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
Areas of Expertise (10)
Human Rights
Distributive Justice
Domestic and International Poverty
Globallization
Meta Ethics
Philosophical and Theological Ethics
Christian Ethics
Ethics and Political Theory
Natural Law
Virtue Theory
Industry Expertise (3)
Religious Institutions
Research
Education/Learning
Languages (2)
- English
- Spanish
Articles (4)
The Image of God and Moral Action: Challenging the Practicality of the Imago Dei
Studies in Christian Ethics2017
Making the Fundamental Option Fully Free: How Human Capabilities Help Clarify Karl Rahner’s Conception of Justice
Philosophy and Theology2017
Human Capacities and the Problem of Universally Equal Dignity: Two Philosophical Test Cases and a Theistic Response
Journal of Moral Theology2016
The Relevance of Karl Rahner’s View of Dignity for the Catholic Social Thought Tradition
Philosophy and Theology2015
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