Matthew Wright | People, Biola University

Department	Torrey Honors College
Biola Affiliations	Faculty
Website	https://scriptoriumdaily.com/author/matthewwright/

Documents

Degrees

Ph.D., University of Texas
B.A., Biola University

Biography

Dr. Matthew Wright is a political theorist who specializes in the Thomistic-Aristotelian natural law tradition. This entails a methodology particularly sensitive to the diverse forms of natural association and authority that fall within political communities. He is interested in understanding how groups like families and churches relate to the political community and what political life uniquely contributes to the full development of human social capacities.

Affiliations

James Madison Society, Princeton University

Publications

Books

A Vindication of Politics: On the Common Good and Human Flourishing, Wright, M.D., (University Press of Kansas, 2019).

Articles

“‘The Earth Itself Is a Suburb’: Local Attachments and Universal Norms in the Natural Law,” Wright, M.D., Catholic Social Science Review, August 2017.
“The Aim of Law and the Nature of Political Community: An Assessment of Finnis on Aquinas,” Wright, M.D., American Journal of Jurisprudence, January 2009.

Book Chapters

“Seneca the Younger, From ‘On the Shortness of Life,’” in Learning the Good Life: Wisdom from the Great Hearts and Minds That Came Before, Wright, M.D., ed., Hooten Wilson, J. and Stratman, J. (Zondervan Academic, 2022), pp. 32-39.
“Natural Law, Civic Friendship, and Stanley Hauerwas’s Counter-Polis Thesis,” in Natural Law and Evangelical Political Thought, Wright, M.D., ed. Covington, J., McGraw, B. and Watson, M. (Lexington Books, 2013), pp. 225-49.

Books

A Vindication of Politics: On the Common Good and Human Flourishing