Jennifer A Herdt
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 1694545 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Jennifer A Herdt |
| PRENOMES | Jennifer A |
| SOBRENOME | Herdt |
| ASSINATURA | HERDT J A |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Yale University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2138-9134 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 34 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 3 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 34 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1998 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 1 |
AI and the Ends of Humanity
This essay serves as an introduction to a special themed issue on “AI and the Ends of Humanity,” and serves to highlight the distinctive features of this special issue. Much theological reflection on AI to date has focused on the question whether AI systems might acquire consciousness, personhood, and moral standing, on the ways in which AI is characterized in godlike terms, and on questions surrounding AI “alignment” and “ethical AI.” This speci…
James Pennington and the Christian Black Atlantic
Antihumanism has become a deep‐seated predilection at present, rooted in sensitivity to the ways in which false universals perpetuate power and privilege. Paul Gilroy, while resonating with the concerns behind antihumanism, has forcefully defended the humanism that emerged around resistance to Black Atlantic slavery. Powerful as Gilroy's account is, it overlooks the importance of specifically Christian humanism. This essay fills this gap by atten…
‘The battle to take the land’
Revisiting Religious Ethics as Field and Discipline
Returning to John P. Reeder's 1978 essay on “Religious Ethics as a Field and Discipline,” this essay explores debates surrounding the original intentions for the Journal of Religious Ethics ( JRE ) and for the field of religious ethics, as these have played out over the decades among an influential group of scholars involved with the JRE since its inception: Arthur Dyck, Ronald Green, Stanley Hauerwas, and Jeffrey Stout. While the JRE and its fou…
Partisan Epistemology and Post-Truth Power
Theological reckoning with our contemporary post-truth context must be cognizant of the ways in which adherence to biblical inerrancy fostered the rise of partisan epistemology. It is essential as well to grapple with the question of whether postliberal theologies, by way of a very different theory of truth, also promote the epistemic insulation of Christian faith communities. We need to understand how groups threatened with the erosion of social…
Of Wild Beasts and Bloodhounds
The doctrine of the image of God is often regarded as grounding human dignity in something permanent and unchanging that transcends our attitudes and behaviors. Yet we persistently encounter the argument that particular human individuals or groups have acted so as to forfeit their moral standing as fellow humans. They are bestialized, categorized as non-human animals, lifting ordinary restraints on punishment. I examine the logic of this argument…
Conversation between Jennifer Herdt and Christopher Insole
This is a conversation held at the book launch for Christopher Insole’s Kant and the Divine: From Contemplation to the Moral Law (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020), hosted jointly, in November 2020, by the Centre for Catholic Studies, Durham University, and the Australian Catholic University. The conversation covers the claim made by Insole that Kant believes in God, but is not a Christian, the way in which reason itself is divine for Kant, …
Reclaiming Dialogical Humanism
In face of the danger that contemporary anti-humanisms might feed xenophobia, racism, and neo-fascist nationalisms, the ethical significance of shared humanity is worth affirming. Such affirmations need not displace more particular identities and loyalties, so long as these take forms capable of mutual respect and recognition. Late 18th- and early nineteenth-century German reflection on Bildung can be fruitfully engaged toward this task. With dee…
Oliver O’Donovan’s Ethics as Theology and the Struggle for Communication
Covid‐19 and Religious Ethics
The editors of the JRE solicited short essays on the COVID‐19 pandemic from a group of scholars of religious ethics that reflected on how the field might help them make sense of the complex religious, cultural, ethical, and political implications of the pandemic, and on how the pandemic might shape the future of religious ethics
Natural Law in Protestant Christianity
In the mid to late twentieth century, it was the norm for Protestant thinkers to reject natural law ethics. Karl Barth repudiated natural law as insufficiently Christocentric. Reinhold Niebuhr criticised natural law thinking for absolutising the relative. Stanley Hauerwas argued that 'natural law functions ideologically to justify the assumption that Christians have a responsibility to fulfil the demands of the state and institutions associated w…
