Michael R. Shute (21 September 1951 - 3 January 2020 in

Halifax, Nova Scotia Halifax is the capital and most populous municipality of the Provinces and territories of Canada, Canadian province of Nova Scotia, and the most populous municipality in Atlantic Canada. As of 2024, it is estimated that the population of the H ...

) was a Canadian scholar and Professor of

Religious Studies Religious studies, also known as religiology or the study of religion, is the study of religion from a historical or scientific perspective. There is no consensus on what qualifies as ''religion'' and definition of religion, its definition is h ...

Memorial University of Newfoundland Memorial University of Newfoundland, or MUN (), is a Public university, public research university in the province of Newfoundland and Labrador, based in St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, St. John's, with satellite campuses in Corner Brook ...

. He was known for his research on the works of

Bernard Lonergan Bernard Joseph Francis Lonergan (17 December 1904 – 26 November 1984) was a Canadians, Canadian Jesuit priest, philosophy, philosopher, and theology, theologian, regarded by many as one of the most important thinkers of the 20th century. Lone ...

and

moral decision-making In business ethics, Ethical decision-making is the study of the process of making decisions that engender trust, and thus indicate responsibility, fairness and caring to an individual. To be ethical, one has to demonstrate respect, and responsibil ...

. Shute was a co-editor of ''Journal of Macrodynamic Analysis''. Shute received a diagnosis of

ALS Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), also known as motor neuron disease (MND) or—in the United States—Lou Gehrig's disease (LGD), is a rare, terminal neurodegenerative disorder that results in the progressive loss of both upper and low ...

. As a result, he retired from teaching in September 2019, and died on January 3, 2020.

Books

* '' Lonergan's Discovery of the Science of Economics'',

University of Toronto Press The University of Toronto Press is a Canadian university press. Although it was founded in 1901, the press did not actually publish any books until 1911. The press originally printed only examination books and the university calendar. Its first s ...

, 2010 * ''Lonergan's Early Economic Research'', University of Toronto Press, 2010 * ''Improving Moral Decision-Making'' (with William Zanardi). Axial Press, 2003 * ''

The Origins of Lonergan's Notion of the Dialectic of History ''The Origins of Lonergan's Notion of the Dialectic of History: A Study of Lonergan's Early Writings on History'' is a 1993 book by Michael Shute, in which the author provides "a study of previously unavailable material from the 1930s on the subj ...

'',

University Press of America University Press of America (''UPA'') is the former name of an American Academic publishing, academic publishing company based in Lanham, Maryland, which became the parent company of Rowman & Littlefield publishing house, then was later re-intr ...

, 1993

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Michael Shute at Memorial University of Newfoundland
1951 births 2020 deaths University of Toronto alumni Acadia University alumni Academic staff of the Memorial University of Newfoundland Canadian philosophers of religion Atlantic School of Theology alumni Canadian Christian theologians 20th-century Canadian theologians Religious studies scholars Lonergan scholars Deaths from motor neuron disease in Canada Place of birth missing Neurological disease deaths in Nova Scotia {{Canada-academic-bio-stub