Aimee A, Hein, PhD

Assistant Professor

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Contact

aimeehein@creighton.edu
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Aimee A, Hein, PhD

Assistant Professor

Dr. Aimee Hein’s research focuses on social ethics, migration, responsibility, justice and peacebuilding, ecological ethics, and Catholic social teaching. Her book, Theology in Motion: Migration, History, and Responsibility (Fortress Press, 2024), explores the historical development of immigration discourse, policy, and trends in the United States and proposes a reparative, responsibility ethics framework for guiding Christian approaches to immigration ethics today. Hein holds a PhD in theological ethics from Boston College and is a member of the Society of Christian Ethics, College Theology Society, and American Academy of Religion.  She is an avid sports fan (go Jays!) and a musical theater lover.

Research Focus

Social ethics, migration, responsibility, justice and peacebuilding, ecological ethics, and Catholic social teaching

Department

Theology

Position

Assistant Professor

Books

  • , Theology In Motion 2024

Publications

  • Journal of the Society of Christian Ethics
    , Eight Theories of Justice: Perspectives from Philosophical and Theological Ethics, by Karen Lebacqz and Matthew J. Gaudet
    45:2, p. 339 - 340 2025
  • Hein Aimee Allison, Justice Peace: A Christian Primer 2021
  • Theological Studies
    Hein Aimee Allison, Shorter Notice: Thompson, J. Milburn: Justice & Peace: A Christian Primer
    82:3 2021
  • Health Progress
    Hein Aimee Allison, RESPONSIBILITY ETHICS IN THE AGE OF CORONAVIRUS
    102:3 2021
  • Political theology : the journal of Christian Socialism
    Hein Aimee Allison, God and the illegal alien: United States immigration law and a theology of politics: by Robert W. Heimburger, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2018, 216 pp., $24.99 (paperback), ISBN 9781316629833
    20:6 2019
  • Hein Aimee Allison, God and the illegal alien: United States immigration law and a theology of politics 2019
  • Theological studies (Baltimore)
    Hein Aimee Allison, Justice Peace: A Christian Primer
    82:3 -0001
  • Political theology : the journal of Christian Socialism
    Hein Aimee Allison, God and the illegal alien: United States immigration law and a theology of politics
    20:6 -0001