«Creatio ex nihilo» and the Theology of St. Augustine

Biographical notes

N. Joseph Torchia (Author)

The Author: N. Joseph Torchia, O. P., is a native Philadelphian. After undergraduate studies at St. Joseph's University and a period of graduate research at the University of St. Andrews in Scotland, he received his M.A. from Villanova University and Ph.D. from Fordham University in Philosophy. He was subsequently awarded an Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship for graduate studies at the Catholic University of America, where he completed a second doctorate in Early Christian Studies. Dr. Torchia has taught Philosophy at Fordham University and Mount St. Mary's College, and Theology at Villanova University. He has presented papers at scholarly gatherings in the United States, Great Britain, and Italy. His writings have appeared in Augustinus, Augustinian Studies, Collectanea Augustiniana, The Journal of Early Christian Studies, The Modern Schoolman, Studia Patristica, and Augustine Encyclopedia. He is also the author of Plotinus, Tolma, and the Descent of Being: An Exposition and Analysis (Peter Lang, 1993). He entered the Dominican Eastern Province of St. Joseph (U.S.A.) in 1996 and is currently assigned to the Immaculate Conception Priory in Washington, D.C.