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Santurri's essay inspires exchange in religious journal

By Tom Vogel
December 15, 2006

Professor of Religion and Philosophy Edmund Santurri's essay "Global Justice After the Fall: Christian Realism and the 'Law of Peoples'" has inspired an ongoing conversation in The Journal of Religious Ethics (JRE), the premier journal in the field of religious ethics. In his essay, published in December 2005, Santurri takes issue with John Rawls' widely acclaimed case against "political realism" and his rejection of "normative political realism" in the book The Law of the Peoples. Santurri argues that Rawls is undermined by his own evidence and ultimately lacks the political realism necessary to support his claims.

In the September 2006 issue of the JRE (pages 523-30) Santurri has an exchange with David Little, professor of religion, ethnicity and international conflict at Harvard Divinity School and a Fellow at the Weatherhead Center of International Affairs at Harvard University.

Santurri, who has taught at St. Olaf since 1980, also is director of The Great Conversation program. He is the author of Perplexity in the Moral Life: Philosophical and Theological Considerations and several essays, including "Philosophical Ambiguities in Ostensibly Unambiguous Times: The Moral Evaluation of Terrorism," which appeared in Journal for Peace and Justice Studies.

Contact David Gonnerman at 507-786-3315 or gonnermd@stolaf.edu.