Philosopher, public theologian, and writer Michael S. Hogue helps people navigate upheaval, loss, and mourning as occasions to reimagine and remake worlds.
about the author
Philosophy,
Theology, & Life.
Meet Michael,
Michael S. Hogue, Ph.D., is a philosopher, theologian, writer, and teacher. His current work explores grief as a way of knowing the world.
In addition to his four published books, Michael has two books in progress. His first trade book for a general audience, The Unmaking of My Mother, is about dementia as a spiritual teacher. His academic book in progress, Melancholy for the World, develops the theory of structural grief as a framework for understanding the unmaking and remaking of worlds.
Michael grew up in northern Michigan, on the Old Mission Peninsula, but now lives near a zoo in Chicago with his wife, three children, two cats, and a dog.
Invited Talks & Teaching
Trusted speaker and educator at top universities, including Boston University and University of Chicago.
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grants & aWARDS
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Michael was a fellow for two years with The Enhancing Life Project, which selected scholars from around the world to examine the meaning of enhancement as a dimension of human aspiration. The ELP was based at the University of Chicago and University Bochum and funded by the John Templeton Foundation.
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The Religion Vulnerability and Resilience Project
Michael and his research partner Dean Phillip Bell (The Spertus Institute for Jewish Learning and Leadership, Chicago), were awarded a major grant by the Arthur Vining Davis Foundation. The grant supported the development of workshops, training, and curricula that led to their co-authored book, Interreligious Resilience.
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Michael received this prestigious international prize for his first book, The Tangled Bank. The prize provided funding for lecturing at universities around the world for two years.
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Michael has received several small and large grants through the generosity of The Wabash Center for Teaching and Learning in Religion and Theology. His grant projects have focused on racial identity development, structural grief, and digital public theology.
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Words from Colleagues and Readers
Rev. Dr. Rita Capezzi:
I learned from Mike not simply theology but rather how to think theologically. Not simply the possible nature of the Divine, but how the Divine manifests in surprising and mysterious, though substantial and recognizable, ways as a multi-forming, multi-acting, multi-activating series of relations which we are called to participate with toward the amplification of love, truth, and justice. I learned to move away from a static "God" I could either worship or lament toward an unfolding process of complex and chaotic thriving life entirely worthy of reverence and care. I and my ministry are better for Mike's instruction.