Ashley John Moyse, PhD is the McDonald Postdoctoral Fellow in Christian Ethics and Public Life, Christ Church, University of Oxford. He served as the Templeton Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow in Theology and Science at Regent College (2017-2018). He is a member (2017-2020) of the Centre for Research in Religion and Social Policy (RASP), University of Divinity, Melbourne. He is a former Associate Fellow in the Academy of Fellows, The Center for Bioethics & Human Dignity of Trinity International University (2019-2022).
Ashley holds a PhD from the University of Newcastle (Australia), master’s degrees in both theology (Trinity Western) and applied physiology (Northern Colorado), and a certificate of advanced study in bioethics and health policy (Loyola Chicago). His undergraduate training was completed at Messiah College. Emerging from his education and experiences is an interest in Christian ethics, with a particular expertise in bioethics and medical humanities.
Ashley has presented and published his work internationally. He is the author of Reading Karl Barth, Interrupting Moral Technique, Transforming Biomedical Ethics (Palgrave, 2015) and The Art of Living for the Technological Age (Fortress, forthcoming). He has coedited several volumes including Treating the Body in Medicine and Religion: Jewish, Christian, and Islamic Perspectives (Routledge, forthcoming), Kenotic Ecclesiology: Select Writings by Donald M. MacKinnon (Fortress, 2016), and Correlating Sobornost: Conversations Between Karl Barth and the Russian Orthodox Tradition (Fortress, 2016). He is a series advisor and coeditor of Dispatches: Turning Points in Theology and Global Crises, a book series of moral and political theology that includes John W. de Gruchy’s The End is Not Yet: Standing Firm in Apocalyptic Times (Fortress, 2017), Cyril Hovorun’s Political Orthodoxies: The Unorthodoxies of the Church Coerced, and John C. McDowell’s Theology and the Globalized Present: Feasting in the Future of God (forthcoming). He is a contributing scholar to the Christian Flourishing in a Technological World project (christianflourishing.com), led by Profs Jens Zimmerman and Michael Burdett.
In addition to his scholarly work, Ashley enjoys listening to folk and jazz as well as spending time outdoors with his wife and their adventurous toddler.