Editor, War in the Twentieth Century: Sources in Theological Ethics (Louisville: John Knox/Westminster, 1992).

 

Casuistry and Modern Ethics: A Poetics of Practical Reasoning (University of Chicago Press, 1996).*

 

Children, Ethics, and Modern Medicine (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2003).*

  

 

White Paper:

 

“Intelligent Design, Science Education, and Public Reason,” with Robert A. Crouch (principal author) and Lisa H. Sideris.  Available at http://poynter.indiana.edu/science.shtml 

 

“Narrative and Casuistry: A Response to John Arras,” Indiana Law Journal 69 (Fall 1994): 1015-20.

 

“Casuistry, Pacifism, and Just-War Tradition in the Post-Cold War Era,” to supplement U.S. Catholic Bishops, The Harvest of Justice is Sown in Peace, the 1993 pastoral letter commemorating the 10th anniversary of The Challenge of Peace and the 30th anniversary of Pacem in Terris (Washington, DC: U.S. Catholic Conference, 1994), 199-213.

 

“Truthtelling, Moral Sources, and Ordinary Life in Jeremy Taylor's Casuistry,” in Casuistry in Context, ed. Thomas A. Shannon and James Keenan (Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press, 1995), 131-57.*

 

“Divine Justice, Evil, and Tradition: Comparative Reflections,” in The Ethics of War: Religious and Secular Perspectives, ed. Terry Nardin (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1996), 265-81.*

 

“Love and Death in a Pediatric Intensive Care Unit,” Annual, Society of Christian Ethics (1996): 21-39.*

 

“Just-War Criteria and Theocentrism,” in Christian Ethics: Problems and Prospects, ed. James F. Childress and Lisa Sowle Cahill (Cleveland, Oh.: Pilgrim Press, 1996), 334-356.

 

“Introduction” to Gabriel Palmer-Fernandez, Deterrence and the Crisis in Moral Theory (New York: Peter Lang, 1996), xiii-xvi.

 

“Religion and the American Public Intellectual,” Journal of Religious Ethics 25 (Fall 1997): 369-92.

 

“On Identity, Rights, and Multicultural Justice,” Annual of the Society of Christian Ethics 19 (1999): 261-83.*

 

“The Politics of Religious Studies: Too Coarse a Filter,” Bulletin for the Council of Societies for the Study of Religion (November1999): 111-12.

 

“Humanitarian Intervention, Altruism, and the Limits of Casuistry,” Journal of Religious Ethics 28 (Spring 2000): 3-35.*

 

“Legitimation, Justification, and the Politics of Rescue,” in Kosovo: Contending Voices on Balkan Interventions, ed. William J. Buckley (Grand Rapids, Mich.: Wm Eerdmans, 2000), 384-98.

 

“Religion, Ethics, and Clinical Immersion: An Appraisal of Three Pioneers,” in Caring Well: Religion, Narrative, and Health Care Ethics, ed. David H. Smith (Louisville: Westminster/John Knox, 2000), 17-42.

“Christian Attitudes toward Boundaries: Metaphysical and Geographical,” in Boundaries and Justice: Diverse Ethical Perspectives, ed. David Miller and Sohail Hashmi (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2001), 15-37.*

 

“The Virtues and Vices of Civil Society,” in Civil Society and Government, ed., Nancy Rosenblum and Robert Post (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2001), 370-96.*

 

“Aquinas and the Presumption against Killing and War,” Journal of Religion 82 (April 2002): 173-204.*

 

“Thinking about War and Justice: A Reply to Jean Bethke Elshtain,” at http://marty-center.uchicago.edu/webforum/052003/response_miller.shtml

 

“Role Responsibility in Pediatrics:  Appeasing or Transforming Parental Demands?” in Ethical Dilemmas in Pediatrics: Cases and Commentaries, ed. Lorry R. Frankel, Ammon Goldworth, Mary V. Rorty, and William A. Silverman (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005), 21-29.

 

“On Making a Cultural Turn in Religious Ethics,” Journal of Religious Ethics 33 (September 2005): 409-43.*

 

“Rules,” in The Oxford Handbook of Theological Ethics, ed. Gilbert Meilaender and William Werpehowski (New York: Oxford University Press, 2005), 220-236

 

“On Medicine, Culture, and Children's Basic Interests: A Reply to Three Critics,” Journal of Religious Ethics 34 (March 2006): 177-89.

