Tom Kennedy

Thomas “Tom” D. Kennedy joined Berry in 2007 after years at Valparaiso University in Indiana. Kennedy has also taught at Calvin College, Hope College, and Austin Peay State University. At Berry, he is responsible for the oversight of the Evans School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences and for courses in philosophical and Christian ethics.

Teaching Interests

• Environmental ethics and philosophy
• Healthcare ethics
• Religion and morality
• Christian ethics
• Philosophy of art

Research Interests

• God and morality
• Christian moral thought
• Eighteenth-century Scottish moral thought

Selected Publications

• Performing a Christian Life: God and the Good Life, (Eugene, OR: Cascade Books, 2019).
• Ed., David Fordyce, The Elements of Moral Philosophy (Indianapolis, IN: Liberty Fund, 2003).
• Ed. with Wayne G. Boulton and Allen Verhey, From Christ to the World: Introductory Readings in Christian Ethics (Grand Rapids, MI: Wm. B. Eerdmans, 1994)