The Schooled Heart: Moral Reformation in American Higher Education

List of Contributors

223 List of Contributors MICHAEL D. BEATY is professor of philosophy at Baylor University, where he has served since 1987. Currently chair of the department, he has previously held posts at Baylor as vice provost for faculty development and director of the Institute for Faith and Learning. A specialist in moral and social philosophy, the philosophy of religion, and Christianity and higher education, he is the author of numerous articles and is the editor or coeditor of four books: Christian Theism and the Problems of Philosophy ; Christian Theism and Moral Philosophy; Cultivating Citizens: Soulcraft and Citizenship in Contemporary America; and Christianity and the Soul of the University: Faith as a Foundation for Intellectual Community. DARIN H. DAVIS is associate director of the Baylor Institute for Faith and Learning, an appointment taken following four years as assistant professor of philosophy at St. Norbert College in De Pere, Wisconsin. A native of Amarillo, Texas, he holds a B.A. in philosophy and English from the University of Texas, an M.A. in philosophy from Baylor University, and a Ph.D. in philosophy from Saint Louis University. His research interests are focused on contemporary moral philosophy, moral psychology, and 224 List of Contributors business ethics. His work has appeared in the American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly and (with William Rehg) in the Southern Journal of Philosophy . SHAWN D. FLOYD is currently associate professor of philosophy at Malone College in Canton, Ohio. He received his B.A. and M.A. in philosophy from Baylor University and his Ph.D. in philosophy from Saint Louis University. His research interests include virtue ethics, Thomas Aquinas, and philosophy of religion, and he has published articles in journals such as The Modern Schoolman; History of Philosophy Quarterly; Logos: A Journal of Catholic Thought and Culture; and The Heythrop Journal. STANLEY HAUERWAS is Gilbert T. Rowe Professor of Theological Ethics at Duke Divinity School and the author of numerous books including Resident Aliens; A Community of Character; The Peaceable Kingdom; A Better Hope; With the Grain of the Universe, his 2000–2002 Gifford Lectures; and Cross-Shattered Christ: Meditations on the Last Seven Words. Described by Time magazine as “America’s Best Theologian” and “contemporary theology ’s foremost intellectual provocateur,” Hauerwas is a keen cultural critic whose considerable opus has significantly shaped conversation about postliberalism, narrative theology, and virtue ethics. DOUGLAS V. HENRY serves as director of the Institute for Faith and Learning and associate professor of philosophy in the Honors College at Baylor University. In addition to work in ancient philosophy, ethics, and the philosophy of religion, his research interests include the history, philosophy , and theology of Christian higher education. Coeditor of Faithful Learning and the Christian Scholarly Vocation and of Christianity and the Soul of the University: Faith as a Foundation for Intellectual Community, he is currently working on For Freedom, for Love: Liberal Education and the Baptist Vision. DAVID LYLE JEFFREY is Distinguished Professor of Literature and Humanities at Baylor University. An expert in medieval English literature, Jeffrey is also a gifted speaker and prolific writer whose recent book, Houses of the Interpreter: Reading Scripture, Reading Culture, joins his Dictionary of Biblical Tradition in English Literature; People of the Book; English Spirituality in the Age of Wyclif; and Rethinking the Future of the University, an examination of the relationships and contributions of historic Christian thought to the intellectual life of university disciplines. NICHOLAS K. MERIWETHER is associate professor of philosophy at Shawnee State University in Portsmouth, Ohio, where he teaches a jun- List of Contributors 225 ior level ethics requirement. He has published articles on Jürgen Habermas ’s discourse ethics and moral sanctions in Telos and The Journal of Moral Education. His primary area of research is the nexus of ethics, civil society, religion, and political theory. STEPHEN K. MORONEY is professor of theology at Malone College, where he has been recognized with the college-wide distinguished faculty award for teaching. He has degrees from Wheaton College, GordonConwell Theological Seminary, and bachelor’s and doctoral degrees from Duke University. He is the author of The Noetic Effects of Sin: A Historical and Contemporary Exploration of How Sin Affects Our Thinking, and he is working on a subsequent book addressing the subject of judgment, both human and divine. WARREN A. NORD works in the areas of philosophy of the humanities, philosophy of religion, philosophy of education (especially moral education ), and the relationship of...