Mari Rapela Heidt

Mari
Rapela Heidt

Associate Professor
School of Arts, Sciences & Business
Caroline Hall (CHL) 407
410-532-5307
Programs I teach...

Programs I Teach 

Social Ethics, Catholic Social Teaching, Environmental ethics, Economic ethics, Medical ethics

Education

PhD Theological Ethics, Marquette University

Research Interests

The intersection of social ethics and economics The intersection of medicine and economics

Publications and Presentations

鈥淲e Need More Kidneys: Living Donation, BMI, and Black Male Mortality," Review and Expositor, vol. 119, n1 (January 2023)

鈥淚ntegral ecology, connection, and prevention: Moving forward together after Covid-19,鈥 Journal of Sociology and Development, v4, n1 (December 2020)

Review of A Creed for Today, Faith and Commitment for Our New Earth Awareness, Journal of Moral Theology, v11 n 1 (January 2022)

Review of Driven by Hope: Economics and Theology in Dialogue. Journal of Moral Theology, v8, n2 (June 2019)

鈥淒evelopment, nations, and 鈥渢he signs of the times:鈥 the historical context of Populorum Progressio,鈥 Journal of Moral Theology, v6, n1 (January, 2017), 1-20.

鈥淒esarrollo, naciones y 鈥渓os signos de los tiempos鈥: el contexto hist贸rico de Populorum Progressio.鈥漋eritas, Pontificio Seminario, Casablanca, Chile, 2019. Translation and republication of: 鈥淒evelopment, nations, and 鈥渢he signs of the times:鈥 the historical context of Populorum Progressio, Journal of Moral Theology, v6, n1 (January, 2017), 1-20.

Books

2012 A Guide to Writing about Theology and Religion, Anselm Academic Press

2010 Moral Traditions, an Introduction to World Religious Ethics, Anselm Academic Press

Selected Presentations

2024 "Profit and Loss: Disability and the Minimum Wage," Annual Meeting of the Catholic Theological Society of America, June 11, Baltimore, Maryland.

2020 鈥淲e Need More Kidneys, Reconsidering the Rules for Donations from Living Organ Donors,鈥 Annual Meeting of the Society of Christian Ethics, January 10, Washington, DC.

2016 鈥淎n Economy that Serves Human Needs: The Contribution of LouisJoseph Lebret,鈥 Building Good Economies: Catholic Social Teaching @ 125, a conference sponsored by the Francis and Anne Curran Center, Fordham University, April 22, New York.

2015 鈥淎n Economy that Serves Human Needs: Louis-Joseph Lebret鈥檚 Contribution to Catholic Economic Thought,鈥 Catholic Theological Society of America annual meeting, June 11, Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

2013 鈥淎t the Margins of the Academy: Issues of Contingent Faculty,鈥 Society of Christian Ethics annual meeting, January 4, Chicago, Illinois.