Evolution and Theology of Cooperation

On 4 May 2006, The ETC Project Presents

God, Evolution, and Agape: Ethics and the Limits of Naturalistic Explanation

by Timothy Jackson, Associate Professor of Christian Ethics, Emory University, Visiting Professor, Harvard Divinity School for Spring 2006

Timothy P. Jackson is Associate Professor of Christian Ethics at The Candler School of Theology at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia. He is also a Senior Fellow at The Center for the Study of Law and Religion at Emory. Professor Jackson has previously held teaching posts at Rhodes College, Yale University, Stanford Univer¬sity, and the University of Notre Dame. He has been a Visiting Fellow at The Center of Theological Inquiry, The Whitney Humanities Center at Yale, The Center for the Study of Religion at Princeton University, and Harvard Divinity School. A native of Louisville, Kentucky, Jackson received his B.A. in Philosophy from Princeton and his Ph.D. in Philosophy and Religious Studies from Yale. He is the author of Love Disconsoled: Meditations on Christian Charity (Cambridge, 1999) and The Priority of Love: Christian Charity and Social Justice (Princeton, 2003). He is also the editor of and a contributor to The Morality of Adoption: Social-Psychological, Theological, and Legal Perspectives (Eerdmans, 2005). His current research and teaching interests are in biomedical ethics and political theology; his present book project is entitled, Political Agape: A Defense of Prophetic Liberalism.

This presentation is the sixth in a series of lectures sponsored by the Evolution and Theology of Cooperation Project at Harvard University, directed by Professors Sarah Coakley and Martin Nowak and supported by a grant from the John Templeton Foundation.

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