Author: William Werpehowski

The scope of interest and reflection on virtue and the virtues is as wide and deep as the questions we can ask about what makes a moral agent’s life decent, or noble, or holy rather than cruel, or ba …

This volume brings into dialogue the ancient wisdom of Augustine of Hippo, a bishop of the early Christian Church of the fourth and fifth centuries, with contemporary theologians and ethicists on the …

The Oxford Handbooks series is a major new initiative in academic publishing. Each volume offers an authoritative and up-to-date survey of original research in a particular subject area. Specially co …

This critical study of Karl Barth”s Christian theological ethics discusses Barth”s controversial and characteristically misunderstood ethics of divine command. The surprising relation of his ”divi …

This critical study of Karl Barth”s Christian theological ethics discusses Barth”s controversial and characteristically misunderstood ethics of divine command. The surprising relation of his ”divi …

Contents Introduction ix Gene Outka Universal Love and Impartiality 1 Edmund N. Santurri Who Is My Neighbor? Love, Equality, and Profoundly Retarded Humans 104 William Werpehowski ‘Agape’ and Special …

At the heart of Christian ethics is the biblical commandment to love God and to love one’s neighbor as oneself. But what is the meaning of love? Scholars have wrestled with this question since the re …

Moral theologians, defense analysts, conflict scholars, and nuclear experts imagine a world free from nuclear weapons At a 2017 Vatican conference, Pope Francis condemned nuclear weapons. This volume …