Kevin Carnahan

Kevin Carnahan is Professor of Philosophy and Religion at Central Methodist University in Fayette, Missouri. He earned his Ph.D. from Southern Methodist University, where he was the recipient of a Dempster Graduate Fellowship from the United Methodist Church and The Schubert Ogden Fellowship for Academic Excellence in Theology. He has written articles for The Journal of Religious Ethics, The Journal of Law and Religion, Political Theology, and PBS's Religion and Ethics Newsweekly. He served as the co-editor of the Journal of the Society of Christian Ethics. He is author of Reinhold Niebuhr and Paul Ramsey: Idealist and Pragmatic Christians on Politics, Philosophy, Religion, and War (Lexington Books, 2010), and From Presumption to Prudence in Just-War Rationality (Routledge, 2017), co-editor of Paradoxical Virtue: Reinhold Niebuhr and the Virtue Tradition (New York: Routledge, 2020), and author of The Disappearance of Eve and the Gender of Jesus (Fortress, 2025). He lives in Columbia, Missouri with his wife and two children.