Martin Rhonheimer
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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.
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[edit] 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.
[edit] Major publications
- Familie und Selbstverwirklichung. Alternativen zur Emanzipation. Verlag Wissenschaft und Politik, Köln 1979
- Natur als Grundlage der Moral. Die personale Struktur des Naturgesetzes bei Thomas von Aquin: Eine Auseinandersetzung mit autonomer und teleologischer Ethik. Tyrolia-Verlag, Innsbruck-Wien 1987
- La prospettiva della morale. Fondamenti dell'etica filosofica. Armando, Roma 1994
- La filosofia politica di Thomas Hobbes. Coerenza e contraddizioni di un paradigma. Armando, Roma 1997
- Etica della procreazione. Contraccezione - Fecondazione artificiale - Aborto. Edizioni PUL-Mursia, Milano 2000
- Natural Law and Practical Reason: A Thomist View of Moral Autonomy. Fordham University Press, 2000, ISBN 0823219798
- Abtreibung und Lebensschutz. Tötungsverbot und Recht auf Leben in der politischen und medizinischen Ethik. Verlag Ferdinand Schöningh, Paderborn, 2003
- Die Verwandlung der Welt. Zur Aktualität des Opus Dei. Adamas Verlag, Köln 2006
- The Perspective of the Acting Person: Essays in the Renewal of Thomistic Moral Philosophy. CUA Press, 2008, ISBN 978-0813215112
[edit] Articles in English available online
- The Truth About Condoms. The Tablet, 10 July 2004 (free registration required)
- The Holocaust: What Was Not Said. First Things, no. 137, Nov. 2003
- Mel Gibson's "The Passion of the Christ": A Plea for Fairness. Logos, 8:I (Winter 2005) (PDF)
