About
The role of the Maguire Chair is to provide ethics education for the entire university, through teaching, programming, and service.
Steve Long has held the Maguire chair since 2015. Previously, he worked at Marquette University, Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary, St. Joseph’s University and Duke Divinity School. He received the PhD from Duke University, and is an ordained United Methodist Minister who served churches in Honduras and North Carolina. He works in the intersection between theology and ethics and has published over fifty essays and nineteen books on theology and ethics.
Selected Publications
Truth Telling in a Post-Truth World (GBHEM Wesley's Foundery Books, 2019)
Augustinian and Ecclesial Ethics: On Loving Enemies (Lexington Books/Fortress Academic, 2018)
The Perfectly Simple Triune God: Aquinas and His Legacy (Fortress, 2016)
Saving Karl Barth: Hans Urs von Balthasar’s Preoccupation (Fortress, 2014)
Keeping Faith: An Ecumenical Commentary on the Articles of Religion and Confession of Faith in the Wesleyan Tradition (Cascade Press, 2012)
Hebrews: A Theological Commentary on the Bible (Westminster John Knox Press, September, 2011)
Christian Ethics: Very Short Introduction(Oxford University Press, 2010)
Speaking of God: Theology, Language and Truth (William B. Eerdmans, 2009)
Theology and Culture: A Guide to the Discussion (Cascade Press, 2008)
Calculated Futures: Theology, Ethics and the Politics of Faith with Nancy Fox (Baylor University Press, Oct., 2007)
John Wesley’s Moral Theology: The Quest for God and Goodness (Nashville: AbingdonPress, 2005)