Ashley J Moyse

  • Assistant Professor of Medical Ethics (in Medicine) at CUMC

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Ashley Moyse, PhD, is an Assistant Professor of Medical Ethics and a McDonald Scholar. He is also the Director of the Columbia Character Cooperatives, an initiative of the CCME, and a Research Fellow at Harris Manchester College, University of Oxford. Ashley was educated in the applied sciences, bioethics and health policy, moral philosophy, and theology, and has an interest in medical ethics and humanities. He joined the Columbia Center for Clinical Medical Ethics in 2022.

Academic Appointments

  • Assistant Professor of Medical Ethics (in Medicine) at CUMC

Administrative Titles

  • Director, Columbia Character Cooperatives

Credentials & Experience

Education & Training

  • BA, Messiah College, Mechanicsburg, PA
  • MS, Applied Physiology, University of Northern Colorado, Greeley, CO
  • MTS, Theology, ACTS Seminaries of Trinity Western University, Langley, BC
  • PhD, Philosophy, Religion, and Theology, University of Newcastle (Australia), Callaghan, NSW
  • Certificate of Advanced Graduate Study, Bioethics and Health Policy, Loyola University Chicago, Chicago, IL

Committees, Societies, Councils

Academic Committees and Service

  • 2019 - Present: Research Programme Consultant, Laudato Si’ Research Institute, Campion Hall, University of Oxford
  • 2019: MSt in Study of Religions (5-year) Programme Review Committee, Humanities Division, University of Oxford9
  • 2018 - Present: Faculty Secretary, Faculty of Theology and Religion, University of Oxford
  • 2018 - Present: Advisory Council, McDonald Centre for Theology, Ethics, and Public Life
  • 2017 - 2018: Arts Advisory Council, Regent College
  • 2008 - 2010, 2014 - 2016: Curriculum Committee, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Fraser Valley
  • 2009-2010: Administrative ‘Deaning’ Committee, ACTS Seminaries of Trinity Western University

Academic Societies & Memberships

  • American Academy of Religion
  • American Society of Bioethics and Humanities
  • Canadian Bioethics Society
  • Canadian Scientific and Christian Affiliation
  • Canadian Theological Society
  • Centre for Research in Religion and Social Policy
  • Fellowship of St. Alban and St. Sergius

Research Ethics Boards

  • 2013 - 2016: Community Member-At-Large, Justice Institute of British Columbia
  • 2008 - 2011: Community Member-At-Large, Trinity Western University
  • 2006 - 2008: Member, Trinity Western University

Reviewer

  • Religions
  • Christian Journal for Global Health
  • Colloquium: The Australian and New Zealand Theological Review
  • Journal of Religion and Popular Culture

Honors & Awards

  • 2016: University of Divinity Small Research Grant
  • 2011 - 2013: International Postgraduate Research Scholarship, University of Newcastle
  • 2011 - 2013: Research Scholarship—Central, University of Newcastle
  • 2001: Flechtheim Scholarship Award
  • 2001: Graduate Assistant Bursary, Rocky Mountain Cancer Rehabilitation Institute.
  • 1995 - 1999: International Student Grant, Annual merit-based award for international students

Research

Dr Moyse's research interests and scholarly expertise concern philosophies of health and illness, medical ethics and moral formation, philosophies of technology, and the existential and ethical dimensions of aging and dying. His essays can be found in Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics, Christian Bioethics, Religions, Journal of Population Ageing, and Medicine, Health Care and Philosophy. He has also co-edited several volumes, including Treating the Body in Medicine and Religion (Routledge 2019) and has authored three books, including Resourcing Hope for Ageing and Dying in a Broken World (Anthem 2022).

Selected Publications

* Refereed/ Peer-Reviewed

Authored Books

  1. The Art of Living for the Technological Age: Toward a Humanizing Performance. Dispatches in Theology and Global Crises, Afterword by Brent P. Waters, series edited by Ashley John Moyse and Scott A. Kirkland (Minneapolis, Fortress Press, 2020 [forthcoming])
  2. * Reading Karl Barth, interrupting moral technique, transforming biomedical ethics. Content and Context in Theological Ethics, series edited by Mary Jo Iozzio (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015)

