CURRICULUM VITAE
DIANE YEAGER
Associate Professor
and
Thomas J. Healey, C’64, Family Distinguished Professor in Ethical Studies
Theology Department, Georgetown University
Washington, D.C. 20057-1135
(202) 687-6232
[email protected]
Education
Ph.D.
Duke University (1981)
Graduate Program in Religion
Dissertation: “Reasoning Faith: H. Richard Niebuhr’s Renewal of the Theology of
St. Augustine’’
M.A.
Duke University (1975)
Graduate Program in Religion
University of Washington (attended 1968–1970)
Ph.D. program, English literature; no degree taken
B.A.
Ohio University (1968 summa cum laude)
Honors College, concentration on English Literature
Employment
1982–present
Tenured faculty, Theology Department, Georgetown University
1976–1982
Contract faculty, Theology Department, Georgetown University
(part-time 1977–1978)
1977–1978
Part-time appointment, Department of Religion, The George Washington
University
Publications
“‘Suspended in Wonderment’: Beauty, Religious Affections, and Ecological Ethics.” Journal of the
Society of Christian Ethics, 35.1 (Spring/Summer 2015): 121–45.
“Exploring the Underground: Silent Assumptions and Moral Pathologies.” Tradition and Discovery 40/2
(2013–2014): 14–25.
“Recognition, Human Rights, and the Pursuit of Peace.” Perspectives in Religious Studies 40.2 (Summer
2013): 167–79.
“The Moral Weight of Trust.” Journal of Lutheran Ethics 12/5 (September 2012).
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“The Institutional Dilemma of Principled Dissent.” Journal of Lutheran Ethics. December 2010
“Of Eagles and Crows, Lions and Oxen: Blake and the Disruption of Ethics.” Journal of Religious Ethics
37.1 (March 2009): 1–31.
“Salto Mortale: Poteat and the Righting of Philosophy.” Tradition and Discovery 35.2: 31–38.
“The Deliberate Holding of Unproven Beliefs’: Judgment Post-Critically Considered.” The Political
Science Reviewer 37 (2008): 96–121.
“Religious Involvement and Health Outcomes among Older Persons in Taiwan.” Coauthor with Dana A.
Glei, Maxine Weinstein, Melanie Au, Hui-Sheng Lin, and Richard P. Sloan. Social Science and Medicine
63.8 (October 2006): 2228–2241. Also available at
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=ArticleURL&_udi=B6VBF-4K7WJFD4&_coverDate=10%2F31%2F2006&_alid=440820329&_rdoc=1&_fmt=&_orig=search&_qd=1&_cdi=
5925&_sort=d&view=c&_acct=C000035538&_version=1&_urlVersion=0&_userid=655954&md5=22fd
0bc70cb3796956845046e445fcee
“God, Church, and Country: Berggrav’s Leadership in the Norwegian Resistance.” Journal of Lutheran
Ethics vol. 6, number 5 (May 2006).
“A Church, the Human Condition, and the Fissured Face of Peace.” Intersections (a periodical for ELCA
colleges and universities), no. 22 (Spring 2006): 6–15.
“Ethics, Sin, and Same-sex Couples.” The Network Letter (published by The Lutheran Network for
Inclusive Vision) 14.3 (Advent 2005): 5–10.
“H. Richard Niebuhr’s Christ and Culture.” The Oxford Handbook of Theological Ethics, edited by
William Werpehowski and Gilbert Meilaender (Oxford, U.K.: Oxford University Press, 2005), 466–86.
“‘Art for Humanity’s Sake’: The Social Novel as a Mode of Moral Discourse.” Journal of Religious Ethics
33.3 (September 2005): 445–83.
“From Biology to Social Experience to Morality: Reflections on the Naturalization of Morality.” Tradition
and Discovery: The Polanyi Society Periodical 30:3 (2003-2004): 31–39.
“The View from Somewhere: The Meaning of Method in Christ and Culture.” Journal of the Society of
Christian Ethics 23, no. 1 (2003): 101–20.
“Confronting the Minotaur: Moral Inversion and Polanyi’s Moral Philosophy.” Tradition and Discovery:
The Polanyi Society Periodical 29.1 (2002–2003): 22–48.
“Real Toads in Imaginary Gardens: Impossibility and Perfection in Christian Ethics.” The Annual of the
Society of Christian Ethics 19 (1999): 145–65.
