Research Profile

Ancient philosophy, medieval Franciscan philosophy, Kant, Kierkegaard, contemporary ethical theory, the theory of the atonement, medical ethics, international relations, aesthetics

Selected Publications

God and Morality: A Philosophical History. Hoboken NJ: Wiley-Blackwell, 2009.

Why Bother Being Good? The Place of God in the Moral Life. Christian Classics Bible Studies, Westmont IL: InterVarsity Press, 2002.

God’s Call: Moral Realism, God’s Commands, and Human Autonomy. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2001.

The Moral Gap: Kantian Ethics, Human Limits, and God’s Assistance. Oxford Studies in Theological Ethics, New York: Clarendon Press/Oxford University Press, 1997.

Plato Euthyphro. Bryn Mawr Commentaries, Indianapolis: Hackett, 2nd ed., 1985.

(together with C. B. Joynt) Ethics and International Affairs. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 1982.

‘Immanuel Kant’ in: A. Hastings/A. Manson et al. (ed.s): Key Thinkers in Christianity. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003, 92-97.

‘Christian Scholarship and Human Responsibility’, in: S. Felch (ed.): Christian Scholarship … for
What? Calvin College, 2003, 51-69.

‘Kantian Moral Education and Service-Learning’ in: G. Heffner/C. Berersluis (ed.s): Commitment and
Connection: Service-Learning and Christian Higher Education. Lanham, Maryland: University Press of America, 2002, 3-95.

‘Duns Scotus on Morality and Nature’, in: Medieval Philosophy and Theology, 9 (2001), 1-39.

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