 John Hart
Professor of Christian Ethics
B.A. Marist College
S.T.M. Union Theological Seminary
M.Phil. Union Theological Seminary
Ph.D. Union Theological Seminary
Dr.
Hart’s Publications
Dr. Hart’s teaching interests are in the areas of
social ethics, environmental ethics, liberation theology
and ethics,
and science and Christianity. His research interests and
writing are focused particularly on issues of social and
ecological justice, and on ecology as a bridge between science
and religion. Internationally known for his work in social
ethics and environmental ethics, he has given almost two
hundred presentations, on four continents: in twenty-five
U.S. states and in Canada, Brazil, Switzerland, Italy, Nepal
and England.
Dr. Hart promotes environmental care, and relates the religious
and environmental communities. He served as editor and principal
writer of the Midwestern Catholic bishops’ land pastoral,
Strangers and Guests: Toward Community
in the Heartland (1980);
wrote the draft of Pope John Paul II’s Iowa homily
on land stewardship (1979); and was the Project Writer for
the Western U.S. and Canada Catholic bishops’ bioregional
pastoral letter, The Columbia River
Watershed: Caring for Creation and the Common Good (2001), on the ethics, economics
and ecology of the region. He has been involved in the development
and dissemination of the Earth Charter.
He serves on the Board of Directors of both the Montana Wilderness
Association
and the Montana Environmental Information Center.
Dr. Hart has worked with native peoples’ spiritual
leaders and human rights activists, including as a Member
of the Delegation of the International Indian Treaty Council
(a Non-Governmental Organization accredited to the United
Nations) to the U.N. International Human Rights Commission,
Geneva, Switzerland (1987, 1990), and as an invited Observer
at the World Conference of Indigenous Peoples, Rio de Janeiro,
Brazil while participating in the United Nations Earth Summit
(1992).
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