Journal of the Society of Christian Ethics

Patricia Beattie Jung and Mary Jo Iozzio are committed to the initiatives of the Committee for the 21st Century; the following, from the Preface of their first issue, JSCE 26.2 (2006), reinforces that direction. 

… [T]he excellence and continued relevance of the Journal ultimately rests on the willingness of senior scholars to continue to invest in the Society of Christian Ethics and to mentor their junior colleagues and doctoral students into the work of the Society. As part of this mentoring, these same senior scholars encourage junior colleagues and student scholars to submit proposals to the Program Committee of the Society of Christian Ethics and, if their proposals are accepted, to submit their papers to peer review for publication in the Journal. This mentoring will also facilitate the inclusion of ever more diverse voices in the Journal. It is our hope that by the end of our tenure as coeditors of the Journal there will be many works in and multiple references to the full range of voices that should characterize our moral deliberations in the twenty-first century. We hold fast to the belief that upon such diverse exchanges the future of both the Journal and the Society depends.

The members of the Committee for the Twenty-First Century of the Society of Christian Ethics recognized “the importance of listening to unfamiliar voices and being attentive to the power relations embedded in moral discourse itself.”  As coeditors, we can contribute to the ongoing diversification of the voices present in the Society of Christian Ethics and deliberately encourage this discourse. We are hopeful that the Journal will be one of the venues “in which we [the Society] might expand our conversations to include ethicists in [diverse] traditions, cultures, and institutional settings.” Scholarly excellence will remain the primary criterion for publication, and like our predecessors, we will also aim to represent the full scope of scholarly interest in the Society, and to provide a forum for the work of new scholars and for the articulation of emerging issues and perspectives. We see in this editorial tradition an opportunity to advance the recommendations of the “Twenty-First Century Report” and to endorse the diverse conversations encouraged therein. In addition to fostering this vision of diversity, we intend to make all workings of the Journal –from the submission of proposals for the Annual Meeting to the Program Committee of the Society, to procedures whereby presentations may be submitted to the Journal for review, to the publication of book reviews, and service on the editorial board—more transparent, explicit, and readily negotiable by all members of the Society, and especially to respond to frequently asked questions newer members of the Society have raised. 

Thus, for the sake of enhanced access to information regarding the JSCE, we offer the following information and answers to frequently asked questions.

Officers of the JSCE

Publication Criteria: Evaluation Guidelines, IRB Regulations

Frequently Asked Questions:

Becoming an Officer of the JSCE

Volunteering as a Referee for the JSCE

Author Eligibility

Review Procedures and Copyright

Book Reviews

Subscriptions to and Advertising in the JSCE

Preparing your Manuscript for Publication Review, Georgetown University Press Guidelines

Articles and Book Reviews published in the Journal (2002-present) and The Annual (1984-2001).