“Reclaiming ‘Science as a Vocation’: Learning as Self-Destruction; Teaching as Self-Restraint.” Tradition
and Discovery: The Polanyi Society Periodical 25, no. 2 (1998–99): 30–41.
“Anger, Justice, and Detachment.” The Annual of the Society of Christian Ethics 17 (1997): 167–88.
“Polanyi's Finalism.” With coauthor John F. Haught. Zygon 32, no. 4 (December 1997): 543–66.
“The Social Self in the Pilgrim Church.” In: Glen Stassen, John Howard Yoder, and Diane Yeager,
Authentic Transformation: A New Vision of Christ and Culture (Nashville, Tenn.: Abingdon Press, 1996).
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“Small Hearts and Ultimate Powers: A Response to Bill Spohn.” CTSA Proceedings 49 (1994): 58–64.
“‘I Saw a Kingfisher’: Grace and Ruin in William Golding’s The Spire.” Horizons 20, no. 1 (Spring
1993):44–66.
“Passion and Suspicion: Religious Affections in ‘The Will to Believe.’” The Journal of Religion 69, no. 4
(October 1989): 467–83.
“Feminists and Christians: The Web of Relationship.” Soundings 71, no. 4 (Winter 1988): 485–513.
“The Bishops and the Kingdom.” In The Deeper Meaning of Economic Life, edited by R. Bruce
Douglass, 179-200. Washington, D.C.: Georgetown University Press, 1986.
“‘Can’t You See That I’m Dancing?’ The Counterpoint of the Serious and the Ludic in the Life
Well-Lived.” The Annual of the Society of Christian Ethics 1984: 193–219
“On Making the Tree Good: An Apology for a Dispositional Ethics.” The Journal of Religious Ethics 10
(Spring 1982): 103–20.
“Love and Mirth in The Horse’s Mouth.” Renascence 33 (1981): 131–42.
Editorial Offices
General Editor, Journal of Religious Ethics, 1991–1996 (1st term), 1996–2001 (2d term)
General Editor, The Annual of the Society of Christian Ethics, 1987–1991
Other Editorial Publications
Focus on William Blake: Three essays by various hands edited for publication by DMY with one essay by
DMY. The Journal of Religious Ethics 37, no. 1 (March 2009): 1–103.
“Types of Christian Ethics” by H. Richard Niebuhr. Edited for publication in: Glen Stassen, John Howard
Yoder, and Diane Yeager, Authentic Transformation: A New Vision of Christ and Culture (Nashville,
Tenn.: Abingdon Press, 1996). Reprinted in the 2001 edition of Christ and Culture by H. Richard Niebuhr.
Focus on the Social Gospel: 6 Essays by various hands with an introduction by DMY. The Journal of
Religious Ethics 18, no. 1 (Spring 1990): 3–128 (introduction, 3–6).
“The Social Gospel and the Mind of Jesus” by H. Richard Niebuhr. Edited for publication by DMY with
an introduction. The Journal of Religious Ethics 16, no. 1 (Spring 1988): 109–27.
Book Reviews
Review of The Promise of Religious Naturalism by Michael S. Hogue. Tradition and Discovery: The
Polanyi Society Periodical 39.2 (2012–2013): 61–64.
Review of Bonhoeffer and King: Their Legacies and Import for Christian Social Thought, edited by Willis
Jenkins and Jennifer M. McBride. Journal of the American Academy of Religion. Journal of the American
Academy of Religion 80/2 (June 2012): 575–79; doi: 10.1093/jaarel/lfs010
Review of Heterosexism in Contemporary World Religion: Problem and Prospect, edited by Marvin M.
Ellison and Judith Plaskow; Out of the Shadows, into the Light: Christianity and Homosexuality, edited by
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Miguel A. De La Torre; and Reasoning Together: A Conversation on Homosexuality, by Ted Grimsrud and
Mark Thiessen Nation. Journal of the Society of Christian Ethics 31.2 (Fall/Winter 2011): 190–94..
Review of Just Love: A Framework for Christian Sexual Ethics by Margaret A. Farley. Journal of the
American Academy of Religion 2009; doi: 10.1093/jaarel/lfp050.
