Charles
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.
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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
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