Eric Gregory
Biographic Data
| ID | 3965751 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Eric Gregory |
| GIVEN NAMES | Eric |
| FAMILY NAME | Gregory |
| SIGNATURE | GREGORY E |
| AFFILIATIONS | Princeton University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4730-8363 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 9 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The Church of England as Liberal Christian Nationalism
This paper was originally given as a response to Joan Lockwood O’Donovan's 2024 Recollection Lecture, delivered at Pusey House, Oxford. It invites reflection on Christology, eschatology, and mission in O’Donovan's vindication of the public authority of the Church of England
Desecularizing the Christian Past
Christian Ethics and the Arc of the Universe
The idea of moral progress figured prominently in many streams of twentieth century Christian ethics, especially those aligned to liberal thought wedded to teleological or providential history. This is no longer the case as more catastrophic visions attract both scholars and students. What are we to make of this change? This essay argues that accounts of moral progress were part of a broader Augustinian interest in the shape of history that has a…
Remythologizing Augustine
This lecture seeks to resurrect the difficult project of a theology of history as a necessary correlate of renewed interest in political theology. The theme of history and politics is both ambitious and familiar, admitting a vast literature just within Augustine studies given his efforts to understand time, creation, and the historical careers of the ciuitas permixta and the “most glorious” ciuitas dei. That literature is usually focused on the m…
Beyond Critique
This article takes up a charge often directed to neo‐Augustinians by neo‐Anabaptists that their defense of just war lacks adequate theological foundations. It is the case that most contemporary just war advocates, even within Christian ethics, no longer embed their accounts within a distinctively theological context, let alone a robust appeal to a doctrine of God or divine providence attentive to the divine One who really entered history, suffere…
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
Modifiable Risk Factors Associated With Disposal of Unused Prescription Drugs by Parents of Adolescents
Putting Religion Back Into Religious Ethics
This essay on Richard Miller’s Friends and Other Strangers (2016) locates its arguments in the context of how the practice of religious ethics bears upon debates about normativity in the study of religion and the cultural turn in the humanities. After reviewing its main claims about identity and otherness, I focus on three areas. First, while commending Miller’s effort to analogize virtuous empathy with Augustine’s ethics of rightly ordered love,…
Enfleshment and the Time of Ethics
Before the Original Position
This paper examines a remarkable document that has escaped critical attention within the vast literature on John Rawls, religion, and liberalism: Rawls's undergraduate thesis, "A Brief Inquiry into the Meaning of Sin and Faith: An Interpretation Based on the Concept of Community" (1942). The thesis shows the extent to which a once regnant version of Protestant theology has retreated into seminaries and divinity schools where it now also meets res…
Augustine and Politics as Longing in the World. John Von Heyking
Democracy in Dark Times . Jeffrey C. Isaac
Before the Original Position
This paper examines a remarkable document that has escaped critical attention within the vast literature on John Rawls, religion, and liberalism: Rawls's undergraduate thesis, "A Brief Inquiry into the Meaning of Sin and Faith: An Interpretation Based on the Concept of Community" (1942). The thesis shows the extent to which a once regnant version of Protestant theology has retreated into seminaries and divinity schools where it now also meets res…
Democracy in Dark Times . Jeffrey C. Isaac
Augustine and Politics as Longing in the World. John Von Heyking
Before the Original Position
This paper examines a remarkable document that has escaped critical attention within the vast literature on John Rawls, religion, and liberalism: Rawls's undergraduate thesis, "A Brief Inquiry into the Meaning of Sin and Faith: An Interpretation Based on the Concept of Community" (1942). The thesis shows the extent to which a once regnant version of Protestant theology has retreated into seminaries and divinity schools where it now also meets res…
Enfleshment and the Time of Ethics
Putting Religion Back Into Religious Ethics
This essay on Richard Miller’s Friends and Other Strangers (2016) locates its arguments in the context of how the practice of religious ethics bears upon debates about normativity in the study of religion and the cultural turn in the humanities. After reviewing its main claims about identity and otherness, I focus on three areas. First, while commending Miller’s effort to analogize virtuous empathy with Augustine’s ethics of rightly ordered love,…
Beyond Critique
This article takes up a charge often directed to neo‐Augustinians by neo‐Anabaptists that their defense of just war lacks adequate theological foundations. It is the case that most contemporary just war advocates, even within Christian ethics, no longer embed their accounts within a distinctively theological context, let alone a robust appeal to a doctrine of God or divine providence attentive to the divine One who really entered history, suffere…
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
Modifiable Risk Factors Associated With Disposal of Unused Prescription Drugs by Parents of Adolescents
Remythologizing Augustine
This lecture seeks to resurrect the difficult project of a theology of history as a necessary correlate of renewed interest in political theology. The theme of history and politics is both ambitious and familiar, admitting a vast literature just within Augustine studies given his efforts to understand time, creation, and the historical careers of the ciuitas permixta and the “most glorious” ciuitas dei. That literature is usually focused on the m…
Christian Ethics and the Arc of the Universe
The idea of moral progress figured prominently in many streams of twentieth century Christian ethics, especially those aligned to liberal thought wedded to teleological or providential history. This is no longer the case as more catastrophic visions attract both scholars and students. What are we to make of this change? This essay argues that accounts of moral progress were part of a broader Augustinian interest in the shape of history that has a…
The Church of England as Liberal Christian Nationalism
This paper was originally given as a response to Joan Lockwood O’Donovan's 2024 Recollection Lecture, delivered at Pusey House, Oxford. It invites reflection on Christology, eschatology, and mission in O’Donovan's vindication of the public authority of the Church of England
Desecularizing the Christian Past
Political science (6 works) · Politics (6 works) · Law (5 works) · Philosophy (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Epistemology (4 works) · Augustinian Studies and Theology (3 works) · Political theology (3 works) · Religious studies (3 works) · Christian right (2 works)