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Elisabeth Rain Kincaid

Elisabeth is Assistant Professor of Ethics and Moral Theology at Nashotah House Theological Seminary. She received her PhD in Theology from the University of Notre Dame, where her dissertation focused on reclaiming the theological jurisprudence of the 16th-century Spanish theologian and legal scholar, Francisco Suárez. Elisabeth received her B.A. from Rice University, her J.D. from the University of Texas School of Law, and her M.T.S. from Perkins School of Theology at Southern Methodist University. She is an Episcopal Church Foundation Academic Fellow. She has also practiced law at a national law firm, worked at a private equity fund-of-funds, and served as a graduate campus minister to law and business students. She is married to Thomas Kincaid, and they have two children.

Her publications include “Settling Law: Francisco Suarez’s Theory of Custom for Contemporary Contexts” in Francisco Suárez (1548–1617): Jesuits and the Complexities of Modernity (Brill, April 2019),“Aquinas, Pinckaers, and the Retrieval of a Doctrine of Political Equity ” in The Journal of Moral Theology (May 2019), and “ ‘Sharers in the Divine Image’: Francisco Suárez and the Justification of Female Political Authority” in  Political Theology. (March 2018). Kincaid has written popular articles for Christianity Today and The Living Church and has presented numerous academic conference papers,including at The Society of Christian Ethics, The Catholic Theological Society of America,The American Academy of Religion, The School of Law of the Pontifical University of Chile,and the International Symposium in Jesuit Studies. She has also been an invited guest speaker at several popular conferences on topics such as “Anglo-Catholicism: Recovering Roots,” “Mission Theology in the Anglican Communion,” and “Anglo-Catholicism and the Common Good.”

Meritocracy and the Failure of the Christian Moral Imagination

Elisabeth Kincaid
October 29, 2020
Bible, Commentary, Ethics, The Episcopal Church
By Elisabeth Rain Kincaid In his confrontation with King David in 2 Samuel 12, the prophet Nathan tells a heart-rending story of a rich man who, rather than give up one of his own flock to feed a hungry trav... Read More...

Standing at the Doors of the House of the Lord

Elisabeth Kincaid
June 3, 2020
Commentary, Ecclesiology, Ethics, The Episcopal Church
The President’s Photo-Op and Our Need for Repentance By Elisabeth Rain Kincaid One of the strangest images of this strange time will undoubtedly be that of the president of the United States standing in fro... Read More...

Good Moralistic Preaching

Elisabeth Kincaid
May 27, 2020
Commentary, Lay Voices on Preaching, Ministry, The Episcopal Church
This post continues a series of essays on preaching from the perspective of lay people. Previous entries may be found here. By Elisabeth Rain Kincaid In the classic movie Footloose, Chicago teen Ren McCor... Read More...

Life in the Shadow of the Cross

Elisabeth Kincaid
April 8, 2020
Commentary, Liturgy, Ministry, The Episcopal Church
By Elisabeth Kincaid In his sermon for the sixth Sunday of Lent in Parochial and Plain Sermons, preached on April 9, 1841, John Henry Newman describes the cross of Christ as the measure of the world, the key... Read More...

Convention, Pope Francis, and the Death Penalty

Elisabeth Kincaid
August 14, 2018
Commentary, Ethics, The Episcopal Church
Episcopalians and Roman Catholics have moved closer together on opposition to the death penalty.

With Great Freedom Comes Responsibility

Elisabeth Kincaid
May 1, 2018
Commentary, The Episcopal Church
Freedom for excellence means pursuing what is most appropriate for our good.

Cultivating virtue

Elisabeth Kincaid
December 15, 2017
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Part two of 'Obedience the Remedy'

‘Obedience the Remedy’

Elisabeth Kincaid
December 14, 2017
Commentary
The two key works of John Henry Newman, written while he was still Anglican, present at least an implicit theory of a Catholic virtue ethic.
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