Lance H. Gracy, Ph.D.
Teacher | Scholar | Philosopher-Theologian | Board-Certified Philosophical Counselor (APPA)
Areas of Expertise (AOE): Medieval Philosophy, Philosophy of Religion
Areas of Competency (AOC): History of Philosophy, Philosophy of Art & Aesthetics, Asian and Comparative Philosophy, Environmental Philosophy
EDUCATION
Ph.D. in Philosophy, 2025
University of North Texas, Denton, TX
Dissertation: “Wisdom According to St. Bonaventure’s Collationes in Hexaëmeron: On the Return to Metaphysics and Religion”
M.A. in Philosophy, 2019
University of Texas-San Antonio, San Antonio, TX
Thesis: “Ethical Concern About ‘the Animal Soul’ Through the Activity of Imagination: A Phenomenological Approach”
B.A. in Philosophy, 2016
University of the Incarnate Word, San Antonio, TX
ACADEMIC EMPLOYMENT
Teaching Fellow, University of North Texas
- Fall 2023-Spring 2025—8 sections of “Philosophy of Art”
- Fall 2022-Spring 2023—4 sections of “World Religions”
- Summer 2022—1 section of “Ethics and Science”
Adjunct Faculty, University of the Incarnate Word
- Spring 2025—1 section of “Introduction to Philosophy”
- Fall 2024—1 section of “Introduction to Philosophy”
- Spring 2024—1 section of “Introduction to Philosophy”
- Fall 2023—1 section of “Introduction to Philosophy”
- Spring 2023—1 section of “Introduction to Philosophy”
- Fall 2022—2 sections of “Introduction to Philosophy”[1]
- Spring 2022—1 section of “Introduction to Philosophy”[2]
- Fall 2021—1 section of “Introduction to Philosophy”
- Spring 2021—1 upper-division section of “Theories of Reality and Knowledge”; 1 section of “Introduction to Philosophy”
- Fall 2020—2 sections of “Introduction to Philosophy”
- Fall 2019—3 sections of “Introduction to Philosophy”
Instructor of Philosophy, Northwest Vista College
- Spring 2021—1 section of “Introduction to Ethics”; 2 sections of “Introduction to Philosophy”
- Fall 2020—3 sections of “Introduction to Ethics”
- Summer 2020—1 section of “Introduction to Ethics”
- Spring 2020—3 sections of “Introduction to Ethics”
- Fall 2019—2 sections of “Introduction to Ethics”
Adjunct Faculty, University of Texas-San Antonio
- Fall 2019—1 section of “Basic Philosophical Problems”
Adjunct Faculty, Instructor of Philosophy, Our Lady of the Lake University
- Fall 2020—2 sections of “Introduction to Philosophy”
- Fall 2019—1 section of “Introduction to Philosophy”
PUBLICATIONS
JOURNAL ARTICLES
2025. “Virtual Emanation and Exemplarism: The Resumptio of St. Bonaventure in Light of Garrigou-Lagrange’s De Revelatione.” American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly. (Under review).
2025. “The Christology of Bonaventure.” Religions, vol. 16, no. 5: 606. https://doi.org/10.3390/rel16050606
2022. “Is Scholasticism ‘Philosophy as a Way of Life’? St. Bonaventure’s Scholastic Mystagogy as Seraphic Philosophy.” Philotheos, vol. 22, issue 2: 134-156. https://doi.org/10.5840/philotheos20222228
BOOK REVIEWS
2023. Faith and Reason in Continental and Japanese Philosophy: Reading Tanabe Hajime and William Desmond by Takeshi Morisato. Philosophy East & West, vol. 72, no. 2. doi: 10.1353/pew.2023.a898086
2019. The World on Edge by Edward S. Casey. Phenomenological Reviews. https://reviews.ophen.org/2019/05/05/edward-s-casey-the-world-on-edge/
BOOK CHAPTERS
2025. “Finding Wisdom in Pokémon.” Pokémon and Philosophy: A Trainer’s Guide to the Toughest Questions (Pop Culture and Philosophy Series 5). Edited by Nicolas Michaud. U.S.: Open Universe Publishing.
