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Deborah Savage, Ph.D. is Professor of Theology at Franciscan University of Steubenville. She also serves as the Director of the Institute for the Study of Man and Woman. She received her doctorate in Religious Studies from Marquette University in 2005; her degree is in both theology and philosophy. She can be contacted through by email at dsavage@franciscan.edu.
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Rethinking Pope St. John Paul II’s call for a “new feminism”

August 23, 2025 Deborah Savage, PhD 18

In transforming culture so that it supports life, women occupy a place, in thought and action, which is unique and decisive. It depends on them to promote a “new feminism” which rejects the temptation of […]

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Locating the moment of freedom: Women’s “reproductive rights” and the power of choice

November 17, 2021 Deborah Savage, PhD 6

One would have to have been living on another planet for the last few months to be unaware of the recently rekindled battle looming over the historic Supreme Court decision known as Roe v. Wade […]

Essay

Leveraging the Truth: The Catholic university and the future of Western civilization

January 27, 2021 Deborah Savage, PhD 30

It scarcely needs to be pointed out that western culture is under attack. What appeared at first to be a series of isolated skirmishes has turned into a full-frontal assault. The legitimacy and value of […]

Books

The story of the rise, triumph, and nightmare of the modern self

November 29, 2020 Deborah Savage, PhD 26

Anyone wondering if man is capable of reason need look no further than the self-evident fact that he desires to understand. Indeed, he is frustrated when understanding eludes him. In those moments, he experiences what […]

Essay

The Return of the Madman: Nietzsche, Nihilism, and the Death of God, circa 2020

August 10, 2020 Deborah Savage, PhD 31

Anyone of a certain age will surely recall the almost palpable ripple that reverberated through public awareness when, in April 1966, Time Magazine famously featured a stark black cover interrupted by a single startling question: […]

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