Rev. Daniel P. Moloney, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Philosophy and Theology
Formation Team
Education
M.A, Ph.D., University of Notre Dame
S.T.B., Pontifical University of the Holy Cross
B.A., Yale University
Research Interests
Medieval philosophy, philosophy of God, Christian anthropology, mercy and political theory
Profile
Ordained in 2010, Rev. Daniel Moloney is a priest of the Archdiocese of Boston. He serves as a seminary formator as well as an assistant professor of philosophy and theology.
Fr. Moloney earned both a master’s and a doctorate in philosophy from the University of Notre Dame, a bachelor of sacred theology degree from the Pontifical University of the Holy Cross in Rome, and a bachelor of arts in religious studies from Yale University.
In addition to parish assignments, Fr. Moloney has served as a chaplain at the St. Thomas More Newman Center in Columbus, Ohio, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and the University of Massachusetts, Boston. Fr. Moloney has held teaching assignments at Saint John Vianney Theological Seminary, the Augustine Institute, Catholic University of Korea, Princeton University and the University of Notre Dame. He is the author of the book Mercy: What Every Catholic Should Know.
Selected Publications
Mercy: What Every Catholic Should Know. San Francisco: Ignatius Press; Augustine Institute: Greenwood Village, CO, 2020.
“Rereading ‘Saint Anselm’s Proof.’” In Metaphysics Through Semantics: The Philosophical Recovery of the Medieval Mind, edited by Joshua P. Hochschild, et al., 39-62. Springer, 2023.
“At the Origins of Univocity: Anselm’s Five Methods for Defining the Divine Nature with Human Concepts.” Proceedings of the American Catholic Philosophical Association, 96 (2022): 125–44.
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