Biography

Rebecca DeYoung (Ph.D. University of Notre Dame) has enjoyed teaching ethics and the history of ancient and medieval philosophy at Calvin College for over 20 years.  Her research focuses on the seven deadly sins, and virtue ethics, as well as Thomas Aquinas’s work on the virtues.  Her books include Glittering Vices (Brazos, 2^nd edition 2020), Vainglory (Eerdmans), and a co-authored volume entitled Aquinas’s Ethics (University of Notre Dame Press).  Recent essays about various vices and virtues—hope, despair, sloth, courage, magnanimity, wrath, and vainglory—appear in Virtues and Their Vices (Oxford), Being Good (Eerdmans), and Cambridge Critical Guide to Aquinas’s De Malo (Cambridge), and the journals Res Philosophica, ACPQ, the Thomist, and Faith and Philosophy. Awards for her work include the Book and Essay Prize from the Character Project and the C.S. Lewis prize for Glittering Vices. She speaks widely, including opportunities to teach in prison. She and her husband Scot live in Grand Rapids, near the beautiful Lake Michigan shoreline. They have four children ages 18-25.

Professor DeYoung's panel "A Long Obedience: Cultivating Christian Virtue in Long-term Illness" for the Faith and Illness Initiative at Western Theological Seminary, September 18-20, 2023. 

to Professor DeYoung's interview with Ken Myers for as they discuss the second edition of Glittering Vices.

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Professor DeYoung collaborated with the Martin Institute's Conversatio Divina on a class on the vice of wrath. You can access the interviews and articles .

 to a conversation with Ken Myers and Professor DeYoung on her book Vainglory. 

 to Professor DeYoung's podcast  with Renovaré.

Read  Professor DeYoung's essays from "The Table,"  a publication of Biola University's Center for Christian Thought.

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 Professor DeYoung's workshop "Shiny, Happy People: The Vice of Vainglory" for the Calvin Institute of Christian Worship at the Vital Worship Grant Colloquium on June 22, 2016.  

 Professor DeYoung's chapel talks at Wheaton College.  

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an interview with Professor DeYoung about her book Vainglory: The Forgotten Vice.

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about Prof. DeYoung's honor as second place winner of the at the University of St. Thomas for her book .

Listen to a  with Prof. DeYoung about her book Glittering Vices from Open House radio in Australia. There are interviews on anger, envy, sloth, vainglory, and wrath.

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