Dr. Matthew Walz

In 2012, I began serving as the Director of Intellectual Formation at Holy Trinity Seminary (HTS). Since then, I have been privileged and blessed to assist eager young men who are striving to discover God’s will and to carry it out in their lives.

I was born in New York but grew up mostly in Ohio. I completed undergraduate studies at Christendom College in Virginia, double majoring in philosophy and theology and graduating as the valedictorian of the class of 1995. I did graduate studies in the School of Philosophy at The Catholic University of America (CUA) in Washington, D.C. There I earned a doctorate in philosophy by completing a dissertation on Thomas Aquinas’s understanding of free will.

I have been teaching at the college level since 1998. As a graduate student, I taught for two years at CUA. In 2000, I began teaching at Thomas Aquinas College in California, remaining there for eight years. Since 2008 I have been a professor in the Philosophy Department at the University of Dallas (UD). I have served as Chair of the Philosophy Department for four years and Associate Dean of the Constantin College of Liberal Arts for two years. In 2012, when I began working at HTS, I also took up the position of Director of Philosophy & Letters and Pre-Theology Programs, advising all seminarians who attend UD and serving as the liaison between HTS and UD.

My scholarship and writing focus primarily on medieval philosophy, ancient philosophy, and philosophical anthropology. In addition to Thomas Aquinas, my favorite philosophical authors include Aristotle, Augustine, Boethius, Anselm, Bonaventure, and Karol Wojtyla/John Paul II.

I have been married to my lovely wife Teresa since 1999. We have been blessed with eight children (two boys and six girls) who keep us busy, of course, but also joyful and grateful to God for his multitudinous gifts.