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Academic Degrees Earned

Ph.D. University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Indiana, 2001 (Moral Theology).

M.A. University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Indiana, 1997 (Moral Theology).

M.A. Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley, California, 1991 (Theology).

M.Div. Dominican School of Philosophy and Theology, Berkeley, California, 1991.

B.A. Dominican School of Philosophy and Theology, Berkeley, CA, 1986 (Philosophy).

Undergraduate studies. University of California, Berkeley, California, 1981-1983.

Courses at the Angelicum

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Brief Biography

Michael S. Sherwin, O.P. is Professor of Fundamental Moral Theology and director of the Institute of Spirituality here at the Angelicum. Fr. Sherwin comes to the Angelicum after almost twenty years of teaching at the University of Fribourg, Switzerland. He has also taught at the Dominican School of Philosophy and Theology in Berkeley, California, where he received his initial formation as a Dominican and was ordained a priest in 1991. Author of articles on the psychology of love, virtue ethics and moral development, his monograph, By Knowledge and By Love: Charity and Knowledge in the Moral Theology of St. Thomas Aquinas (CUA Press, 2005) has become a standard Thomistic reference, while Alasdair MacIntyre has described Fr. Sherwin’s published collection of essays, On Love and Virtue (Emmaus Academic, 2018) as “theological reflection at its best.”

Fr. Sherwin also serves as chaplain to the Association nationale des cavaliers catholiques, an equestrian pilgrimage organization, and has collaborated with both Dave Brubeck and his son Chris Brubeck in celebration of the Scriptures at the crossroads between Jazz and classical music.

Areas of Academic Specialization and Interest

Fundamental Moral Theology

Moral Development

Virtue, Charity

Psychology of Love

Associations and Memberships

Member of the Advisory Board of the Aquinas Institute, Blackfriars Hall, Oxford University. 2015-.

Member of the Editorial Board of New Blackfriars Review. 2015-.

Associate Editor, Nova et Vetera: International Theological Journal, English Edition.  2002-.

Academic Honors and Awards

Thomas Aquinas Invited Professorship, Angelicum Thomistic Institute, Rome, 2022 / 2023.

Alemany Research Fellowship, Dominican School of Philosophy and Theology, Berkeley, CA, 2021 / 2022.

Robert Randall Distinguished Professorship in Christian Culture, Providence College, RI, Fall 2016. 

Myser Fellow, University of Notre Dame Center for Ethics and Culture, 2007 / 2008.

Cardinal Journet Book Prize, Aquinas Center for Theological Renewal, Ave Maria University, 2006.

Current Research and/or Writing Projects

Friendship with God, the Apprenticeship of the Moral Life

The Christian Life, a Scriptural account of the Virtue

Aquinas on Love: the Context of his Thought

Augustine on Love: the Evolution of his Thought

Select Publications

On Love and Virtue: Theological Essays. Emmaus Academic, 2018.

By Knowledge and By Love, Charity and Knowledge in the Moral Theology of St. Thomas Aquinas. Catholic University of America Press, 2005. Paperback edition, 2011.

“St. Augustine on Love: the Evolution of his Thought.” In Society, Law, and Virtue: Essays in Honor of Russell Hittinger. Catholic University of America Press, 2023, forthcoming.

“El hombre animal y espiritual: reflexiones sobre el hacer de este anfibio tragicómico.” In El obrar sigue al ser: Metafísica de la persona, la naturaleza y la acción. RIL Editores, 2020, 175-188.

“Friendship with God: The Christian Call to Divine Intimacy.” Nova et Vetera 19 (2021): 1323-1343.

“On Love and War: Reflections on the Abuse of Technical Rationality.” Nova et Vetera 16 (2018): 259-274.

“Freedom and the Fearful Symmetry: Theological Reflections on Freedom’s Relationship to Truth.” Nova et Vetera 15 (2017): 1085-1100.

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