Rebecca Konyndyk DeYoung

Rebecca Konyndyk DeYoung is Professor of Philosophy, Calvin University. She has enjoyed teaching ethics and the history of ancient and medieval philosophy at Calvin for over 25 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, second edition 2020), Vainglory (Eerdmans), and two co-authored volumes: Aquinas’s Ethics (University of Notre Dame Press) and The Little Logic Book (Calvin 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. 

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