Papers Given at Professional Meetings
2016
[Accepted] “The Virtue of ‘Selling Out’: Compromise as a Moral Transaction”
Society of Christian Ethics, National Annual Meeting, January 2016
2015
[Accepted] “Reciprocal Critique: A Dialectical Engagement of Theology and Human Rights
Discourse”
Conference on the Social Practice of Human Rights: Charting the Frontiers of Research and
Advocacy. Human Rights Center, University of Dayton, Dayton, Ohio, October 1–3, 2015
“Dreams, Ghosts, and the Fluidity of Time in Robinson Jeffers’ Dear Judas”
American Literature Association Conference, May 21, 2015
2014
“Taylor and Polanyi on Moral Sources and Social Systems.”
Joint AAR/Polanyi Society Session, national Annual Meeting of the AAR, November 2014
“‘Suspended in Wonderment’: Beauty, Religious Affections, and Environmental Ethics.”
Society of Christian Ethics, National Annual Meeting, January 10, 2014
“Poteat and the Space of Appearances”
Conference: The Primacy of Persons: A Conference on the Legacy of William H. Poteat. Yale
University, New Haven, Connecticut, June 5–8
2013
“Learning an Old Wish: Paul Ricoeur’s Placement of the Desire for Recognition Prior to Justice,
Equality, and Freedom”
Conference on the Social Practice of Human Rights: Charting the Frontiers of Research and
Advocacy. Human Rights Center, University of Dayton, Dayton, Ohio, October 3–5, 2013
“Discourse Ethics and Reception History in Biblical Hermeneutics.”
Society for Biblical Literature, national annual meeting (November)
2012
“Recognition, Capability, and Human Rights.”
Conference on Humanitarianism and Human Rights in the 21st Century, The Poynter Center for
the Study of Ethics, Indiana University, Bloomington, Ind., October 10–12.
“Nabert and Ricoeur on the Capacity to Act”
American Academy of Religion, Ricoeur unit, national annual meeting , national annual meeting,
national annual meeting (November)
“‘Love the Wild Swan’: The Biocentric ‘Inhumanism’ of Robinson Jeffers”
American Academy of Religion, Religion and Ecology unit, national annual meeting, national
annual meeting (November)
2011
“What’s Trust Got To Do with It? Reimagining Workplace Ethics.” (co-presenter with Sharon
Moss)
American Speech-Language-Hearing Association, national annual meeting (November)
“On Conscience: Islamic Insights for a Western Controversy” (co-presenter with Paul Heck)
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American Academy of Religion, Comparative Religious Ethics Group, national annual meeting
(November)
2010
“From Debt to Captivity: Thinking through the Metaphors of Sin”
Society of Biblical Literature, national annual meeting (November)
“Rationalizing Education: Could We? Should We?”
Conference of the American Association of University Professors, annual meeting (June)
“Keeping Faith: The Venture and Conditions of Trust”
Society of Christian Ethics, national annual meeting (January)
2009
“Ricoeur’s Rehabilitation of Conscience”
Conference of the Ricoeur Society, George Mason University, October 30–31
2008
“Intellect, Hope, and the Malice of the Human Heart”
Polanyi Society Conference [Personal Knowledge at Fifty], June 13–15, Loyola University
Chicago
2006
“From Verdict to Voice: Ricoeur’s Reconstruction of Conscience”
American Academy of Religion, national annual meeting (November)
“God, Church, and Country: Berggrav’s Leadership in the Norwegian Resistance”
Lutheran Ethicists Gathering (January)
“Obligation, Fallibility, and Conscience”
Society of Christian Ethics, national annual meeting (January)
2005
“The Fissured Face of Peace”
Conference on the Vocation of a Lutheran College (July)
2002
“Refractions” [a paper on Kierkegaard, literature, and teaching theological ethics].
Bonfils Seminar Project on the use of literature in courses in theological ethics (October)
“‘Art for Humanity’s Sake’: Moral Persuasion in A Hazard of New Fortunes
Genres of Moral Discourse Project, University of Notre Dame (May)
2001
“Sin, Despair, and Total Depravity: The Realism of Theological Hope”
New Directions in Psychoanalytic Thinking Program, The Washington Psychoanalytic
Foundation (April)
1999
“If I Have Not Love: Christminster’s Fatal Shadow in Jude, The Obscure”
College Theology Society, national annual meeting (June)
“Real Toads in Imaginary Gardens: Impossibility and Perfection in Christian Ethics.”
