Dr. Stephan Kampowski

Dr. Stephan Kampowski was born in Kaufbeuren, Bavaria, in 1972. He grew up in the northern part of Germany, in Wolfsburg, Lower Saxony. In 2014 he was nominated full professor of philosophical anthropology at the Pontifical John Paul II Institute for Studies on Marriage and Family in Rome, where he had been teaching since 2005 and where he had also defended his doctoral dissertation on Hannah Arendt's action theory and moral thought. In 2019 he was nominated full professor at the newly-founded Pontifical Theological Institute John Paul II for Marriage and Family Sciences, in Rome. He was one of the coordinators of the Master in Bioethics and Formation, organized by the John Paul II Institute and the Institute of Bioethics and Medical Humanities of the University of the Sacred Heart, Rome from 2008-2019.

Prior to his studies at the John Paul II Institute, Dr. Kampowski studied at the International Theological Institute in Gaming, Austria (from 1998-2000), where he completed his Licentiate Degree in Sacred Theology. Before going to Austria, he attended the Franciscan University of Steubenville, USA (from 1993 to 1998), where he obtained two Master of Arts degrees: one in philosophy and one in theology.

His doctoral dissertation was published by Eerdmans, Grand Rapids, under the title: Arendt, Augustine, and the New Beginning. The Action Theory and Moral Thought of Hannah Arendt. In the Spring of 2008, he spent a research semester under the guidance of Dr. Stanley Hauerwas at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina, where he completed another book project which examines the contributions of Hans Jonas and Jürgen Habermas to the current debate on biotechnology, and which has since been published by Pickwick Publications, Oregon, as A Greater Freedom. Biotechnology, Love, and Human Destiny. (In Dialogue with Hans Jonas and Jürgen Habermas). His more recent publications include La fecondità di una vita. Verso un'antropologia del matrimonio e della famiglia, Cantagalli, Siena 2017, and Embracing Our Finitude. Exercises in a Christian Anthropology between Dependence and Gratitude, Cascade Books, Eugene, Oregon 2018.