Excellence‐Prior Eudaimonism
Eudaimonism is often regarded as egoistic. If it recommends that agents pursue their own good because it is their own good, it is guilty as charged. But excellence‐prior eudaimonism offers a non‐egoistic alternative to this welfare‐prior eudaimonism. Excellence‐prior eudaimonism recommends that an agent live in a way that is in fact good for the agent, but it does not regard the agent’s own good as necessarily that for the sake of which the agent…
Exemplarity Between Tradition and Critique
Moral exemplarism, which insists on the centrality of particular embodiments of exemplary virtue to the moral life, is currently receiving significant attention within moral philosophy as well as theological and religious ethics. This introductory essay situates the contributions made by this focus issue on moral exemplarity in relation to the history of attention to moral exemplars, the twentieth‐century turn to virtue, philosopher Linda Zagzebs…
Forming Humanity
Aquinas and the Democratic Virtues
Can the theology of Thomas Aquinas serve as a resource for reflection on democratic civic virtue? That is the central question taken up by Mark Jordan, Adam Eitel, John Bowlin, and Michael Lamb in this focus issue. The four authors agree on one thing: Aquinas himself was no fan of democracy. They disagree, though, over whether Aquinas can offer resources for theorizing democratic virtues. Bowlin, Eitel, and Lamb believe he can, and propose Thomis…
Proximate Common Goods in the Context of Pluralism
Brad Gregory's The Unintended Reformation bemoans the loss of the shared “institutionalized worldview” that was Christendom, claiming that the resulting hyperpluralism renders it impossible to adjudicate among competing conceptions of the good. Our contemporary moment is better seen, though, as postsecular rather than as individualist and subjectivist. It is a context within which many different communities (of sometimes overlapping and shifting …
Empathy beyond the In-Group
Recent empirical work underscores the centrality of empathy to generating genuinely altruistic motivation, while also emphasizing the natural limits of empathy. Both the ancient Stoics and Augustine seek to expand the scope of moral concern, but in distinct ways that we can now describe as focused on tempering empathetic personal distress, on the one hand, and heightening empathetic concern, on the other. Contemporary empirical research can help …
The Authentic Individual in the Network of Agape
Calvin's legacy for contemporary Reformed natural law
Recent scholarship has done much to uncover a continuous tradition of distinctively Reformed natural law reflection, according to which knowledge of the natural moral law, though not saving knowledge, is universally available to humanity in its fallen state and makes a stable secular order possible. A close look at Calvin's understanding of natural law, and in particular of conscience and natural human instincts, shows that Calvin himself did not…
Aquinas and the Nicomachean Ethics
Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics is the text which had the single greatest influence on Aquinas's ethical writings, and the historical and philosophical value of Aquinas's appropriation of this text provokes lively debate. In this volume of new essays, thirteen distinguished scholars explore how Aquinas receives, expands on and transforms Aristotle's insights about the attainability of happiness, the scope of moral virtue, the foundation of moralit…
Aquinas's Aristotelian defense of martyr courage
Redeeming the Acquired Virtues
The probing readings of P utting O n V irtue offered by S heryl O vermyer, D arlene W eaver, and J ames F oster provide a welcome opportunity for further reflection on key questions: Was A quinas really concerned with the status of pagan virtues? Can we properly understand a thinker whose driving questions are not the same as our own without taking up a stance of pure deference? Can an inquiry into hyper‐ A ugustinian anxiety over acquired virtue…
Hauerwas Among the Virtues
Despite the fact that Stanley Hauerwas has not taken up many of the topics normally associated with virtue ethics, has explicitly distanced himself from the enterprise known as “virtue ethics,” and throughout his career has preferred other categories of analysis, ranging from character and agency to practices and liturgy, it is nevertheless clear that his work has had a deep and transformative impact on the recovery of virtue within Christian eth…
Virtue, Identity, and Agency
Despite a vibrant revival of the ethics of virtue, now spanning several decades, the discourse of virtue in later medieval and early modern thought and the distinctive forms this reflection takes across varying genres and social settings have been insufficiently integrated into narratives of the history of virtue ethics. The aim of this special issue is to remedy this lack by bringing together philosophical, theological, historical, and literary …
