Dr. J. Daryl Charles

Director and Senior Fellow of the Bryan Institute for Critical Thought & Practice/Professor of Bible, Theology & Philosophy
E-mail:
jcharles8830@bryan.edu
Office Phone:
423.775.7265
Box:
7655

Academic Degrees

  • Certificate, University of Siegen (Germany)
  • PhD, Westminster Theological Seminary

Professional Associations

  • Christians in Political Science
  • Evangelical Philosophical Society
  • National Association of Scholars
  • Society of Church History

Selected Publications

  • "My Criminal Brain Made Me Do It: Biogenetics and the Loss of Moral Responsibility." National Catholic Bioethics Quarterly (Fall 2009)
  • "The Ethics of Humanitarian Intervention." In Jonathan Chaplin, ed., God and Global Order: Religion and American Foreign Policy. Baylor University Press, forthcoming
  • Author, Retrieving Natural Law: A Return to Moral First Things. Critical Issues in Bioethics. Eerdmans, 2008
  • Author, The Unformed Conscience of Evangelicalism: Recovering the Church's Moral Vision. InterVarsity, 2002
  • Co-author (with David D. Corey), Justice in an Age of Terror: The Just War Tradition Reconsidered. American Ideals and Institutions. ISI Books, forthcoming
  • Co-editor (with David B. Capes), Thriving in Babylon: Essays in Honor of A.J. Conyers. Princeton Theological Monograph Series. Wipf & Stock, forthcoming
  • Translator (German-English), Claus Westermann, Roots of Wisdom: The Oldest Proverbs of Israel and Other Peoples. Westminster/John Knox, 1994 (= Wurzeln der Weisheit. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1990

Topics of Expertise

  • bioethics
  • criminal justice ethics
  • humanitarian intervention
  • religion in the public sphere
  • the natural law
  • war and peace