Dr. Gerald H. Malsbary

Adjunct Instructor

 

 

Assistant Professor, Department of Humanities and Science, College Division, St. Charles Seminary

 

Chronology

1991-Present                   Assistant Professor, Classics and Philosophy, Saint Charles Borromeo Seminary

1998-Present                   Adjunct Professor, Villanova University

1993-Present                   Adjunct Professor, Neumann College

Aug. 1989-July 1991       Lexicographer (Research and Editorial Associate), Thesaurus Linguae Latinae, Bavarian Academy of Sciences in Munich, Germany

Sept. 1987-June 1989     Assistant Professor of Classics and Humanities, St. Michael’s College, Winooski, Vermont

 

Core Courses Taught

GRK    301      Elementary Greek I

GRK    302      Elementary Greek II

GRK    401      Greek New Testament Readings

GRK    507      Biblical Greek

LAT     203      Elementary Latin I

LAT     204      Elementary Latin II

LAT     303      Intermediate Latin I

LAT     304      Intermediate Latin II

LAT     507      Ecclesiastical Latin

PHL     305      Ancient Philosophy

PHL     513      Ancient and Medieval Philosophy

 

 

Education

Ph.D.         University of Toronto in Medieval Studies (1988)

M.A.          University of California at Berkeley in Greek (1976)

B.A.           University of California at Berkeley in Classical Studies (1974)

 

 

Membership in Professional Associations

American Philological Association (1985-Present)

North American Association of Medieval Latin (1991-Present)

American Classical League (1985-Present)

International Commission for English in the Liturgy (I.C.E.L.), Team Member since December 2003

 

 

Published Books (as Translator)

Gian Carlo Ghirardi, Sneaking a Look at God’s Cards [a translation of Un’ Occhiata alle Carte di Dio, Milan, 1997], Princeton University Press, 2003

Martin Rhonheimer, Natural Law and Practical Reason: A Thomist View of Moral Autonomy [a translation of Natur als Grundlage der Moral, Innsbruck, 1987; 420 pp], Fordham University Press, 2000

Joseph Pieper, Leisure the Basis of Culture [a new translation of Musse und Kult and Der Philosophische Akt, 1948] St. Augustine’s Press, 1998

Vittorio Messori, Opus Dei: Leadership and Vision in Today’s Catholic Church, [a translation of Opus Dei: Un Indagine, Arnoldo Mondadori, Milan, 1994], Regnery Press (Washington, D.C.: 1997)

Alvaro del Portillo, Immersed in God [a translation of Intervista sul fondatore dell’ Opus Dei, a cura de Cesare Cavalleri; Milan, 1992], Scepter Press, 1996

 

 

Published Articles

“Pietas and The Origins of Western Culture,” Logos (Spring 2001, pp. 97-116)

“Classics as One Part of A Larger Whole,” American Classical League Newsletter (Winter 2000, pp 27-33).

Thesaurus Linguae Latinae, articles (in four different fascicles) on peculatus, pelagus (1992-93), pelvis, pensare (1993-94), perendie (1995) etc.

“Vergilian Elements of Christian Poetic Language: the Adaptations of Vergil’s Aeneid 2, 6 by Paulinus of Nola, Paulinus of Pella, and Paulinus of Périgueux,” in Eulogia (Melanges offerts à Antoon A. R. Bastiaensen), Instrumenta Patristica XXIV (The Hague, 1991) 175-182.

“Candidatus, -us in Tertullian and Sulpicius Severus,” Museum Helveticum 47 (1990) 222-225.

“Epic Exegesis and the Use of Vergil in the Early Biblical Poets,” Florilegium 7 (1985) 55-83.

 

 

Recent Talks and Presentations

Neumann College, “Conversations” Series, Feb. 18, 2003 (Aston, PA), “The Modern Church in the Ancient World: an Illustrated Lecture” (Power Point presentation).

University of St. Thomas, April 2001 (St. Paul, MN), The Stephen J. Kostick Memorial Lecture: “Josef Pieper’s Leisure the Basis of Culture: A Spirituality of the Liberal Arts.”

International Studies Institute Conference on Matthew Arnold’s Culture and Anarchy, Boise Idaho, August 10, 2000, “Joseph Pieper’s Leisure the Basis of Culture and Matthew Arnold’s Culture and Anarchy: Some Reflections on Education and Modern Society”

University of Dallas, Phi Beta Kappa Initiation, May 18, 2000, “The Ancient Culture of Competition”

American Philological Association Annual Convention, December 28, 1999, “Classics as One Part of a Larger Whole”

Faith and Culture Seminar, Eichstaett, Bavaria, July 9, 1999: “Pietas in Ancient Classical and Christian Culture”

La Salle University, Philadelphia, October 22, 1998: “Why Thomas Aquinas Today”

PMR Conference, Philadelphia, October 9, 1998: “Anselm’s Proslogion and St. Thomas”

Faith and Culture Seminar, Eichstaett, Bavaria, July 5, 1998: “Paterfamilias in Classical and Christian Antiquity”

Princeton, New Jersey, May-October, 1998: Series of Four Talks on Ethics and Metaphysics

 

 

Other

Article Translated from German

Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger, “The Ministry and Life of Priests,” Homiletic and Pastoral Review (August-September 1997) 7-18, -co-translated with Father Edward Maristany]

Videotaped Lecture

Christian Latin Epics of Late Antiquity (presented September, 2001: available through the International Institute for Culture (www.iiculture.org).