Christian Humility, Courtly Civility, and the Code of the Streets
Within both contemporary inner‐city street life and early modern courtly civility, persons acquire value through being acknowledged by others. Though dependent on others for a sense of self‐worth constructed by external tokens of respect, they are unable to experience dependency as gift. Humility thus appears as an admission of lack of worth, rather than as a confession of the dependent character of one's worth. What might contemporary Christians…
Proximate Common Goods in the Context of Pluralism
Brad Gregory's The Unintended Reformation bemoans the loss of the shared “institutionalized worldview” that was Christendom, claiming that the resulting hyperpluralism renders it impossible to adjudicate among competing conceptions of the good. Our contemporary moment is better seen, though, as postsecular rather than as individualist and subjectivist. It is a context within which many different communities (of sometimes overlapping and shifting …
Virtue, Identity, and Agency
Despite a vibrant revival of the ethics of virtue, now spanning several decades, the discourse of virtue in later medieval and early modern thought and the distinctive forms this reflection takes across varying genres and social settings have been insufficiently integrated into narratives of the history of virtue ethics. The aim of this special issue is to remedy this lack by bringing together philosophical, theological, historical, and literary …
Alasdair MacIntyre's "Rationality of Traditions" and Tradition-Transcendental Standards of Justification
Alasdair MacIntyre's "Rationality of Traditions" and Tradition-Transcendental Standards of Justification
Religious Ethics, History, and the Rise of Modern Moral Philosophy
In this introduction to a cluster of three articles on eighteenth‐century ethics written by Mark Larrimore, John Bowlin, and Mark Cladis, the author maintains that although the broad narrative tracing the emergence of a religiously neutral or naturalistic moral language in the eighteenth century is a familiar one, many central questions concerning this development remain unanswered and require further historical study. Against those who contend t…
The Rise of Sympathy and the Question of Divine Suffering
Seventeenth‐century Cambridge Platonist Ralph Cudworth, writing just at the time when the concept of sympathy was moving from the realm of magic to that of ethics, argued that God must be understood as having a vital sympathy with suffering human beings. Yet while Cudworth invoked sympathy in an attempt to capture God’s intimate relation with creation, in fact, it served as a principle of mediation that tended either to collapse God into the worl…
English Philosophy in the Age of Locke. Vol. 3 of Oxford Studies in the History of Philosophy . M. A. Stewart
The Endless Construction of Charity
In Theology and Social Theory, John Milbank critiques Scottish Enlightenment political economy and its attendant descriptive moral philosophy for "de-ethicizing" human action. A closer look at the development of theoretical understandings of sympathy, however, shows that instinct did not ultimately displace virtue. Moreover, a survey of practical responses to poverty calls into question the claim that political economy obliterated the Christian s…
Putting On Virtue
Rediscovering the Natural Law in Reformed Theological Ethics – By Stephen J. Grabill
Stephen A. Wilson, Virtue Reformed
Putting on virtue
"Putting On Virtue reveals how a distrust of learned and habituated virtue shaped both early modern Christian moral reflection and secular forms of ethical thought." "Jennifer Herdt develops her claims through an argument of broad historical sweep, which brings together the Aristotelian tradition as taken up by Thomas Aquinas with the early modern thinkers who shaped modern liberalism. In chapters on Luther, Bunyan, the Jansenists, Mandeville, Hu…
Christian Humility, Courtly Civility, and the Code of the Streets
Within both contemporary inner‐city street life and early modern courtly civility, persons acquire value through being acknowledged by others. Though dependent on others for a sense of self‐worth constructed by external tokens of respect, they are unable to experience dependency as gift. Humility thus appears as an admission of lack of worth, rather than as a confession of the dependent character of one's worth. What might contemporary Christians…
Hauerwas Among the Virtues
Despite the fact that Stanley Hauerwas has not taken up many of the topics normally associated with virtue ethics, has explicitly distanced himself from the enterprise known as “virtue ethics,” and throughout his career has preferred other categories of analysis, ranging from character and agency to practices and liturgy, it is nevertheless clear that his work has had a deep and transformative impact on the recovery of virtue within Christian eth…
Virtue, Identity, and Agency
