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Miguel Romero, Th.D.

Associate Professor
Department of Health Care Ethics

Education

  • B.A. Colorado College 
  • M.Div. Fuller Theological Seminary
  • Th.D. Duke University Divinity School

Publications and Media Placements

Books and Edited Volumes 
 
  • Editor: The Journal of Moral Theology: “Engaging Disability,” edited by Miguel J. Romero and Mary Jo Iozzio, Vol. 6, Special Issue 2 (Sept 2017).
  • Forthcoming Manuscript: Destiny of the Wounded Creature: St. Thomas Aquinas on Disability. Advance contract with Catholic University of America Press. Manuscript under review. Target date: TBD.
  • Forthcoming Manuscript: My Brother’s Keeper: A Thomistic Theology of Mercy and Liberation. 
 
Articles, Essays, and Book Chapters 
 
  • Forthcoming Book chapter, with Jason Eberl (SLU): “The Tree of Life: Aquinas, Disability, and Transhumanism.”
  • Forthcoming Article: “Disability, Deification, & Beatitude,” submitted to The Thomist for peer review.
  • “Disability, Catholic Questions, and the Quandaries of Biomedicine and Secular Society,” National Catholic Bioethics Quarterly, Vol. 20, No. 2 (Summer 2020): 277-310.
  • “Disability, Theological Method, and Authorial Positionality: A Critical Engagement with Wondrously Wounded, by Brian Brock,” Syndicate Journal (Oct 2020).
  • “Remembering ‘Mindless’ Persons: Intellectual Disability, Spanish Colonialism, and the Disappearance of a Medieval Account of Persons Who Lack the Use of Reason,” chapter five in Disability in Medieval Philosophy & Theology, ed. Scott Williams (Routledge Press, 2020).
  • “Species, Intellect, and the Non-Deliberate Actus Hominis: A Review and Response to Aquinas on Custom, by William Mattison III,” Journal of Moral Theology virtual roundtable (March 2020).
  • “La Celebrazione del Mistero Cristiano,” chapter 2 in Catechesi e Persone Con Disabilita: Un’attenzione Necessaria Nella Vita Quotidiana Della Chiesa, edited by Francesco Spinelli and Eugene R. Sylva (San Paulo, 2018): 35-51.
  • “Mercy, Mental Illness, and the Moral Significance of Christian History: The Story of Fr. Juan Gilabert-Jofre, O.de.M.,” Journal of Disability & Religion, Vol. 22, No. 2 (May 2018).
  • “The Goodness and Beauty of Our Fragile Flesh: Moral Theologians and Our Engagement with Disability,” Journal of Moral Theology: Engaging Disability, Vol. 6, Special Issue 2 (2017): 206-253.
  • “To Think Theologically About Disability,” Culture E Fede (Pontificium Consilium de Cultura), vol. XXIV, n. 3 (2016). 203-204.
  • Refereed: “Happiness and Those Who Lack the Use of Reason,” The Thomist 80 (2016): 49-96.
  • “Cognitive Impairment, Moral Virtue, and Our Life in Christ,” Church Life, Vol. 4, No. 4 (2014): 79-94.
  • “The Call To Mercy: Veritatis Splendor and the Preferential Option for the Poor,” Nova et Vetera, English Edition, Vol. 11, No. 4. (2013): 1205–27.
  • “Aquinas on the Corporis Infirmitas: Broken Flesh and The Grammar of Grace,” book chapter in Disability in the Christian Tradition: A Reader, eds. Swinton and Brock (Eerdmans, 2012): 101—151.
  • “Liberation, Development, and Human Advancement: Catholic 
 
Principle Author on Collaborative Documents 
 
  • “The Mission of NCPD: The Fundamentals, Aims, and Recent History,” a study produced for the National Catholic Partnership on Disability: March 2021.
  • “Speaking of Disability: Pastoral Guidelines on Appropriate Language Relating to Persons Who Have a Disability,” a resource provided by the National Catholic Partnership on Disability: May 2020.
  • “Companion to the USCCB Sacramental Guidelines on Disability and Sacramental Access,” a resource provided by the National Catholic Partnership on Disability: Nov 2019.
  • Affirmation of and Commitment to the Call of the Pastoral Statement of U.S. Catholic Bishops on Persons with Disabilities: A Resolution Issued by the Board of Directors of the National Catholic Partnership on Disability on the 40th Anniversary of the Pastoral Statement,” a resource provided by the National Catholic Partnership on Disability: Sept 2018. 

Honors and Awards

  • Doctoral Fellow and Dissertation Fellow (2008-2012), Hispanic Theological Initiative.

Professional Organizations and Associations

  • Academy of Catholic Theology (ACT), member 2019 – Present.
  • Academy of Catholic Hispanic Theologians in the US (ACHTUS), member 2011 – Present.
  • Catholic Theological Society of America (CTSA), member 2017 – Present.
  • New Wine, New Wineskins (NWNW), member 2010 – Present.