The Rev. Walter Hannam
Position
Adjunct Professor, Ecclesiastical Faculty of Theology
EDUCATION
B.A.(University of King’s College); M.A. (Dalhousie); PhD (Boston College)
AREAS OF SPECIALISATION
•Patristic Philosophy and Theology
•Mediaeval Augustinianisms
•Mediaeval Platonism
•Mediaeval Interpreters of Aristotle
BIOGRAPHY
Fr. Walter Hannam is a priest of the Anglican Diocese of Toronto and was ordained both deacon and priest in the Diocese of Saskatchewan. After studies in classical languages, and classical, patristic, and mediaeval philosophy at King’s and Dalhousie, he completed his PhD in Historical Theology (Mediaeval) through the Theology Department at Boston College. He taught dogmatic, historical, ascetical, and moral theology, as well as Anglican history and theology at the College of Emmanuel & St Chad in Saskatoon for seven years before moving to Toronto. Besides his teaching at St Augustine’s he is an Associate Professor (status only) of the Centre for Medieval Studies of the University of Toronto and the Book Reviews Editor in Historical Theology for the Anglican Theological Review. Fr Hannam is the Vicar of St Bartholomew’s Anglican Church in Regent Park and an Associate Priest of St James Cathedral.
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
“Honorius Augustodunensis,” in Willemien Otten, et al., eds., The Oxford Guide to the Historical Reception of Augustine (OGHRA) (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013).
“The Structure and Purpose of Book VIII of Augustine’s De trinitate,” in J. Baun, A. Cameron, M. Edwards, and M. Vinzent, eds., Studia Patristica, vol. 49 (Peeters: Leuven, 2010), pp. 279-85.
“The Soul’s Renovation in Augustine’s Confessions,” in Susan Harris and Daniel Wilband, eds., Christian Psychology: The Formation of Souls, Proceedings of the 28th Annual Atlantic Theological Conference, June 24th to 27th, 2008 (Charlottetown: St Peter, 2009), pp. 57-85.
Divine Creation in Ancient, Medieval, and Early Modern Thought: Essays presented to the Rev’d Dr Robert D. Crouse. Co-Edited with Willemien Otten and Michael Treschow. Brill’s Studies in Intellectual History 151. Leiden: E.J. Brill, 2007.
“Ad illud ubi permanendum est: The Metaphysics of St Augustine’s usus-fruitio Distinction in De doctrina christiana, I,” in M.F. Wiles and E.J. Yarnold, eds., Studia Patristica, vol. 38 (Peeters: Leuven, 2000), pp. 169-173.