Michael Shute

Michael R. Shute (21 September 1951 - 3 January 2020 in Halifax, Nova Scotia) was a Canadian scholar and Professor of Religious Studies at Memorial University of Newfoundland. He was known for his research on the works of Bernard Lonergan and moral decision-making. Shute was a co-editor of Journal of Macrodynamic Analysis.

Shute received a diagnosis of ALS. 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, 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, University Press of America, 1993