Staff profile

• I am an ecclesiastical historian and theologian, specialising in Mariology, the branch of theology dedicated to the Virgin Mary, and the medieval Benedictine tradition.
• More widely, I am interested in the development of medieval thought in the Early Church, in the comparative study of Latin and Greek traditions, in the interface of medieval and contemporary ideas in theology, philosophy, and ethics, and in twentieth-century Catholic theology, especially the thought of Pope Benedict XVI.
• I am also Co-Investigator on a restorative justice research project, the outputs of which have included a co-authored volume on forgiveness. Two of my chapters, on victimhood and satisfaction, draw upon medieval sources to address contemporary questions in criminal justice theory.

Authored book

• Mills, M. J. (2024). Blessed Mary and the Monks of England: Benedictines and Cistercians, 1000-1215. The Catholic University of America Press
• Blyth, M. N., Mills, M. J., & Taylor, M. H. (2021). Forgiveness and Restorative Justice: Perspectives from Christian Theology. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan

Book review

• Mills, M. J. (2022). David N. Bell, Handmaid of the Lord: Mary, the Cistercians, and Armand-Jean de Rancé (Collegeville, MN: Liturgical Press, 2021), 400 pp. The Journal of Medieval Monastic Studies, 11, 217-19
• Mills, M. J. (2022). Fiona J. Griffiths, Nuns' Priests' Tales: Men and Salvation in Women's Monastic Life (Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2018), 360 pp. History, 107(374), 170-72
• Mills, M. J. (2022). Tom Angier, ed., The Cambridge Companion to Natural Law Ethics (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019), 356 pp. Journal of Moral Philosophy, 19, 431-34
• Mills, M. J. (2022). Benjamin J. B. Lipscomb, The Women Are Up to Something: How Elizabeth Anscombe, Philippa Foot, Mary Midgley, and Iris Murdoch Revolutionized Ethics (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021), 344 pp. Studies in Christian Ethics, 35(4), 859-61
• Mills, M. J. (2020). Charles Borromeo, Selected Orations, Homilies and Writings, ed. J. R. Cihak, trans. A. Santogrossi (London: Bloomsbury T&T Clark, 2017), 216 pp. Regent's Reviews, 12(1), 36-38
• Mills, M. J. (2020). Catherine Pepinster, The Keys and the Kingdom: The British and the Papacy from John Paul II to Francis (London: Bloomsbury T&T Clark, 2017), 245 pp. Regent's Reviews, 12(1), 33-36
• Mills, M. J. (2019). James M. Houston & Jens Zimmerman, eds, Sources of the Christian Self: A Cultural History of Christian Identity (Grand Rapids, MI: Wm B. Eerdmans, 2018), 692 pp
• Mills, M. J. (2019). Steven D. Cone, Theology from the Great Tradition (London; New York, NY: Bloomsbury T&T Clark, 2018), 726 pp

Chapter in book

• Mills, M. J. (in press). The Good Life: Iris Murdoch and Medieval Theology. In Iris Murdoch and the Western Theological Imagination. Palgrave Macmillan
• Mills, M. J. (2023). Preface. In R. J. Maidment, & M. J. Mills (Eds.), Keeper of the Word: The Virgin Mary in Anglican, Baptist and Catholic Dialogues (xvii-xxv). Oxford: Regent's Park College
• Mills, M. J. (2023). Maria, gratia plena: Vision, Convergence and Controversy. In Keeper of the Word: The Virgin Mary in Anglican, Baptist and Catholic Dialogues (133-140). Regent's Park College
• Mills, M. J. (2023). Mulierem fortem: The Marian Pattern of Christian Discipleship. In Keeper of the Word: The Virgin Mary in Anglican, Baptist and Catholic Dialogues (63-78). Regent's Park College
• Mills, M. J. (2022). Miscellaneous (285 entries). In A. Louth (Ed.), The Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church. (4th ed.). Oxford University Press
• Mills, M. J. (2021). Forgiving in the Presence of God. . Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-75282-8_8
• Mills, M. J. (2021). Reframing the Narrative of Victimhood. . Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-75282-8_3
• Mills, M. J. (2021). Just Enough to Be Satisfied. . Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-75282-8_5
• Mills, M. J. (2020). Caritatis communionem: Reconciliation through an Ecumenism of Friendship. In A. Goodliff, A. Clarke, & B. Allison-Glenny (Eds.), Reconciling Rites: Essays in Honour of Myra N. Blyth (224-40). Oxford: Regent's Park College

Edited book

• Mills, M. (2023). Keeper of the Word: The Virgin Mary in Anglican, Baptist and Catholic Dialogues. Regent's Park College, Oxford

Journal Article

• Mills, M. J. (2021). A Vindication of Desire: St Anselm, with C. S. Lewis. The Downside review, 139(2), 133-44
• Mills, M. J. (2020). In the Barque of Peter: St Anselm's Ecclesiology
• Mills, M. J. (2015). Stephen of Sawley's Meditations on Our Lady's Joys and the Medieval History of the Rosary