Society of Christian Ethics, national annual meeting (January)
1998
“Reclaiming ‘Science as a Vocation’: Learning as Self-Destruction; Teaching as Self-Restraint”
Polanyi Society
1997
“Social Sinfulness and Social Trust: Niebuhr, Luhmann, and Affirmative Action”
American Academy of Religion, Ethics Section, national annual meeting
“Justice, Anger, and Detachment”
Society of Christian Ethics, Annual Meeting
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1996
“The Sight of Bright Gods or the Odor of Death: Religious Intuitions in Macintosh and Niebuhr”
American Academy of Religion, Pragmatism and Empiricism Group, national annual meeting
“Polanyi's Finalism” (co-author: Jack Haught)
American Academy of Religion, Theology and Science Group, national annual meeting
“‘Middle Axioms’ for Christian Transformationists”
Mid-Atlantic Regional, American Academy of Religion
“‘Middle Axioms’ for Christian Transformationists"
College Theology Society
1994
“Three Faces of Lucifer: Destroyer, Co-Creator, and Lonely One: Rethinking Theodicy” New
Haven Theological Discussion Group (March meeting)
1993
“Assimilating Giles”
Society of Christian Ethics (national annual meeting, one of three papers presented in one session
devoted to the assessment of the contribution of Giles Milhaven)
“The Method and Theoretical Perspectives Informing H. Richard Niebuhr’s Christ and Culture”
Niebuhr Conference at Vanderbilt, May 1993
1992
“A Swamp and an Attempt at a Map: Assessing an Institution, Assessing Affirmative Action”
American Academy of Religion (national annual meeting: Business and Organizational Seminar)
“Lucifer in Three Persons: Destroyer, Co-Creator, and Lonely One: Rethinking Theodicy”
Mid-Atlantic Regional Meeting of the American Academy of Religion.
1991
“Synderesis on the Boundaries: Alasdair MacIntyre's Perspectival Realism”
American Academy of Religion (national annual meeting: Ethics Section)
1990
“‘Ich will den Kopf des Jochanan!’ Love or Will in Strauss's Salome”
The Society for Values in Higher Education (national annual meeting: Morning Group on the
Concept of Will)
“‘I Saw a Kingfisher’: Grace and Ruin in Golding's The Spire”
College Theology Society (national annual meeting: Theology and Literature Consultation)
1989
“The Deplorable Tenacity of God: Beauty, Feeling, and Truth in the Work of H. Richard
Niebuhr”
American Academy of Religion (national annual meeting: Theology and Religious Reflection
Section)
“Chronometricals and Horologicals, or the Humanities’ Cogent Message to a Troubled Culture”
Humanities Consultation, Southern Education Foundation, Atlanta University Center
“Reflections on The Transformation of Culture [written by Charles Scriven]”
Washington Institute for Contemporary Issues, open forum at Wesley Seminary.
1988
“The Vulnerability of the Social Gospel: What Neo-Orthodoxy Couldn’t Fix”
American Academy of Religion (national annual meeting: Ethics Section)
“The Value of Vulnerable Goods: Martha Nussbaum’s Moral Phenomenology”
The Society for Values in Higher Education (national meeting: morning group presentation)
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“Passion and Suspicion: Religious Affections in ‘The Will to Believe.’” Special invitation to
deliver this paper again, this time in the Philosophy of Religion section meeting of the national
annual meeting of the College Theology Society (May 1988)
1987
“Passion and Suspicion: Religious Affections in ‘The Will To Believe’”
American Academy of Religion (national annual meeting: Philosophy of Religion Section)
“The Lady Reflects on Bernard Yack Reflecting on Friedrich Schiller Reflecting on Immanuel
Kant Reflecting on Rousseau (or more likely Luther) Reflecting on Being Human ___That Is to Say
(So They Say), on Being Free”
Society for Values in Higher Education (national annual meeting: morning group presentation)
“Feminists, Christians, and Philosophers: The Web of Relationship”
Society of Christian Ethics (national annual meeting)
1986
“The Social Self in the Working Church: The Question of Social Reform in the
Theological Ethics of H. Richard Niebuhr”
American Academy of Religion (national annual meeting: Ethics Section)
“The Grounds for Christian Social Action: Ernest Troeltsch, the Bishops, and the
Theology of the Kingdom”
College Theology Society (national meeting: Ethics Section)
