Rev Reginald Chua OP

Honorary Dominican Research Fellow, Centre for the History of Philosophy
BA, MPhil, MTheol

Email: reginald.mary.chua@nd.edu.au

• Biography

  Reginald Chua is a Dominican friar of the Province of the Assumption (Australia) and was previously University Chaplain on UNDA’s Sydney Campus (2020–2025). He completed undergraduate studies at Campion College Australia and has an MPhil in philosophy from the University of Sydney (2017) and an MTheol from the University of Divinity (2020). He is currently a DPhil Candidate in Philosophy at Oxford. His research interests are in Metaphysics, Medieval philosophy, and Chinese Buddhism. He has previously taught Philosophy of the Human Person at UNDA and as of 2025 is an affiliate of the Notre Dame Centre for the History of Philosophy.

• Research expertise and supervision

  • Medieval philosophy
  • Metaphysics

• Journal articles and proceedings

  • “Three objections to institutional conscientious objection and why they are (metaphysically) unconvincing,” with Xavier Symons, Journal of Medicine and Philosophy 49, no. 3 (2024), https://doi.org/10.1093/jmp/jhae012
  • “Aquinas, Analogy and the Trinity,” Oxford Studies in Medieval Philosophy 10, no. 3 (2022): 89–117, https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780192871244.003.0003
  • “Rationing, responsibility, and blameworthiness: an ethical evaluation of responsibility-sensitive policies for healthcare rationing,” with Xavier Symons, Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal 31, no. 1 (2021): 53–76, https://doi.org/10.1353/ken.2021.0004
  • “‘Alive by Default’: An Exploration of Velleman’s Unfair Burdens Argument against State Sanctioned Euthanasia,” with Xavier Symons, Bioethics 34, no. 3 (2020): 288–94, https://doi.org/10.1111/bioe.12677
  • “Eckhart, Aquinas, and the Problem of Intrinsic Goods,” Medieval Mystical Theology 28, no. 1 (2019): 3–13, https://doi.org/10.1080/20465726.2019.1620488
  • “Much Ado About Aboutness,” with Sam Baron, Kristie Miller, and James Norton, Inquiry (2019), https://doi.org/10.1080/0020174X.2019.1592705
  • “Aquinas on Temperance,” New Blackfriars 100, no. 1085 (2019): 5–21, https://doi.org/10.1111/nbfr.12329
  • “Organismal Death, the Dead-Donor Rule and the Ethics of Vital Organ Procurement,” with Xavier Symons, Journal of Medical Ethics 44, no. 12 (2018): 868–71, https://doi.org/10.1136/medethics-2018-104796
  • “In Altum – ‘Put out into the deep’: A formation program for missionary discipleship for students at the University of Notre Dame Australia,” with John Topliss and Thomas V. Gourlay, Religions 15, no. 2 (2024): 147, https://doi.org/10.3390/rel15020147
  • “Aquinas and Romans 11:26,” Journal of Theological Interpretation 13, no. 2 (2019): 168–85, https://doi.org/10.5325/jtheointe.13.2.0168

• Book chapters

  • “Germain Grisez, ultimate ends, and the magisterium: revising revisionist narratives,” in 1968 – Culture and Counterculture: A Catholic Critique, ed. Thomas V. Gourlay and Daniel Matthys (Pickwick, 2020)