Brendan T. Sammon

Brendan T. Sammon serves as Associate Professor in the Department of Theology and Religious Studies, specializing in systematic, historical, and aesthetic dimensions of theological inquiry with particular focus on beauty, metaphysics, and contemporary philosophical engagement.

His academic credentials include:

• PhD from The Catholic University of America
• MA in Theology from Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
• MA in Religious Studies from Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
• BA from Loyola University Maryland

Sammon's research traverses Systematic and Historical Theology, Theological Aesthetics, Metaphysics/Philosophiscal Theology, Theological Anthropology, Theology of Disability, and Addiction Recovery. His work critically examines beauty as divine attribute through Thomistic and Dionysian frameworks while engaging contemporary thinkers like William Desmond, revealing intersections between theological concepts and human experience across disability studies, recovery theology, and metaphysical inquiry.

Publication analysis shows concentrated scholarly output from 2013-2018 centered on theological aesthetics, particularly beauty in Aquinas and Dionysius. His monograph The God Who is Beauty (2013) established foundational work on divine names, expanded through Called to Attraction (2017) and Desmond-focused scholarship. Articles in Heythrop Journal and Radical Orthodoxy demonstrate methodological rigor in historical theology and contemporary application, with consistent exploration of metaphysical concepts bridging medieval thought and modern philosophical discourse.