1985
“Surprised in the Bosom of Abraham: A Cure for Mortal Sadness”
American Academy of Religion (Southeastern regional meeting: Arts, Literature, and Religion
Section)
1984
“Prudence: The Perfection of the Power to Join Act to Judgment”
Society for Values in Higher Education (national meeting)
“The Dialectic of the Serious and the Ludic in the Life Well-Lived”
Society of Christian Ethics (national meeting)
1983
“Lamaze for the Moral Life”
College Theology Society (national meeting: Ethics Section)
1982
“Values, Virtue, and the Shape of Love”
American Academy of Religion (national meeting: Arts, Literature, and Religion Section)
“The Individual and the Community in MacIntyre's After Virtue”
College Theology Society (regional meeting)
“Tragedy, Suffering, and Ethics”
Society of Christian Ethics (national meeting)
1980
“On Making the Tree Good: The Theological Ethics of H. Richard Niebuhr”
American Academy of Religion (national meeting: Ethics Section)
1979
“The Comic Vision of Joyce Cary”
American Academy of Religion (national meeting: Arts, Literature, and Religion Section)
Refereed Manuscripts For:
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Anselm Academic
The International Journal for Philosophy of Religion
The Journal of Religion
The Journal of Religious Ethics
Service on Selection Panels, Task Forces, and Governing Boards
Board of Trustees, Washington Theological Consortium, July 1, 2009–June 30, 2015; vice-chair 20112012; chair 2013–2014
Board of Directors, Polanyi Society, 2009–2014; vice-president 2010 to the present
Board of Trustees, Journal of Religious Ethics, Inc., 1991 to the present
Advisory Board for the expanded edition of the Blackwell Companion to Religious Ethics, 2013–2016
Public Member, Council for Clinical Certification, American Speech-Language-Hearing Association,
January 1, 2013, to December 31, 2015
Public Member, Board of Ethics, American Speech-Language-Hearing Association, January 1, 2006, to
December 31, 2012
Board of Directors, Society of Christian Ethics, January 2009 to January 2013
Chair, Society of Christian Ethics Executive Director Search Committee, 2010
Chair, Society of Christian Ethics Ad Hoc Committee on Membership, 2010
Member, Task Force on Sexuality Studies (churchwide), Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, 2002–
2009
Evaluator (one of two) for the 5-year review of the Arts, Literature, and Religion Section of the American
Academy of Religion, Fall 2007
Final Selection Panel, Newcombe Dissertation Fellowships, 2004–2007
Executive Committee, Mid-Atlantic Region of the AAR, 1997–1999
Co-Chair, Ethics Section, Mid-Atlantic Region of the AAR, 1997–1998
Chair, Ethics Section, Mid-Atlantic Region of the AAR, 1996–1997
Organizer, sustainer, and convener, Christian Ethics Round Table (Washington, D.C.), 1987–1992
Co-Chair, Provost’s Task Force on the Recruitment, Retention, and Advancement of Women on the Main
Campus of Georgetown University, 1989–91
Editorial Board, Journal of Religious Ethics, 1985–1991
Board of Directors, Society of Christian Ethics (non-voting ex-officio member), 1987–1991
Program Committee, Society of Christian Ethics (non-voting ex-officio member), 1987–1991
Editorial Board, Soundings, 1987–1990
Board of Directors, Society for Values in Higher Education, 1987–1990
Professional Activities, Public Presentations
2012
“Ecology and Christian Ethics” (May 6, St. Anne’s [Episcopal] Parish, Annapolis, Md.)
2010
“Rivers in the Desert.”
Colgate Rochester Crozier Divinity School--2 lectures, sponsored by The Program of Women and
Gender Studies in Church and Society (October 27)
2009
“Seventeen Ways of Looking at Human Sexuality.”
Synod Assembly, Metropolitan D.C. Synod of the ELCA (May 8)
Leader of a post-performance discussion of Jane Anderson’s play The Quality of Life
Arena Stage Theater, Arlington, Virginia (September 23)
2008
“The Discernment of Sexual Morality in a ‘Community of Moral Deliberation’: The ELCA Draft
Social Statement on Human Sexuality”
Faith and Order Meeting, Virginia Council of Churches (June 4)
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2006
“A Literary Look at “The Gifts Reserved for Age”
Center for Population and Health Seminar Series, Georgetown University
2005
“What Should We Learn from the ELCA’s Sexuality Studies?”
