Department of Philosophy and Religion Center for Children and Childhood Studies Camden College of Arts and Sciences Rutgers University 311 N. 5th Street Camden, NJ 08102-1405, USA johnwall@camden.rutgers.edu Armitage Hall 462 856-428-1385 Moral Creativity: Paul Ricoeur and the Poetics of Possibility (Oxford University Press, 2005) More information on this book Read Introductory Chapter Oxford University Press Description Buy at Amazon.com Paul Ricoeur and Contemporary Moral Thought ed. John Wall, William Schweiker, and David Hall (Routledge, 2002) Marriage, Health, and the Professions ed. John Wall, Don Browning, William Doherty, and Stephen Post (Eerdmans, 2002)

John Wall Associate Professor of Religion and Ethics Department of Philosophy and Religion Joint Appointment in Childhood Studies Rutgers University, Camden, New Jersey, United States John Wall's research focuses on the creative nature of moral life, particularly in relation to hermeneutics, religion, and childhood. He has written on the relation of ethics to poetics, the thought of Paul Ricoeur and other contemporary Continental thinkers, myths of Creation, tragedy and narrativity, families and marriage, children's rights, and social responsibility toward children.  He is currently finishing a book on how considerations of childhood should transform postmodern ethical 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 teaches courses in Evil, Religion and Contemporary Culture, Comparative Religious Ethics, The Bible, Biomedical Ethics, Family Ethics, and Childhood in Philosophical and Religious Perspective.  He helped found the first Ph.D. program in Childhood Studies in the United States, at Rutgers University; serves on the International Think Tank for the Service and Research Foundation of Asia on Family and Childhood (SERFAC); and is a member of the Steering Committee for the Consultation in Religion and Childhood Studies, American Academy of Religion. Books Ethics in Light of Childhood, anticipated publication 2009. The Child in World Religions (Rutgers University Press, 2008), 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 "Human Rights in Light of Childhood," International Journal of Children's Rights, forthcoming Fall 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. “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, 2007), 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, 2008). "Child: Religious and Philosophical Perspectives" in The Chicago Companion to the Child, ed. Richard A. Shweder (Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2007), forthcoming. "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. View in pdf. “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. View in pdf. “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. View in pdf. "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.