William Schweiker

Biographic Data

ID342313
NAMEWilliam Schweiker
GIVEN NAMESWilliam
FAMILY NAMESchweiker
SIGNATURESCHWEIKER W
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Chicago
ORCID0009-0002-7589-8364
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS56
TOTAL CITATIONS11
AUTHOR COUNT54
EDITOR COUNT2
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1968
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX2

  • “Conscience and the Ends of Humanity: Christian Humanism and Artificial Intelligence”

    Open AccessWilliam SchweikerARTICLEModern Theology2026

    The astonishing speed of the development of Artificial Intelligence (AI) has sparked reflections by theologians and philosophers on what distinctiveness, if any, human beings possess as individuals and as a species. This article addresses this question with respect to an ancient idea in Christian thought reaching back to St. Paul and examined again and again throughout history, namely, human conscience. While sometimes criticized as a tyrannous f…

  • The Enhancing Life Research Laboratory: Tools for Addressing Orientational Distress in the Medical Profession

    Open AccessGuenter Thomas, Sara Bigger et al.ARTICLEAcademic Medicine2023

  • Theologian, Teacher, and Friend: Tributes to James M. Gustafson

    Open AccessJames F Childress, Lisa Sowle Cahill et al.ARTICLEJournal of Religious Ethics2022

    James M. Gustafson, who died in 2021, has influenced generations of theologians and ethicists. In this article, five students, colleagues, and friends provide short reflections on what Gustafson has meant for their work as scholars of theology and religious ethics

  • Encyclopedia of Religious Ethics: 3 Volume Set

    David A Clairmont, Elizabeth Bucar et al.BOOKEncyclopedia of Religious Ethics2021

  • The Ethics of Radical Life Extension: Catholic, Protestant, Orthodox Christian, and Global Ethic Perspectives

    Hille Haker, William Schweiker et al.ARTICLEJournal of the Society of…2021

    Biomedical technologies capable of sharply reducing or ending human aging, “radical life extension” (RLE), call for a Christian response. The authors featured in this article offer some preliminary thoughts. Common themes include: What kind of life counts as a “good life;” the limits, if any, of human freedom; the consequences of extended life on the human species and on the Earth; the meaning and value of finite and vulnerable embodied life; the…

  • Encyclopedia of Religious Ethics

    David A Clairmont, Elizabeth Bucar et al.BOOKEncyclopedia of Religious Ethics2020

  • Groundwork for the Hermeneutics of Morals: Paul Ricoeur and the Future of Ethics

    William SchweikerARTICLEThe Journal of Religion2020References: 3

  • The Destiny of Creation: Theological Ethical Reflections on Laudato Si

    Open AccessWilliam SchweikerARTICLEJournal of Religious Ethics2018

    In this essay, I ask what the precise relation is between Laudato si's theology and its claims about our individual and corporate responsibility for the environment and the plight of the poor. To do so, I first clarify the relationship between the theological claims and its account of moral norms, situating the text within the history of western ethical theory. I then turn to reconstruct the submerged theology of the encyclical, focusing on Pope …

  • A Response to “Participation: A Religious Worldview” by James M. Gustafson

    Open AccessWilliam SchweikerARTICLEJournal of Religious Ethics2016

    This response offers an interpretation of James Gustafson's “Participation: A Religious Worldview,” which thinks with Gustafson on the theme of “participation,” while highlighting points where my own thoughts diverge from his. The essay begins by drawing the reader's attention to Gustafson's style, arguing that the simple elegance of his writing constitutes part of his larger claim about the need to remove ourselves from the center of our thought…

  • Humanism and the Question of Fullness

    William SchweikerCHAPTERAspiring to Fullness in a Secular…2014

  • Introduction: Engaging Michael Fishbane's Theology and Ethics of Attunement

    Willemien Otten, William SchweikerARTICLEThe Journal of Religion2013

  • Responsibility and the Attunement of Conscience

    William SchweikerARTICLEThe Journal of Religion2013References: 5

  • Grappling with Charles Taylor's A Secular Age ** Charles Taylor, A Secular Age . (Cambridge, MA: (Belknap, 2007)

