Frank G. Kirkpatrick

Frank G. Kirkpatrick is the Ellsworth Morton Tracy Lecturer in Religion and Professor of Religion at Trinity College, Hartford. His fields of interest include the history of religion in America, religious and philosophical ethics, especially Christian social ethics, the philosophy of religion, atheism, and the history of Christian religious thought in the west. He is the author of numerous scholarly articles as well as popular pieces on religious thought and the relation of religion and society. He has published 7 books (Living Issues in Ethics (Wadsworth, 1982), Community: A Trinity of Models (Georgetown University, 1986), Together Bound: God, History, and the Religious Community (Oxford University, 1994), The Ethics of Community (in the series New Dimensions to Religious Ethics, Blackwells, 2001), A Moral Ontology for A Theistic Ethic (for the Heythrop Studies in Contemporary Philosophy, Religion, and Theology, Ashgate, 2003), John Macmurray: Community Beyond Political Philosophy (for Rowman and Littlefield’s series, 20th Century Political Philosophers, 2004).

His most recent book is The Episcopal Church in Crisis: How Sex, the Bible and Authority are Dividing the Faithful, published in 2008 by Greenwood/Praeger as part of the “Religion, Politics, and Public Life Series” under the auspices of the Leonard Greenberg Center for the Study of Religion in Public Life at Trinity College. Prof. Kirkpatrick received his B.A. from Trinity College in 1964, a joint M.A. from Union Theological Seminary and Columbia University in 1966 and his PhD in Religious Studies from Brown University in 1970.