Dr. Andrew Swafford

Andrew Swafford is professor of theology at Benedictine College. He is the author of Lunatic, Liar, or Lord: Unveiling the Truth of Catholicism with C.S. Lewis’s Mere Christianity.and coauthor of A Catholic Guide to the Old Testament and A Catholic Guide to the New Testament. With his wife, Sarah Swafford, he is coauthor of Gift and Grit: How Heroic Virtue Can Change Your Life and Relationships. He also coauthored What We Believe: The Beauty of the Catholic Faith with Marcellino D’Ambrosio.

Swafford holds a doctorate in sacred theology from the University of St. Mary of the Lake and a master’s degree in Old Testament and Semitic languages from Trinity Evangelical Divinity School. He has spoken at numerous conferences, including the National Catholic Youth Conference (NCYC), the National Eucharistic Congress, the Renew Toronto Young Adult Conference, and Defending the Faith Conference in Steubenville, Ohio. He has also been featured on Fox News and Chris Cuomo’s News Nation.

He is a general editor and contributor to Ascension’s Great Adventure Catholic Bible and host of several Ascension’s studies, including Romans: The Gospel of Salvation and Hebrews: The New and Eternal Covenant. An avid student of Brazilian jiu-jitsu, he and his wife live in Atchison, Kansas with their six children.

Andrew Swafford is professor of theology at Benedictine College. He is the author of Lunatic, Liar, or Lord: Unveiling the Truth of Catholicism with C.S. Lewis’s Mere Christianity.and coauthor of A Catholic Guide to the Old Testament and A Catholic Guide to the New Testament. With his wife, Sarah Swafford, he is coauthor of Gift and Grit: How Heroic Virtue Can Change Your Life and Relationships. He also coauthored What We Believe: The Beauty of the Catholic Faith with Marcellino D’Ambrosio.

Swafford holds a doctorate in sacred theology from the University of St. Mary of the Lake and a master’s degree in Old Testament and Semitic languages from Trinity Evangelical Divinity School. He has spoken at numerous conferences, including the National Catholic Youth Conference (NCYC), the National Eucharistic Congress, the Renew Toronto Young Adult Conference, and Defending the Faith Conference in Steubenville, Ohio. He has also been featured on Fox News and Chris Cuomo’s News Nation. He is a general editor and contributor to Ascension’s Great Adventure Catholic Bible and host of several Ascension’s studies, including Romans: The Gospel of Salvation and Hebrews: The New and Eternal Covenant. An avid student of Brazilian jiu-jitsu, he and his wife live in Atchison, Kansas with their six children.

Website: theswaffords.com

X: @andrew_swafford

CLASSES REGULARLY TAUGHT

THEO-1100 Intro to Theology

THEO-2000 Christian Moral Life

THEO-2100 Old Testament I (Pentateuch)

THEO-3110 Old Testament III (Prophets)

THEO-2150 New Testament I (Synoptic Gospels)

THEO-3230 John Paul II and the Family

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

Lunatic, Liar, or Lord: Unveiling the Truth of Catholicism with C.S. Lewis’s Mere Christianity. Notre Dame, IN: Ave Maria, 2025.

A Catholic Guide to the New Testament (with Jeff Cavins, Jeff Morrow, and Biff Rocha). West Chester, PA: Ascension, 2025.

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).