Publications

Studies in Christian Ethics 33/2 (May 2020), Special Issue edited by Nigel Biggar and Matthew Lee Anderson: “Is Religious Freedom under Threat? Transatlantic Perspectives”. This comprises most of the proceedings of a conference held in 2018 under the auspices of the McDonald Centre.

This document contains details of the McDonald Centre's activities and achievements over the 2018/2019 academic year.

The December 2018 special issue of Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics features essays reflecting on modern medicine at the centenary of Max Weber's "Science as vocation" (1917). The volume, edited by Matthew Vest (Ohio State University) and Ashley Moyse, includes contributions that emerged from the 2017 Annual Conference in Medicine and Religion.

This document contains details of the McDonald Centre's activities and achievements over the 2016/2017 academic year. 

The May 2016 issue of Studies in Christian Ethics features contributions to a project undertaken focusing on the ‘pre-modern’ or ‘long’ traditions of political thought in Islam and Christianity.

The thought of Immanuel Kant (1724-1804) is often regarded as having caused a crisis for theology and religion because it sets the limits of knowledge to what can be derived from experience. In The Intolerable God, Christopher Insole challenges that assumption and argues that Kant believed in God but struggled intensely with theological questions.

This document sets out the main activities of the McDonald Centre over the 2014/2015 academic year.  

On November 30, the McDonald Centre distributed a parliamentary briefing by Nigel Biggar to a number of MPs in advance of the anticipated vote by the House of Commons on whether or not Britain should participate in military action against ISIL in Syria.

Is ethics about happiness? Aristotle thought so and for centuries Christians agreed, until utilitarianism raised worries about where this would lead. In this volume, Peter Singer, leading utilitarian philosopher and controversial defender of infanticide and euthanasia, addresses this question in conversation with Christian ethicists and secular utilitarians.

This document contains a summary review of the McDonald Centre's activities from 2008 to 2013.  

Pacifism is popular. Many hold that war is unnecessary, since peaceful means of resolving conflict are always available, if only we had the will to look for them. Or they believe that war is wicked, essentially involving hatred of the enemy and carelessness of human life.