Matthew Puffer

Curriculum Vitae

Matthew Puffer serves as Assistant Director of the Villanova Program at SCI Phoenix. Before joining the Villanova Program he was Associate Professor of Humanities and Ethics in Christ College, the Honors College at Valparaiso University. He was a Visiting Scholar in the Faculty of Divinity at the University of Cambridge and a Reid Fellow at Westminster College, Cambridge, an Imbesi Fellow at the Augustinian Institute and a Catherine of Siena Fellow in the Ethics Program at Villanova University, and a postdoctoral fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture at the University of Virginia. He received his Ph.D. in Religious Studies (Theology, Ethics, and Culture) from the University of Virginia, an M.Div. from Princeton Theological Seminary, and a B.S. in Chemical Engineering from North Carolina State University.

Projects currently under contract include Ethics in Crisis, Ethics in Hope (T&T Clark) and an edited volume, Bonhoeffer and Incarceration (Fortress). He is also currently working on a monograph that examines Augustine’s understanding of the imago dei as it develops across a half-century of letters, sermons, and treatises. His scholarship and teaching explore competing normative visions of the human person, especially rival versions of the imago dei and human dignity and their implications for issues in biomedical, economic, environmental, and war and peace ethics.

Puffer co-edited Comparative Religious Ethics: Critical Concepts in Religious Studies and has published in Modern Theology, the International Journal of Systematic Theology, the Journal of Religious Ethics, the Journal of the Society of Christian Ethics, the Harvard Theological Review, and in edited volumes.