Events
The Seven Deadly Sins
A lecture by Prof. David Elliot (The Catholic University of America)
When:
March 24, 2026 | 7:30 PM MDT
Chapter:
University of Arizona
Location:
TBA
This lecture is free and open to the public. No pre-registration is required.
About the speaker:
David Elliot is the Grace P. Hobelman Endowed Chair in Catholic Moral Theology at The Catholic University in Washington, DC, specializing in St. Thomas Aquinas, moral theology, virtue ethics, and scholastic theology. He received his Ph.D. in moral theology at the University of Notre Dame in 2014, was awarded a 3-year postdoctoral position in Theological Ethics at Cambridge University, and came to CUA in 2017. He has published widely on topics such as virtue ethics, the theological virtue of hope, growth in Christian virtue, "spiritual training" or Thomistic asceticism, grace and the moral life, the history of Latin scholastic theology, art and morality, sexual ethics, euthanasia, and the "art of dying." Elliot is the author of Hope and Christian Ethics (Cambridge University Press, 2017) and nearly twenty journal articles and book chapters invited or already in print.
Elliot has taught moral theology at Catholic University, Notre Dame, and Cambridge, and has been awarded The Character Essay and Book Prize by the Templeton Foundation-funded Character Project for contributions to the study of character. He serves on the CUA Press Editorial Committee, is co-editor for a scholarly volume with CUA Press, and co-edited a special SCE journal issue on "Virtue, Habit, and Grace in Thomas Aquinas." In Spring 2024 he was installed as the inaugural Grace P. Hobelman Endowed Chair in Catholic Moral Theology. Elliot lives in the Hyattsville, MD, area with his wife and children.