Timothy P. Jackson
- PhD, Yale University, 1984
- MPhil, Yale University, 1980
- MA, Yale University, 1978
- BA, Princeton University, 1976
On research leave for the 2022-23 academic year.
Along with his position at Candler, Dr. Timothy P. Jackson is a senior fellow at the Center for the Study of Law and Religion, a senior fellow at the Center for Ethics, and teaches in the Graduate Division of Religion. Jackson joined the Candler faculty in 1995, and previously held teaching posts at Rhodes College, Yale University, Stanford University and the University of Notre Dame. He was a visiting fellow at the Center of Theological Inquiry, the Whitney Humanities Center at Yale, the Center for the Study of Religion at Princeton and the Program for Evolutionary Dynamics at Harvard.
In his research, Jackson focuses on moral philosophy and theology, particularly the relationship between secular and Christian conceptions of truth, goodness, justice, freedom and mercy. He has written three books, edited two, and contributed to many more.
Jackson’s work has been supported by grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Lilly Foundation, the Metanexus Institute and Emory’s University Research Committee. He is a former board member of the Society for Christian Ethics, and served on the advisory board of the Institute for Research on Unlimited Love at Stony Brook University.
Selected Publications
Books
Mordecai Would Not Bow Down Anti-Semitism, the Holocaust, and Christian Supersessionism, Oxford University Press, 2021
Political Agape: Prophetic Christianity and Liberal Democracy. Eerdmans, 2015
Editor and contributor,The Best Love of the Child: Being Loved and Being Taught to Love as the First Human Right. Eerdmans, 2011
Editor and contributor,The Morality of Adoption: Social-Psychological, Theological, and Legal Perspectives. Eerdmans, 2005
The Priority of Love: Christian Charity and Social Justice. Princeton University Press, 2002
Love Disconsoled: Meditations on Christian Charity, Cambridge University Press, 1999
Chapters and Articles
“Waiting in The Wings of the Dove: A Reply to Harold Bloom and an Impatient Age," in The Henry James Review, Vol. 43, No. 3, November 2022
"Law, Natural and Unnatural: Reflections After Reading Kaveny's Ethics at the Edges of Law," Syndicate Symposium, May 14, 2019
"Not Far from the Kingdom: Martha Nussbaum on Anger and Forgiveness," The Journal of Religious Ethics, vol. 46, no. 4, Wiley Publishers, December 01, 2018
"Election, Selection and Distinction," in Spirit and Capital in an Age of Inequality. Routledge, 2017
"Javert and Jihad: Why Law Cannot Survive Without Love, and Vice Versa," in Agape, Justice, and Law. Cambridge University Press, 2017
"Sanctity and Suffering: The Beatitude Paradox and the Sermon on the Mount," in Church, Society, and the Christian Common Good. Cascade, 2017
"Theology and Law Divorced and Reconciled: Aquinas, Luther, Rawls, and Us." The Journal of Law and Religion, Cambridge University Press, March 13, 2017
"Liberal Integrity: Lenn Goodman's Case for Democratic Virtue." Political Theology, vol. 16, issue 6, Taylor & Francis, November 26, 2015
"Agape and Virtue Ethics," in The Routledge Companion to Virtue Ethics. Routledge, 2015
"The Relevance of God: A Reply to Ronald Dworkin." The Journal of Law and Religion, vol. 29, issue 3, Cambridge University Press, October 08, 2014
"The Prophetic Mr. Cohen." Leonard Cohen and Philosophy, Open Court, October 07, 2014
Selected Awards
Crystal Apple Award for Excellence in Professional School Education, Emory Residence Hall Association, 2020
Candler Grant to develop a new course on "Religion, Science, and Morality," Candler School of Theology
Grant to work on Political Agape: Prophetic Christianity and Liberal Democracy, Emory University Research Council
Visiting Research Associate, Program for Evolutionary Dynamics (PED), Harvard University
Visiting Associate Professor, Harvard University
Invited to serve on The Commission on Parenthood's Future
Appointed to Advisory Board of Institute for Research on Unlimited Love
Grant to work on the book The Morality of Adoption, Metanexus Institute
Visiting Fellow, Center for the Study of Religion (CSR), Princeton University
Lilly Grant to work on the book Souls and Selves
Candler Teaching and Research Fund Grant for work on biomedical ethics
"Abraham Lincoln and Political Agape: Lessons for Our Own Context" - Faith & Politics in the 21st Century Lecture Series, Candler School of Theology, October 5, 2016
"Q&A With the Experts" - Emory School of Law, August 2, 2012
Discussion of The Best Love of the Child, Emory School of Law, November 16, 2011
Selected Courses
Biomedical Ethics
Christianity and the Holocaust
Kierkegaard as Religious Ethicist
Love and Justice
Morality of Peace and War
Religion, Science, and Morality
Christian Ethics