Moral Theology · Philosophical Anthropology · The Ethics of Care

Books and essays on the person, the public good, and the conditions of honest dialogue.

Stephen Bujno, Ph.D., teaches and writes at the intersection of moral theology, philosophical anthropology, and the ethics of care. His work attends to what is upstream of the present disputes: the human person, the formation of practical reason, and the conditions under which honest public exchange becomes possible.

About
Stephen Bujno

Stephen Bujno, Ph.D., is Visiting Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Villanova University, where he teaches the foundational philosophy course and the ethics course required of pre-medical and nursing students.

His doctorate, in the philosophy of political and social thought, was completed at the Global Center for Advanced Studies College in Dublin. He holds graduate degrees in philosophical anthropology and moral theology. His writing proceeds in two registers. The applied register addresses the public dialogue on contested questions of ethics, bioethics, and the formation of conscience. The theological register addresses the moral life as it is lived by the Christian person.

He has lectured before legislators, clerics, and students on the philosophical anthropology beneath the public abortion question, and has taught the dialectical method to nurses, physicians, seminarians, and undergraduates for over twenty years. He lives in Adamstown, Pennsylvania.

Books
Cognella · 2022 · Second Edition August 2026
Ethics of Care and Wellness
An Inquiry for Professionals, Caregivers, and Patients

An ethics of health care framed in light of an authentic understanding of the human person and the common good. Written for professionals, caregivers, and patients alike, the book turns the clinical conversation inward and asks what is upstream of every protocol and ethical principle.

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Wipf and Stock · 2026
Autonomy, Consciousness, and Personhood
A Primer for the Public Dialogue on Abortion

A primer in logic and critical thinking that reorients the public abortion dialogue away from the binaries of life and choice and toward the central issue of personhood. The book proceeds dialectically, treating the customary objections seriously and pressing them against what they claim to be.

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Cognella · 2026
Moral Being
Freedom, Society, and Beauty

Part original treatise and part anthology, the book addresses Christian morality from an orthodox position without overt dogmatism. Eight chapters move through freedom, the moral self, society, and the place of beauty in the moral life. Foreword by Brendan Sammon.

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Angelico Press · 2026
Apology
Love as the State of Things

A speculative narrative in the form of Justin Martyr’s second-century defense. The Christian landscape is divided among the Compromised, the Radicals, and the Weak. The story unfolds as a letter from an imprisoned member of the Weak to a secular authority. Middle volume of a trilogy.

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En Route Books · 2020
The Ways of Love
Transforming the Person

A guided journal absorbing the boundaries of philosophical anthropology, humanistic psychology, and Christian spirituality. Twelve themes across one hundred days, addressed in the second person, drawing the reader into the daily discipline of attention and self-honesty. Foreword by Ronda Chervin.

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In Development
Being and Love
Personagenesis and the Harmony of the Absolute
A philosophical monograph extending the doctoral dissertation. Six parts, eighteen chapters, arguing that love is not what being does but what being is, the last abstraction in which knowing, being, and loving are convertible.
Ways of Love: Ethics of Care and Wellness Edition
For Professionals, Caregivers, and Patients
A healthcare-vocation edition. Fourteen Ways across one hundred days, pairing the original journal’s reflective form with the substance of Ethics of Care and Wellness.
A Trilogy
The Apology Trilogy

Three volumes of theological narrative in three classical forms of address: the soliloquy, the apology, and the apocalypse. Apology has been published as the middle volume. The two further volumes have since been declared. The writing order inverts the reading order.

SoliloquiesVolume One · Idea Formation
In the form of Augustine’s Soliloquia, the soul to itself in the presence of God. To be written last.
Apology: Love as the State of ThingsVolume Two · Published 2026
Originally written as a stand-alone. The book that now centers the trilogy.
ApocalypseVolume Three · In Development
The eschatological volume. Form to be determined.
Selected Essays
Liturgical Man: An Anthropology of Light
Chapter · Good Books Media
Review of William Desmond, The Intimate Universal
Journal for Cultural and Religious Theory
Marked Men: The Battle of the Soul
Social Justice Review
Embryo Adoption, Nuptiality, and the Annunciation
Social Justice Review
Economic Ideology: A Virtueless Recovery
Social Justice Review
Theses
Love as Realization of the Other: From Ideal Being to Personagenesis
Doctoral Dissertation · GCAS College, Dublin
Committee chair: Creston Davis. Committee: William Desmond, John Milbank, Julie Reshe, Rocco Gangle.
A Phenomenological Approach to Sacrifice as Gift: A Liturgical Anthropology
Master’s Thesis · Holy Apostles College and Seminary
Advisor: Alan Vincelette.
Courses
Foundational
Knowledge, Reality, Self
Villanova University
Pre-Medical and Nursing
Ethics for Health Care Professionals
Villanova University
Contact

For lectures, manuscript reviews, and editorial correspondence:

stephen@bujno.com