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Kevin Jung is primarily interested in the metaethical dimension of religious ethics. He explores issues of moral epistemology, moral anthropology, metaphysics, and semantics with insights gained from analytic moral philosophy and theological ethics. His current research interests include defense of foundationalist epistemic justification and moral realism against various forms of historicist accounts of morality. He joined the faculty of the School of Divinity in the fall of 2007 after teaching for two years at the College of William and Mary as a visiting professor of religious studies. He had also previously taught at DePaul University, The Catholic Theological Union in Chicago, and The University of Chicago. From 2004 to 2005, Jung was a Spruill Fellow at the Center for the Study of Law and Religion of the Emory University School of Law.

Jung was named a Lilly Theological Scholar for 2008-2009 by the Association of Theological Schools (ATS).  He is the co-editor of Humanity Before God: Contemporary Faces of Jewish, Christian, and Islamic Ethics (2006) published by Fortress Press and Justice to Mercy: Religion, Law, and Criminal Justice (2007) published by the University of Virginia Press. He also translated Gene Outka’s Agape: An Ethical Analysis (1999) and John Witte’s From Sacrament to Contract: Marriage and Law in Western Tradition (2006) into Korean, both published by the Christian Literature Society of Korea. He is currently working on a book tentatively entitled Religious Ethics and Moral Objectivity