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The University of Chicago Divinity School
1025 East 58th Street, Swift Hall, Chicago, Illinois 60637, USA
Phone: (773) 702-8200
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Prof. Paul Mendes-Flohr, Professor of Modern Jewish Thought

Prof. William Schweiker, Professor of Theological Ethics

Prof. Paul Mendes-Flohr

Professor of Modern Jewish Thought
Chair on the Committee of Jewish Studies

Swift Hall 306 E
1025 E. 58th St.
Chicago, IL 60637, USA

Phone: (773) 702-5084
Fax: (773) 702-8223

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Homepage: http://divinity.uchicago.edu/faculty/mendes-flohr.shtml

Research Profile

Prof. Mendes-Flohr's major research interests include modern Jewish intellectual history, modern Jewish philosophy and religious thought, philosophy of religion, German intellectual history, and the history and sociology of intellectuals.

Teaching Profile

Examples of teaching activities: Modern Jewish Thought, methodological courses in the Study of Religions, Religious Ethics, German philosophy and intellectual history

Selected Publications 

Paul Mendes-Flohr and Peter Schäfer, eds., Buber, Martin, Werkausgabe. 22 vols. Gütersloh,Germany: Gütersloher Verlagshaus, 2001ff. (Buber, Martin: Collected Works)

German Jews: A Dual Identity. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1999.

Divided Passions: Jewish Intellectuals and the Experience of Modernity (Culture of Jewish Modernity). Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1991.

Love, Accusative and Dative: Reflections on Leviticus 19:18. Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2007.

"A Post-Modern Humanism from the Sources of Judaism," in Revisita Portuguesa de Filosfia, 62 (2006), 369-377.

"Martin Buber: A Builder of Bridges," in Jewish Studies Quarterly (Princeton University) 14 (2007), 5-25.

 "Anti-Semitism and the Jewish-American Political Experience," in M. Dorraj/V. Martinez-Ebers (eds.), The Changing Face of America. New York: Oxford University Press, 2008. (in press)

"Between Sensual and Heavenly Love: Franz Rosenzweig's Reading of the Song of Songs," in Scriptural Exegesis: The Shapes of Culture and the Religious Imagination: Essays in Honor of Michael Fishbane. New York: Oxford University Press. (in press)

"Maimonides in the Crucible of Zionism: Reflections on Yeshayahu Leibowitz's Negative Theology," in: L. Goodman (ed.), Maimonides and his Environs. New York: SUNY. (in press)

"Identidades judais post-tradicionales,"  in P. Mendes-Flohr et al. (ed.s), Identidad Judaia, Modernidad y Globalizacion. Madrid, 2007. (in press)

Prof. William Schweiker

Professor of Theological Ethics

Swift Hall 300 B
1025 E. 58th St.
Chicago, IL 60637, USA

Phone: (1) (773) 702-8246
Fax: (1) (773) 702-8223

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Homepage: http://divinity.uchicago.edu/faculty/schweiker.shtml

Research Profile 

Prof. Schweiker works in the field of theological ethics.  His scholarship and teaching engage theological and ethical questions attentive to global dynamics, comparative religious ethics, the history of ethics, and hermeneutical philosophy.  He is currently writing a book on “theological humanism.”

Teaching Profile

2000 - present.  Professor of Theological Ethics
University of Chicago, The Divinity School and The College

Selected Publications

Mimetic Reflections: A Study in Hermeneutics, Theology and Ethics. New York: Fordham University Press, 1990

Responsibility and Christian Ethics. 2nd ed. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997, Korean translation, 2000.

Power, Value and Conviction: Theological Ethics in the Postmodern Age. Cleveland: Pilgrim Press, 1998,  Korean translation, 2003.

Theological Ethics and Global Dynamics: In the Time of Many Worlds. Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, 2004.

“Radikale Interpretation und moralische Verantwortung: Grundlinien einer zeitgemäßen theologischen Ethik,” Evangelische Theologie 54 (1994): 227-240.

"Understanding Moral Meanings: On Philosophical Hermeneutics and Theological Ethics" in L. S. Cahill/J. Childress, eds., Christian Ethics: Problems and Prospects.  Pilgrim Press, 1996, 72-92.

“Verantwortungsethik in einer Pluralistischen Welt: Schöpfung und die Integrität des Lebens” Evangelische Theologie 59 (1999), 320-335.

“Heilige Gewalt und der Wert der Macht: René Girards Opfertheorie und die Theologie der Kultur” in B. Janowski/M. Welker, eds., Opfer: Theologische und kulturellen Kontexte. Frankfurt: Suhrkamp, 2000, 108-128.

“Die Hartnäckigkeit des Realismus: Gegenwärtige Strömungen in theologischer und nicht-theologischer  Ethik” in J. Fischer/S. Grotefeld/P. Schaber (eds.), Moralischer Realismus: Theologische Beiträge zu einer philosophischer Debatte. Stuttgart: W. Kohlhammer, 2004, 27-52.

“On Religious Ethics,” in W. Schweiker (ed.), A Companion to Religious Ethics. Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, 2004.

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Prof. Paul Mendes-Flohr, Professor of Modern Jewish Thought

Prof. William Schweiker, Professor of Theological Ethics