Gathering of Lutheran Ethicists (January 6)
“Christian Convictions and Ethical Challenges: Homosexuality” (leader of workshop)
Spring Convocation, The Lutheran Theological Seminary at Philadelphia (April 5)
1999
“The World, the Flesh, and the Blueprint: The Social Significance of Religious Ethics.”
Secretary’s Open Forum, United States State Department (January 22)
1998
Diane Rehm Show, Panel on Jude, The Obscure
1997
Workshop on publishing in scholarly journals
Faculty Development Conference, April 19
Graduate School, U.S. Department of Agriculture
Professional Activities, Service on committees or as a convener, respondent, or panelist
SCE. 2014: member, Presidential Committee on Organizational Structure
Lutheran Ethicists, 2011–2012, Planning Committee Chair for a one-day conference on Ethics for Military
Chaplains
SCE, 2011: “Figure and Ground: An Account of ‘What Makes Theological Ethics Theological’”
Response to the opening plenary address of Charles Curran
SCE, 2009–2013: Convener and organizer, Literature and Literary Theory Interest Group
Georgetown University, 2010, Respondent to James Alison’s address “From Impossibility to
Responsibility: Developing New Narratives for Gay Catholic Living,” in the university’s series “The
Sacred and the Sexual”
SCE, 2010: Organizer of and moderator for a session on William Blake as a Christian ethicist for the
Literature and Literary Theory Interest Group.
Polanyi Society, fall 2009: Panelist, Panel subject: “Toward a Polanyian Science of the Virtues”
SCE, 2008: “A Community of Moral Deliberation: The ELCA’s Noble Experiment,” joint session of the
Sexuality Interest Group and the Lesbian/Gay Issues Interest Group
SCE, 2008: Organizer of a session on “Literature, Pedagogy, and Religious Ethics: Lessons and Limits,”
for a joint meeting of the Pedagogy Interest Group and the Literature and Literary Theory Interest
Group
Polanyi Society, summer 2008: Panelist, Panel on “William Poteat and Michael Polanyi: An Ongoing
Dialogue,” at the Polanyi Society Conference [Personal Knowledge at Fifty], June 13–15, Loyola
University Chicago
Polanyi Society, fall 2007: “Science, Society, and the Act of Understanding: A response to William J.
Kelleher’s paper, “Consciousness as Pure Self-Reflection in the Writings of Michael Polanyi”
SCE, 2007: “Aesthetics and the Nineteenth-century Moral Novel,” presentation given in the Literature and
Literary Theory Interest Group
Lutheran Theological Seminary at Philadelphia, 2005: Panelist, Panel on “Christian Convictions and
Ethical Challenges”
SCE, 2005: Presenter and discussion leader, “Covenant as a Resource for Sexual Ethics,” Covenantal
Ethics Interest Group
Aspen Institute, 2003: Wye Fellow, Wye Faculty Seminar
Polanyi Society, fall 2002: Response to “From Biology to Morality,” a paper delivered by Ursula
Goodneough
SCE, 2002: Panelist, Panel on Christ and Culture by H. Richard Niebuhr
Mid-Atlantic AAR, 2000: Organizer, 2-day conference on Religion in the News
SCE, 1999: Organizer and convener, Panel on Depth Psychology and Christian Ethics
AAR, 1997: Organizer and convener, Panel on Ethics and Literature for the Ethics Section
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AAR, 1997: Convener, Pragmatism and Empiricism in American Religious Thought Group
Catholic Theological Society of America, 1994: Respondent for the plenary session paper delivered by
William Spohn, S.J.
Society of Christian Ethics, 1993, Interest Group on Ethics and Higher Education: Panelist, “Ethical Issues
in University Governance”
Polanyi Society, fall 1991: “Polanyi's Progress,” a response to a paper by Philip Rolnick
SVHE summer meeting 1990: Co-convener of the morning group on the concept of will
SVHE summer meeting 1989: Co-converner of the morning group on ways of seeing, hearing, and
knowing
The Legacy of H. Richard Niebuhr, an invitation-only meeting at the Harvard Divinity School, September
1988: Respondent to a paper by William C. Spohn, S.J.
