Assistant Professor of Religion and Philosophy
Kathryn Heidelberger teaches religion and moral philosophy at Berry College. She completed her Ph.D. at Boston University, where she specialized in comparative theology and ethics in Christianity and Islam. Her current research analyzes Thomas Aquinas’s and Abu Hamid al-Ghazālī’s accounts of the virtuous life on the way to God. In addition to her research in Christian and Islamic virtue ethics, Dr. Heidelberger is also interested in the philosophy of language in comparative religious ethics, Christian and Muslim accounts of the Virgin Mary, and theological and philosophical resources to aid in our thinking about religious pluralism and interfaith understanding.
Some of Dr. Heidelberger’s courses include: “Religions and Spirituality,” “Women, Gender, and Islam,” “Introduction to Philosophy,” and “Contemporary Moral Problems.”