Nigel Biggar
Regius Professor of Moral and Pastoral Theology at the University of Oxford
Nigel Biggar's AcademicInfluence.com Rankings
Download Badge
Religious Studies
Why Is Nigel Biggar Influential?
(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Nigel John Biggar is a British Anglican priest, theologian, and ethicist. From 2007 to 2022, he was the Regius Professor of Moral and Pastoral Theology at the University of Oxford. Early life Biggar was born on 14 March 1955 in Castle Douglas, Scotland. He was educated at Monkton Combe School, a private school near Bath, Somerset. He studied modern history at Worcester College, Oxford, graduating with a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1976. As per tradition, his BA was promoted to a Master of Arts degree in 1988. He attended the University of Chicago, graduating with a Master of Arts degree in religious studies in 1980; and the evangelical Regent College, Vancouver, graduating with a Master of Christian Studies in 1981. He returned to the University of Chicago to study for his doctorate in Christian theology and completed a Doctor of Philosophy degree in 1986.
Nigel Biggar's Published Works
Published Works
- Burying the past : making peace and doing justice after civil conflict (2000) (141)
- Veritatis Splendor (1994) (69)
- In Defence of War (2013) (37)
- The Hastening that Waits: Karl Barth's Ethics (1996) (34)
- The Revival of Natural Law: Philosophical, Theological and Ethical Responses to the Finnis-Grisez School (2000) (32)
- Why religion deserves a place in secular medicine (2014) (31)
- Behaving in Public: How to Do Christian Ethics (2011) (25)
- Religious voices in public places (2009) (18)
- Specifyand Distinguish! Interpreting the New Testament on `Non-Violence' (2009) (15)
- The Hastening that Waits (1993) (12)
- Was Iraq an unjust war? A debate on the Iraq war and reflections on Libya (2011) (12)
- Peace and Justice: A Limited Reconciliation (2002) (11)
- Reckoning with Barth: Essays in Commemoration of the Centenary of Karl Barth's Birth (1988) (10)
- Aiming To Kill: The Ethics Of Suicide And Euthanasia (2004) (10)
- Forgiving enemies in ireland (2008) (9)
- Honey from the Lion: Christianity and the Ethics of Nationalism1 (2014) (7)
- SAVING THE “SECULAR”: The Public Vocation of Moral Theology1 (2009) (7)
- A CASE FOR CASUISTRY IN THE CHURCH (1989) (6)
- ‘God’ in Public Reason (2006) (6)
- Christian Just War Reasoning and Two Cases of Rebellion: Ireland 1916–1921 and Syria 2011–Present (2013) (6)
- Not Translation, but Conversation (2009) (5)
- The invasion of Iraq: what are the morals of the story? (2011) (5)
- Between Kin and Cosmopolis: An Ethic of the Nation (2014) (4)
- The New Testament and Violence: Round Two (2010) (3)
- The Value of Limited Loyalty: Christianity, the Nation, and Territorial Boundaries (2012) (3)
- What's Wrong with Rights? (2020) (3)
- Should Pastoral Theology become Postmodernist (1998) (3)
- Ethics and Weapons of Mass Destruction: Christianity and Weapons of Mass Destruction (2004) (3)
- Individual Rights versus Common Security? Christian Moral Reasoning about Torture (2014) (3)
- Review Article: Any News of the Social Good? (1988) (3)
- Men and Women in Marriage: Does it Add Up? (2014) (2)
- Measuring poverty outreach: how two different microfinance institutions used the Progress Out of Poverty Index (2009) (2)
- A Christian View of Humanitarian Intervention (2019) (2)
- Melting the Icepacks of Enmity: Forgiveness and Reconciliation in Northern Ireland (2011) (2)
- Why Christianity benefits secular public discourse, and why, therefore, Anglican bishops should sit in a reformed House of Lords (2014) (2)
- Between development and doubt: the recent career of just war doctrine in British churches (2007) (2)
- Nicholas Wolterstorff, Justice: Rights and Wrongs (2010) (2)
- Cities of Gods: Faith, Politics and Pluralism in Judaism, Christianity and Islam (1986) (2)
- Religion's place at the table of ‘secular’ medical ethics: a response to the commentaries (2015) (2)
- IMPRUDENT JURISPRUDENCE? HUMAN RIGHTS AND MORAL CONTINGENCY (2015) (2)
- God, the Responsible Individual, and the Value of Human Life and Suffering (1998) (2)
- Reinhold Niebuhr and the Political Possibility of Forgiveness (2010) (1)
- Anglican Establishment: How is it Liberal? (2020) (1)
- The Religious in Responses to Mass Atrocity: The Ethics of Forgiveness and the Doctrine of Just War: A Religious View of Righting Atrocious Wrongs (2009) (1)
- Karl Barth and Germain Grisez on the Human Good: An Ecumenical Rapprochement (2017) (1)
- Fostering Reconciliation as a Goal of Military Ethics (2015) (1)
- The Basic Dimensions of Human Flourishing: A Comparison of Accounts (2017) (1)
- Compromise: What Makes it Bad? (2018) (1)
- On Defining Political Authority as an Act of Judgment: A Discussion of Oliver O'Donovan's The Ways of Judgment (Part I) (2008) (1)
