Prof. Charles MathewesCharles T. Mathewes, Ph.D.
(University of Chicago), Associate Professor, Religious Ethics, History of Christian Thought.
Office: 109 Halsey Annex
email: CTMathewes@virginia.edu
UVa instructor ID # 6966

Plato, Patristics (esp. Augustine), Medievals (esp. Anselm, Bernard, Bonaventure and Aquinas), Luther and Calvin, Pascal, Edwards, Schleiermacher, Barth, the Niebuhrs, Anglican theology; Modern philosophy (Continental and Analytic); moral and political theory, moral psychology and rationality; interreligious dialogue; Trinity, Christology, the idea of "tradition," tragedy, evil, and sin.

Education

  • BA Georgetown University
  • AM, PhD The University of Chicago

Courses

Spring 2005

  • RELG 833 Comparative Ethics,
  • RELG 815 Religion, Culture and Public Life
  • RELG 800 Negativity and Imagination
  • RELG 230 Religious Ethics and Moral Problems

Fall 2004

  • RELC 742 Augustine and Aquinas
  • RELG 815 Religion, Culture and Public Life
  • RELC 342 Christian Vision of Hell
  • RELC 542 Christian View of Hell

Spring 2004

  • RELG 815 Religion, Culture and Public Life
  • RELG 230 Religious Ethics and Moral Problems
  • RELC 530 The Protestant Moral Tradition
  • RELC 530 The Protestant Moral Tradition

Fall 2003

  • RELG 395 Evil in Modernity
  • RELG 750 Moral Psychology and Religion

Spring 2003

  • RELG 332 Doubt as Spiritual Practice
  • RELG 230 Religious Ethics and Moral Problems

Fall 2002

  • RELC 342 Christian View of Hell
  • RELC 530 Roman Catholic Moral Tradition

Publications, Awards, and Activities

Books:

  • Understanding Religious Ethics (a comparative study of Jewish, Christian, and Islamic ethics)
  • An Augustinian Look at Empire After 9/11
  • A Spirituality of Citizenship
  • Evil and the Augustinian Tradition (Cambridge)
  • A Theology of Public Life During the World (Cambridge)

Activities:

  • Editor of The Journal of the American Academy of Religion, 2006-2010