David Cloutier

David Cloutier graduated from Carleton College with a B.A. in chemistry and religion, and received his Ph.D. from Duke University in 2001. He is currently associate professor of theology at Mount St. Mary’s University (MD), where he teaches courses in moral theology and Catholic social thought, and also directs a year-long seminar on the Catholic Intellectual Tradition for tenure-track faculty across the University. He is the author of Love, Reason, and God’s Story: An Introduction to Catholic Sexual Ethics (2008), and editor of the collection Leaving and Coming Home: New Wineskins for Catholic Sexual Ethics (2010). He has also presented numerous conference papers, and published articles in journals, including “Working with the Grammar of Creation: Benedict XVI, Wendell Berry, and the Unity of the Catholic Moral Vision” forthcoming inCommunio, as well as his current interest, “The Problem of Luxury in the Christian Life,” forthcoming in the Journal of the Society of Christian Ethics. Long-term, he is working toward a moral framework that combines the precision of Aristotelian/Thomist moral theory with the theological approach and vision of the nouvelle theologie, especially as exemplified in the work of Pope Benedict XVI. He enjoyed three years as a co-organizer of the annual New Wine, New Wineskins conference for young Catholic moral theologians at the University of Notre Dame. When he is not working, he is rooting for his native (Cubs) and adopted (Twins) baseball teams, and also serves as a director at the Common Market (www.commonmarket.coop), Frederick’s consumer food cooperative.