Reginald M. Lynch O.P. is Assistant Professor of historical and systematic theology at the Dominican House of Studies in Washington, DC. His research focuses on a variety of topics in historical and systematic theology, especially the sacramental theology and theological anthropology of Thomas Aquinas. His most recent work has focused on Aquinas' reception history in the early-modern West. His published work has appeared in volumes such as The Oxford Handbook for the Reception of Aquinas, and in journals such as The Thomist, Theological Studies, and Harvard Theological Review. He is also the author of The Cleansing of the Heart: The Sacraments as Instrumental Causes in the Thomistic Tradition (Catholic University of America Press, 2017).