 

“Art, (Human) Nature, and Social Criticism,” Introduction to Human Nature (Bloomington: SoFA Gallery, 2007), 3-6.

 

“Natural Piety and the Ethics of Human Embryo Research” (in draft).
 

“On Duties and Debts to Children” (in draft).

 

“9/11, Islam, and the Disquiet of Equal Liberty” (in progress)

 

Several articles currently under review.

 

 

 

Essays on Teaching:

 

Entries on “Sophocles,” “Augustine,” and “Conrad,” for Annotated Bibliography of Artistic and Literary Works Used in the Teaching of Ethics, 1988 Society of Christian Ethics Annual (Georgetown University Press, 1988).
 

“Rhetoric, Pedagogy, and the Study of Religions,” (with Laurie Patton and Stephen Webb) Journal of the American Academy of Religion 62 (Fall 1994): 819-50.

 

“Critical Representations,” Journal of the American Academy of Religion 65 (Winter 1997): 727-44.*

 

Positions:         

 

1985-:   Visiting Lecturer/Visiting Assistant Professor, Dept. of Religious Studies, Indiana University, Bloomington

              1986

 

1986‑   Assistant Professor, Department of Religious Studies, Indiana University

1992:  

 

1992-   Associate Professor, Department of Religious Studies, Indiana University

1996:

 

1994-   Member, American Studies Program, Indiana University

 

1996-   Professor, Department of Religious Studies, Indiana University

 

1997-   Finkelstein Fellow, College of Arts and Sciences, Indiana University                 

2001

 

2000-   Chair, Department of Religious Studies, Indiana University

2003

 

2002-   Affiliate Faculty, IU Center for Bioethics

 

2003-   Adjunct Faculty, IU Center on Philanthropy

 

2003-   Director, Poynter Center for the Study of Ethics and American Institutions

 

 

Grants, Fellowships, and Awards:      

 

 

1979‑   Annual Grant from Charles M. Ross Trust

1983: 

 

1981:   Entering Doctoral Fellowship, University of Chicago

 

1983:   Doctoral Exams Passed with Distinction

 

1983:   Divinity School Fellowship, University of Chicago

                          

1986‑   Multidisciplinary Ventures Fund, IU: “The Experience of War”

1987:  

 

1988:   NIH Grant to research the ethics of transplanting human fetal tissue

 

1988:  Curriculum enrichment grant to 5 RS members to develop Ph.D. at IU

 

1988:   Lilly Endowment Summer Research Fellowship

 

1989:   “Outstanding Young Faculty Award,” IU

               

1990:   IU Summer Faculty Fellowship (declined)

 

1990:   National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Stipend                                 

 

1990:   2nd Place in Bross Competition ($7500), for Interpretations of Conflict.  The Bross Prize is an international manuscript competition on any topic about Christianity in relation to another discipline.  It is held every ten years and in 1990 awarded three prizes.

 

1991:   Inaugural Workshop on Teaching Religion sponsored by the Midwest AAR, Lilly Endowment, and Wabash College

 

1991-   Project Director, “Religion and Moral Discourse,” a pilot project funded by the Lilly Endowment

92:       

 

1993-   Principal Investigator, “Religion, Morality, and Professional Life in America,” a national seminar funded by the Lilly Endowment

95:        

 

1993:   Research Grant-in-Aid, IU

 

1995:   IU Summer Faculty Fellowship

 

1995:   IU President's Council on International Programs Grant to support professional travel to Oxford University

 

1997-   Residential Fellow, Program in Ethics and the Professions, Harvard University

98:

 

1997-     Research Leave Salary Supplement, IU

98:

 

1998-   Participant, provided with release-time, for “Religion, Ethnography, and Professional Life,” a grant funded by the Lilly Endowment

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2000:   IU Overseas Conference Grant to present work at colloquium on “Ethics and Global Affairs,” University of Leeds, UK

 

2004:   IU Summer Faculty Fellowship

 

2004:   IU College Arts and Humanities Institute Fellowship

 

2006:  “Privacy in Public: Ethics, Privacy, and the Technology of Public Surveillance,” Office of the Vice President of Research, Indiana University

 

2007:  James P. Holland Award for Exemplary Teaching and Service to Students, College of Arts and Sciences, IU

