Mariusz Tabaczek

A friar preacher. He holds Ph.D. in philosophical theology from the Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley, CA, Church Licentiate in theology from the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan, Poland, and Dr. habil. in philosophy from the Cardinal Stefan Wyszynski University in Warsaw, Poland. He currently works as a professor, vice-dean of theology, and researcher of the Thomistic Institute at the Pontifical University of Saint Thomas Aquinas in Rome. He is also a lecturer at the Dominican School of Philosophy and Theology in Krakow.

He specializes in the science-theology dialogue and the issues concerning divine action and natural sciences, in particular. He is interested in systematic, fundamental, and natural theology, philosophy of nature, philosophy of science (philosophy of biology, in particular), philosophy of causation, and metaphysics.

He published a number of articles on metaphysics and the issues concerning the relation of theology and science and three books: "Emergence. Towards A New Metaphysics and Philosophy of Science" (University of Notre Dame Press, 2019), "Divine Action and Emergence. An Alternative to Panentheism" (University of Notre Dame Press, 2021), and "Theistic Evolution. A Contemporary Aristotelian-Thomistic Perspective" (Cambridge University Press, 2023). He also coauthored two chapters in the second edition (2017) of "Science and Religion: A Historical Introduction" (ed. by Gary Ferngren).