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johnwall@camden.rutgers.edu
Rutgers University
Department of Philosophy and Religion
311 N. 3th Street
Camden, NJ 08102-1405, USA
Armitage Hall 462
856-428-1385
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John Wall
Associate
Professor, Department of Philosophy and Religion, Rutgers University
Joint Appointment, Department of Childhood Studies
Acting Director, Graduate Liberal Studies
John Wall's research focuses on the creative nature of moral life.
He has written on the relation of ethics to poetics, postmodern ethical theory, myths of Creation, ethics and narrativity,
the social ethics of childhood, and children's international rights. He
is currently writing a book on "childism" or how considerations of
childhood should transform moral theory.
Dr. Wall was awarded a 2006 Board of Trustees Research Fellowship for
Scholarly Excellence and a 2005 Provost's Award for Teaching Excellence at Rutgers University.
He
serves on the Steering Committee for the Consultation in Childhood
Studies at the American Academy of Religion, and on the Think Tank of
SERFAC (Service and Research Foundation of Asia on Families and
Children) in Chennai, India.
He teaches courses in Evil, Religion and Culture, The Bible, Biomedical
Ethics, Family Ethics, and Philosophical and Religious Perspectives on
Childhood.
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Books
Ethics in
Light of Childhood (forthcoming, Georgetown University Press, summer 2010). View description.
The Child in World Religions (Rutgers University Press, 2009), ed. Don
Browning and Marcia Bunge, subeditor of section on
"Christianity."
Moral Creativity: Paul Ricoeur and the Poetics of
Possibility (Oxford University Press, 2005).
Paul Ricoeur and Contemporary Moral Thought
(Routledge Publishers, 2002), co-edited with
William Schweiker and David Hall.
Marriage, Health, and the Professions (Eerdmans,
2002), co-edited with Don Browning, William Doherty, and Steven Post.
Series co-editor with Don Browning of nine books, "Religion, Marriage,
and Family Series" (Eerdmans, 2000-2002).
Select Articles
and Chapters
"Child: Religious and Philosophical Perspectives" in The Chicago
Companion to the Child, ed. Richard A. Shweder
(Chicago: The University of Chicago
Press, 2009), forthcoming.
“Childism and the Ethics
of Responsibility.” In Annemie Dillen and Didier Pollefeyt,
eds., Children’s Voices.
Children’s Perspectives in Ethics, Theology, and Religious Education
(Leuven, Belgium: BETL, Peeters-Publishing,
2009).
"Human Rights in Light of Childhood," International Journal of Children's Rights 16.4 (October 2008), pp. 523-543. View in pdf.
“Creating
Responsibility: Method and Morality in Light of Childhood.” in Marcia Bunge,
ed., Children, Community, and Faith Formation: Perspectives from Judaism,
Christianity, and Islam (New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press,
2008).
"Human Rights in Light of Children: A Christian Childist
Perspective," Journal of Pastoral Theology 17.1 (Spring 2007),
pp. 54-67. View
in pdf.
"Fatherhood, Childism, and the Creation of
Society," Journal of the American Academy of Religion 75.1 (March 2007), pp. 52-76.
View in pdf. See
also Wilcox, "Response to Wall," pp. 77-84; and Wall, "Reply
to Wilcox," pp. 85-86.
"Imitatio Creatoris:
The Hermeneutical Primordiality of Creativity in
Moral Life,” Journal of Religion 87.1 (January 2007), pp. 21-42. View in pdf.
"Childhood Studies, Hermeneutics, and Theological Ethics," Journal
of Religion 86.4 (October 2006), pp. 523-548. View in pdf.
“Phronesis as Poetic: Moral Creativity in
Contemporary Aristotelianism,” The Review
of Metaphysics 59.2 (December 2005), pp. 313-331. View in pdf.
“The Creative Imperative: Ethics and the Formation of Life in
Common,” Journal of Religious Ethics 33.1 (Spring 2005), pp.
45-64. View in pdf.
“Fallen Angels: A Contemporary Christian Ethical Ontology of
Childhood,” International Journal of Practical Theology 8.2
(Fall 2004), pp. 160-184. View in pdf.
“‘Let the Little Children Come’: Child Rearing as Challenge
to Contemporary Christian Ethics,” Horizons 31.1 (Spring 2004),
pp. 64-87.
“The Christian Ethics of Children: Emerging Questions and
Possibilities,” Journal of Lutheran Ethics (electronic journal)
4.1 (January 2004), approximately 8 pages.
“Phronesis, Poetics, and Moral
Creativity,” Ethical Theory and Moral Practice 6.3 (September
2003), pp. 317-341. View in pdf.
“Animals and Innocents: Theological Reflections on the Meaning and
Purpose of Child-Rearing,” Theology Today 59.4 (January 2003),
pp. 559-582.
“The Marriage Education Movement: A Theological Analysis,” International
Journal of Practical Theology 6.1 (Spring 2002), pp. 85-104.
“Marital Therapy Caught Between Person and Public: A Conversation with
Christian Traditions on Marriage,” primary author, with Bonnie
Miller-McLemore, Pastoral Psychology 50.4 (March 2002), pp. 259-280.
“The Economy of the Gift: Paul Ricoeur’s
Significance for Theological Ethics,” Journal of Religious Ethics
29.2 (Summer 2001), pp. 235-260.
"The Ethics of Relationality: The Moral Views
of Therapists Engaged in Marital and Family Therapy," with Don Browning,
Thomas Needham, and Susan James, Journal of Family Relations 48.2
(April 1999), pp. 139-149.
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