James Childress
James Childress
University Professor & John Allen Hollingsworth Prof, Ethics
Address:
Department of Religious Studies
PO Box 400126
Charlottesville, VA 22904-4126
Research Interests
Religious Ethics; Social and Political Ethics; Biomedical Ethics; Methods in Ethics.
Education
- Bachelor of Arts (BA), Guilford College
- Bachelor of Divinity (BD), Yale University
- Master of Arts (MA), Yale University
- Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Yale University
Current Research and Teaching
My research currently focuses on two major areas: (1) biomedical ethics, with particular attention to theory and method, religion and bioethics, and public bioethics, and (2) just-war theory and pacifism. My teaching includes undergraduate courses on biomedical ethics and on religion and public policy, and graduate seminars on love and justice in Christian ethics, just-war theory and pacifism, and legal and ethical reasoning in public policy.