 

 

Professional Organizations:

 

American Academy of Religion

Society of Christian Ethics

Catholic Theological Society of America                 

Association for Practical and Professional Ethics

American Society for Bioethics and the Humanities

 

Principal Courses Taught:

 

Undergraduate:

 

Religion, Ethics, and Public Life

From Christian Ethics to Social Criticism I (with graduate component)

From Christian Ethics to Social Criticism II (with graduate component)

War and Peace in Western Religion (with Honors, or graduate component)

Religion and the Self in Augustine, Kierkegaard, and Freud (with graduate component)

Virtue and Freedom, (with graduate component)

Roman Catholic Social Ethics

Methods in Religious Ethics (with graduate component)

 

Graduate:

 

History of Christian Ethics        

H. Richard Niebuhr and His Legacy

The Just-War Tradition

Casuistry and Religious Ethics

Religion, Justice, and Culture

Religion, Culture, and Medical Ethics

 

Reading Courses Graduate Level: Theories of Justice; Roman Catholic Ethics Since Leo XIII; Religion and Culture in America: 19th and 20th Century Approaches; Hermeneutics, Historicism, and Religion; Kierkegaard; Religion and the Public Intellectual; Comparative Religious Ethics; Aquinas; Undergraduate: Readings in Recent Liberation Theology; Religion, Nature and Ethics.

 

 

 

2004-05 “The Ethics and Politics of Childhood”

Fellows:           Michael Grossberg, History and Law

Robert Kunzman, Education

Samuel Odom, Education      

Aviva Orenstein, Law

Jonathan Plucker, Education

Sandy Shapshay, Philosophy

 

Visitors:           Gareth Matthews, University of Massachusetts, Amherst

John Barbour, St. Olaf College

Rob Reich, Stanford University

 

2005-06 “Nature in the Scientific and Moral Imagination”

Fellows:           Robert Fischman, Law

Heather Reynolds, Biology

Scott R. Sanders, English

Russell Skiba, Education

Aaron Stalnaker, Religious Studies

Elizabeth Stirratt, Fine Arts                                       

 

Visitors:           J. Baird Callicott, University of North Texas

                       Paul Lauritzen, John Carroll University
 

 

2006-07 “Memory: Ethics, Politics, Aesthetics”

Fellows:           Purnima Bose, English, Cultural Studies

Maria Bucur-Deckard, History; Russian and East European Institute

Patrick Dove, Spanish and Portuguese

Joseph Hoffmann, Law

John Lucaites, Communication and Culture
Lynn Struve, History; East Asian Language and Culture

 

Visitors:           John Bodnar, History, IU

                       Ed Linenthal, History and Editor, Journal of American History, IU

                       Danny James, History, Spanish, and Portuguese, IU

 

 

Oral Presentations:

 

“The Contribution of Theology in the Study of Nuclear Issues,” Conference on the Role of the University in Addressing Nuclear Weapons Issues, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Wingspread, Wisconsin (12/83)

 

“Reflections on Virtue in War:  A Reply to Jeffrey Stout,” American Academy of Religion (11/85)

 

“H. Richard Niebuhr's War Articles: A Transvaluation of Value,” American Academy of Religion (11/86) and at the Colloquium on Religion and World Affairs, University of Chicago (4/87) 

 

“Judaism and the Ethics of War: A Response to Reuven Kimelman,” American Academy of Religion (11/88)

 

“The Just-War and Civil Strife: Changing Paradigms in Roman Catholic Social Ethics,” Society of Christian Ethics (1/89)     

 

“Relativism and the Irony of Communication,” Conference on Conflict and Communication sponsored by Indiana Center for World Change and Global Peace (3/90)

 

“Historicism, Social Criticism, and the Ethics of Martin Luther King, Jr.,” Lilly Lecture (4/90)

 

“Moral Languages and the Problem of War,” Lake Forest College (2/91)

 

“Justice, Complicity, and The War Against Iraq,” University of Notre Dame (5/91); University of Pittsburgh (10/91); Georgetown University (1/92); Saint Mary's College (10/93)

 

“Humanae vitae and Popular Catholicism: Is Female to Male as Nature is to Culture?” Society of Christian Ethics (1/92)

 

