Christian Virtue: the Mystery of Grace and Moral

Fr. Michael Sherwin, OP

Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas

Michael S. Sherwin, o.p. is emeritus Professor of Fundamental Moral Theology at the University of Fribourg, Switzerland. He has also taught at the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley, California, where he received his initial formation as a Dominican and was ordained a priest in 1991. Fr. Sherwin was the founding director of the Saint Thomas Aquinas Institute for Theology and Culture and of the Pinckaers Archives. 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 been reissued in paperback. Most recently, he has published a collection of essays, On Love and Virtue (Emmaus Academic, 2018) that Alasdair MacIntyre has described as “theological reflection at its best.”