- University of Oxford, Faculty of Theology and Religion
- Christ Church
Luke Bretherton is Regius Professor of Moral and Pastoral Theology and director of the McDonald Center for Theology, Ethics, and Public Life at Oxford University. Prior to that he was the Robert E. Cushman Distinguished Professor of Moral and Political Theology at Duke University. Before Duke, he taught at King’s College London.
His books include is A Primer in Christian Ethics (2023); Christ and the Common Life: Political Theology and the Case for Democracy (2019); Resurrecting Democracy (2015), which was based on a four-year ethnographic study of community organizing; Christianity & Contemporary Politics (2010), winner of the 2013 Michael Ramsey Prize for Theological Writing; and Hospitality as Holiness (2006).
Alongside his scholarly work, he is actively involved in forms of grassroots democratic politics.