B.A. in Modern History (Oxford University, 1976), M. Christian Studies (Regent College, Vancouver, Canada, 1981), M.A. in Religious Studies (University of Chicago, 1981), Ph.D. in Christian Theology (University of Chicago, 1986)
various positions at Oxford (1985-1999)
Professor of Theology, Leeds (1999-2004)
President, Society for the Study of Christian Ethics (UK) (2003-2006)
Professor of Theology and Ethics, Trinity College Dublin (2004-2007)
Regius Professor of Moral and Pastoral Theology, Oxford (2007-2022)
Major Works
(ed.) Reckoning With Barth: Essays in Commemoration of the 100th Anniversary of the Birth of Karl Barth</strong (Mowbray, 1988)
'Hearing God's Command and Thinking about What to Do: with and beyond Barth' in Reckoning with Barth (Mowbray, 1988)
'A Case for Casuistry in the Church', Modern Theology 6.1 (October 1989)
The Hastening that Waits: Karl Barth's Ethics (Clarendon, 1993, 1995)
Good Life: Reflections on What We Value Today (SPCK, 1997)
'God, the Responsible Individual, and the Value of Human Life and Suffering', in Studies in Christian Ethics 11/1 (1998)
ed. with Rufus Black, The Revival of Natural Law (Ashgate, 2000)
'Barth's Trinitarian Ethic' in The Cambridge Companion to Karl Barth, ed. John Webster (CUP, 2000), 212-27
'Is Stanley Hauerwas Sectarian?' in Faithfulness & Fortitude: In Conversation with the Theological Ethics of Stanley Hauerwas, eds. Samuel Wells and Mark Thiesson Nation (T & T Clark, 2000), 141-60,
"Forgiveness in the Twentieth Century: a Review of the Literature, 1901-2001", in Forgiveness and Truth, eds. Alistair McFadyen and Marcel Sarot (T. & T. Clark, 2001)
Aiming To Kill: The Ethics Suicide and Euthanasia (DLT, 2004)
'Christianity and Weapons of Mass Destruction' in Ethics and Weapons of Mass Destruction (Cambridge, 2004)
'Making Peace or Doing Justice: Must we Choose?' in Burying the Past: Making Peace and Doing Justice after Civil Conflict [Expanded and Updated], (ed.) Nigel Biggar (Georgetown University Press, 2003 [2001])
“Between Development and Doubt: the Recent Career of Just War Doctrine in British Churches”, inThe Price of Peace, ed. Charles Reed and David Ryall (CUP, 2006)
“Review Article: the Just War Revisited by Oliver O’Donovan”, Studies in Christian Ethics 19.2 (2006)
“‘God’ in Public Reason”, Studies in Christian Ethics 19.2 (2006)
'The Value of Limited Loyalty: Christianity, the nation and territorial boundaries' in Christian Political Ethics (Princeton University Press, 2007)
'On Defining Political Authority as an Act of Judgment: A Discussion of Oliver O'Donovan's The Ways of Judgment (Part I)', Political Theology 9.3 (2008)
'Forgiving Enemies in Ireland', Journal of Religious Ethics 36.4 (2008), pp.559-579
'"Saving the Secular": The Public Vocation of Moral Theology', Journal of Religious Ethics 37.1 (2009), pp.159-178
'Specify and Distinguish! Interpreting the New Testament on Non-Violence', Studies in Christian Ethics (2009)
(ed.) with Linda Hogan, Religious Voices in Public Places (Oxford, 2009)
'The New Testament and Violence: Round Two', Studies in Christian Ethics (2010)
'Karl Barth's Ethics Revisited' in Daniel L. Migliore (ed.), Commanding Grace: Studies in Karl Barth's Ethics (Eerdmans, 2010)
'Reinhold Niebur and the Political Possibility of Forgiveness' in Richard Harries and Stephen Platten (eds.), Reinhold Niebuhr and Contemporary Politics: God and Power (Oxford: 2010)
Behaving in Public Places: How to do Christian Places (Eerdmans, 2011)
'Melting the Icepacks of Enmity: Forgiveness and Reconciliation in Northern Ireland', Studies in Christian Ethics (2011)
In Defence of War (Oxford, 2013)
Between Kin and Cosmopolis: An Ethic of Nation (Cascade, 2014)
'Staggering Onward, Rejoicing' in Jean Bethke Elshtain: Politics, Ethics, and Society (Notre Dame, 2018)
What's Wrong with Rights? (Oxford, 2020)
'Anglican Establishment: How is it Liberal?', Studies in Christian Ethics (2021)
'Whatever Happened to the Canaanites? Principles of a Christian Ethic of Mass Immigration', Studies in Christian Ethics (2022)
Colonialism: A Moral Reckoning (2023)
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