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Elizabeth Agnew Cochran, Ph.D.Assistant ProfessorEDUCATION C.V. [pdf] CONTACT INFORMATION |
COURSES TAUGHT:
Theological Ethics; Health Care Ethics; Sexuality, Sex, and Morality; Foundational Moral Theology; Ph.D. Seminars in Moral Theology
RESEARCH, PUBLICATION, AND SERVICE:
Elizabeth Agnew Cochran began teaching at Duquesne in 2006 and received her Ph.D. in Theology from the University of Notre Dame in spring 2007. Her primary research interests are virtue ethics, bioethics, and the history of moral thought.
Dr. Cochran is the author of Receptive Human Virtues: A New Reading of Jonathan Edwards’ Ethics (Penn State University Press, forthcoming January 2011), and of articles in several journals, including Journal of the Society of Christian Ethics, Heythrop Journal, Wesleyan Theological Journal, and Theology Today. She is currently developing a second book-length manuscript on the interplay between Stoic philosophy and contemporary Christian virtue ethics.
SELECT PUBLICATIONS:
Book
Receptive Human Virtues: A New Reading of Jonathan Edwards’ Ethics (Penn State University Press, 2011).
Articles
“The Moral Beauty of Assent: Retrieving Stoic Virtue Theory for Christian Ethics,” forthcoming in Journal of the Society of Christian Ethics 30.1 (Spring 2010).
“The Imago Dei and Human Perfection: The Significance of Christology for Gregory of Nyssa’s Understanding of the Human Person,” Heythrop Journal 50 (2009): 402-415.
“Christian Perfection and Moral Reasoning: A Wesleyan Challenge to Dilemmas in Bioethics,” Wesleyan Theological Journal 44 2009).
“Jesus Christ and the Cardinal Virtues: A Response to Monika Hellwig,” Theology Today 65 (2008): 81-94.
“Creaturely Virtues in Jonathan Edwards: The Significance of Christology for the Moral Life,” Journal for the Society of Christian Ethics 27 (2007): 73-96.
“’At the Same Time Blessed and Lame:’ Ontology, Christology, and Violence in Augustine and John Milbank,” Journal for Christian Theological Research 11 (2006): 51-72.
“'The Full Imago Dei:' The Implications of Wesleyan Scriptural Holiness for Questions of Suffering and Disability,” Journal of Religion, Disability, and Health 9 (2005): 21-46.
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