Contributors
- Contributors
David Cloutier is an associate professor of theology at Mount St. Mary’s University. He received his BA from Carleton College and his PhD from Duke University. He is the author of Love, Reason, and God’s Story: An Introduction to Catholic Sexual Ethics (Anselm/St. Mary’s Press, 2008) and editor of Leaving and Coming Home: New Wineskins for Catholic Sexual Ethics (Cascade, 2010). He has published a recent article on a related topic, “Working with the Grammar of Creation: Benedict XVI, Wendell Berry, and the Unity of the Catholic Moral Vision,” Communio. He is coeditor of the first issue of the Journal of Moral Theology, edits the blog Catholic Moral Theology (http://catholicmoraltheology.com/), and his current research interests aim at developing further the casuistry of Christian economic practice.
Erin Dufault-Hunter is assistant professor of Christian ethics at Fuller Theological Seminary. Among other articles, she has several dictionary articles in the Dictionary of Scripture and Ethics (Baker, in press) as well as a forthcoming book on a narrative theory of conversion. In addition to general ethics courses, she teaches medical and sexual ethics.
Karen V. Guth is assistant professor of theology at St. Catherine University and was a postdoctoral fellow with the Initiative in Religious Practices and Practical Theology at Emory University’s Candler School of Theology. She received a PhD in religious ethics from the University of Virginia, where she was also a fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture. She is completing a book that offers a feminist appropriation of the thought of Reinhold Niebuhr, Martin Luther King Jr., and John Howard Yoder.
L. Shannon Jung is the Franklin and Louise Cole Professor of Town and Country Ministries at Saint Paul School of Theology, Kansas City, Missouri. His research interests include the theology and ethics of eating and growing (Food for Life, Fortress, 2004; Sharing Food, Fortress, 2007; and Hunger & Happiness, Augsburg, 2009). He is especially interested in the process of moral transformation. [End Page 229]
James W. McCarty III is director of the Ethics and Servant Leadership program at Oxford College of Emory University and a PhD student in religion (ethics and society) at Emory University. His research interests include race and religion in the United States, peace building, transitional justice, and the thought of Martin Luther King Jr. and Desmond Tutu. His current research focuses on the relationship between forgiveness, justice, and reconciliation, especially in postconflict societies. Recent and forthcoming publications include articles in St. John’s Law Review, West Virginia Law Review, and Practical Matters.
Vic McCracken is assistant professor of theology and ethics at Abilene Christian University. He is currently co-convener of the SCE’s Pedagogy Working Groups, and in 2010 was honored as ACU’s Honors College Professor of the Year. His current research interests have him exploring the intersection of theological and philosophical theories of justice.
William McDonough is associate professor of theology at St. Catherine University in St. Paul, Minnesota, where he also coordinates the master’s in theology program. His research has been primarily in the areas of natural law and virtue ethics. He has written two essays on religious virtue ethics for this journal, one on Etty Hillesum (2005) and the other on the work of the contemporary German theologian Eberhard Schockenhoff (2007). His current research interest is on the relevance of theological ethics for public life, seeking ways beyond the impasse between “thin” and self-justifying secular anthropologies and “thicker” (but often equally self-justifying) religious ones.
Kevin J. O’Brien is assistant professor of Christian ethics at Pacific Lutheran University in Tacoma, Washington, where he teaches and researches about the intersection of ecological and social ethics. He is the author of An Ethics of Bio-diversity: Christianity, Ecology, and the Variety of Life (Georgetown University Press, 2010) and coeditor of Grounding Religion: A Field Guide to the Study of Religion and Ecology (Routledge, 2010).
K. Christine Pae is assistant professor of religion at Denison University, Granville, Ohio. She holds a doctoral degree in Christian social ethics from Union Theological Seminary in New York City. At Denison, she teaches religious ethics, Christian social ethics, women’s spirituality, and transnational feminist ethics...
