Ethics and Advocacy

Ethics and Advocacy considers the connections and differences between critical reflection or moral arguments or narratives and advocacy for particular issues regarding justice and moral behavior and dispositions. The chapters in this volume share an interest in overcoming polarizing division that does not enable fruitful give-and-take discussion and even possible persuasive justifications. The authors all believe that both ethics and advocacy are important and should inform each other, but each offers a divergent point of view on the way forward to these agreed-upon ends. Our shared goal is to avoid academic withdrawal and to speak relevantly to the important issues of our day while halting--or at least mitigating--the disruptive discourse--almost shouting--that characterizes our polarized current society.

Auteur

Harlan Beckley is Fletcher Otey Thomas Professor Emeritus of Religion at Washington and Lee University. His publications include Passion for Justice (1992), Economic Justice (1996), James M. Gustafson's Theocentric Ethics (1989), and numerous periodical articles. He founded and directed the Shepherd Program on Human Capability and Poverty and the Shepherd Higher Education Consortium on Poverty.

Douglas F. Ottati is Craig Family Distinguished Professor of Reformed Theology and Justice at Davidson College. His publications include A Theology for the Twenty-First Century (2020), Theology for Liberal Presbyterians and Other Endangered Species (2006), and Hopeful Realism: Reclaiming the Poetry of Theology (1999).

Matthew R. Petrusek is Associate Professor of Theological Ethics at Loyola Marymount University. His books include Value and Vulnerability: An Interfaith Dialogue on Human Dignity (with Jonathan Rothchild), Jordan Peterson, God, and Christianity: The Search for a Meaningful Life (with Christopher Kaczor), and Evangelization and Politics: A Catholic Guide to Navigating Ideological Conflict (forthcoming). Petrusek serves as a fellow in Bishop Robert Barron's Word on Fire Institute.

William Schweiker is Edward L. Ryerson Distinguished Service Professor of Theological Ethics at the University of Chicago. His publications include Religious Ethics: Meaning and Method (2020), Dust That Breathes: Christian Faith and the New Humanism (2010), Religion and the Human Future (2008), Theological Ethics and Global Dynamics: In the Time of Many World (2004), among others. He has served as Mercator Professor at Universität Heidelberg and holds an honorary doctorate from the University of Uppsala. Schweiker was President of the Society of Christian Ethics (2016).