Despite a vibrant revival of the ethics of virtue, now spanning several decades, the discourse of virtue in later medieval and early modern thought and the distinctive forms this reflection takes across varying genres and social settings have been insufficiently integrated into narratives of the history of virtue ethics. The aim of this special issue is to remedy this lack by bringing together philosophical, theological, historical, and literary …
Aquinas and the Nicomachean Ethics
Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics is the text which had the single greatest influence on Aquinas's ethical writings, and the historical and philosophical value of Aquinas's appropriation of this text provokes lively debate. In this volume of new essays, thirteen distinguished scholars explore how Aquinas receives, expands on and transforms Aristotle's insights about the attainability of happiness, the scope of moral virtue, the foundation of moralit…
Aquinas's Aristotelian defense of martyr courage
Redeeming the Acquired Virtues
The probing readings of P utting O n V irtue offered by S heryl O vermyer, D arlene W eaver, and J ames F oster provide a welcome opportunity for further reflection on key questions: Was A quinas really concerned with the status of pagan virtues? Can we properly understand a thinker whose driving questions are not the same as our own without taking up a stance of pure deference? Can an inquiry into hyper‐ A ugustinian anxiety over acquired virtue…
The Authentic Individual in the Network of Agape
Calvin's legacy for contemporary Reformed natural law
Recent scholarship has done much to uncover a continuous tradition of distinctively Reformed natural law reflection, according to which knowledge of the natural moral law, though not saving knowledge, is universally available to humanity in its fallen state and makes a stable secular order possible. A close look at Calvin's understanding of natural law, and in particular of conscience and natural human instincts, shows that Calvin himself did not…
Empathy beyond the In-Group
Recent empirical work underscores the centrality of empathy to generating genuinely altruistic motivation, while also emphasizing the natural limits of empathy. Both the ancient Stoics and Augustine seek to expand the scope of moral concern, but in distinct ways that we can now describe as focused on tempering empathetic personal distress, on the one hand, and heightening empathetic concern, on the other. Contemporary empirical research can help …
Aquinas and the Democratic Virtues
Can the theology of Thomas Aquinas serve as a resource for reflection on democratic civic virtue? That is the central question taken up by Mark Jordan, Adam Eitel, John Bowlin, and Michael Lamb in this focus issue. The four authors agree on one thing: Aquinas himself was no fan of democracy. They disagree, though, over whether Aquinas can offer resources for theorizing democratic virtues. Bowlin, Eitel, and Lamb believe he can, and propose Thomis…
Proximate Common Goods in the Context of Pluralism
Brad Gregory's The Unintended Reformation bemoans the loss of the shared “institutionalized worldview” that was Christendom, claiming that the resulting hyperpluralism renders it impossible to adjudicate among competing conceptions of the good. Our contemporary moment is better seen, though, as postsecular rather than as individualist and subjectivist. It is a context within which many different communities (of sometimes overlapping and shifting …
Forming Humanity
Natural Law in Protestant Christianity
In the mid to late twentieth century, it was the norm for Protestant thinkers to reject natural law ethics. Karl Barth repudiated natural law as insufficiently Christocentric. Reinhold Niebuhr criticised natural law thinking for absolutising the relative. Stanley Hauerwas argued that 'natural law functions ideologically to justify the assumption that Christians have a responsibility to fulfil the demands of the state and institutions associated w…
Excellence‐Prior Eudaimonism
Eudaimonism is often regarded as egoistic. If it recommends that agents pursue their own good because it is their own good, it is guilty as charged. But excellence‐prior eudaimonism offers a non‐egoistic alternative to this welfare‐prior eudaimonism. Excellence‐prior eudaimonism recommends that an agent live in a way that is in fact good for the agent, but it does not regard the agent’s own good as necessarily that for the sake of which the agent…
Exemplarity Between Tradition and Critique
Moral exemplarism, which insists on the centrality of particular embodiments of exemplary virtue to the moral life, is currently receiving significant attention within moral philosophy as well as theological and religious ethics. This introductory essay situates the contributions made by this focus issue on moral exemplarity in relation to the history of attention to moral exemplars, the twentieth‐century turn to virtue, philosopher Linda Zagzebs…
Oliver O’Donovan’s Ethics as Theology and the Struggle for Communication
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