About the Professor

Professor David Clairmont, Ph.D. Assistant Professor of Theology Department of Theology University of Notre Dame Education B.B.A. (Accounting and Theology), 1996, University of Notre Dame; Ph.D. (Religious Ethics), 2005, University of Chicago Divinity School

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David Clairmont is currently assistant professor of moral theology at the University of Notre Dame. His research and teaching interests include Catholic moral theology, Franciscan spirituality, comparative religious ethics, and the moral thought of Theravada Buddhism. He has recently completed a book manuscript titled Person as Classic: Moral Struggle and Comparative Religious Ethics focusing on Christian Trinitarian theology and Theravada Buddhist Abhidhamma as resources for comparative ethics. He is co-editor (with Don Browning) of American Religions and the Family: How Faith Traditions Cope with Modernization and Democracy (Columbia University Press, 2007). His current book projects include a co-authored volume (with William Schweiker) titled Dimensions of Religious Ethics as well as a study of the Franciscan integration of moral exemplarity and symbolic discourse, tentatively titled Bonaventure's Hope: The Franciscan Heritage and the Scope of Moral Theology.