Eric Gregory is Professor of Religion and former Chair of the Humanities Council at Princeton University. His research and teaching focus on religious and philosophical ethics, theology, political theory, law and religion, and the role of religion in public life. He is the author of Politics & the Order of Love: An Augustinian Ethic of Democratic Citizenship (University of Chicago Press, 2008), and recent articles on myth and politics, the philosophy of history, secularity, and moral supererogation. In 2007 he was awarded Princeton’s President’s Award for Distinguished Teaching.
Gregory’s project as Old Dominion Professor, The In-Gathering of Strangers: Global Justice and Political Theology, examines secular and religious perspectives on what human beings owe one another in a global age. It draws on various interpretations of the parable of the Good Samaritan to explore tensions between extensive ideals of justice and benevolence rooted in a common humanity and those more particular roles that constitute our identities. Against cosmopolitanism and nationalism, it defends a politics of internationalism and a relational-based account of obligation that builds upon classical and contemporary resources in Jewish and Christian traditions. While a contribution to fundamental issues in normative ethics and political theology, it focuses on three pressing issues in applied ethics: global poverty, immigration, and humanitarian intervention.
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