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Lloyd Steffen

 Professor of Religion Studies

University Chaplain

Director, Center for Dialogue, Ethics and Spirituality


Ethics, Philosophy of Religion, Religion and Psychology

Email: lhs1@lehigh.edu 
Phone: (610) 758-3877

Office: The Dialogue Center--Room 202

661 Taylor Street

Office Hours: By appointment

For information about Lloyd Steffen go to:

Lloyd Steffen

Education

Selected Recent Publications/Writings (2007-09)
Holy War, Just War:  Exploring the Moral Meaning of Religious Violence
 
(Lanham, MD:  Rowman and Littlefield, 2007).

Re-Imaging Death and Dying: Global Interdisciplinary Perspectives.  Edited and introduction, Dennis R. Cooley and Lloyd Steffen, eds., (Oxford:  Interdisciplinary Press, 2009).  [e-book available at: http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/publishing/id-press/ebooks/re-imaging-death-and-dying)


In Good Conscience:  Guidelines for the Ethical Provision of Health Care in a  Pluralistic Society (a co-author; information and text of document available at www.rcrc.org.)


“The Ethics of Patient Non-Treatment,”  Re-Imaging Death and Dying: Global Interdisciplinary Perspectives, eds., Dennis R. Cooley and Lloyd Steffen (Oxford: Inter-Disciplinary Press, 2009): 211-224. 

 

"Warfare Deaths:   Ethical and Religious Understanding in the American Context," Religion, Death and Dying [Three Volumes], Volume 2:  Special Issues, Lucy Bregman, ed. (Santa Barbara:  Prager, 2009):  183-208. 


"Nonviolence as Ethical Spirituality:  The Case of the Dalai Lama," Prajña Vihar:  Journal of Philosophy and Religion,, vol 10, no. 2, 2009.


"Casting the First Stone:  Capital Punishment is Still a Moral Problem,"Viewpoints:  Readings Worth Thinking and Writing About, 7th edition, ed. W. Royce Adams, (Belmont, CA:  Wadsworth, 2009)"  436-441.


"The Presumption of Peace:  Where Just War and Non-Violent Resistance Meet (and Diverge), Jason Daverth, ed., Conflict and Conciliation:  Faith and Politics in an Age of Global Dissonance (Dublin, Ireland:  Columba Press, 2007):  20-38.


"What Religion Contributes to an Environmental Ethic,"  Environmental Ethics, Vol. 29 (Summer 2007):  193-208.

"Gandhi's Nonviolent Resistance:  A Justified Use of Force?", Journal of Philosophy and the Contemporary World 15: 1 (June 2008):  68-80.  

"The Death of Innocents:  Noncombatant Immunity v. the Divine Fetus," in Layers of Death and Dying, ed. Kate Woodthorpe (Oxford: The Inter- Disciplinary Press, 2007):  97-106.

"Physician Assisted Suicide:  A New Approach,” Mortality, Dying and Death, T. Chandler Haliburton and Caroline Edwards, eds., (Oxford:  Inter-Disciplinary Press, 2008):  183-205.

"Demonic Religion and Violence," in Arvind Sharma, ed., The World's Religions after September 11, Vol. I:  Religion, War and Peace [Four Volumes], New York:  Praeger, 2008:  19-29.

"The Divine Foetus:  Abortion and Absolute Innocence," forthcoming in edited volume, Rodopi Press (Amsterdam), edited by Asa Kasher,University of Tel-Aviv.


"The Ethics of Physician Assisted Suicide," forthcoming in edited volume, Rodopi Press (Amsterdam), edited by Asa Kasher, University of Tel-Aviv.

Reviews

Review: Thomas Brudholm and Thomas Cushman, eds., The Religious in Responses to Mass Atrocity: Interdisciplinary Perspectives, CHOICE, Vol 46, no. 12 (August 2009): 2320.

Review:  John J. DaPoint, Hope in an Age of Terror, CHOICE, forthcoming.

