REPRESENTATIVE PUBLICATIONS

Books

Redeeming the Enlightenment: Christianity and the Liberal Virtues. Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 2010, pp. 264.

Remembering the End: Dostoevsky as Prophet to Modernity, Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 2001. pp. 280. Also published in Great Britain by SCM Press, London, 2002.

Articles and Chapters

 “Transforming Passion into Compassion: Rousseau and the Problem of Envy in Modern Democracy,” in Passions in Economy, Politics, and the Media: In Discussion with Christian Theology, Eds. Wolfgang Palaver and Petra Steinmar-Poesel Muenster, Germany: LIT, 2005, pp. 253-272.

“Giving Voice to Isaac: The Sacrificial Victim in Kafka’s Trial,” Shofar: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Jewish Studies, Winter 2004, Vol. 22 No. 2, pp. 64-84.

“The Absent ‘Finger of Providence’ in The Brothers Karamazov: Some Implications for Religious Models,” in And Meaning For A Life Entire: Festschrift For Charles A. Moser. Edited by Peter Rollberg. Columbus, Ohio: Slavica Publishers, 1998, pp. 149-165.

“Canadian Reflections on a Russian in

Dresden,” Queen’s Quarterly, Fall 1998,

Vol. 105, No. 3, pp. 406-421.

“Dostoevsky and the Hermeneutics of Suspicion,” Literature and Theology, Vol. 11 No. 3, September 1997, pp. 270-283.

“Christianity and the Modern Eclipse of

Nature: Two Perspectives,” in the Journal

of the American Academy of Religion,

Winter 1995, Vol. LXIII, No. 4, pp. 823

843.

"Dostoevsky and the Problem of Meaning

in History" in Dostoevsky and the

Twentieth Century. Edited by Malcolm

V. Jones. Nottingham, England: Astra

Press, 1993, 49-65.

"The Moral Dimension of Atheism,"

Toronto Journal of Theology, Vol. VII

2, Fall 1991, pp. 220-225.

"Prometheus or Cain?  Albert Camus's

Account of the Western Quest for Justice,"

Faith and Philosophy, Vol. 8 No. 2.

April 1991, pp. 193-213.

"The Recovery of Helen: Albert Camus's Attempt to Restore the Greek Idea of Nature," Dionysius, Vol. XIV, Dec. 1990, pp. 169-194.

The questions I pursue in my research are those of religious ethics, religion and politics, and the philosophy of religion, especially within the western tradition. Much of my published work has focused on literary texts (e.g. Dostoevsky, Kafka, Camus) as a rich source for reflection on problems of faith and atheism, evil and suffering, compassion and violence. My most recent book (Redeeming the Enlightenment) addresses the contemporary debate about the role of religion in contemporary secular society by examining the religious-moral sources of modern equality, tolerance, authenticity, and compassion.