DepartmentUndergraduate Department of Philosophy
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Documents

Degrees

  • Ph.D., Texas A&M University, 2007
  • M.T.S., Duke University, Divinity School, 2006
  • M.A., Texas A&M University, 2002
  • B.S., Philosophy and Religion, Southern Nazarene University, 1999

Biography

Kent Dunnington teaches and writes in the areas of virtue ethics, the philosophy of religion, and the philosophy of addiction.

Publications

Books

  • Addiction and Virtue: Beyond the Models of Disease and Choice, Dunnington, Kent, InterVarsity Academic, 2011.
  • Humility, Pride, and Christian Virtue Theory, Dunnington, Kent, Oxford University Press, 2019.

Single-editor Books

  • The Uncertain Center: Essays of Arthur C. McGill, McGill, Arthur, C., Wipf and Stock Press, 2015.

Articles

  • “Being Grateful and Feeling Grateful: Reconsidering the Phenomenology of Gratitude to God,” Journal of Positive Psychology (2023).
  • “The Distinctiveness of Christian Gratitude: A Theological Survey,” Religions 13 (2022)
  • “Recovery and the Humble Reconstitution of the Self,” Perspectives on Science and Christian Faith 70.4 (2018), pp. 242–251.
  • “Intellectual Humility and Incentivized Belief,” Psychology and Theology 46.4 (2018), pp. 268– 278.
  • “Justification by Faith,” Religious Studies 54.4 (2018), pp. 527–547.
  • “The Problem with the Satan Hypothesis: Natural Evil and Fallen Angel Theodicies,” Sophia 57.2 (2018), pp. 265–274.
  • “Intellectual Humility and the Ends of the Virtues: Conflicting Aretaic Desiderata,” Political Theology 18.2 (2017), pp. 95–117.
  • “Is There a Christian Virtue Epistemology?” Res Philosophica 93.3 (2016), pp. 637–652.
  • “Humility: An Augustinian Perspective,” Pro Ecclesia 25.1 (2016), pp. 18–43.
  • “The Sacrament of Punishment: A Response to David Boonin’s Abolitionism,” Philosophia Christi 13.2 (2011), pp. 357–372. 

Areas of Expertise for Media Interviews

  • Ethics
  • Virtue Theory
  • Philosophy of Religion
  • Ancient Philosophy
  • Political Philosophy
  • Political Theology
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