Great Texts

Scott Moore, Ph.D.

Education

Iris Murdoch, Wendell Berry, Agrarianism, Religion and Politics

(edited) Francesco Petrarch, The Life of Solitude (Baylor University Press, 2023)
How to Burn a Goat: Farming with the Philosophers. Baylor University Press, 2019.
The Limits of Liberal Democracy: Politics and Religion at the End of Modernity. Inter-Varsity Press, 2009.
(co-edited with Robert C. Roberts and Donald Schmeltekopf)Finding a Common Thread: Reading Great Texts from Homer to O’Connor.. St. Augustine Press, 2013.

“Guarda e passa: Iris Murdoch’s Use of Dante.” Christianity and Literature (2025)
“Forgiveness and the ‘Beautiful, Unexpected Strangeness of the World’ in Iris Murdoch.” Iris Murdoch and the Western Theological Imagination (Palgrave, 2025)
“Was Iris Murdoch a Phenomenologist?” The Iris Murdoch Review 14 (2023)
“Affection and Emotivism in Wendell Berry and Alasdair MacIntyre.” Perspectives in Religious Studies 48:1 (Spring 2021)
"Rethinking Food, Fortune, and Misfortune: Reading Wendell Berry in a Time of Pandemic,” Review and Expositor (2020)
“The Mad Farmer’s Gay Liberation Front? Wendell Berry on Same-Sex Marriage,” Local Culture: Journal of the Front Porch Republic (2019)
"The Consolations of Fiction: J.R.R. Tolkien and Iris Murdoch." In Tolkien,our Contemporary,edited by Ralph Wood. University of Notre Dame Press (2015).
"Murdoch’s Fictional Philosophers: What They Say and What They Show." In Iris Murdoch: Morality and the Novel,edited by Anne Rowe. London: Palgrave (2010).
"Humanities in an Ecclesially-based University: Return to Reading Greats." In Conflicting Allegiances: The Church-Based University in a Liberal Democratic Society,edited by Michael Budde and John Wright. Grand Rapids: Brazos Press (2004).
"Hospitality as an Alternative to Tolerance," Communio XXVII:3 (Fall 2000).
"Christian History, Providence, and Michel Foucault," Fides et Historia 29:1 (1997).