Reinhard Hütter

Reinhard Hütter (born 1 November 1958 in Lichtenfels, Bavaria) is a Christian theologian and Professor of Fundamental and Dogmatic Theology at The Catholic University of America. During the 2012–2013 academic year, he held The Rev. Robert J. Randall Professor in Christian Culture chair at Providence College.

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 four scholarly books and numerous articles, reviews, and translations, he has also co-edited five books. His most recent books include ''Dust Bound for Heaven: Explorations in the Theology of Thomas Aquinas''; ''Reason and the Reasons of Faith'' (ed. with Paul J. Griffiths); and ''Ressourcement Thomism: Sacred Doctrine, the Sacraments, and the Moral Life'' (ed. with Matthew Levering). He was the editor of ''Pro Ecclesia: a Journal of Catholic and Evangelical Theology'' and served on the editorial board of ''Theology Today''. He is 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, serves as the incoming President of the Academy of Catholic Theology, is a Distinguished Fellow of The St. Paul Center for Biblical Theology, and an Ordinary Academician of the Pontifical Academy of Saint Thomas Aquinas. A former Lutheran, he became a member of the Roman Catholic Church in 2004. On 6 May 2009 he was elected by the University Council to be President of the Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt. On 25 May 2009 Hutter announced the support of the University, the Foundation Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt, but also announced that he would not take office. The negotiations for a conclusion of the agreement had failed. Reinhard Hütter is particularly concerned with the theological and philosophical doctrine of man (faith and reason, nature and grace, freedom of God and man) with emphasis on ecumenism. He is considered an expert on the life and work of Thomas Aquinas. He is involved in numerous committees. Among other things, he is an elected member of the American Theological Society, and a permanent member of the Pontifical Academy of Saint Thomas Aquinas. To 2008 he was editor of Pro Ecclesia. Provided by Wikipedia