David Newheiser
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David Newheiser (Ph.D., 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, 2025). He is vice-chair of the Committee for the Public Understanding of Religion and co-editor of The Journal for the Academic Study of Religion. His next book will consider the link between medieval miracle traditions and democratic imagination.
Visit his website for his scholarly writing and his public writing.
