Jennifer Herdt
Senior Associate Dean and Gilbert L. Stark Professor of Divinity and Professor of Religious StudiesCards
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Publications
2025
The Disappearance of Ethics: The Gifford Lectures by Oliver O'Donovan (Grand Rapids, MI: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 2024), + 161 pp.
Herdt J. The Disappearance of Ethics: The Gifford Lectures by Oliver O'Donovan (Grand Rapids, MI: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 2024), + 161 pp. Modern Theology 2025, 41: 376-379. DOI: 10.1111/moth.12986.Peer-Reviewed Original Research
2023
Christianity and Natural Law and Natural Rights
Herdt J. Christianity and Natural Law and Natural Rights. 2023, 581-592. DOI: 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780197606759.013.42.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchNatural lawChristian thinkersNatural rightsDoctrine of natural rightsNatural law thinkingNatural rights discourseEarly modern periodPositive legal rightAbstract ChristianityGod's purposeMedieval theologiansProtestant thinkersTheological doctrineThomas AquinasDivine commandDivine revelationGod’s lawMoral lawStoic notionLaw thinkingMoral standardsMedieval canonistsConstrued natureEthical standardsModern periodRESPONSIBLE AGENCY: A HUMAN DISTINCTIVE?
Herdt J. RESPONSIBLE AGENCY: A HUMAN DISTINCTIVE? Zygon® 2023, 58: 504-521. DOI: 10.1111/zygo.12896.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchRevisiting Religious Ethics as Field and Discipline
Herdt J. Revisiting Religious Ethics as Field and Discipline. Journal Of Religious Ethics 2023, 51: 32-43. DOI: 10.1111/jore.12418.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchProblems and Prospects for the Measurement of Christian Seminarian Formation: Spiritual Measurement and the ‘Uncertainty Principle’
Herdt J. Problems and Prospects for the Measurement of Christian Seminarian Formation: Spiritual Measurement and the ‘Uncertainty Principle’. Journal Of Spiritual Formation And Soul Care 2023, 16: 14-30. DOI: 10.1177/19397909231151592.Peer-Reviewed Original Research
2022
Forming Humanity as Threefold Task
Herdt J. Forming Humanity as Threefold Task. International Journal Of Systematic Theology 2022, 25: 384-396. DOI: 10.1111/ijst.12620.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchFaith (and Doubt?) Among the Virtues
Herdt J. Faith (and Doubt?) Among the Virtues. Boston Studies In Philosophy, Religion And Public Life 2022, 10: 11-25. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-95062-0_2.Peer-Reviewed Original Research
2021
Partisan Epistemology and Post-Truth Power
Herdt J. Partisan Epistemology and Post-Truth Power. Studies In Christian Ethics 2021, 35: 3-15. DOI: 10.1177/09539468211050147.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchTheory of truthChristian faith communitiesCommunities of trustPostliberal theologyBiblical inerrancyEpistemic injusticeFaith communitiesEpistemological supremacyPost-truth contextEpistemologyDisruptive engagementTheologyInerrancyJesusTruthInjusticeSupremacyPilatesReckoningCommunityTheoryTrustEngagementSocial influenceContextConversation between Jennifer Herdt and Christopher Insole
Herdt J, Insole C. Conversation between Jennifer Herdt and Christopher Insole. Studies In Christian Ethics 2021, 34: 283-289. DOI: 10.1177/09539468211009760.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchCentre for Catholic StudiesAustralian Catholic UniversityChristian thinkersReading KantJennifer HerdtSecular religiosityCatholic StudiesKantCatholic UniversityContemporary formsDurham UniversityGodChristianityDivineThinkersMoralityReligiosityContemplationHerdtChristopherDialogueJenniferUniversityDurhamPossibilitiesReclaiming Dialogical Humanism
Herdt J. Reclaiming Dialogical Humanism. Political Theology 2021, 22: 597-610. DOI: 10.1080/1462317x.2021.1885779.Peer-Reviewed Original Research