James M. Gustafson is University Professor of Theological Ethics at the University of Chicago Divinity School. A Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, he is also a Fellow and member of the Board of Directors of the Hastings Institute and coeditor of the Journal of Religion . His many books include Treasure in Earthen Vessels: The Church as a Human Community, Protestant and Roman Catholic Ethics, and Can Ethics Be Christian? all published by the University of Chicago Press.