Staff profile

Research Interests

Medieval Theology (especially Thomas Aquinas)

Soteriology

Theology of the Trinity

Fourteenth Century spirituality of the Low Countries (especially Ruusbroec)

Authored book

• Van Nieuwenhove, Rik (2022). Introduction to Medieval Theology: Second Edition. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
• Van Nieuwenhove, Rik (2021). Thomas Aquinas and Contemplation. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
• Van Nieuwenhove, Rik (2012). An Introduction to Medieval Theology. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
• Van Nieuwenhove, Rik & Marmion, Declan (2011). An Introduction to the Trinity. Cambridge University Press.
• Van Nieuwenhove, Rik (2003). Jan van Ruusbroec, Mystical Theologian of the Trinity. University of Notre Dame Press.

Chapter in book

• Van Nieuwenhove, Rik & Crozier, William (2020). 'The Trinity'. In The Oxford Handbook of Mystical Theology. Howells, E. & McIntosh, M. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 465-483.
• Van Nieuwenhove, Rik (2020). 'Trinitarian Indwelling'. In The Oxford Handbook of Mystical Theology. Howells, E. & McIntosh, M. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 388-403.
• Van Nieuwenhove, Rik (2019). Protest Theism, Aquinas, and Suffering. In Suffering and the Christian Life. Kilby, Karen & Davies, Rachel London: Bloomsbury. 71-86.
• Van Nieuwenhove, Rik (2018). 'Art, Contemplation and intellectus. Aquinas and Gadamer in conversation'. In Art and Mysticism: Interfaces in the Medieval and Modern Periods. Nelstrop, Louise & Appleton, Helen Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge. 70-86.
• Van Nieuwenhove, Rik (2018). Catholic Piety from Ruusbroec and the Devotio Moderna to the Legacy of Pierre de Bérulle. In The Oxford Handbook of Catholic Theology. Ayres, L. & Volpe, M. Oxford University Press.
• Van Nieuwenhove, Rik (2016). Ruusbroec’s notion of the contemplative life and his understanding of the human person. In Mystical Anthropology - Authors from the Low Countries. Faesen, Rob & Arblaster, John Routledge. 73-88.
• Van Nieuwenhove, Rik (2016). Commitments to Medieval Mystical Texts within Contemporary Contexts: Some Reflections on Medieval Mystical Texts as ‘Classic’ Texts in the Gadamerian Sense. In Commitments to Medieval Mystical Texts within Contemporary Contexts. Kikuchi, Satoshi & Cooper, Patrick Peeters. 239-253.
• Van Nieuwenhove, Rik (2015). Late Medieval Atonement Theologies. In The Oxford Handbook of Christology. Murphy, Francesca Aran & Troy, Stefano Oxford: Oxford University Press. 250-264.
• Van Nieuwenhove, Rik (2014). Ruusbroec, Jordaens, and Herp on the Common Life: the Transformation of a Spiritual Ideal. In A Companion to Ruusbroec. Faesen, Rob Leiden Boston: Brill. 51: 204-236.
• Van Nieuwenhove, Rik (2013). The Tradition of Medieval Theology as a Source for Doing Theology in Post-modern Times: Gratuity and Transcendence in Medieval Theology. In The Shaping of Tradition. Context and Normativity. Dickinson, Colby, Boeve, Lieven & Merrigan, Terrence Peeters. 173-184.
• Van Nieuwenhove,Rik (2013). Retrieving a Sacramental Worldview in a Mechanistic World. In To Discern Creation in a Scattering World. Depoortere, F. & Haers, J. Peeters. 262: 539-558.
• Van Nieuwenhove, Rik (2013). The Sacrament of Marriage. In Priesthood Today. Conway, Eamonn Veritas. 369-380.
• Van Nieuwenhove, Rik (2012). The Saving Work of Christ. In The Oxford Handbook of Aquinas. Davies, Brian & Stump, Eleonore Oxford University Press. 436-447.
• Van Nieuwenhove, Rik (2009). Trinity, Faith and Mysticism: The Need for a Medieval Ressourcement. In Trinity and Salvation. Theological, Spiritual and Aesthetic Perspectives. Marmion, D. & Thiessen, G. Peter Lang. 65-80.
• Van Nieuwenhove, Rik (2005). Experience and Mystical Theology in the Fourteenth Century. An Examination of Ruusbroec. In Encountering Transcendence. Contributions to a Theology of Christian Experience. Boeve, Lieven, Geybels, Hans & Van den Bossche, Stijn Peeters. 411-424.

Edited book

• Van Nieuwenhove, Rik, Faesen, Rob & Rolfson, Helen (2008). Late Medieval Mysticism of the Low Countries.
• Van Nieuwenhove, Rik & Wawrykow, Joseph (2005). The Theology of Thomas Aquinas. University of Notre Dame Press.

