Edmund Santurri
Office: Boe Chapel 106
Phone: 507-786-3084 & 507-646-3496
Email: santurri@stolaf.edu
Edmund N. Santurri is Professor of Religion and Philosophy and Director of the Great Conversation at St. Olaf College. He has taught at St. Olaf since 1980 and was Chair of the Religion Department from 1988 to 1991. He is the author of Perplexity in the Moral Life: Philosophical and Theological Considerations (Virginia, 1987) and has coedited (with William Werpehowski) The Love Commandments: Essays in Christian Ethics and Moral Philosophy.
His current teaching and research interests include political ethics ("Rawlsian Liberalism and Augustinian Politics"), theological anthropology (with particular emphasis on the doctrine of sin), theology and visual art (Caravaggio). Santurri has also lectured and published on the cultural, moral and theological significance of Frank Sinatra and occasionally sings jazz-inflected Sinatra songs with various jazz combos. Other hobbies and interests: Rooting for the Red Sox, Twins, Patriots, Vikings, Timberwolves, and Celtics; walking dogs Rosebud and Simba; providing theological explanations of Frank Sinatra's life; and listening to the Beatles with daughter Alissa.
