Education
- Ph D, Boston College, 2022
- ThM, Boston College, 2015
- MDiv, Wake Forest University, 2010
- JD, Duke University, 1996
- BA, Samford University, 1993
John Carter
Visiting Assistant Professor of Law
John E. Carter is the Visiting Assistant Professor of Law in the Wake Forest University School of Law and the Program for Leadership and Character. A 2010 alumnus of Wake Forest School of Divinity, he also serves as a Visiting Assistant Professor of Religion, Law, and Public Life at the Wake Forest University School of Divinity. John completed his PhD at Boston College, having previously earned a JD from Duke University School of Law. His doctoral dissertation explored legal and moral debates about religious liberty and the sanctity of conscience in light of the Christian tradition's understanding of both. John also practiced law for over a decade in Kentucky and Tennessee in a variety of practice areas, including six years specializing in the defense of municipalities in litigation brought under 42 U.S.C. § 1983.
Courses
LAW 509 Insurance Law
Publications
Articles
- Lot's Daughters and Naomi and Ruth: Of 'Moral Love' and National Myths, 52 Journal of Religious Ethics 50 - 70 (2024).
- Natural Law's Return: Uncovering the Roots of Intractability on Gun Laws as a Prelude to New Growth, 12 Journal of Moral Theology 33 - 57 (2023).
- Reconsidering the Relationship Between Vitoria and Grotius's Contributions to the International Law and Natural Law Traditions, 49 Journal of Religious Ethics 159 - 187 (2021).
- Treading Water at the Cliff's Edge: The Dilemma Posed by Federal Money for Southern Baptist Colleges and Universities, 1958-1969, 45 Perspectives in Religious Studies 277 – 297 (2018).
- