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Alessandro Rovati

United States
Institution Belmont Abbey College
Position Chair and Assistant Professor of Theology
Email Address alessandrorovati@bac.edu
University Profile Website URL
Prior Educational Background
  • B.A., Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore di Milano
  • M.A., Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore di Milano
  • Ph.D., Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore di Milano
Research Interests
  • Biblical Ethics
  • Economic Ethics
  • Ethics and Education
  • History of Theological Ethics
  • Nonviolence
  • Philosophical Ethics
  • Political Ethics
  • Social Ethics
  • Virtue Ethics
  • War, Peace, and Peacebuilding
Past Events
  • Sarajevo 2018
Recent Publications
  • “Seeking the Welfare of the City Where I Have Sent You: The Church and Community Organizing.” (forthcoming)
  • “War Is America’s Altar: Violence in the American Imagination,” in Cultural Violence and Peace, ed. Fuat Gursozlu, Boston, MA: Brill. (2018)
  • “Mercy Is a Person: Pope Francis and the Christological Turn in Moral Theology,” in Journal of Moral Theology 6, no. 2 (July 2017).
  • “The Beauty that Pierces the Heart: Joseph Ratzinger’s Christological Understanding of Beauty,” Selected Papers on Beauty & Aesthetics, Quaestiones Disputatae 6, no. 2 (Spring 2016).
  • “Interview with Stanley Hauerwas,” Philosophical News: Rivista di Filosofia 4 (2012).
Professional Activities and Affiliations
  • New Wine, New Wineskins: Young Catholic Moral Theologians, Member of the Board of Directors, 2018-2022
  • Catholic Theological Society of America, Member of the Moral Theology Topic Session Administrative Team, 2017 – 2020
  • Academy of Catholic Theology
  • American Academy of Religion
  • International Society for MacIntyrean Enquiry
  • Society of Christian Ethics 2015-2020