Dr. Jude Thaddaeus Buyondo

Forschung

  • Angewandte Moraltheologie: Bioethik, Organtransplantationstourismus, ökologische Ethik, Tierethik
  • Moralphilosophie: Thomas von Aquin, Aristoteles, Emmanuel Levinas, Achille Mbembe, Godfrey Tangwa, Henry Denis Odera und Kwasi Wiredu
  • Interkulturelle theologische Ethik: Bernard Lonergan, Germain Gabriel Grisez, Charles Nyamiti, Bénézet Bujo, Laurenti Magesa, Vincent Mulago, Jean-Marc Ela und Desmond Tutu
  • Interkulturelle Bioethik: Die Prinzipienethik von Tom Beauchamp & James Childress, afrikanische Gemeinschaftsethik und Ethik der künstlichen Intelligenz; Ökotheologische Bioethik von Papst Franziskus und Bantu-Afrikanische Bioethik
  • Afro-Euro-Amerikanische Religionsethik     

 

⇒ Habilitation: Intergenerational Human Flourishing  

 

 Drittmittel (Antrag in Vorbereitung)

  • Projekttitel: “A Theological Bioethics of Enhancing Healthspan: Relevance of Ancestors Amongst Afro-Euro-American Bantu”; Der Antrag soll im Wintersemester 2025/26 beim FWF (Fonds für die Förderung der Wissenschaftlichen Forschung, Österreich) eingereicht werden.

       
Publikationen

Monographien

  • Holistic Bioethics, Eugene (Oregon) 2024
  • The Critique of Bioethical Principlism in Contrast to an African Approach to Bioethics, Eugene (Oregon) 2024
  • Holistic bioethics founded on relational solidarity with the other: a theological-ethical investigation into the African moral thought in relation to G.B. Tangwa’s critique of western bioethical principlism (Diss./Wien 2023)

    
Artikel in Fachzeitschriften und Buchkapitel mit Peer-Review-Verfahren (im Druck/in Vorbereitung für 2025)

  • A Genuine Intercultural Ethics Requires a Decolonized Pluriversal Dialogue Between the Colonizers and the Colonized, in: Sigrid Müller/Mirijam Salfinger/Andrea Vicini (Eds.), Intercultural/Ecumenical Theological Ethics: Fundaments – Frameworks– Processes (CTEWC Book Series), Wipf & Stock 2025 [in print]
  • Dialogue Between Laudato Si’ and the African thought Towards a more Functional Eco-theological Bioethics, in: Journal of Moral theology
  • A Bioethics of Polymorphic Relatedness Beyond the Hospital: A case of Sick Cell Disease in Uganda, in: Jimmy Spire Ssentongo (Ed.), Philosophy in Uganda: Relevance, Challenges, and Prospects, Makerere University Press
  • A Bioethics of Increasing Healthspan Beyond the Confines of Lifespan, in: Journal of Christian Bioethics

   
Rezension

  • Jude Thaddaeus BUYONDO. The Critique of Bioethical Principlism in Contrast to an African Approach to Bioethics. Rezensiert von Cheryl Sanders, in: Perspectives on Science and Christian Faith, September 77 (2025) 212–213.

   
Vortragstätigkeit

  • „Natural Law: Classic and Modern Approaches“, 23. Juni 2025, School of Theology, Philosophy, and Music, Dublin City Universität
  • „Integral Consciousness “, Consciousness: Lonergan International Workshop 52(2025), 7 (15–19). Juni 2025 Boston College
  • „A Social Ethics of Internationalization13. Juni 2025, Katholisch-Theologische Fakultät, Ruhr-Universität Bochum
  • Intercultural Perception of Religion “, 11. Juni 2025, Theologische Fakultät, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen
  • „An African approach to Eco-theological bioethics “, The Role of Culture and Religion for Bioethics,  Summer School 4. Juni 2025, Katholisch-Theologische Fakultät Universität Wien
  • Ancentralizing AI Consciousness as a Collective Emerging Good “, 29. April 2025, Lonergan Institute Boston College
  • Intercultural Theological Ethics: Organ transplant tourism and Ethics of Lonergan “, 27. Feb. 2025 Boston College
  • Flourishing through An African lens on Healing “, Internationale Konferenz: Social Networks, Flourishing, and Collective Belonging in the Context of Brain Health, 19. März 2025 Makerere Universität 
  • Intercultural Theological Bioethics: Bernard Lonergan and Afro-American Bantu Ethics“, 29.Okt., Lonergan Institute Boston College
  • Sociality and the Self: Moral Personhood in Black Africa “, Human Network Initiative, Session 7, 27. März 2024, Harvard Medical School Center for Bioethics
  • Bioethics of Community Agency Vs Kantian Autonomy “(18. Jan. 2024, Harvard Medical School Center for Bioethics)
  • Challenges in Ecumenically Realizing Genuine Intercultural Ethics from a Global South Perspective “, Workshop Interkulturelle Theologische Ethik (Gerfried-Werner-Hunold-Stiftung), 21. Sept. 2023 Universität Wien
  • Comparative bioethics: African and Western Approaches“, 28 März-und 4. April 2023, Catholic University of Eastern Africa, Nairobi
  • „The Theological Heart of Theological Bioethics: The African Principle of Anamnetic Solidarity as the Relational Other “, Tagung im Rahmen des Central European Exchange Program for University Studies, 28. Feb. 2023, Universität Ljubljana,
  • Toward a Holistic Bioethics Founded on the African Principle of Solidarity“, Central European Exchange Program for University Studies, 26. Mai 2022, Karls-Universität, Prag
  • No Creation is Lifeless: Complementary Ethical Reflections between the African Worldviews and Fratelli Tutti’s Approach on the Relational Interconnectedness of Creation “, International Congress of the European Society for Catholic Theology (Creation – Transformation – Theology, 27. August 2021, Universität Osnabrück)
  • Intercultural Dialogue Initiatives as a means for Building Inclusive Sustainable Societies “, International Symposium on best practices in Intercultural and Interreligious Dialogue Initiatives, 17. Feb. 2021, Universität Wien 
  • Archimandrite Gregor Peradze as Moral Promotor of Ecumenical Unity “, Inter-religious Dialogue, Sulkan Saba Universität Tiflis, 18. Mai 2016
  • Uganda’s Martyr’s Shrine NamugongoHow can shrines enable the urgency of ecumenical and inter-religious dialogue? “, Konferenz zum interreligiösen Dialog (11. Juni 2015, Päpstliche Universität Johannes Paul II., Krakau)