Associate Professor of Moral Theology
Department Chairperson
St.John Hall B26B
(718) 990-1556
vogtc@stjohns.edu
Dr. Christopher Vogt is Associate Professor and Chair of the
Department of Theology and Religious Studies. He is a Senior
Fellow of the Vincentian Center for Church and Society at St.
John’s and currently serves on the editor board of the Journal of
Moral Theology and on the North American Regional Planning
Committee for Catholic Theological Ethics in a World
Church.
His most sustained area of research and publication has dealt with
the Christian Ars Moriendi tradition, attempting to articulate what
dying well might look like from a contemporary Christian point of
view and how Christians should endeavor to accompany the dying and
face death themselves. He is the author of Patience,
Compassion, Hope, and the Christian Art of Dying Well (Rowman and
Littlefield, 2004). More recently, his research has focused
on Catholic Social Thought and moral formation. He is
particularly interested in connections between liturgy and ethics,
and the question of whether virtue ethics might provide a new way
to help people understand and embrace Catholic Social
Teaching.
In addition to teaching undergraduate and graduate courses in the
Theology & Religious Studies Department, Dr. Vogt teaches
regularly in St. John’s University’s interdisciplinary Master of
Arts program in Global Development and Social Justice. He
currently serves the Permanent Observer Mission of the Holy See to
the United Nations as an adviser on matters of food security and
sustainable development.
Education
B.A., 1992. College of the Holy Cross, Worcester, Mass.,
Religious Studies
M.T.S., 1996, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass., Christianity
and Culture
Ph.D., 2002, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, Mass., Theological
Ethics
Teaching
Courses Taught at St. John’s University:
THE 1000C: Core: Perspectives on Christianity
THE 2300 Introduction to Catholic Moral Theology
THE 2320 Catholic Social Teaching
THE 3300 Moral Theology of Healthcare
THE 3305 Moral Theology of the Marketplace
THE 170 A Theological Introduction to the Moral Life
THE 523 Catholic Social Teaching
THE 526 Moral Problems in a Christian Context
MGD110 Catholic Social Thought and Practices of Integral
Human Development
Research
Areas of Specialization
Fundamental Moral Theology
Catholic Social Ethics
Virtue Ethics
Medical Ethics