Matthew Moser

Teaching Fellow

Matthew Moser is Associate Professor of Liberal Studies in the Templeton Honors College at Eastern University. He is a two-time award winning teacher, having also taught Bible, theology, and great books at Baylor University, Loyola University Maryland, and in the Honors College at Azusa Pacific University. He publishes in the field of theology and literature, especially on Dante Alighieri’s Divine Comedy, and on topics such as the imagination, contemplation, moral formation, and holy reading. He is author of Love Itself is Understanding: Hans Urs von Balthasar’s Theology of the Saints (Fortress Press, 2016), and the forthcoming Dante’s Three Journeys: An Introduction to the Comedy’s Theological Imagination. He is currently researching theologies of the imagination and the role of poetry and story in moral formation and contemplative knowledge of God.