Steven Aguzzi

Steven Aguzzi is an American systematic theologian and an ordained Minister in the Presbyterian Church (USA)1. Ordained in 2005, Aguzzi has served churches in Pennsylvania and Georgia, primarily in the field of youth ministry, and has become a voice for the ecumenical movement and interreligious dialogue in the Reformed Tradition Reformed churches.

Education, Early Career, and Theology

Aguzzi received his Master of Divinity degree at Princeton Theological Seminary in 2005, focusing on Jewish-Christian dialogue and the influence of continental philosophy on methods in inter-religious theology, particularly in the Roman Catholic Tradition. In 2007, he took a fellowship at Duquesne University in order to earn his Ph.D. in Systematic Theology, and as of 2010 has been working on the central theme of his dissertation. Aguzzi's work on ecumenism John Henry Newman and the Jewish-Christian question/issue of supersessionism has taken the form of various journal articles. Aguzzi is also published in the field of biomedical ethics.

  • Aguzzi, Steven D. "John Henry Newman's Anglican Views on Judaism." Newman Studies Journal 7, no. 1 (2010) 2
  • Aguzzi, Steven D. "Florovsky’s 'The Boundaries of the Church’ in Dialogue with the Reformed Tradition: Toward a Catholic and Charismatic Ecumenical Ecclesiology", Ecumenical Trends 39: 3 (2010), 8-14 3
  • Aguzzi, Steven D. "Suffering Redeemed: A Reformed Argument Against Physician Assisted [...] and Euthanasia", Theology Matters 17: 2 (2011), 1-9 4