Robert Dodaro

{{Short description|American theologist}} {{Use dmy dates|date=July 2025}} '''Robert John Dodaro''', OSA is an American academic. He is a specialist in the writings of St Augustine of Hippo.

He was born in Pittsburgh to Margaret and William Dodaro.<ref>{{Cite news |date=2005-08-29 |title=Obituary for "Bill" CHAEFER, Dodaro |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-arizona-republic-obituary-for-bill/177298546/ |access-date=2025-07-23 |work=The Arizona Republic |pages=19}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |date=2012-12-20 |title=Obituary for Margaret Dodaro |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-arizona-republic-obituary-for-margar/177298578/ |access-date=2025-07-23 |work=The Arizona Republic |pages=B5}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=romenomen |date=2016-01-26 |title=Augustinian Professor Robert Dodaro: St. Augustine is less appreciated in the East, but he is rightly on the top in the West |url=https://romenomen.wordpress.com/2016/01/26/augustinian-professor-robert-dodaro-st-augustin-is-less-appreciated-in-the-east-but-he-is-rightly-on-the-top-in-the-west/ |access-date=2025-07-23 |website=Romen omen |language=en}}</ref>

As a high school seminarian, Dodaro attended St. Augustine Seminary High School, where he met and befriended fellow student Robert Francis Prevost, the future Pope Leo XIV. In the school, the two were known as "the two Bobs."<ref name="Horowitz, Bosman, Dias, Graham, Romero & Taj 2025">{{cite news |last1=Horowitz |first1=Jason |last2=Bosman |first2=Julie |last3=Dias |first3=Elizabeth |last4=Graham |first4=Ruth |last5=Romero |first5=Simon |last6=Taj |first6=Mitra |title=Long Drives and Short Homilies: How Father Bob Became Pope Leo |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/17/world/europe/robert-prevost-pope-leo-xiv.html |access-date=May 17, 2025 |work=The New York Times |date=May 17, 2025 |url-access=registration}}</ref>

Until 2016 he served as the President of the Patristic Institute Augustinianum in Rome, and until 2018 was on the faculty as a Professor of Theology.<ref>{{cite web | url = http://www.patristicum.org/it/structure-of-studies/professors?highlight=WyJkb2Rhcm8iXQ== | access-date = 20 February 2017 | title = Docenti | publisher = Institutum Patristicum Augustinianum | language = Italian}}</ref> He was also a Professor of Patristic theology at the Pontifical Lateran University.

He also serves as the Co-Editor-in-Chief of the ''Augustinus-Lexikon'', a Visitor of Ralston College,<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.ralston.ac/people/robert-j-dodaro|title=Robert Dodaro | Ralston College|website=www.ralston.ac}}</ref> and on the Editorial Advisory Council of ''Dionysius''.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://ojs.library.dal.ca/dionysius/about/editorialTeam|title=Editorial Team | Dionysius|website=ojs.library.dal.ca}}</ref> His ''Christ and the Just Society in the Thought of Augustine'' was published by Cambridge University Press in 2004,<ref>{{Cite web |title=Christ and the Just Society in the Thought of Augustine|url=https://www.cambridge.org/gb/universitypress/subjects/religion/theology/christ-and-just-society-thought-augustine|publisher=Cambridge University Press}}</ref> and he was a Co-Editor of ''Augustine: Political Writings'', a collection of letters and sermons by Augustine that deal with political matters,<ref>{{Cite web |title=Augustine: Political Writings|url=https://www.cambridge.org/gb/universitypress/subjects/politics-international-relations/texts-political-thought/augustine-political-writings|publisher=Cambridge University Press}}</ref> and also of ''Augustine and His Critics'', a collection of essays in honour of Gerald Bonner.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Augustine and his Critics|url=http://www.routledge.com/Augustine-and-his-Critics/Dodaro-Lawless/p/book/9780415200639|publisher=Routledge}}</ref>

Pope Francis named him a member of the Study Commission on the Women's Diaconate on 2 August 2016.<ref>{{cite news|last1=Joshua J. McElwee|title=Francis institutes commission to study female deacons, appointing gender-balanced membership|url=https://www.ncronline.org/news/vatican/francis-institutes-commission-study-female-deacons-appointing-gender-balanced|accessdate=4 August 2016|work=National Catholic Reporter|date=2 August 2016}}</ref>

==References== {{Reflist}}

==External links== * [http://www.patristicum.org/ Institutum Patristicum Augustinianum] * [https://www.catholic.org/featured/headline.php?ID=5200 A Turn to the Fathers: An Interview with Fr Robert Dodaro] * [https://ignatius.com/remaining-in-the-truth-of-christ-digital-rtce/ Remaining in the Truth of Christ] * [https://books.google.com/books/about/Light_from_Light.html?id=5bFBbWtAn-gC&source=kp_book_description Light from Light: Scientists and Theologians in Dialogue] * [https://soundcloud.com/thomisticinstitute/saint-augustines-revision-of-the-heroic-ideal-i-father-robert-dodaro-osa Saint Augustine's Revision of the Heroic Ideal] * [https://www.pdcnet.org/augstudies/content/augstudies_2005_0036_0001_0141_0158 Augustine's Revision of the Heroic Ideal] * [https://www.pdcnet.org/augstudies/content/augstudies_2003_0034_0001_0083_0096 The Secret Justice of God and the Gift of Humility] * [https://www.pdcnet.org/augstudies/content/augstudies_2014_0045_0001_0001_0028 Language Matters: Augustine's Use of Literary Decorum in Theological Argument] * [https://www.pdcnet.org/augstudies/content/augstudies_1995_0026_0002_0135_0142 Beauty and Revelation] * [https://www.pdcnet.org/augstudies/content/augstudies_2007_0038_0001_0163_0174 Augustine on the Incarnation as Criterion for Orthodoxy] * [https://www.pdcnet.org/augstudies/content/augstudies_2010_0041_0001_0145_0163 Augustine on the Roles of Christ and the Holy Spirit in the Mediation of Virtues] * [https://www.pdcnet.org/agstm/content/agstm_2004_0044_0001_0135_0144 Augustine, The Pelagian Controversy, and the Paul of Romans 7:7-25] * [https://www.pdcnet.org/agstm/content/agstm_2000_0040_0001_0187_0202 Note on the Carthaginian Debate Over Sinlessness, A.D. 411-412] * [https://www.pdcnet.org/agstm/content/agstm_1993_0033_0001_0101_0135 Christus Sacerdos: Augustine's Polemic Against Roman Pagan Priesthoods in De Ciuitate Dei] * [https://www.pdcnet.org/augstudies/content/augstudies_1994_0025_0000_0077_0138 Eloquent Lies, Just Wars and the Politics of Persuasion: Reading Augustine's City of God in a ‘Postmodern’ World]

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