T. Ryan Byerly is Lecturer in the Philosophy Department at the University of Sheffield, with research interests in philosophy of religion and virtue theory. His previous books include the volume Paradise Understood: New Philosophical Essays about Heaven and a monograph The Mechanics of Divine Foreknowledge and Providence: A Time-Ordering Account.

This book develops an account of others-centeredness, a way of putting others first in the process of deciding what to do. It investigates other-centeredness by drawing upon a wide range of academic disciplines including biblical studies, feminist scholarship, philosophy, psychology, and theology.

1. Putting Others First as the Character Trait of Others-Centeredness

2. Others-Centeredness in the New Testament

3. Others-Centeredness as a Moral Ideal

4. Objections to Others-Centeredness

5. Others-Centeredness, Vice, and Virtue

6. The Science of Others-Centeredness