Journal Article

• Nieuwenhove, Rik Van (2023). Thomas Aquinas on the Sacrifice of Christ and the Eucharist: A Defence. New Blackfriars 104(1109): 4-22.
• Van Nieuwenhove, Rik (2022). Divine Nothingness, Ecstasy and Self-transcendence in the Evangelical Pearl. Medieval Mystical Theology 31(1): 33 - 40.
• Van Nieuwenhove, Rik (2022). Trinity, regiratio and mind: an exploration of the systematic-theological resources of Ruusbroec's regirative model. International Journal of Systematic Theology 24(4): 505-522.
• Van Nieuwenhove, Rik (2019). Assent to Faith, Theology and Scientia in Aquinas. New Blackfriars 100(1088): 410-424.
• Van Nieuwenhove, Rik (2019). Searching for a Connection: Prayer and contemplation 'broadly conceived' in Thomas Aquinas. Ephemerides Theologicae Lovaniensis 95(2): 283-298.
• Van Nieuwenhove, Rik (2019). St Thomas Aquinas on salvation, making satisfaction, and restoration of friendship with God. The Thomist 83: 521-545.
• Van Nieuwenhove, Rik (2017). "Recipientes per contemplationem, tradentes per actionem": The Relation between the Active and Contemplative Lives according to Thomas Aquinas. The Thomist 81(1): 1-30.
• Van Nieuwenhove, Rik (2017). Contemplation, Intellectus, and Simplex Intuitus in Aquinas: Recovering a Neoplatonic Theme. American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly 91(2): 199-225.
• Van Nieuwenhove, Rik (2016). Aquinas on Contemplation: a Neglected Topic. European Journal for the Study of Thomas Aquinas [Jaarboek Thomas Instituut] 9-33.
• Van Nieuwenhove, Rik (2016). Contemplation, Attention, and the Distinctive Nature of Catholic Education. Journal of Catholic Higher Education 35: 193-209.
• Van Nieuwenhove, Rik (2014). Contemplation and Sacraments: How to Make Sense of Sacraments in an Allegedly De-Ontologised World: an Encounter between Gadamer and Thomas Aquinas. Louvain Studies 38: 111-125.
• Van Nieuwenhove, Rik (2013). Charity, Intellect, and Contemplation in St Thomas Aquinas: Contemporary Relevance. Year Book of the Irish Philosophical Society 129-150.
• Van Nieuwenhove, Rik (2010). Catholic Theology in the Thirteenth Century and the Origins of Secularisation. Irish Theological Quarterly 75: 339-354.
• Van Nieuwenhove, Rik (2009). The Religious Disposition as a Resource to Resist Instrumentalisation. The Heythrop Journal 50: 689-696.
• Van Nieuwenhove, Rik (2005). The Christian Response to Suffering and the Significance of the Model of the Church as Body of Christ. Angelicum 82: 595-609.
• Van Nieuwenhove, Rik (2005). Albert Camus, Simone Weil and the Absurd. Irish Theological Quarterly 70: 343-354.
• Van Nieuwenhove, R. (2004). The Religious and the Aesthetic Attitude. Literature and Theology 18(2): 174-186.
• Van Nieuwenhove, Rik (2004). Karl Rahner, Theologian of the Experience of God? Louvain Studies 29: 92-106.
• Van Nieuwenhove, Rik (2003). St Anselm and St Thomas Aquinas on 'Satisfaction': Or how Catholic and Protestant understandings of the Cross differ. Angelicum 80: 159-176.
• Van Nieuwenhove, Rik (2001). The Franciscan Inspiration of Ruusbroec's Mystical Theology - Ruusbroec in Dialogue with Bonaventure and Thomas Aquinas. Ons Geestelijk Erf 75: 102-115.
• Van Nieuwenhove, Rik (2001). In the Image of God: the Trinitarian Anthropology of St Bonaventure, St Thomas Aquinas and the Blessed Jan van Ruusbroec - Part II. Irish Theological Quarterly 66: 227-237.
• Van Nieuwenhove, Rik (2001). In the Image of God: the Trinitarian Anthropology of St Bonaventure, St Thomas Aquinas and the Blessed Jan van Ruusbroec - Part I. Irish Theological Quarterly 66: 109-123.
• Van Nieuwenhove, Rik (2000). Ruusbroec: Apophatic Theologian or Phenomenologist of the Mystical Experience? Journal of Religion (80): 83-105.
• Van Nieuwenhove, Rik (2000). Neoplatonism, Regiratio and Trinitarian Theology. A Look at Ruusbroec. Hermathena 169: 169-188.
• Van Nieuwenhove, Rik (1998). Meister Eckhart and Jan van Ruusbroec: A Comparison. Medieval Philosophy and Theology 7: 157-193.