Robin W. Lovin is Cary M. Maguire University Professor of Ethics emeritus at Southern Methodist University and a Visiting Scholar in Theology at Loyola University Chicago. He joined the Southern Methodist University faculty in 1994, and served as Dean of Perkins School of Theology from 1994-2002. Prior to this, he was Dean of the Theological School at Drew University in Madison, New Jersey. He has also been a member of the faculty at the Divinity School of the University of Chicago and at Candler School of Theology of Emory University. He is an ordained minister of The United Methodist Church and served as a pastor in the Northern Illinois Conference.

Dr. Lovin’s most recent books are Christian Realism and the New Realities (2008) and An Introduction to Christian Ethics (2011). He has also written extensively on religion and law and comparative religious ethics. In 2013, he held the Maguire Chair in Ethics and American History at the Library of Congress. He is an Honorary Trustee of the Center of Theological Inquiry in Princeton, New Jersey, and a member of the advisory board for the McDonald Centre for Theology, Ethics, and Public Life at Oxford University. He teaches regularly at the Russia United Methodist Theological Seminary in Moscow.

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