David Cloutier

David Cloutier is an associate professor of moral theology at the Catholic University of America in Washington, DC. His recent books include The Vice of Luxury (Georgetown University Press) and Naming Our Sins (CUA Press, co-edited with Jana Bennett).

April 19, 2022
The Human Person

April 19, 2022
Book Reviews, Catholicism, Philosophy

The Catholic Controversy over Conscience in the 20th Century

By David Cloutier

Matthew Levering’s book offers an intellectual history of a complex question in Catholic moral theology, one that recovers a biblical and Thomistic view of conscience as a limited concept within Christian moral life as a whole.

January 28, 2019
Education & Culture, The Human Person

January 28, 2019
Race, Religion, Religion and the Public Square

Why Talk About “Structures of Sin”?

By David Cloutier

We simply cannot ignore theology when looking at social problems. For Christians, the notion of sinful structures is based on the difficult but ultimately liberating admission that the existing social positions we occupy are often not in conformity with the order of God.

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