During academic year 2000/2001 I taught "War and Peace in Western Religious Thought," "Sexuality in the Western Religious Traditions," "Love as Ethic and Idea," and a 400 level seminar, "Religion and Society."  All these are perennials except for "Religion and Society," which had not been offered for several years.  This year it focused on typologies for understanding the religion-society relationship as defined in Max Weber's The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism, Ernst Troeltsch's The Social Teaching of the Christian Churches, and H. Richard Niebuhr's Christ and Culture.In addition, I served on the Faculty Council and on a number of promotion committees in FAS and the Graduate School of Education.  In November I attended the annual meeting of the American Academy of Religion.  In January, I became North American Co-Editor for a new international scholarly journal, the Journal of Military Ethics and continue many years of service as a Trustee and Editorial Board member of the Journal of Religious Ethics.  In February, I made a presentation, "Humanitarian Intervention: A Moral Perspective," at a conference of the Foreign Policy Research Institute in Philadelphia; in March, I was an invited lecturer (topic:  "Can Contemporary Armed Conflict Be Just?") at the annual conference of the Partnership for Peace Nations, held at the Marshall Center in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany.  In  May I delivered a lecture in the Crayenborgh Lecture Series at the University of Leiden, the Netherlands, on the topic, "Western Moral Thought on War and Peace: Its Historical Development and Contemporary Applications."  In the coming year I will be on leave spring semester and hope then to complete a new book, tentatively titled, The Idea of Sovereignty in Moral Perspective.

During 2000-2001 I was on leave from Rutgers, teaching in the graduate school at Drew University. I was also a lecturer in "Psychiatry and Religion" at Union Theological Seminary in New York. It was a nice change of pace to teach graduate students but I am looking forward to being back at Rutgers.Growing out of my teaching and clinical work, I am currently interested in the relationship between religion and medicine. I will be teaching a course on that subject in the fall and will also be traveling to Sweden to teach in both the Medical School and the Religion Department of the University of Uppsala. In addition I continue to see patients, train in Karate, and run on the beach.

My fields of expertise are theology and history of Christian thought, especially the modern period. But I also remain very interested in history of religions and comparative religions. My earlier books reflect my theological interests. They are: Ernst Troeltsch and Theology Today: An Historicist Theology and Its Significance for Today, Agape and History: A Theological Essay on Historical Consciousness, and Theology and the Spirit or Historicism.

Early in the 1990s, I organized a year-long lecture series funded by the Anna I Morgan Fund. The lectures resulted in Death and Afterlife: Perspectives of World Religions, which I edited. This book has been adopted by many universities as a textbook.  It has also been translated into Japanese. Another book that reflects my interest in this area is Death and Eternal Life: Christian Perspective and Its Historical Background.