Timothy P. Jackson is a professor of Christian ethics at the Candler School of Theology at Emory University. His research focuses on moral philosophy and theology, especially the relationship between secular and Christian conceptions of truth, justice, freedom, and mercy. A magna cum laude graduate of Princeton University, he earned an M.A. and M.Phil. at Yale University and took his Ph.D. in philosophy and religious studies at Yale in 1984. Dr. Jackson began his teaching career at the Yale Divinity School and moved on to Stanford University as an assistant professor of religious studies in 1987. He joined the Candler faculty at Emory in 1995, and four years later was appointed an associate professor of theology at the University of Notre Dame. Returning to Candler in 2000 as an associate professor of Christian ethics, he was named to his present position last year. He has been a visiting fellow at the Center of Theological Inquiry in Princeton and the Whitney Humanities Center at Yale, as well as a visiting associate professor at Harvard University where he was also a visiting research associate at the Program for Evolutionary Dynamics. Dr. Jackson’s work has been supported by grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Lily Foundation, the Candler School, and Emory’s Research Council. A former member of the board of directors of the Society for Christian Ethics, he currently serves on the advisory board of the Institute for Research on Unlimited Love at Stony Brook University. He is the author of more than thirty articles published in academic journals or in volumes of collected works, the editor of The Morality of Adoption: Social-Psychological, Theological, and Legal Perspectives (2005), and the author of two other books. Love Disconsoled: Meditations on Christian Charity (1999) looks at theological, philosophical, and literary accounts of love and at how love constrains and is constrained by other moral concepts. The Priority of Love: Christian Charity and Social Justice, which was published by Princeton University Press in 2003, is an application of agapic love to three concrete issues—political violence, forgiveness, and abortion. Dr. Jackson is currently editing one volume, The Best Love of the Child: Interdisciplinary Perspectives, for Wm. B. Eerdmans and writing another, Political Agape: Prophetic Christianity and Liberal Democracy.