Chris Durante received his Ph.D. in Ethics from the Faculty of Religious Studies at McGill University, M.Sc. from the Institute of Psychiatry and Department of Philosophy at King’s College London, M.A. from the Religious Studies Department at Georgia State University, and his B.A. from the Philosophy Department at Fordham University. Durante’s research and teaching interests are in Religion, Ethics, Science & Society broadly construed to include: Political & Moral Theology; Ecumenical & Interfaith Dialogue; Science-Engaged Theology and Ecological & Bio-medical Ethics.

In addition to being a part-time faculty member in the Online Technology Ethics Master’s program at CatholicTech, Durante is an Associate Professor of Theology at Saint Peter’s University in N. J., USA as well as a Fellow of the UNESCO Chair in Bioethics & Human Rights in Rome, Italy. As a permanent Fellow of the UNESCO Chair in Bioethics & Human Rights since 2013, Durante is primarily involved with the Bioethics, Multiculturalism & Religion project that consists of a series of workshops, and publications, that provide a forum for interfaith and intercultural dialogue and collaboration on a range of bioethical issues and also serves as a part-time faculty member in the Online Master’s in Global Bioethics, a joint degree offered between the UNESCO Chair and Anáhuac University in Mexico City, Mexico. From 2021-2022, he was also a Fellow of the New Visions in Theological Anthropology (NVITA) project of the School of Divinity at St. Andrews University under the auspices of the Science-Engaged Theology (SET) initiative of the John Templeton Foundation, where his project focused on developing an Orthodox Christian science-engaged ecological theology and corresponding ethics.

Durante has served as a contributing co-editor for two books, respectively entitled: Religious Perspectives on Social Responsibility in Health: Towards a Dialogical Approach (Springer 2018) and Interreligious Perspectives on Mind, Genes & Self: Emerging Technologies & Human Identity (Routledge 2018). And, his publications have also appeared in books such as: Politics, Society and Culture in Orthodox Theology in a Global Age (Brill 2023), Issues in Science and Theology: Global Sustainability (Springer 2023) as well as in a variety of academic journals such as the: Religions (MDPI);  Journal of Orthodox Christian Studies (John Hopkins Press); Journal of Medical Ethics (BMJ); Journal of Global Ethics (Taylor & Francis); and Journal of Church & State (Oxford Press).