The Grace P. Hobelman Chair in Catholic Moral Theology
David Elliot is the Grace P. Hobelman Chair in Catholic Moral Theology, with a specialization in fundamental Catholic moral theology, virtue ethics, and the moral theology of St. Thomas Aquinas. He received his Ph.D. in moral theology at the University of Notre Dame in 2014, and was awarded a 3-year postdoctoral fellowship as Research Associate in Theological Ethics at the University of Cambridge, coming to CUA in 2017. He is the author of one monograph and eighteen journal articles and book chapters invited or already in print. He is also an IHE Scholar.
Elliot’s first book, Hope and Christian Ethics (Cambridge University Press, 2017) offered a Thomistic account of how Christian hope contributes to human happiness and the common good while aiming at eternal beatitude. It received highly positive book reviews and was described as “a uniquely significant contribution to Christian ethics” and setting “a benchmark for studies in virtue ethics.” His second book project on “spiritual training” focuses on the crucial role St. Thomas Aquinas assigns to moral and spiritual practices in the growth of Christian virtue, allowing us to see a deeply rewarding practical side to the “common and universal Doctor of the Church.”
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