Martin Rhonheimer

Martin Rhonheimer (born 1950 in Zurich, Switzerland) is a Swiss academic philosopher and a priest of the Catholic personal prelature Opus Dei. He currently teaches at the Opus Dei-affiliated Pontifical University of the Holy Cross in Rome.

Life

Rhonheimer comes from a Swiss Jewish family.[1] He studied philosophy, history, political science and theology in Zurich and Rome. He joined Opus Dei in 1974 as a numerary member and was ordained a priest in 1983. His main interests lie in the field of ethics and the history of liberalism. He has published on a wide range of topics, especially concerning the philosophy of moral action, virtue, natural law, Aquinas, Aristotle, and the ethics of sexuality and bioethics.

Major publications

Articles in English available online

References

  1. Die Tagespost, March 22, 2003

External sources

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