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Matthew R. Petrusek - Loyola Marymount University. Los Angeles, CA, US

Matthew R. Petrusek Matthew R. Petrusek

Associate Professor and Associate Chair of Undergraduate Education in Theological Studies | Loyola Marymount University

Los Angeles, CA, UNITED STATES

Bellarmine College of Liberal Arts

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Biography

Dr. Matthew R. Petrusek received a MA (Yale University) and PhD (University of Chicago) in religious ethics and is currently associate professor of theological ethics in the Department of Theological Studies. He specializes in Christian ethics and moral theology, though lectures broadly, in English and Spanish, on philosophy, theology, and the Catholic intellectual tradition. In addition to serving as a Word on Fire Fellow, he has hosted the bilingual show Reasons to Believe/Razones Para Creer at WordNet TV, co-authored Jordan Peterson, God, and Christianity: The Search for a Meaningful Life (Word on Fire Institute Press), co-edited Value and Vulnerability: Contemporary Interfaith Dialogue on Human Dignity (University of Notre Dame Press), authored Evangelization and Politics: A Catholic Guide to Ideological Conflict (Word on Fire Institute Press, under contract), and published in numerous academic journals.

Education (3)

University of Chicago Divinity School: Ph.D., Religion and Ethics 2013

Yale University: M.A., Religious Ethics 2005

Washington and Lee University: B.A., Medieval and Ren. Studies 2002

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Areas of Expertise (10)

Meta Ethics

Philosophical and Theological Ethics

Christian Ethics

Ethics and Political Theory

Natural Law

Virtue Theory

Human Rights

Distributive Justice

Domestic and International Poverty

Globallization

Industry Expertise (3)

Research

Education/Learning

Religious Institutions

Languages (2)

  • English
  • Spanish

Articles (4)

The Image of God and Moral Action: Challenging the Practicality of the Imago Dei

Studies in Christian Ethics

2017

Making the Fundamental Option Fully Free: How Human Capabilities Help Clarify Karl Rahner’s Conception of Justice

Philosophy and Theology

2017

Human Capacities and the Problem of Universally Equal Dignity: Two Philosophical Test Cases and a Theistic Response

Journal of Moral Theology

2016

The Relevance of Karl Rahner’s View of Dignity for the Catholic Social Thought Tradition

Philosophy and Theology

2015