Review:  Miguel A. De La Torres, Liberating Jonah:  Forming an Ethic of Reconciliation, Journal of the Society of Christian Ethics, forthcoming.


Review: Charlene P. E. Burns, More Moral than God: Taking Responsibility for Religious Violence, CHOICE, Vol. 46, No. 10 (June 2009): 1949.   

Review: Bruce B. Lawrence and Aisha Karim, eds., On Violence: A Reader (Durham:  Duke University Press, 2007), CHOICE, Vol. 45, No. 10 (June 2008): p. 1781.

Review:  Ronald Cole-Turner, Design and Destiny:  Jewish and Christian Perspectives on Human Germline Modification, (Cambridge:  MIT Press, 2008), CHOICE (Vol 45, no. 12, August 2008).

Review: Roger S. Gottlieb, The Oxford Handbook of Religion and Ecology, Environmental Ethics,Vol 30 (Winter 2008):  439-42.

Review:   Judith W. Kay:  Murdering Myths:  The Story Behind the Death Penalty, Religious Studies Review,  Vol. 33, no. 3 (July 2007):  227.

Review:  David L. Clough & Brian Stiltner, Faith and Force:  A Christian Debate About War (Washington, D.C.: Georgetown University Press, 2007), CHOICE (Vol. 45, no. 06, February 2008): p. 994.

Public Writings

"Lincoln's Faith:  A Model for Today?"  The Morning Call, Fatih and Values column, November 20, 2009:  GO 9. 
web published at www.mcall.com/features/religion/all-faithsteffen.7084013nov21,0,7250522.story.

"Why Spiritual Life is Not a Competition,” The Morning Call, Faith and Values Column, Saturday, August 8, 2009: p.  GO 7. web published at:  http://www.mcall.com/features/religion/all-faithsteffen.6977951aug08,0,6393957.story

“Reflecting on Justice and Forgiveness,” The Morning Call, “Faith and Values" Column, Saturday, April 11, 2009: p. D7, D9.
web published at: http://www.mcall.com/features/religion/all-d7_faithsteffen.6846565apr11,0,7967963.story

“Tough Questions at Christmas,” The Morning Call, “Faith and Values" Column, Saturday, December 20, 2008: p. D6, D7.
web published at: http://www.mcall.com/features/religion/all-faithsteffen.6709960dec20,0,5349952.story

"Living the Questions,"  The Morning Call, "Faith and Values" Column, Saturday, September 13, 2008:  D 7.


“Dalai Lama tells us to ‘Reprioritize, Revalue," The Morning Call, Wednesday, July 9, 2008: A 13.  (web published several places

         internationally, (e.g. http://www.tibet.ca/en/newsroom/wtn/3097, http://temp.phayul.com/news/article.aspx?id=21906&t=1&c=4.

"The Prophetic Voice and the Problem of Cultural Difference,” The Morning Call, Saturday, May 10, 2008: D7, D9.

“The Spiritual Legacy of Martin Luther King, Jr.”, The Morning Call, “Faith and Values Column,” Saturday, January 19, 2008: D7, D9.
        Reprinted various places on web, e.g.,:  http://blackpoliticsontheweb.com/?p=459.

 “Time Out to Reexamine Executions,”  Express-Times,  Thursday, October 18, 2007:   A6.
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“Mother Teresa’s Saintly Struggles,” The Morning Call, Saturday, September 15, 2007:  D7, D9.

“Rethinking Suffering,” The Morning Call, Saturday, May 19, 2007:  D9, 11.

“What Makes A Prophet?”  Faith and Values Column ( “People with good will. . . .”), The Morning Call, Saturday, February

         17, 2007:  D9, D11. 


Talks and Lectures 2008

Biography

Courses Taught


For information about activities of the Chaplain's Office and Steffen's role as University Chaplain or Director of the Lehigh University Center for Dialogue, Ethics and Spirituality, go to  Chaplain's Office or to The Center for Dialogue, Ethics and Spirituality.

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