Assistant Professor, Theology and Franciscan Studies

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• THFS 101. The Way of Francis and Clare
• THFS 252. Christian Spirituality
• THFS 498. Seminar in Theology
  
   

• Ph.D. in Historical & Systematic Theology, The Catholic University of America, 2018
• M.A., Medieval Studies,The Catholic University of America, 2010
• M.A., Christian Thought, Gordon Conwell Theological Seminary, 2007
• B.A., Bible & Religion, Montreat College, 2002

• Diploma in Manuscript Studies, The Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, 2023

Dr. Gies  came to SBU in 2019 as a research postdoctoral fellow for the Department of Theology & Franciscan Studies and the Franciscan Institute, and became a regular member of the department in 2021. He is Associate Editor of Franciscan Studies, the Franciscan Institute’s academic journal. He is also a research fellow of the Collegio San Bonaventura/Frati editori di Quaracchi (Rome). Beyond the academy, he gardens, bikes, helps out at his wife’s veterinary clinic, and serves as a cantor in his parish.

Publications

• Aaron Gies, ed. Trust: Franciscan Connections in Theology, Spirituality, Economics and Beyond (St. Bonaventure, NY: Franciscan Institute, forthcoming 2024).
• Alexander of Hales, Gloss on the Sentences of Peter Lombard, Vol. 1, On Divine Unity and Trinity, Part One: Book One, Distinctions 1–18. English translation by Aaron Gies based on a translation by Roland Teske. Dallas Medieval Texts and Translations 30:1. Louvain: Peeters. (forthcoming 2024) 
• Alexander of Hales: On the Significations and Exposition of the Holy Scriptures. Introduction and English translation by Aaron Gies. St. Bonaventure, NY: Franciscan Institute, 2018.
• "Divisit lucem a tenebris: Primary Conversion in Early Franciscan Theology." Moral Conversion in the Franciscan Tradition, edited by Krijn Pansters. (Berlin: De Gruyter, 2024).
• "Medieval Images of Alexander of Hales." Early Thirteenth-Century English Franciscan Thought, edited by Lydia Schumacher. Studien und Texte zur Geistesgeschichte des Mittelalters. Leiden: Brill (Berlin: De Gruyter, 2021).
• "A New Source for Alexander of Hales: Anselm of Laon, Glosae super Iohannem." Archivum Franciscanum Historicum 113.3–4 (2020): 587–609. 

Theology and scripture in the early Franciscan tradition, Latin manuscript studies, currently working on a critical edition of Alexander of Hales (d. 1245), commentary on the Gospel of John.

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