Edited Books

  1. Lead editor/advisor with Scott A. Kirkland for Dispatches: Turning points in theology and global crises book series (Minneapolis: Fortress Press)
    1. John W de Gruchy, The End is Not Yet: Standing Firm in Apocalyptic Times (October 2017)
    2. Cyril Hovorun, Political Orthodoxy: The Unorthodoxies of the Church Coerced (October 2018)
    3. John C McDowell, Theology and the Globalized Present: Feasting in the Future of God (April 2019)
    4. Marcus Pound, Theology, Comedy, Politics (September 2019)
    5. Anna Mercedes, Gender, Violence, Church (projected 2021)
    6. Joerg Rieger, Intersectionality, Theology, and Religion: Reflections on Class, Race, Gender, and Ecology (projected 2021)
  2. * Treating the Body in Medicine and Religion: Jewish, Christian, and Islamic Perspectives. Routledge Studies in Religion, edited and introduced by John Fitzgerald and Ashley John Moyse, Foreword by Jeffrey P. Bishop; Special introduction by H Tristram Engelhardt, Jr. (Abingdon and New York: Routledge, forthcoming 2018)
  3. Donald M. MacKinnon. Kenotic ecclesiology: Select writings of Donald M. MacKinnon, edited and introduced by John C. McDowell, Scott A. Kirkland and Ashley John Moyse, Foreword by Rowan Williams (Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2016
  4. Correlating sobornost: Conversations between Karl Barth and the Russian Orthodox tradition, edited and introduced by Ashley John Moyse, John C. McDowell, and Scott A. Kirkland, Foreword by Rowan Williams, Afterword by Met Kallistos Ware (Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2016)

Refereed Journal Articles

  1. “Fodder for despair, masquerading as hope: Diagnosing the postures of hope(lessness) at the end of life,” Religions (under review, for a special issue edited by John C McDowell: hope in dark times)
  2. “Understanding modern, technological medicine: enchanted, disenchanted, or other?” Theorietical Medicine and Bioethics, printed online 15 November 2018: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11017-018-9473-9
  3. “Hugging death, anticipating suicide: Vulnerability of despair and a Marcelian reflection on medical assistance in dying,” CRUX: A Quarterly Journal of Christian Thought and Opinion, 53(3), 2017: 2-8. n.b. Invited contribution
  4. * “Bonhoeffer and the imminent singularity: Theological reflections on Ray Kurzweil’s futureperfect,” Religions, Issue 5, 2013: 93-102. n.b. Invited contribution.

Book Chapters

  1. * “Responsibility for the broken body: Exploring the invitation to respond to the presence of the other.” In: Treating the Body in Medicine and Religion: Jewish, Christian, and Islamic Perspectives (Routledge Studies in Religion), edited and introduced by John Fitzgerald and Ashley John Moyse, Foreword by Jeffrey P. Bishop; Special introduction by H. Tristram Engelhardt, Jr. (Abingdon and New York: Routledge, 2018)
  2. “Introduction,” with J. Fitzgerald. In: Treating the Body in Medicine and Religion: Jewish, Christian, and Islamic Perspectives (Routledge Studies in Religion), edited and introduced by John Fitzgerald and Ashley John Moyse, Foreword by Jeffrey Bishop and Preface by H. Tristram Engelhardt, Jr. (Abingdon and New York: Routledge, 2018)
  3. “The terrible occasion and particular paradox of the gospel: MacKinnon’s Signposts essays.” In: Donald M. MacKinnon. Kenotic ecclesiology: Select writings of Donald M. MacKinnon, edited and introduced by John C. McDowell, Ashley John Moyse, and Scott A. Kirkland, Foreword by Rowan Williams, (Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2016)
  4. “Struggling together toward human being: Sobornost and the ethics of Karl Barth.” In: Correlating sobornost: Conversations between Karl Barth and the Russian Orthodox tradition, edited and introduced by Ashley John Moyse, John C. McDowell, and Scott A. Kirkland, Foreword by Rowan Williams, Afterword by Kallistos Ware (Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2016)
  5. “Introduction,” with J. McDowell and S. Kirkland. In: Correlating sobornost: Conversations between Karl Barth and the Russian Orthodox tradition, edited and introduced by Ashley John Moyse, John C. McDowell, and Scott A. Kirkland, Foreword by Rowan Williams, Afterword by Kallistos Ware (Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2016)
  6. * “When all is lost, gather ‘round: Solidarity as hope resisting despair in The Walking Dead.” In: The undead and theology, eds. Kim Paffenroth and John Morehead (Eugene: Pickwick, 2012)
  7. “Reconciling normative tensions in biomedical ethics: Constructing an ethics of coinherence informed by the Trinitarian theology of Karl Barth.” In: Trinitarian theology after Barth, Princeton Theological Monograph Series, eds. Myk Habets and Philip Tolliday, Foreword by John B. Webster (Eugene: Pickwick, 2010)