Jennifer A. Herdt is Gilbert L. Stark Professor of Christian Ethics at Yale University Divinity School, where she has taught since 2010. Educated at Oberlin College, she received her Ph.D. from Princeton University. She has held prior faculty appointments at New College of Florida and the University of Notre Dame, and is the recipient of fellowships from the Mellon Foundation, Whiting Foundation, and Humboldt Foundation, among others. She has served as the 2020 President of the Society of Christian Ethics and on the editorial boards of the Journal of Religious Ethics, Studies in Christian Ethics, and the Journal of Religion.

• 1: Introduction 2: Seeking the Last End: Augustine and Aquinas 3: Duty and Obligation from Aquinas to Calvin 4: Goodness-Prior Eudaimonism 5: Obligation and Divine Commands 6: Obligation and Reason-Giving Relationships 7: From Form to Substance 8: Conclusion: From Responsibility to Friendship Postscript: Returning to God

Assuming Responsibility is a stunning book. Jennifer Herdt ranges magisterially over a range of sources, extending from classical antiquity to the most recent debates in ethics, building a case with a power and elegance that will command the admiration and attention of theological and non-theological readers. This is a theological ethicist working at the height of her powers, synthesizing intellectual history, philosophy, and theology, to mount a bold and convincing thesis, which ends with joy, understood as delight in the good, fellowship, and answerability to others.

Jennifer A. Herdt is Gilbert L. Stark Professor of Christian Ethics at Yale University Divinity School, where she has taught since 2010. Educated at Oberlin College, she received her Ph.D. from Princeton University. She has held prior faculty appointments at New College of Florida and the University of Notre Dame, and is the recipient of fellowships from the Mellon Foundation, Whiting Foundation, and Humboldt Foundation, among others. She has served as the 2020 President of the Society of Christian Ethics and on the editorial boards of the Journal of Religious Ethics, Studies in Christian Ethics, and the Journal of Religion.

• 1: Introduction 2: Seeking the Last End: Augustine and Aquinas 3: Duty and Obligation from Aquinas to Calvin 4: Goodness-Prior Eudaimonism 5: Obligation and Divine Commands 6: Obligation and Reason-Giving Relationships 7: From Form to Substance 8: Conclusion: From Responsibility to Friendship Postscript: Returning to God

Assuming Responsibility is a stunning book. Jennifer Herdt ranges magisterially over a range of sources, extending from classical antiquity to the most recent debates in ethics, building a case with a power and elegance that will command the admiration and attention of theological and non-theological readers. This is a theological ethicist working at the height of her powers, synthesizing intellectual history, philosophy, and theology, to mount a bold and convincing thesis, which ends with joy, understood as delight in the good, fellowship, and answerability to others.

Jennifer A. Herdt is Gilbert L. Stark Professor of Christian Ethics at Yale University Divinity School, where she has taught since 2010. Educated at Oberlin College, she received her Ph.D. from Princeton University. She has held prior faculty appointments at New College of Florida and the University of Notre Dame, and is the recipient of fellowships from the Mellon Foundation, Whiting Foundation, and Humboldt Foundation, among others. She has served as the 2020 President of the Society of Christian Ethics and on the editorial boards of the Journal of Religious Ethics, Studies in Christian Ethics, and the Journal of Religion.

• 1: Introduction 2: Seeking the Last End: Augustine and Aquinas 3: Duty and Obligation from Aquinas to Calvin 4: Goodness-Prior Eudaimonism 5: Obligation and Divine Commands 6: Obligation and Reason-Giving Relationships 7: From Form to Substance 8: Conclusion: From Responsibility to Friendship Postscript: Returning to God

Assuming Responsibility is a stunning book. Jennifer Herdt ranges magisterially over a range of sources, extending from classical antiquity to the most recent debates in ethics, building a case with a power and elegance that will command the admiration and attention of theological and non-theological readers. This is a theological ethicist working at the height of her powers, synthesizing intellectual history, philosophy, and theology, to mount a bold and convincing thesis, which ends with joy, understood as delight in the good, fellowship, and answerability to others.