Thomas Bushlack

Thomas J. Bushlack (Ph.D., University of Notre Dame) is an assistant professor of moral theology at the University of St. Thomas in St. Paul, MN. He recently defended his dissertation titled Justice in the Theology of St. Thomas Aquinas: Rediscovering Civic Virtue, and he is also an Oblate of St. Benedict – a lay person who has taken vows to study and practice the Benedictine way of life based on the Rule of St. Benedict. His teaching and research interests include virtue ethics, social ethics, natural law, political theology, and the theory and practice of connecting contemplation and action.