John Berkman
Associate Professor of Philosophy and Theology
Office phone: (510) 883-2055
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The Courses John Berkman will be teaching in 2006-2007 are:

• Fundamental Moral Theology
• General Ethics
• The Theological Virtues
• Medical Ethics

Select Publications:

co-editor, The Pinckaers Reader. (with Craig Titus-Brianti) Washington, Catholic University Press, 2005.

“Medically Assisted Nutrition and Hydration in Medicine and Moral Theology: A Contextualization of its Past and a Direction for its Future,” The Thomist 68:1, January 2004, 69-104.

“Eucharistic Reconciliation: Penitence, Punishment, and Worship,” The Journal for Peace and Justice Studies, 14:2 (Fall 2004). Reprinted as “Being Reconciled to God and One Another,” The Blackwell Companion to Christian Ethics, Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, 2004.

“The Consumption of Animals and the Catholic Tradition,” Logos: A Journal of Catholic Thought and Culture, 7:1, Winter 2004, 174 - 190. Reprinted in Food for Thought: The Debate over Eating Meat, ed. Stephen Sapontzis, New York: Prometheus Press, 2004.

“Surrogacy? Rescue? Adoption? Gestating the Embryos of Others and Catholic Morality,” National Catholic Bioethics Quarterly, 3:2 (Summer 2003), 309-329.

The Hauerwas Reader.(with Michael Cartwright) Durham, Duke University Press, 2001.