Peter Joseph Fritz

Peter Joseph Fritz is associate professor of Roman Catholic systematic theology at the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, MA. He teaches lecture courses in Christian theology and history, theology and art, and Christianity and capitalism, and seminars on Catholic theology and postmodern philosophy. He has published widely on phenomenology, deconstruction, aesthetics, and capitalism, but his main scholarly endeavor is a multi-volume treatment of Karl Rahner, discovering a distinctive Rahnerian theological aesthetic. The first volume, Karl Rahner's Theological Aesthetics, was published by Catholic University of America Press in 2014, and the second, Freedom Made Manifest: Rahner's Fundamental Option and Theological Aesthetics, was published by CUA Press in 2019. In 2020, Peter published two books with Matthew Eggemeier. Send Lazarus: Catholicism and the Crises of Neoliberalism was published by Fordham University Press, and The Politics of Mercy: Catholic Life in an Era of Inequality, Racism, and Violence, was published by Crossroad-Herder & Herder. These two books aim to reimagine, starting from a Catholic theology of mercy, social life under the dominance of neoliberal capitalism. The latter book features stories of a variety of Catholic organizations who are practicing such a reimagined society. Peter is also an artist, holding an Honors BA in Studio Art from Loyola University Chicago, who draws, paints, and designs as often as he can.