is a distinguished senior fellow at The Gibbons Institute and the John C. and Gertrude P. Hubbard Chair of Medieval Church History and Theology at The Catholic University of America. He is currently revising views of Scholasticism and Scholastic theology that have been in place for three centuries at least. Among other things, he has discovered that Peter Lombard’s Sentences did not mark the transition away from the traditional biblical theology to the systematic theology that became dominant. Peter Lombard was in fact a traditional biblical theologian, much like the Victorines he worked with including Andrew of St. Victor. It was instead Thomas Aquinas’s Summa theologiae that initiated that transition. This discovery will necessitate rethinking not only Scholasticism but the causes of the Reformation itself.

  • History of medieval theology
  • 12th-century biblical theology
  • Development of early scholastic thought and university teaching
  • Medieval biblical texts and traditions

Studied under Edward Mahoney, Paul Oskar Kristellar, and Steve Brown.

Orality and Scribal Culture in the High Middle Ages: Understanding Scholastic Texts as the Product of Oral and Scribal Culture, Ancient and Medieval Philosophy Series
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Mark Clark, Ph.D.