Nigel Biggar
Chair of Theology, Professor of Theology and Ethics
School of Hebrew, Biblical and Theological Studies
Trinity College, Dublin
Nigel Biggar took up his appointment as Chair of Theology and Professor
of Theology and Ethics at the School of Hebrew, Biblical, and Theological
Studies of Trinity College, Dublin early in 2004. Formerly, he taught
at University of Leeds and University of Oxford, Oriel College.
He studied at Oxford before attending the University of Chicago for an
M.A. in Religious Studies, Regent College, Vancouver for a Master of Christian Studies, and
the University of Chicago for a Ph.D. in Christian Theology in 1986. From 2000-2004 he
served as Director of the Institute for Advanced Research in Religion,
Ethics, and Public Life, University of Leeds, and now serves as Associate
Director. In 2003 he was President of the Society for the Study
of Christian Ethics (UK) and Board Member of the Society of Christian
Ethics (USA). He is a member of the Ethics Committee of the Royal
College of Physicians and of the Church of England's Board for Social
Responsibility. His research interests, very broadly construed,
include moral and political theology. He is the author of Aiming
to Kill: The Ethics of Suicide and Euthanasia (Darton, Longman &
Todd, 2004) and Good Life: Reflections on What We Value Today (SPCK,
1997), and The Hastening that Waits: Karl Barth's Ethics (OUP,
1993, 1995). He has edited Burying the Past: Making Peace and
Doing Justice after Civil Conflict (Georgetown University Press,
2001, 2003) and The Revival of Natural Law: Philosophical, Theological,and
Ethical Responses to the Finnis-Grisez School (Ashgate, 2000).
Other recent work includes essays on literature about forgiveness in the
20th century (Forgiveness, 2004), another on Christianity and
weapons of mass destruction (Ethics and Weapons of Mass Destruction,
2004), and an encyclopaedic article on natural law (Encyclopedia of
Protestantism, 2004).
