Professor Maurice Agbaw-Ebai is a priest of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Mamfe, Cameroon. His research interests include the Theological Opus of Joseph Ratzinger/Benedict XVI; Philosophy of Religion and German Idealism; African Literature/Christianity in Africa; and Secularism, Religion and Politics.

He has taught courses in Philosophy and Theology at Boston College, Newton MA, USA; Merrimack College, North Andover MA, USA; Catholic University of Cameroon, Bamenda, Cameroon; St. John’s Seminary, Brighton MA, USA; and Pope St. John XXIII National Seminary, Weston MA, USA.

He is currently the Executive Assistant to the President, and Professor of Philosophy and Theology at the Catholic Institute of Technology, Castel Gandolfo, Rome, Italy.

Featured Publications:

The Essential Supernatural: A Dialogical Study in Kierkegaard and Blondel. By Maurice Ashley Agbaw‐Ebai. South Bend: St Augustine’s Press, 2022.

Light of Reason, Light of Faith: Joseph Ratzinger and the German Enlightenment. By Maurice Ashley Agbaw-Ebai. South Bend: St Augustine’s Press, 2021.

Benedict XVI: Rethinking Africa Tasks for Today (editor with Kizito Forbi, S.J.), (St. Augustine’s Press, South Bend, IN, 2024).

 An African Perspective on the Thought of Benedict XVI (editor with Kizito Forbi, S.J), (St. Augustine’s Press, South Bend, IN, 2023).

Africae Munus, Ten Years Later (editor with Prof. Mathew Levering), (St. Augustine’s Press, South Bend, IN, 2022).

Joseph Ratzinger and the Future of African Theology (editor with Prof Matthew Levering), (Wipf  and Stock Publishers, Eugene, Oregon, 2021).

Holistic Theology for Modern Black/African Churches (Editors with Esther E. Acolatse, Kevaughn Mattis). 

Oxford Handbook of Ratzinger – Editors, Francesca Murphy and Tracy Rowland: Chapter: Ratzinger and the Johannine Logos.

God and the World in Nietzsche and Ratzinger (Communio, Washington DC).

Benedict XVI and Cultural Dynamisms: Insights for the Renewal of the Techno-Scientific Culture (Religions, Basel, Switzerland).

Ratzinger and the Enlightenment Movement” in Joseph Ratzinger in Dialogue with Philosophical Traditions, Vol II (Mexico City, Mexico).

Ratzinger’s Theological Anthropology in Conversation with Aspects of Paulinus Odozor’s Understanding of the Human Person in Christ (St. Augustine’s, South Bend, Indiana).

Ratzinger and the Johannine Logos” in Oxford Handbook of  Ratzinger (Oxford University Press, Oxford, England).