Dr. Andrew Swafford

Dr. Andrew Swafford is Professor of Theology at Benedictine College. He is a national speaker on a variety of topics and co-author of A Catholic Guide to the Old Testament, Gift and Grit: How Heroic Virtue Can Change Your Life and Relationships (with his wife Sarah), and What We Believe: The Beauty of the Catholic Faith (with Marcellino D’Ambrosio) and co-host of Ascension’s video series filmed in Rome under the same title. He is general editor and contributor to Ascension’s Great Adventure Catholic Bible. Among his other publications are Ascension’s Bible studies on Romans and Hebrews, Spiritual Survival in the Modern World, and John Paul II to Aristotle and Back Again. Andrew holds a doctorate in Sacred Theology from the University of St. Mary of the Lake and a master’s degree in Old Testament & Semitic Languages from Trinity Evangelical Divinity School. He is an avid student of Brazilian Jiu Jitsu and lives with his wife Sarah and their six children in Atchison, KS. You can connect with Dr. Swafford on Twitter @andrew_swafford or on the website he shares with his wife: theswaffords.com.

CLASSES REGULARLY TAUGHT

THEO-1100 Intro to Theology

THEO-2000 Christian Moral Life

THEO-2100 Old Testament I (Pentateuch)

THEO-3100 Old Testament II (Wisdom)

THEO-3110 Old Testament III (Prophets)

THEO-2150 New Testament I (Synoptic Gospels)

EVCA-3200 Divine Pedagogy (Catechesis in Scripture)

EVCA-3400 Papacy and the New Evangelization

Special Topics Classes

Developing a Catholic Theology and Philosophy of Sex and Gender

Historical Jesus & Christian Origins

Nature & Grace

Developments in Catholic Biblical Scholarship

St. John Paul II

Biblical Hebrew

EDUCATION

BA in Philosophy, Benedictine College (2004)

BA in Religious Studies, Benedictine College (2004)

Licentiate in Sacred Theology (S.T.L.), University of St. Mary of the Lake (May 2007)

M.A. in Old Testament and Semitic Languages, Trinity Evangelical Divinity School (2009)

Doctorate in Sacred Theology (S.T.D.), University of St. Mary of the Lake (2012)

AREAS OF SPECIALIZATION

Biblical Theology (Old and New Testaments)

Nature & Grace, Matthias J. Scheeben

Thomistic-Aristotelian Thought

John Paul II

SELECT PUBLICATIONS

Video Series

"What We Believe: The Beauty of the Catholic Faith." Ten-part series, with Marcellino D'Ambrosio and Sarah Swafford. Ascension Press, 2022.

Contributor to "Venture: The Bible Timeline for Highschool." Ascension Press, 2022.

"Sacred Scripture, Salvation History, and the Mass." Five-part series. Liturgical Institute, 2021.

“Hebrews: The New and Eternal Covenant.” Eight-part series, with Jeff Cavins. Ascension Press, 2020.

“Romans: The Gospel of Salvation.” Eight-part series, with Jeff Cavins. Ascension Press, 2019.

Books

A Catholic Guide to the Old Testament (with Jeff Cavins, Jeff Morrow, and Biff Rocha). West Chester, PA: Ascension, 2023.

Gift and Grit: How Heroic Virtue Can Change Your Life (with Sarah Swafford). West Chester, PA: Ascension, 2023.

What We Believe: The Beauty of the Catholic Faith (with Marcellino D'Ambrosio). West Chester, PA: Ascension, 2022.

Hebrews: The New and Eternal Covenant. West Chester, PA: Ascension, 2020 (companion book to eight-part DVD series).

Romans: Gospel of Salvation. West Chester, PA: Ascension, 2019 (companion book to eight-part DVD series).

General editor and contributor (with Mary Healy, Peter Williamson, and Jeff Cavins), The Great Adventure Catholic Bible. West Chester, PA: Ascension, 2018.

Spiritual Survival in the Modern World: Insights from C.S. Lewis’ Screwtape Letters (Eugene, OR: Wipf and Stock, 2016).

John Paul II to Aristotle and Back Again: A Christian Philosophy of Life (Eugene, OR: Wipf and Stock, 2015).

Nature and Grace: A New Approach to Thomistic Ressourcement (Eugene, OR: Pickwick, 2014).