Why Does Justice Matter?
Featuring
Nicholas Wolterstorff
Noah Porter Professor Emeritus of Philosophical Theology and Fellow of Berkeley College at Yale University; Senior Fellow in the Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture, University of Virginia
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Ideas like justice, peace, love, charity, benevolence, virtue, obligation, duty, and responsibility are part of our moral vocabulary. What would be lost if we deleted justice? Nicholas Wolterstorff, a leading philosopher of religion, aesthetics, metaphysics, and epistemology, will explore this question.
This talk is free and open to the public. It will be followed by lunch and informal dialogue.
About the Yoder Dialogues
John Howard Yoder, a founding fellow of the Kroc Institute and a professor of theology at Notre Dame, was an insightful and effective proponent of Christian non-violence. In addition to initiating courses on war, law, and ethics and non-violence, he began a dialogue with faculty in military science that continues to this day. A generous gift from Anne Marie Yoder, his widow, established an endowment to fund the John Howard Yoder Dialogues on Nonviolence, Religion, and Peace.
Previous Yoder lecturers:
Donald B. Kraybill, Distinguished College Professor and Senior Fellow, Young Center for Anabaptist and Pietist Studies, Elizabethtown College, Pennsylvania
David Smock, Vice President, Director of the Religion and Peacemaking Program, and Director of the Center for Mediation and Conflict Resolution, United States Institute of Peace
Jim Wallis, Editor-in-Chief, Sojourners
Walter Wink, Lecturer, workshop leader & author of When the Powers Fall: Reconciliation in the Healing of Nations
Stanley Hauerwas, Gilbert T. Rowe Professor of Theological Ethics, Divinity School, Duke University
Judith M. Brown, Beit Professor of Commonwealth History, University of Oxford & Professorial Fellow, Balliol College
Miroslav Volf, Henry B. Wright Professor of Systematic Theology, Yale Divinity School
Avishai Margalit, Schulman Professor of Philosophy, Hebrew University of Jerusalem & founding member of Peace Now
