DISTINGUISHED ETHICIST AT CTI

12/8/2009

One of America’s leading ethicists, Robin Lovin, will be in residence as Senior Member at the Center in the Spring of 2010, when he will pursue ground-breaking research on International Law and Christian Ethics. Lovin, a University Professor of Ethics at Southern Methodist University, is leading a major research inquiry on theology and international law at the Center with fellow CTI Members Jeremy Waldron and Mary Ellen O’Connell.

Robin W. Lovin is Cary Maguire University Professor of Ethics at Southern Methodist University. He is an ordained elder in the North Texas Conference of The United Methodist Church. His writings include two studies of twentieth century Christian social ethics: Christian Faith and Public Choices: The Social Ethics of Barth, Brunner, and Bonhoeffer (1984), and Reinhold Niebuhr and Christian Realism (1994). He has also written extensively on religion and law and comparative religious ethics. He is also the author Christian Ethics: An Essential Guide (2000), which provides a general reader’s introduction to Christian ethics, and Reinhold Niebuhr (2007), an introduction to Niebuhr’s work that is part of the Abingdon Press “Pillars of Theology” series. His most recent book is Christian Realism and the New Realities (2008).