“Pluralism, Propheticism, and Casuistry: A Response to John H. Yoder on the Gulf War,” U.S. Institute of Peace (2/92)

 

“Divine Justice, Evil, and Tradition: Comparative Reflections,” Ethikon Conference in Jerusalem (1/93)

 

“Narrative and Casuistry: A Response to John Arras,” at “Changing Paradigms in Bioethics,” IU Law School (4/93)

 

“On Not Keeping Religious Studies Pure,” Saint Mary's College (IN) (10/93)

 

”Teaching Religion in an Academic Setting,” University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill (10/94)  

 

“Moral Sources, Ordinary Life, and Truthtelling in Jeremy Taylor's Casuistry,” Oxford University (5/95)

 

”Love and Death in a Pediatric Intensive Care Unit,” annual meeting of the Society of Christian Ethics (5/95)

 

“Applied Ethics, Narrative Ethics, and Casuistry: Some Distinctions,” plenary address at the annual meeting of the Association for Practical and Professional Ethics (3/96)

 

“Humanitarian Intervention, Altruism, and the Limits of Casuistry,” University of Virginia (2/97); Western Michigan University (10/97)

 

“Christian Attitudes Toward Boundaries: Metaphysical and Geographical,” Carnegie Council on Ethics and International Affairs (9/97)

 

“Profuse Poaching: On Critical Ethnography,” Stanford University (2/98)

 

“(Properly) Marginalized Altruism: Screening Kidney Donations from Strangers,” Boston College (2/98); Brown University (3/98); Association for Practical and Professional Ethics (3/00)

 

“The Politics and Ethics of Hospital Ethics Committees,” plenary address, Regional Meeting/Society for Health and Human Values, Youngstown State Univ. (4/98)

 

“Multicultural Justice: Hermeneutical or Political?”, annual meeting of the Society of Christian Ethics (1/99)

 

“A Fighter, Doing God’s Will: Tethered to Technology, Retaining Fluids, On Steroids, Asleep, and Four Years Old,” Conference on “Religion, Ethnography, and Professional Life,” (IU, 2/00)

 

“Ethical Challenges in Pediatric Medicine,” to Bloomington Pediatricians (5/00)

 

“Domestic Politics, Humanitarian Intervention, and Civilian Casualties,” University of Leeds, UK, (9/00)

 

“On Poaching: An Ethics of Trespass,” Rice University, (10/00)

 

“Terrorism, Practical Reasoning, and the Moral Challenges of September 11,” annual meeting of the Catholic Theological Society of America, New Orleans, (6/02)

 

“On Making a Cultural Turn in Religious Ethics,” University of Notre Dame, (6/02)

 

“Natural Piety and the Ethics of Human Embryo Research,” Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life, University of Chicago, (11/02)

 

“Islam and Social Criticism in the Aftermath of September 11,” American Academy of Religion, (11/02)

 

“The Triumph of Just-War Theory: A Response to Michael Walzer,” IU, (12/02)

 

“Virtue, Just-war Doctrine, and the Habits of Democratic Social Criticism,” Annual Meeting of the Society of Christian Ethics, (1/03)

 

“The Challenges of Multiculturalism and the Care of Children,” Northern Arizona University, (2/03)

 

“Teaching Ethics in the Modern University,” plenary address at the Teaching Research Ethics Workshop, IU, (5/04;5/05)

 

“The Iraq War: Jus ad bellum Applied,” United States Military Academy, West Point (with Jean Bethke Elshtain) (11/04)

 

“The Ethics of Preventive War,” Sturm Dialogue, Bucknell University (with Henry Shue) (5/05)

 

“Public Reason and the Study of Religion,” Keynote talk at the conference on religion and the academy sponsored by the Society for the Study of Human Values, Wingspread, Wisconsin (7/05)

 

“Beyond Madness and Self-Deception after 9/11: Memory, Witness, and Lamentation,” St. Olaf College (3/06)

 

“Theological and Ethical Reasons for Respecting 'Public Reason' in Teaching Religion,” presentation and panel discussion of “Religion Inside/Out: Pedagogical Issues Past, Present, and Future,” Ball State University (4/06)

 

“The Ethics of Memory and Grief,” Moral Theology faculty and graduate students, University of Notre Dame (11/06)

 

“Our Duties and Debts to Children,” McDowell Conference on Philosophy and Social Policy, American University  (11/06)