{"id":27986,"date":"2016-01-15T11:16:50","date_gmt":"2016-01-15T16:16:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth\/?p=27986"},"modified":"2019-09-16T14:23:39","modified_gmt":"2019-09-16T18:23:39","slug":"david-decosimo-receives-manfred-lautenschlaeger-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth\/david-decosimo-receives-manfred-lautenschlaeger-award\/","title":{"rendered":"David Decosimo Receives Manfred Lautenschlaeger Award"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"David<\/a>David Decosimo, assistant professor of theology at Boston University School of Theology and the Graduate Division of Religious Studies, has received a prestigious international award for young scholars: The Manfred Lautenschlaeger Award for Theological Promise<\/a>.
\nThe award is bestowed by the Forschungszentrum Internationale und Interdisziplinaere Theologie (FIIT) at the University of Heidelberg in Germany. It goes to ten scholars each year whose first book or doctoral dissertation in some way concerns the topic \u201cGod and Spirituality\u201d (broadly understood). It welcomes applicants from all religious traditions, all academic fields, and from across the world. The ten awardees are chosen by an interdisciplinary and multi-religious board of distinguished scholars from 19 countries.
\nDecosimo received the award<\/a> for his first book, Ethics as a Work of Charity: Thomas Aquinas and Pagan Virtue<\/em><\/a> (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2014), <\/em>a book that examines Thomas Aquinas\u2019 treatment of \u201cpagan virtue.\u201d The book delves into a question ever-present to people of all faiths\u2014how to understand the virtues and moral excellence of people who have very different religious beliefs. \u201cI\u2019m deeply honored to receive this award and encouraged that such a diverse and distinguished international jury would affirm the importance and quality of this work for religious studies, theology, and our common life,\u201d said Decosimo.
\nDecosimo says Ethics as a Work of Charity <\/em>strives to treat religious differences with the seriousness they deserve while offering diverse religious and secular communities \u201cbetter ways of imagining what divides them and more generous ways of being together.\u201d
\n\u201cMany of the differences that divide our world most deeply concern religion. As events of the last few months make horribly clear, these differences can easily feed violence and fuel a politics of hate,\u201d Decosimo says. \u201cSo long as believers feel they must choose between faithfulness to their traditions and a generous posture to outsiders, that choice is unhappy and even destructive for all involved. Ethics as a Work of Charity <\/em>is about dissolving that dichotomy and imagining a better way.\u201d
\n\u201cBoston University School of Theology is delighted to see this recognition of Dr. Decosimo\u2019s work,\u201d said Dean Mary Elizabeth Moore. \u201cEthics as a Work of Charity <\/em>is a very important contribution to Thomist theology and a thoughtful treatment of questions that are central to Christian ethics and interfaith understanding.\u201d
\nDecosimo\u2019s research focuses on religious ethics and comparative theology in a pluralist and globalized world and on the theological thought of giants such as Aquinas, Augustine, and the Muslim thinker al-Ghaz\u0101l\u012b. His next book, Four Tasks of Christian Ethics, <\/em>will present a new way of understanding the work of Christian ethics.
\nIn May, Decosimo will join a week-long conference at University of Heidelberg where he and the other recipients will receive the award and give presentations on their forthcoming research. Decosimo says he looks forwarding to discussing an upcoming project, No Lord But God: Domination in Christianity and Islam: <\/em>\u201cThat project continues the trajectory of my first book, expanding the inquiry to include explicit attention to Islam alongside Christianity, and centering on what these traditions, in dialogue with one another and political philosophy, can teach us about what it means to be politically free.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

David Decosimo, assistant professor of theology at Boston University School of Theology and the Graduate Division of Religious Studies, has received a prestigious international award for young scholars: The Manfred Lautenschlaeger Award for Theological Promise. The award is bestowed by the Forschungszentrum Internationale und Interdisziplinaere Theologie (FIIT) at the University of Heidelberg in Germany. It […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12612,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[177],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27986"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12612"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27986"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27986\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39126,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27986\/revisions\/39126"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}