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William Kuncken

William is a Ph.D. student at Villanova University, and a full time faculty member within the religious studies department at St. Joseph’s Preparatory School in Philadelphia. His work focuses on Christian ethics and systematic theology. As part of his coursework and dissertation, William has sought to build upon the theological trajectories established in Pope Francis’s groundbreaking encyclical, Laudato si’, while also examining narratives and paradigms outside of traditional Christian sources that address humanity’s relationship with the natural world, particularly through the theme of vulnerability.

Essays

An Ethic of Vulnerability in an Age of Co-Creativity: Pushing the Provisional Boundaries of the Contemporary Moral Theology of Josef Fuchs

While giving tribute to Fuchs’s noteworthy efforts at reimagining our understanding of moral norms by appreciating the emergent process of human evolution through the appropriation of a dynamic/future-oriented theological anthropology, this analysis will seek to press the limits of his robust framework whilst inquiring what an ethic of vulnerability might look like in an age of terrestrial/ecological crisis.