Nigel Biggar
Regius Professor Emeritus of Moral and Pastoral Theology at Christ Church, University of Oxford
Founder and former Director of the McDonald Centre for Theology, Ethics, & Public Life at the University of Oxford
Biography
Professor Biggar holds a B.A. (Hons) in Modern History from the University of Oxford; a Master of Christian Studies from Regent College, Vancouver, Canada; and an M.A. in Religious Studies, and a Ph.D. in Christian Theology, from the University of Chicago. His research interests include colonialism, historic reparations, free speech, the vocation of universities, rights, international law, the nation-state, war, forgiveness and reconciliation, and the contribution of Christianity to the health of liberal societies; He has published the following books: Colonialism: A Moral Reckoning (2023, 2024), What's Wrong with Rights? (2020), Between Kin and Cosmopolis: An Ethic of the Nation (2014), Behaving in Public: How to Do Christian Ethics (Eerdmans, 2010); (co-ed.) Religious Voices in Public Places (Oxford University Press, 2009); Aiming to Kill: the Ethics of Suicide and Euthanasia (DLT, 2004); (ed.) Burying the Past: Making Peace and Doing Justice after Civil Conflict (Georgetown UP, 2001, 2003); (co-ed.) The Revival of Natural Law: Philosophical, Theological, and Ethical Responses to the Finnis-Grisez School (Ashgate, 2000); Good Life: Reflections on What We Value Today (SPCK, 1997); The Hastening that Waits: Karl Barth’s Ethics (OUP, 1993, 1995); and Cities of Gods: Faith, Politics & Pluralism in Judaism, and Christianity & Islam (Greenwood, 1986).
Academic biography
https://www.chch.ox.ac.uk/staff/professor-nigel-biggarResearch topics
Colonialism, reparations, free speech, the civic duty of universities to promote intellectual virtue