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Dr. William Riordan
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William Riordan, S.T.D. is Professor of Theology and Director of Undergraduate Studies. He previously taught philosophy at the University of San Francisco, and theology at Sacred Heart Major Seminary and Ave Maria College, both in Michigan. Dr. Riordan wrote his dissertation on the doctrine of divinization in the writing of Pseudo-Dionysius. He has expanded it into a fuller study which will be published under the title Divine Light: The Theology of Denys the Areopagite. His specialties include the areas of metaphysics, the doctrine of participation, and Trinitarian theology. He holds the degrees of B.A. from St. Mary's University of California; M.A. from the Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley; and S.T.L. and S.T.D. from the Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas in Rome.
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