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Gerald Beyer

United States
Institution Villanova University
Position Associate Professor of Christian Ethics
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Email Address gerald.beyer@villanova.edu
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Prior Educational Background
  • Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA
  • Academy of Economics, Krakow, Poland
  • Fulbright Scholar in the Department of Philosophy
  • Yale University Divinity School, New Haven, CT M.A.R. (Ethics Concentration)
  • Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland (Two-year program of study in Polish language, history, and culture)
  • Pontifical Academy of Theology, Krakow, Poland
  • Georgetown University, Washington, DC (B.A. in Philosophy, Minor in Theology)
Research Interests
  • Business Ethics
  • Economic Ethics
  • Ethics and Education
  • Human Rights
  • Social Ethics
  • University Ethics
  • War, Peace, and Peacebuilding
  • Worker Justice and Workers' Rights
Past Events
  • Sarajevo 2018
  • Trent 2010
Recent Publications
  • Just Universities: Catholic Social Teaching Confronts Corporatized Higher Education (Fordham University Press, in press).
  • Karol Wojtyła, Katolicka etyka społeczna, edited by Gerald J. Beyer, Agnieszka Lekka-Kowalik, Alfred Wierzbicki (Lublin: Wydawnictwo KUL, 2018).
  • “Worker Justice as a Pro-Life Issue” in Nicholas Cafardi, ed. Voting and Holiness (Mahwah: Paulist Press, in press).
  • “Curing the ‘Disease’ in Corporatized Higher Education: Prescriptions from the Catholic Social Tradition’ in Christine Firer Hinze, Michael Pirson and John Seitz, eds., Working Alternatives: Studies of Economic Experiment and the Human Person (New York: Fordham University Press, in press).
  • “Tezy skrytpu Karola Wojtyły a współczesna katolicka nauka społeczna” in Karol Wojtyła, Katolicka etyka społeczna, edited by Gerald J. Beyer, Agnieszka Lekka-Kowalik, Alfred Wierzbicki (Lublin: Wydawnictwo KUL, 2018): 507-522.
  • “The Principle of Mercy in the World of Work Today” in Agnieszka Lekka-Kowalik, ed., Ekonomia a chrześcijaństwo: świat biznesu przez pryzmat encyklik św. Jana Pawła II Centesimus annus i Laborem exercens (Warszawa: Instytut Papieża Jana Pawła II, 2017): 141-68.
  • “Advocating Worker Justice: A Catholic Ethicist’s Toolkit,” Journal of Religious Ethics Vol. 45, No. 2 (2017): 226–250.
  • “John XXIII and John Paul II: The Human Rights Popes” in Kevin Ahern, Meghan Clark, Kristin Heyer and Laurie Johnston, eds. The Future of Public Theology and the Global Common Good: The Contribution of David Hollenbach (Maryknoll, N.Y: Orbis Books, 2016): 72-83.
  • “Christian Social Ethics in the United States: A Partial Survey of the Landscape,” Ethos: Quarterly of the John Paul II Institute at the Catholic University of Lublin – John Paul II Foundation in Rome Vol. 4, No. 112 (2015): 225-53.
Professional Activities and Affiliations
  • American Association of University Professors, 2009-Present (Villanova Chapter Vice-President, 2018-Present).
  • Catholic Scholars for Worker Justice, 2008 – 2010; Executive Committee Member, 2010-Present.
  • Society of Christian Ethics, 2004- Present.
  • College Theology Society, 2002 - Present.
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