Society for Values in Higher Education, August 1988: Introduction for the Memorial Lecture by Stephen
Crites
Washington Theological Union, November 1987: Respondent to Charles E. Curran
College Theology Society, May 1987: Respondent in the philosophical theology section
Society of Christian Ethics, January 1987: Respondent for the opening plenary session (Harold Berman)
SVHE summer meeting 1986: Convener of a morning group
Adult Education
2009
“St. John of the Cross: The Spirituality of Absolute Surrender” (March 25, Resurrection Lutheran
Church, Arlington, Va.)
“‘To unite all things in Him’: Theology, Ecclesiology, and Ethics in Ephesians” (four weekly
sessions, May–June, Resurrection Lutheran Church, Arlington, Va.)
2008
“Redemption, Hope, and Sexual Ethics: The Draft Social Statement on Human Sexuality” (three
weekly sessions, May 11–June 1, Resurrection Lutheran church, Arlington, Va.)
“Luther’s Revolutionary Understanding of ‘Church’” (August 10, Resurrection Lutheran Church,
Arlington, Va.)
“Luther on Vocation and Education (September 21, Resurrection Lutheran Church, Arlington,
Va.)
2007
“The Holy Spirit and the Hermeneutics of Suspicion” (January 28, Church of the Reformation,
Washington, D.C.)
“Free in Christ to Serve the Neighbor: Lutherans Talk about Sexuality” (weekly sessions April
25–June 6, Resurrection Lutheran Church, Arlington, Va.)
“Sex, Church, and the Young Adult” (October 1, St. Paul Lutheran Church, Washington, D.C.)
2006
“Eivind Berggrav and the Norwegian Resistance Movement” (January 15, Resurrection Lutheran
Church, Arlington, Va.)
“When is a Whale Not a Whale? Literary Genres in Scripture” (May 4, Resurrection Lutheran
Church, Arlington, Va.)
“Goodness at Work” (May 7, Peace Lutheran Church, Alexandria, Va)
“History, Memory, and Context in Hermeneutics” (May 11, Resurrection Lutheran Church,
Arlington, Va.)
2005
“What Does It Mean to ‘Settle’ a Moral Question?” (Feb. 6, Emmanuel Lutheran Church, Vienna,
Va.)
“Contrasting Conceptions of the Relation of Science and Religion” (Feb. 23, Resurrection
Lutheran Church, Arlington, Va.)
“Redemption in the Light of Science” (Mar. 16, Resurrection Lutheran Church, Arlington, Va.)
“Decisions Facing the Church” (May 22, Resurrection Lutheran Church, Arlington, Va.)
“Developing a Social Statement on Human Sexuality” (May 29, Lutheran Church of the
Redeemer, McLean, Va.)
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“The ELCA Assembly Story that the News Media Missed” (September 18, Lutheran Church of
the Redeemer, McLean, Va.)
2004
“The Church and Homosexualities,” a 6-session series (Jan. 25–Feb 25, Resurrection Lutheran
Church, Arlington, Va.)
“Christian Responses to the Problem of Evil” (March 10, Resurrection Lutheran Church,
Arlington, Va.)
“Augustine and the Free Will Defense” (March 31, Resurrection Lutheran Church, Arlington, Va.)
2003
“Love, Lust, and Lutherans,” a 4-session series on current Lutheran teachings with regard to
sexual ethics (January–February, Resurrection Lutheran Church, Arlington, Va.)
2002
“The Sermon on the Mount and Its Domestications” (March, Resurrection Lutheran Church,
Arlington, Va.)
“Infinite Commands and Local Longings: The Sermon on the Mount and Economics” (March,
Resurrection Lutheran Church, Arlington, Va.)
2001
“Jews and Christians: Convergences,” a 3-session series (October, Resurrection Lutheran Church,
Arlington, Va.)
Professional Societies
American Academy of Religion
Phi Beta Kappa (President of the Georgetown Chapter, 1987-88)
Polanyi Society
Society of Christian Ethics
Ricoeur Society
Academic Honors
Danforth Fellowship, 1968
1st Alternate, Fulbright Fellowship, 1968
Phi Beta Kappa
Phi Kappa Phi
Grants
2009
2002
1996
1995
1993
1992
1985
1982
Summer Research Grant, Theology Department, Georgetown University
Departmental Semester Research Leave
Landegger Semester Research Leave
NEH Summer Seminar for School Teachers (Director)
Summer Curriculum Development Grant, Georgetown University
Landegger Summer Research Grant, Georgetown University
Summer Research Grant, Georgetown University
Summer Curriculum Development Grant, Georgetown University