- What’s Wrong with (Some) Judges? Carter and the Invention of a Right to ‘Physician-Assisted Dying’ (2020) (0)
- Academia and free speech (2020) (0)
- Are there Natural Rights? The Sceptical Critique and Rights before 1776 (2020) (0)
- The Moral Standing of Nature and the New Natural Law (2017) (0)
- Fostering Reconcilation as a Goal of Military Endeavour (2020) (0)
- Military Chaplaincy, Christian Witness and the Ethics of War (2019) (0)
- The Trinitarian Dimensions of Ethics (1993) (0)
- Against legal positivism and liberal individualism (2013) (0)
- Proportionality: Lessons from the Somme (2018) (0)
- Christian Public Reasoning in the United Kingdom: Apologetic, Casuistical, and Rhetorically Discriminate (2012) (0)
- What’s Wrong with (Some) Judges? Al-Skeini, Al-Jedda, Smith, and the Fog of War (2020) (0)
- A reply to Theo Hobson (2012) (0)
- TWO RESPONSES TO "FORGIVING ENEMIES (2016) (0)
- The principle of double effect (2013) (0)
- In Response (2014) (0)
- Is Grisez's Moral Theology Rationalistic? Free Choice, the Human Condition, and Christian Ethics (2017) (0)
- The Pastor's Opportunities (1989) (0)
- Are there Natural Rights? The Sceptical Critique and Rights after 1776 (2020) (0)
- Book Reviews : The Way of the Lord Jesus, vol. 2: 'Living a Christian Life', by Germain Grisez. Quincy, Ill., Franciscan Press, 1993. xxiii + 950 pp. US $35 (1995) (0)
- Conclusion: Karl Barth and Christian Ethics Today (1993) (0)
- Are there Natural Rights? The Sceptical Critique and the Modern Roman Catholic Tradition (2020) (0)
- Autonomy's Suicide (2012) (0)
- A Global State, International Law and the Containment of Persistent Conflict: An Anglican Response to Pacem in Terris (2016) (0)
- What’s wrong with subjective rights? (2018) (0)
- Contemporary just war doctrine: a critical comparison of theological and philosophical proposals (2014) (0)
- Are Human Rights Universal? (2020) (0)
- Against Christian pacifism (2013) (0)
- Pascal: Adversary and Advocate. Robert J. Nelson (1984) (0)
- Ethics as an Aid to Hearing (1993) (0)
- In Response (2015) (0)
- Are there Absolute Rights? (2020) (0)
- In Defence of War: What Is It All About? (2014) (0)
- What’s Wrong with (Some) Human Rights Lawyers? (2020) (0)
- Grisez on Sex and Gender: A Feminist Theological Perspective (2017) (0)
- Are there Natural Rights? The Sceptical Tradition (2020) (0)
- Book Reviews : Moral Action and Christian Ethics, by Jean Porter. New Studies in Christian Ethics. Cambridge, CUP, 1995. xvi+235pp. hb. £35 (1996) (0)
- Peace and War in Christian Thought (2018) (0)
- Showing the Praxis (2013) (0)
- What’s Wrong with Rights? A reply to three critics (2021) (0)
- Are there Natural Rights? The Sceptical Critique and Contemporary Theories (2020) (0)
- Book Review: John Kelsay, Arguing the Just War in Islam (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2007). 253 pp. £16.95/US$24.95 (hb), ISBN 978—0—674— 02639—1 (2009) (0)
- Book Review : Civil Peace and Sacred Order: Limits and Renewals, I by Stephen R. L. Clark. Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1989, vii + 198 pp. £25.00 (1991) (0)
- John Finnis on Moral Absolutes (2017) (0)
- Love in war (2013) (0)
- Book Review : A Parliament of Souls: Limits and Renewals 2, by Stephen R. L. Clark, Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1990, x + 192 pp. £27.50 (1992) (0)
- Evolutionary Biology, ‘Enlightened’ Anthropological Narratives, and Social Morality: A View from Christian Ethics (2013) (0)
- The Ecclesial Matrix of Ethics and Character (1993) (0)
- Barth's Ethics of Reconciliation. By John Webster. Cambridge University Press, 1995. Pp. ix + 238. No price. (1997) (0)
- Conclusion (2020) (0)
- Falconer's Revolutionary Imprudence (2015) (0)
- Just War and International Law: A Response to Mary Ellen O’Connell (2015) (0)
- David Rodin’s Critique of ‘Just War’: A Counter-Critique (2019) (0)
- R. M. Morris, ed. Church and State in 21st Century Britain: The Future of Church Establishment (2010) (0)
- In Defence of Just War: Christian Tradition, Controversies, and Cases (2015) (0)
- Introduction (2020) (0)
- What’s Wrong with Rights in Ethics? (2020) (0)
- On not always giving the Devil benefit of law (2013) (0)
- Eavesdropping in the World (1993) (0)
- The Autonomy Theme in the Church Dogmatics: Karl Barth and His Critics. By John Macken, SJ. Cambridge University Press, 1990. Pp. x + 232. £27.50. (1994) (0)
- The Bible, Christian Ethics and the Provision of Social Security (1994) (0)
- Review Article: The Just War Revisited (2006) (0)
- Whatever Happened to the Canaanites? Principles of a Christian Ethic of Mass Immigration (2021) (0)
This paper list is powered by the following services:
Other Resources About Nigel Biggar
What Schools Are Affiliated With Nigel Biggar?
Nigel Biggar is affiliated with the following schools: