Jared Ortiz joined 快猫短视频 in 2012. He teaches Catholic theology in the Department of Religion and is founder and executive director of the Saint Benedict Institute, the Catholic spiritual and intellectual center that serves 快猫短视频.

Dr. Ortiz teaches courses on the mysteries of Christianity, church history, Catholicism, the theology of the human person and early Christianity. He recently co-authored a commentary on the Nicene Creed and is researching Augustine鈥檚 City of God.

Areas of expertise

Dr. Ortiz specializes in early Christian theology, especially St. Augustine. He has scholarly interests in liturgy, Patristic theology and disability.

Education

• Ph.D., historical theology, The Catholic University of America, 2012
• M.A., historical and systematic theology, The Catholic University of America, 2009
• M.A., liberal arts, St. John鈥檚 College, 2005
• B.A., fundamentals: issues and texts, University of Chicago, 2000

Honors, grants and awards

• Jacob E. Nyenhuis Individual Faculty Research Grant for 鈥淐ommentary on the Nicene Creed,鈥� 快猫短视频, 2021
• Commencement Speaker, selected by 快猫短视频 graduating class, 2020 (address delivered May 2021)
• Hope Outstanding Professor Educator (H.O.P.E.) Award, selected by the 快猫短视频 graduating class, 2020
• Jacob E. Nyenhuis Student/Faculty Collaborative Research Grant for 鈥淪ex in the City of God,鈥� a faculty-student collaborative project 快猫短视频, 2020

Selected publications

• The Nicene Creed: A Scriptural, Historical, and Theological Commentary, co-authored with Daniel Keating, Baker Academic (forthcoming April 2024)
• With All theFullness of God: Deification in Christian Tradition, editor, Lexington Press/Fortress Academic, 2021
• 鈥�Intellectual Disability and the Sabbath Structure of the Human Person,鈥� in Evil and Creation: Historical and Constructive Essays in Christian Dogmatics, edited by George Kalantzis, Matthew Levering and David Luy, Lexham Press, 2020
• Deification in the Latin Patristic Tradition, editor, The Catholic University of America Press, 2019
• 鈥淵ou Made Us for Yourself鈥�: Creation in St. Augustine鈥檚 Confessions, Fortress Press, 2016
• 鈥淐reation in the Confessions鈥� in St. Augustine, The Confessions: Ignatius Critical Editions, 2016
• 鈥淒eification in the Latin Fathers,鈥� in Called To Be Children of God: Deification in the Catholic Tradition, edited by Fr. David Meconi, S.J. and Carl E. Olson, Ignatius Press, 2016
• 鈥淭he Deep Grammar of Augustine鈥檚 Conversion,鈥� in Studia Patristica vol. 70, 2013

Popular Articles

• 鈥�Education for Eternity,鈥�&苍产蝉辫;Catholic World Report, May 29, 2021 (slightly revised 快猫短视频 Commencement address)
• 鈥�Why and how to read Augustine鈥檚 Confessions,鈥�&苍产蝉辫;Catholic World Report, February 6, 2021 (on the spiritual value of reading the Confessions and tips for approaching it)
• 鈥�What translation of Augustine鈥檚 Confessions should I read?鈥�&苍产蝉辫;Catholic World Report, January 25, 2021 (on eight good translations of the Confessions)
• 鈥�Augustine on True Worship and the Ecclesial Heart,鈥�&苍产蝉辫;Catholic World Report, February 18, 2020 (on Augustine鈥檚 rich and integral understanding of worship)
• 鈥�Augustine, Consolation after Rape, and the Reshaping of Society,鈥�&苍产蝉辫;Catholic World Report, November 25, 2019 (on Augustine鈥檚 reconceiving rape and reshaping the values of Christian Roman society)
• 鈥�Saint Augustine Contra Suicide,鈥� Catholic World Report, September 29, 2019 (on Augustine鈥檚 arguments against suicide)
• 鈥�Spectacles for the People,鈥� Catholic World Report, August 25, 2019 (on sexual confusion, the coercion of conscience, and how Augustine teaches us to respond)
• 鈥�Sex in the Garden,鈥� Catholic World Report, August 5, 2019 (on Augustine鈥檚 view of sex)

Outside the College