Academic background

Luke Bretherton is the Regius Professor of Moral and Pastoral Theology and director of the McDonald Center for Theology, Ethics, and Public Life. Prior to Oxford he was the Robert E. Cushman Distinguished Professor of Moral and Political Theology at Duke University. Before joining Duke in 2012, he taught at King's College London.

Research interests

His primary areas of research, supervision, and teaching are Christian ethics, political theology, the intellectual and social history of Christian moral and political thought, the relationship between Christianity and capitalism, the relationship between Christianity and democracy, Christian humanism, missiology, interfaith relations, and practices of social, political, and economic witness.

Featured publications

Luke Bretherton, A Primer in Christian Ethics: Christ and the Struggle to Live Well (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023)

Luke Bretherton, Christ and the Common Life: Political Theology and the Case for Democracy (Eerdmans, 2019)

Luke Bretherton, Resurrecting Democracy: Faith, Citizenship and the Politics of a Common Life (Cambridge University Press, 2015)

Luke Bretherton, Christianity & Contemporary Politics: The Conditions and Possibilities of Faithful Witness (Wiley-Blackwell, 2010). Winner of the 2013 Michael Ramsey Prize for Theological Writing.