Huetter, Reinhard

Biography

Professor Hütter teaches systematic and philosophical theology. In his most recent work he has turned to theological anthropology — the human being created in the image of God — and to the closely related topics of nature and grace, divine and human freedom, faith and reason, theology and metaphysics. He has developed a special interest in the theology and philosophy of St. Thomas Aquinas.

The author of three scholarly books and numerous articles, reviews, and translations, he has also co-edited four books. His most recent books include Bound to Be Free: Evangelical Catholic Engagements in Ecclesiology, Ethics and Ecumenism and Reason and the Reasons of Faith (ed. with Paul J. Griffiths). He also was the editor of Pro Ecclesia: a Journal of Catholic and Evangelical Theology and served on the editorial board of Theology Today. He is presently co-editor of the academic series Faith and Reason: Studies in Catholic Theology and Philosophy and Renewal Within Tradition: Nova & Vetera Books and is co-editor of Nova et Vetera: The English Edition of the International Theological Journal.

He was awarded the Henry Luce III Fellowship, was a visiting fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies of Religion of the University of Chicago, a research fellow at the Center of Theological Inquiry at Princeton, served as visiting professor at the University of Jena, Germany, was elected for membership in the American Theological Society, is a Distinguished Fellow of The St. Paul Center for Biblical Theology, and has been made a Corresponding Academician of the Pontifical Academy of Saint Thomas Aquinas. He is a member of the Roman Catholic Church.