Miguel Romero, Th.D.
Associate Professor
Albert Gnaegi Center for 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.