2024. “Saint Bonaventure and the Theology of Animals.” I Believe in God the Father Almighty, Creator of Heaven and Earth: Studies in the Theology of Creation (Vol. 1). Edited by Gideon Lazar. U.S.: St. Basil Institute Press.
2024. “Tom Bombadil, Bonaventure, and the Theology of Creation: On the Seven Pillars of Wisdom.” I Believe in God the Father Almighty, Creator of Heaven and Earth: Studies in the Theology of Creation (Vol. 1). Edited by Gideon Lazar. U.S.: St. Basil Institute Press.
POPULAR AND OTHER
2025. Blog Series. “Bad Moods and Metaphysical Shudders: On the Restoration of Loving Wisdom in Political Life.” Cristero Party. (Forthcoming).
2025. Blog Series. “Spiritual Warfare in St. Bonaventure’s Hexaëmeron.” Cristero Party. https://cristeroparty.com/spiritual-warfare-in-st-bonaventures-hexaemeron/
2020. Blog Series. “Moral Philosophy in the World of Pokémon: Elements, Energies, and Relationships.” The Blackwell Philosophy and Pop-Culture Series Blog. https://andphilosophy.com/2020/07/31/moral-philosophy-in-the-world-of-pokemon/
2017. Poem. “Memories that Wander.” The Burningword Literary Journal. burningword.com/2017/07/memories-that-wander/
CONFERENCE TALKS AND PAPERS
2025. “Virtue, Vestige, and Sacramental Creation: Readings from St. Bonaventure’s Collationes in Hexaëmeron and St. Lawrence of Brindisi’s On Creation and the Fall.” Presented at a symposium for the St. Basil Institute for the Study of the Theology of Creation at the St. Paul Center for Biblical Theology, Steubenville, OH.
2025. “Awaiting God in the Light of His Coming: St. Bonaventure and the Nature-Grace Debate.” Presented at the conference, A Dialogue Renewed: Scholasticism and the Ressourcement Movement on the Nature of Catholic Theology, hosted by the School of Theology and Religious Studies at The Catholic University of America, Washington, D.C.
2025. “Virtue and Civility, Tolerance and Protreptics: On the Medieval Christian Attitude Towards Religious Jews in St. Bonaventure and St. Thomas Aquinas.” Presented at the 34th Annual Texas Medieval Association Conference, University of Texas-Austin.
2023. “A Walk in the Father’s Creation: On the Importance of the Theology of Creation for the Church.” Presented at the Pontificio Collegio Internazionale Maria Mater Ecclesiae and organized by the St. Basil Institute for the Study of the Theology of Creation, Rome, Italy.
2021. “Rediscovering the Immaculate Nature: Mariology and Neo-Confucian Moral Philosophy.” Presented at the ISCP: Comparative Philosophies of Culture and Politics-Eastern APA Annual Meeting.
2023. “Bonaventure, Buddhism, and Time.” Presented at the University of North Texas Philosophy and Religion Department Colloquium. Denton, TX.
2021. “An Introduction to Franciscan Thought: Celebrating the Legacy of St. Francis of Assisi.” Presented at St. John Paul II University Parish, Denton, TX.
2019. “Substantive Evil as the Removal of Creative License: A Descriptive Case with Arguments and Illustrations in Appeal to Poetics, Virtue Theory, and Religious Traditions.” Presented at the UTSA Graduate Philosophy Ethics Conference, San Antonio, TX.
FELLOWSHIPS AND AWARDS
- Teaching Fellowship, University of North Texas, 2021-2025
- St. Columbanus Fellow, Lyceum Institute, 2024
- Augustine Scholarship, University of St. Thomas-Houston, Center for Thomistic Studies, 2022
- Merit Scholar, Jesuit School of Theology at Santa Clara, 2020
- Philosophy Fellowship, University of Texas-San Antonio, 2017
- Two Certificates of Commendation for Exemplary Leadership, USMC, 2013
- “Gung Ho” Leadership Award, Tactical Small Unit Leader Course, USMC, 2013
[1] The primer for this course was James Jacob’s Seat of Wisdom: An Introduction to Philosophy in the Catholic Tradition (Washington, D.C.: The Catholic University of America Press, 2022).
[2] For this section, I introduced my students to scholastic philosophy. Our text was A.C. Cotter’s Introduction to Catholic Philosophy.
Dr. Lance H. Gracy 