Academic Faculty

Dr. Jared Isaac Goff is professor of philosophical theology at the College of St. Joseph the Worker in Steubenville, Ohio and professor of dogmatic theology at Ss. Cyril & Methodius Byzantine Catholic Seminary in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, as well as, an adjunct instructor in theology at the Franciscan School of Theology (University of San Diego). He received his Ph.D. in Historical Theology from Saint Louis University in 2013.

He is the author of Caritas in Primo: A Study of Bonaventure’s Disputed Questions on the Mystery of the Trinity (2015), an editor of The Theologian of Auschwitz: St. Maximilian M. Kolbe on the Immaculate Conception in the Life of the Church (2020), and co-editor of A Companion to Bonaventure (2014) and The Spirit and the Church: Peter Damian Fehlner’s Franciscan Development of Vatican II on the Themes of the Holy Spirit, Mary, and the Church—Festschrift (2018). He recently completed an English translation with Wayne Hellman of Bonaventure’s Sentence Commentary writings on the theological virtues and finished editing the eight-volume Collected Essays of Peter Damian Fehlner, O.F.M. Conv. He recently submitted for publication a book on the theology of creation.

Doctorate of Philosophy, Historical Theology, Saint Louis University, 2013
MA, Philosophy (concentration in Thomistic Ethics), Holy Apostles College and Seminary, 2008
MA, Theology, Mount Angel Seminary, 2007
Bachelor of Science, Health Sciences (Pre-Med), Corban University, 2003

Monographs

Goff, J. Isaac. Caritas in Primo: A Study of Bonaventure’s Disputed Questions on the Mystery of the Trinity. Academy of the Immaculate, 2015.

Goff, J. Isaac with Gideon Lazar. Jesus Christ the Eternal Priest of Creation: Exploring the Theology of Creation. Forthcoming 2025.

Edited Volumes

Goff, J. Isaac, editor. Peter Damian Fehlner, Marian Metaphysics: The Collected Essays of Peter Damian Fehlner, OFM Conv., vol. 1. Eugene: Wipf & Stock, 2023.

Goff, J. Isaac, editor. Peter Damian Fehlner, Systematic Mariology: The Collected Essays of Peter Damian Fehlner, OFM Conv., vol. 2. Eugene: Wipf & Stock, 2023.

Goff, J. Isaac, editor. Peter Damian Fehlner, Franciscan Mariology–Francis, Clare, and Bonaventure: The Collected Essays of Peter Damian Fehlner, OFM Conv., vol. 3. Eugene: Wipf & Stock, 2023.

Goff, J. Isaac, editor. Peter Damian Fehlner, Bonaventure, John Duns Scotus, and the Franciscan Tradition: The Collected Essays of Peter Damian Fehlner, OFM Conv., vol. 4. Eugene: Wipf & Stock, 2023.

Goff, J. Isaac, editor. Peter Damian Fehlner, Ecclesiology and the Franciscan Charism: The Collected Essays of Peter Damian Fehlner, OFM Conv., vol. 5. Eugene: Wipf & Stock, 2023.

Goff, J. Isaac, editor. Peter Damian Fehlner, St. Maximilian Kolbe: The Collected Essays of Peter Damian Fehlner, OFM Conv., vol. 6. Eugene: Wipf & Stock, 2023.

Goff, J. Isaac, editor. Peter Damian Fehlner, Theology of Creation: The Collected Essays of Peter Damian Fehlner, OFM Conv., vol. 7. Eugene: Wipf & Stock, 2023.

Goff, J. Isaac, editor. Peter Damian Fehlner, Studies Systematic and Critical: The Collected Essays of Peter Damian Fehlner, OFM Conv., vol. 8. Eugene: Wipf & Stock, 2023.

Goff, J. Isaac, editor. Peter Damian Fehlner, The Theologian of Auschwitz: St. Maximilian Kolbe on the Immaculate Conception in the Life of the Church. Hobe Sound. FL: Lectio, 2019.

Goff, J. Isaac, with Christiaan W. Kappes and Edward J. Ondrako. The Spirit and the Church: Peter Damian Fehlner’s Development of Vatican II on the Themes of the Holy Spirit, Mary, and the Church. Eugene: Wipf & Stock, 2018.

Goff, Jared, with J.A. Wayne Hellmann and Jay M. Hammond. Companion to Bonaventure. Leiden: Brill, 2014.

Peer-Reviewed Journals

“The Christology of Bl. John Duns Scotus,” In Religions special issue, Christology: Christian Writings and Reflections of Theologians (forthcoming, 2024).

With Christiaan W. Kappes and T. Alexander Giltner. “Palamas among the Scholastics: A Review Essay Discussing D. Bradshaw, C. Athanasopoulos, C. Schneider et al., Divine Essence and Divine Energies: Ecumenical Reflections on the Presence of God in Eastern Orthodoxy (Cambridge: James and Clarke, 2013),” Logos: A Journal of Eastern Christian Studies 55: (2014), 175-220.

Articles in Edited Volumes

“I Am the Immaculate Conception: Person Causality and the ‘Critical Question’ in the ‘Marian Metaphysics’ of Peter Damian Fehlner, OFM Conv.” Forthcoming in The Sedes Sapientiae: Roots, Prospects, and Fruits of Philosophizing in Mary. Edited by Michael Bauwens and Joseph Terry.

“‘Mulier Amicta Sole’: Bonaventure’s Preaching on the Marian Mode of the Incarnation and Marian Mediation in His Sermons on the Annunciation.” In Medieval Franciscan Approaches to the Virgin Mary: Mater Misericordiae Sanctissima et Dolorosa, Medieval Franciscans Series Vol. 16, edited by Steven J. McMichael and Katherine Wrisley Shelby, 53-83. Leiden: Brill, 2019.

“Themes and Soundings in the Marian Metaphysics of Peter Damian Fehlner.” In The Spirit and the Church: Peter Damian Fehlner’s Franciscan Development of Vatican II on the Themes of The Holy Spirit, Mary, and the Church: Festschrift, 113-123. Eugene: Wipf & Stock, 2018.

“Divine Infinity in Bonaventure’s Disputed Questions on the Mystery of the Trinity.” In Ordo et Sanctitas: The Franciscan Spiritual Journey in Theology and Hagiography: Essays in Honor of J.A. Wayne Hellmann O.F.M. Conv, in Medieval Franciscans Series Vol. 15, edited by Michael C. Cusato, Timothy J. Johnson and Steven J. McMichael, 185-195. Brill, 2017.

“On the Trinity of God,” in Bonaventure Revisited: Companion to the Breviloquium, edited by Dominic V. Monti and Katherine Wrisley Shelby, 97-140. Franciscan Institute Publications, 2017.

Translations

With J.A. Wayne Hellmann. Bonaventure on the Theological Virtues: Bonaventure Texts in Translation Series. In press, St. Bonaventure: Franciscan Institute, 2024.

Peter Damian Fehlner, Tractatus de Gratia (1967). In progress.

Book Reviews

Austen, Amy M., and Mark D. Johnston. A Companion to Ramon Llull and Lullism. Leiden: Brill, 2019 — Franciscan Studies 77 (2021): 284-286.

Other

“The Importance of St. Anselm of Canterbury for Scotus’ Defense of the Immaculate Conception.” Missio Immaculatae 10.4: (2014), 11-19.