Michael Krom, PhD
Books
Justice and Charity: An Introduction to Aquinas’s Moral, Economic, and Political Thought Baker Academic Press (July, 2020)
The Limits of Reason in the Hobbesian Commonwealth Continuum Press (December, 2011)
Refereed Publications
“Newman Against and For the Idea of a Benedictine College” Newman Studies Journal 21.2 (2024): 89-110
“The Footsteps of St. Benedict: Listening to God in the Great Outdoors” American Benedictine Review 73.3 (2022): 250-270
“Orestes Brownson For and Against America” Catholic Social Science Review 26 (2021): 89-98
“Archbishop Anselm, Benedictine Spirituality, and the Challenge of Worldly Wealth” The Saint Anselm Journal 15.2 (2020): 83-95
“Civic Virtue: Aquinas on Piety, Observance, and Religion” Proceedings of the American Catholic Philosophical Association 88 (2014): 145-153
“Modeling the Dialogue between Science, Philosophy, and Religion: Aquinas on the Origins and Development of the Universe” Proceedings of the American Catholic Philosophical Association 85 (2011): 201-212
“Gladly to Learn: Teaching Newman’s The Idea of a University” Newman Studies Journal 8.1 (2011): 20-26
“Transcendence and Human Freedom: Modernity and the Right to Truth” Catholic Social Science Review 15 (2010): 1-21
“The Transformation of Pride: St. Augustine and the Limits of Pagan Philosophy” Faith & Reason 33 (2008): 29-42
“Vain Philosophy, the Schools, and Civil Philosophy” Hobbes Studies 20 (2007): 93-119
“The Relevance of Contemplation: Aristotle on the Philosopher and the Common Good” Philosophy in the Contemporary World 14.2 (November, 2007): 30-38
“Modern Liberalism and Pride: An Augustinian Perspective” Journal of Religious Ethics 35.3 (September, 2007): 453-478
“Intellectual Witnessing: Anselm of Canterbury and the Relationship between the Proofs for the Existence of God and Conversion” Edith Whitehurst Williams Prize Medieval Perspectives 19 (2006): 231-254
Book Chapters
“Cheers by Command of the Sovereign: A Hobbesian Approach to Alcohol,” in Hobbesian Applied Ethics & Public Policy, ed. Shane Courtland (New York: Routledge, 2017), 144-160
“Contemplation in America? Maritainian Reflections on Life in the New World,” in Human Nature, Contemplation & the Political Order, ed. Peter Karl Koritansky (Washington, D.C.: Catholic University of America Press, 2013), 216-231
Encyclopedia Entrees
The Bloomsbury Companion to Hobbes. Edited by S.A. Lloyd. New York: Bloomsbury Academic (2015) Entry: passions
Encyclopedia of Catholic Social Thought, Social Science, and Social Policy. Edited by Michael L. Coulter, Stephen M. Krason, Richard S. Myers, and Joseph A. Varacelli. Lanhan, Mass.: Scarecrow Press (2007) Entries: Jean Bodin, John Rawls
Online Journals
“Petrarch, Nina William, and Mountain Modernity” Genealogies of Modernity (Nov. 16, 2023)
“Petrarch’s Augustinian View from Mont Ventoux” Genealogies of Modernity (Oct. 11, 2022)
Non-refereed Publications
“Iluminar discusiones de hoy con verdades eternas: La relevancia perenne de santo Tomás de Aquino” Revista Suroeste Edición especial Santo Tomás de Aquino (Marzo 2025): 46-47 Translation by Revista Suroeste editors
“The Learning Seminar as Journey through Ways of Knowing under the Guidance of our Catholic, Benedictine, and Liberal Arts Mission” Conversatio 3 (2023): 81-91 Introduction to Jacques Maritain, Man’s Approach to God, ed. Rene Kollar, O.S.B. (Latrobe, Penn.: Saint Vincent Archabbey Publications, 2011), 9-13
“Working toward Leisure: A Criticism of a Most Modern Malaise” Homiletic & Pastoral Review (July 2008)
