Steven P. Millies

Steven P. Millies (born 1972) is an author and political theorist, and currently associate professor of public theology and director of The Bernardin Center at Catholic Theological Union in Chicago, IL. Before joining CTU in 2017, Millies held the Strom Thurmond Endowed Chair in Political Science at the University of South Carolina Aiken (Aiken, SC) where he taught from 2003-2017.

Education 
Born and raised in the Chicago area, Millies studied history at Loyola University Chicago while also pursuing minor sequences in political science and philosophy.  He earned an M.A. and Ph.D. in political theory at The Catholic University of America where he studied under David Walsh.  His dissertation, "A Relation between Us": Religion and the Political Thought of Edmund Burke, examined how Burke hoped religion could supplement and ground the authority of law in a modern, constitutional state in circumstances with and without the formal support of a religious establishment.  Like politics, religion is "a relation between us" and together they express normative claims discernible through history.

Work 
Millies's academic work focuses on the relationships between history, religion, and politics, especially as they intersect in the Roman Catholic tradition.  Examining writers in both the liberal and conservative political traditions, Millies has been interested in the ways that historical understanding shapes the encounters between religious belief and the politics of pluralism.  He has written widely, drawing from authors along the full spectrum including Eric Voegelin and Edmund Burke, Thomas Merton and Joseph Bernardin.

Awards and recognitions 
Millies's 2016 biography of Joseph Bernardin was a finalist in the biography category for the 2017 Association of Catholic Publishers' Excellence in Publishing Awards. The same book was awarded first place for the biography category by the Catholic Press Association's 2017 book awards.

Works 

 Good Intentions: A History of Catholic Voters' Road from Roe to Trump.  (Collegeville, MN: Liturgical Press Academic, 2018) 
 Joseph Bernardin: Seeking Common Ground (Collegeville, MN: Liturgical Press, 2016)

References

External links 

 Faculty page at Catholic Theological Union

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