David Newheiser

David Newheiser (PhD, University of Chicago) examines the role of religious traditions in debates over ethics, politics, and culture. Drawing on his core expertise in medieval Christian thought and contemporary philosophy, he has written on topics including secularism, sexuality, neoliberalism, atheism, and the arts.

He is the author of Hope in a Secular Age (Cambridge, 2019), editor of The Varieties of Atheism (Chicago, 2022), and co-editor of Art-Making as Spiritual Practice (Bloomsbury, forthcoming). He is a member of the Committee for the Public Understanding of Religion and co-editor of The Journal for the Academic Study of Religion. In conversation with feminist and decolonial theory, his current project considers the link between medieval miracle traditions and democratic imagination.

You can find his scholarly writing here and his public writing here.