Background
Schweiker, William was born on December 29, 1953 in Des Moines. Son of William A. and C. Novello (Welsh) Schweiker.
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This book argues that a basic problem in thinking about understanding, temporality, and selfhood is due to imitativemodes of thought found in much traditional Western philosophy and theology. Given this, the book examines the complex role that imageand imitationplay in understanding and its world of meaning, the import of language and narrative for configuring human temporality, and the existence of self. The author's contention is that when critically understood, mimesis, with its roots in performative enactment, holds resources for reconsidering these basic dimensions of human life beyond imitative paradigms of thought.
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Schweiker, William was born on December 29, 1953 in Des Moines. Son of William A. and C. Novello (Welsh) Schweiker.
Bachelor, Simpson College, Indianola, Iowa, 1976. Master of Divinity, Duke University, 1980. Doctor of Philosophy, University Chicago, 1985.
He earned his Bachelor of Arts from Simpson College in 1976, his M. Division. from the University of Chicago Divinity School in 1985. After graduating, he accepted an assistant professorship in theology and ethics at the University of Iowa. In 1989, he returned to the University of Chicago as associate professor, was made full professor in 2000, and appointed the Edward L. Ryerson Distinguished Service Professor of Theological Ethics in 2007.
That year, he also became director of the Martin Marty Center for the Advanced Study of Religion at the University of Chicago Divinity School.
He has been guest professor at Uppsala University and Mercator Professor at the University of Heidelberg, and lectured in China and South Africa. Schweiker"s books focus on the ways in which humanity is vulnerable to new powers and the responsibilities these powers and vulnerabilities generate for human agents.
His work crosses the disciplinary lines of ethics, systematic theology, and hermeneutic philosophy. He is the author of numerous books with translations into Korean, Chinese, and essays in German.
His was nominated for the prestigious Grawemeyer Award in religion (2005).
Schweiker is editor of the Blackwell Companion to Religious Ethics, a collection of essays on religious ethics. On January 31, 2014 Schweiker received an honorary doctorate from the Faculty of Theology at Uppsala University for his "insightful studies of the epistemology of morality, especially his reinterpretation of the conscience in the light of post-modern criticism.".
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Fellow Society for Values in Higher Education. Member American Academy Religion, Society Christian Ethics.
Married E. Mary Ingberg, August 25, 1979. 1 child, Paul Welsh.