Robert Llizo, PhD

Education

Courses Taught

Teaching Focus

Publications

• The Urban Asceticism of St. Francis, Mellen Press, forthcoming.
• “Glimpses of Paradise: The Music of John Tavenner, Henryk,Gorecki, Ivan Moody and Arvo Part,” CIVA Special Issue, Iconography and Orthodoxy (August 1998). 
• Book Chapter: Translation of Robert de Sorbon’s “De Matrimonium” for Dr. Greg Peters,The Monkhood of All Believers: The Monastic Foundation of Christian Spirituality Baker Academic, Nov. 2018
• Book Chapter: Translation of “The Ordinals of Christ” in A Companion to Priesthood and Holy Orders in the Middle Ages (Greg Peters and C. Colt Anderson, eds.) Leiden and Boston: Brill Publishers, 2015
• Book Chapter: “Miguel de Cervantes,” in The Great Books Reader: Excerpts and Essays on the Most Influential Books in Western Civilization (John Mark Reynolds, General Editor) Bloomington, MN: Bethany House Publishers, 2011
   
• Book Review: Salam Rasi’s “Christian Thought in the Medieval Islamicate World: Abdisho of Nisibis and the Apologetic Tradition,” in Philosophia Christi (Upcoming)
• Book Review: “Perfecting Human Actions: St. Thomas Aquinas on Human Participation in Eternal Law,” by John Rhiza, Sixteenth Century Journal (Spring 2011).
• Book Review: “Mystical Metal of Gold: Essays on Alchemy and Renaissance Culture,” ed. Stanton J. Linton, Sixteenth Century Journal (Spring 2010).
• Book Review, H. Hossien’s and O. Leamann’s “History of Islamic Philosophy,” Philosophia Christi (Spring 2005)
• Book Review, “The Cambridge Companion to Medieval Jewish Philosophy” (D.H. Frank and O. Leamann, ed.), Philosophia Christi  (Fall 2008)
  
• Article: “The Vision of God: St. Thomas Aquinas on the Beatific Vision and Resurrected Bodies,” in Perichoresis: The Theological Journal of Emanuel University (17.2, 2019)
• Article: “Jesus and the Pharisees,” in The City: A Publication of Houston Baptist University (Vol. VIII, Issue 1) Summer 2015 

Conferences and Presentations

• Lecture, “Here from the dead let poetry rise up”: Faith, Reason, and Poetry in Dante’s Purgatorio,  given at the International Theological Institute, Trumau, Austria. October 17, 2024 
• Cornell Summer Colloquium in Medieval Philosophy, June 2-4, 2021  
•  Lecture, Christianity and Islam in the Song of El Cid. A lecture given to the Department of Spanish Language Studies at Compton College, Compton, CA, 7/9/2019 
•  Lecture Series, How Athens Became a Suburb of Jerusalem: Greek Philosophy and the Early Church, given at Blessed John Henry Newman Catholic Church, 6/17-8/12, 2018 
•  47th International Medieval Congress, University of Michigan, Kalamazoo (5/10/12-5/13/12) Paper presented: Nitria and Sitria, A Tale of Two “Deserts”: The Egyptian Desert and Peter Damian’s Vita Sancti Romualdi 
•  46th International Medieval Congress, University of Michigan, Kalamazoo. (5/12/11-5/15/11) Paper presented: “’All the more reason to take up residence there, since the devil haunts it’: The Bishop as Ascetic Struggler in Saint Gregory the Great’s Dialogues 
•  44th International Medieval Congress, University of Michigan, Kalamazoo (5/10/09). Paper presented: “Odo of Cluny’s Vita Geraldi: A Monastic Life?” for session “Monastic Life and Monastic Lives.” 
•  43rd International Medieval Congress, University of Michigan, Kalamazoo (5/8/08-5/11/08) 
•  42nd International Medieval Congress, Univeristy of Michigan, Kalamazoo (5/11/07-5/14/07) 
•  Christians in the Visual Arts (CIVA) Conference, Biola University, 3/96 Paper: “Image and Incarnation in Athanasius, Cyril of Alexandria, and Maximus the Confessor: Their Contributions to the Theology of the Icon” 
•  Phi Alpha Theta Conference, California State University, Fullerton, 4/13/91 Paper: “Joachimism and the Rise of Franciscan Spirituality, 1250-1300” 

Awards and Honors