Affiliate Professor of Ethics and Moral Theology
PhD in Theology, The University of Notre Dame
MTS, Perkins School of Theology at Southern Methodist University
JD, The University of Texas School of Law
BA in English and History, Rice University
Dr. Elisabeth Rain Kincaid is associate professor of ethics, faith, and culture at Baylor University’s George W. Truett Theological Seminary. She also serves as the Director of the Institute of Faith and Learning, where she works to develop programming that integrates Christian faith and academic excellence. She is also an Affiliate Professor of Management at the Hankamer School of Business. Dr. Kincaid’s research focuses on the intersection of theological ethics, legal ethics and business ethics, virtue ethics, natural law, early modern theology, and theology of work and vocation.
Dr. Kincaid recently published Law From Below: How the Thought of Francisco Suárez, SJ, Can Renew Contemporary Legal Engagement (Georgetown University Press) which explores different models for Christian engagement with law. She is currently working on a second monograph exploring the relationship between business ethics, theology, and human flourishing (under contract with Georgetown University Press). She has published broadly including in the Journal of the Society of Christian Ethics, The Scottish Journal of Theology, The Journal of Moral Theology, Political Theology, The Journal of Markets and Morality, and Christian Scholar’s Review, as well as contributing chapters to numerous edited volumes. Dr. Kincaid is a frequent invited speaker at academic campuses, churches, and retreats.
She previously held the Legendre-Soulé Chair of Business Ethics and served as the Director of the Center for Ethics and Economic Justice at Loyola University New Orleans. Her past academic positions include Nashotah House Theological Seminary and the Aquinas Institute of Theology. She is currently a Research Fellow for the Center for Religion, Culture, and Democracy and serves on the Board of Directors for the Society of Christian Ethics. She has also been a Pedagogy Fellow at the Yale Center for Faith and Culture.
"Magisterial Authority and Competing Theories of Natural Law in Calvin’s Institutes.” The Scottish Journal of Theology, forthcoming.
“Are Rights Really So Wrong? A Response to Nigel Biggar’s What’s Wrong with Rights?” The Anglican Theological Review, forthcoming.
“Natural Law And Cultural Difference: Innovations in Spanish Scholasticism.” In Innovations in Early Modern Catholic Thought. Edited by Ulrich L. Lehner. London: Routledge Press, forthcoming
“Natural Law.” With Ebenezer Akesseh and David A. Clairmont. In Encyclopedia of Religious Ethics. Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell, 2021.
“‘Good, Rich, or Secure?’ Spanish Scholasticism and Law’s Development of Virtue.” Bajo Palabra, No. 26 (June 2021): 123 - 140.
“Vocation and Work.” In T&T Clark Handbook of Christian Ethics, 383 - 390. Edited by Tobias Winright. London: T&T Clark, 2021.
“Professional Ethics and the Recovery of Virtue.” Journal of the Society of Christian Ethics Vol. 40, No. 1 (2020): 21 – 37.
“Aquinas, Pinckaers and the Role of the New Law in a Doctrine of Political Equity.” Journal of Moral Theology, Vol. 8, No. 2 (Spring 2019): 114 – 133.
"Settling Law: Suárez’s Theory of Custom for Contemporary Contexts.” In Francisco Suárez (1548 – 1616): Jesuits and the Complexities of Modernity, 178 - 204. Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill, 2019.
“‘Sharers in the Divine Image’: Francisco Suárez and the Justification of Female Political Authority.” Political Theology, Vol. 19, No. 4 (March 2018): 331 – 348.
