The Society of Christian Ethics–Annual Meeting
December 28, 2011, 12:21 pm
Posted by Cathleen Kaveny
The Society of Christian Ethics, which is an ecumenical group of Christian ethicists that meets annually in January, is about to have its meeting in Washington, D.C. Our discussions have been richer since we have been meeting in conjunction with the annual meetings of the Society of Jewish Ethics and the Society for the Study of Muslim Ethics.
This year’s president is Stanley Hauerwas; here is his “call to meeting” letter. The focus of the conference is war and peace; one of the plenary speakers is frequent Commonweal contributor Andrew Bacevich. You can find the entire program here, if you’re interested in seeing what the hot topics in religious ethics are!
Terrific plenaries: Carter is no lightweight either!
Stephen Carter and Michael Walzer and Andy Bacevich–what a fine line-up! I am looking forward to the discussion.
In addition, the Journal of Religious Ethics is sponsoring a session with James Turner Johnson talking on the morality of military intervention to remedy gross violations of human rights.
Another session, which I helped organize, has to do with the ethics of lobbying. We have Tom Reese, Simone Campbell (NETWORK) and Richard Cizik talking about that topic.
Just curious… does this society have many RC seminary professors and others from Cathlolic institutions? If not, why?
Oh yes. Lots and lots of Catholics; I’m not sure of the percentage, but it’s considerable.
Cathy, a favor = could you give us an update in due time on the ethics of lobbying – a topic that IMO is most needed today.
Thanks.
Am I mixing this up with something else, or is this the one everybody goes to for the wild parties after the last Saturday session?
A quick look at this impressive agenda shows a breadth and depth that is fascinating. I don’t know a lot of names, but those I recognize are surely worthy to listen to. I realize that this is a “professional association” and, as such, a specialty. Nevertheless, I am yet curious at how many of these academics have a position at seminaries — Catholic or other. I present that becasue of the impression of increasing insularity in Catholic priesthood formation and wonder how the influences of such an assembly are communicatd to future leaders.
Ha! No that is the Catholic Theological Society of America! (only kidding!)
David, many of those who attend are professors at Protestant seminaries. Catholic seminary professors are welcome to join-I don’t have the numbers offhand that would separate Catholic professors at colleges from Catholic professors at seminaries.