    William Schweiker, William Schweiker et alARTICLEThe Journal of Religion2010Cited by: 2References: 7

  • Humanizing Religion

    William SchweikerARTICLEThe Journal of Religion2009References: 6

  • Religion and the Human Future: An Essay on Theological Humanism

    Open AccessDAVID E KLEMM, William SchweikerBOOKReligion and the Human Future2008

    This powerful manifesto outlines a vision called theological humanism based on the idea that that the integrity of life provides a way to articulate the meaning of religion for the human future. Explores a profound quest to understand the meaning and responsibility of our shared and yet divided humanity amidst the uncertainty of modern society Articulates the idea that human beings are mixed creatures striving for integrity not only trying to con…

  • Blackwell Companion to Religious Ethics

    William SchweikerBOOKBlackwell Companion to Religious…2007

  • On Religious Ethics

    William SchweikerCHAPTERBlackwell Companion to Religious…2007

  • Reply to Flood

    William SchweikerARTICLEJournal of the American Academy…2006

    I WANT TO THANK Professor Gavin Flood for his insightful response to my essay on the future of religious ethics. Not only did he get my argument right, but at several points Flood makes a better case than I do! Happily, I need only expand on a few points. Flood notes, first, that I recognize the ethical praxis of traditions “alongside” the work of religious ethics in an academic context. That is right. Yet, I also tried to suggest that a multidim…

  • On the Future of Religious Ethics: Keeping Religious Ethics Religious and Ethical

    William SchweikerARTICLEJournal of the American Academy…2006Cited by: 2References: 17

    This essay proposes a method and aim for the future of religious ethics. Rather than surveying the usual debates about the field, the essay situates the various kinds of work in religious ethics both in the contemporary global context and with respect to the modern western conception of what defines a "discipline" and the aspiration to a system of the sciences. In response to the breakdown of the modern project, various claims about rationality a…

  • Response to Cabezón

    William SchweikerARTICLEJournal of the American Academy…2006

    I WANT TO THANK Professor Cabezón for an engaging paper written, supposedly, from his “little corner” of the field of religious studies but which, in fact, sheds light on much of the field as a whole. As he notes, the authors of these essays for the JAAR were encouraged to write something like a “manifesto” and so, per definition, to call others to awaken and to change. Cabezón has done so with considerable skill and dispatch. The respondents to …

  • Paul Ricoeur and the Return of Humanism

    Open AccessWilliam SchweikerARTICLEJournal of French and Francophone…2006

  • Making and Living Myth: On Michael Fishbane's Biblical Myth and Rabbinic Mythmaking

    William SchweikerARTICLEThe Jewish Quarterly Review2006

    It is a delight and honor for me to respond to Professor Michael Fishbane's magisterial work, Biblical Myth and Rabbinic Mythmaking and, additionally, to do so within the pages of The Jewish Quarterly Review. Anyone who cracks the covers of his book will be humbled and also ennobled by Fishbane's breadth of learning and depth of insight. Of course, this also means that any response, especially a relatively short one, will never plumb the wealth o…

  • The Blackwell Companion to Religious Ethics: Schweiker/The Blackwell

    William SchweikerBOOKBlackwell Companion to Religious…2005

  • Theological Ethics and Global Dynamics: In the Time of Many Worlds

    William SchweikerBOOKTheological Ethics and Global…2004

  • A Preface to Ethics: Global Dynamics and the Integrity of Life

    Open AccessWilliam SchweikerARTICLEJournal of Religious Ethics2004

    This essay outlines a new preface for ethics demanded by the massive developments of the global age. It does so in and through the comparative use of “myths” to explicate the lived structure of experience. The essay begins by isolating main features of global dynamics, including proximity, the compression of the world and the expansion of consciousness, and also global, cultural reflexivity. In the second step of the “preface,” it is argued that …