CMU Faculty

Justin's teaching and research interests concern how the human person has been understood by ancient, medieval, and modern writers as they have contemplated the question of justice: what we owe to others and what we owe to ourselves.

Justin attended the University of Manitoba where he received a BA (Hons) in Philosophy and Religion. He did his graduate work at McMaster University where he received a MA in Religious Studies, focusing on patristics and philosophical theology. 

Justin is also employed as a spiritual health practitioner (chaplian) at St. Boniface Hospital.

Justin was born in Hamilton and grew up in Regina and Winnipeg. He has three children.

Areas of Teaching

Philosophical Theology, Ethics, Existentialism, Ancient Philosophy, Patristics

Education

MA, McMaster University, 2003; BA (Hons), University of Manitoba, 2000

Work in Detail

Teaching

PHIL 1000  The Task of Philosophy I: The Question of Reality

PHIL 1010  The Task of Philosophy II: The Question of Knowledge

PHIL 3950  Justice

PHIL 2950  Love- Philosophical Investigations

PHIL 3950  Existentialism – Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Dostoevsky

PHIL 2950  Death and Dying

PHIL 2950  Philosophy of Biology

PHIL 2070  Business Ethics

Research

Review of Andrew Robinson, Traces of the Trinity: Signs, Sacraments and Sharing God's Life, in Direction: A Mennonite Brethren Forum. Fall 2015, vol 44, no.2, pp. 226-229

"The Face of Christ in the Face of Nature: A Conversation with Jean Vanier, Socrates, James Cone, and Charles Darwin" in Direction: A Mennonite Brethren Forum.  Spring 2014, vol 43, no.1, pp 76-98.

"Faith, Fiction, and Skepticism: Transcendence in Flannery O'Connor, Fyodor Dostoevsky, and Albert Camus" in Direction: A Mennonite Brethren Forum. Spring 2011, vol. 40, no. 1, pp. 51-64.

"Resources on Idolatry:  A Review Article" in Vision: A Journal for Church and Theology.  Spring 2011, vol. 12, no. 1, pp. 83-92.

Review of Nathan Kerr, Christ, History, and Apocalyptic: The Politics of Christian Mission, in Direction: A Mennonite Brethren Forum. Fall 2009, vol 38, no. 2, pp. 260-262.

"Just War Theory, the Authorization of the State, and the Hermeneutics of Peoplehood: How John Howard Yoder can save Oliver O'Donovan from Himself" in International Journal of Systematic Theology. Oct. 2006, vol. 8, issue 4, pp. 411-432.

 

Community

Justin's primary community service is at Charleswood Mennonite Church, where he has served as chair of the worship committee and as a children's Sunday School teacher.