Peng Yin

Peng Yin is Assistant Professor of Ethics at Boston University School of Theology. A scholar of comparative ethics, Chinese theology, and religion and sexuality, Yin is completing a manuscript on the intelligibility of moral language across metaphysical differences, tentatively entitled Persisting in the Good: Thomas Aquinas and Early Chinese Ethics. He is at work on a larger project, Chinese Political Theology. The volume traces religious conceptions of sovereignty from early Confucian and Legalist canon formation to Daoist and Buddhist negotiations with imperial power, from the neglected role of Christianity in the founding of the first republic and the rise of Chinese Communism to contemporary political significance of Chinese Christianity. In the 2022-23 academic year, Yin will present the first fruits of the research at Campion Hall, University of Oxford, and in the Bartlett Lecture at Yale Divinity School. Email: pengyin@bu.edu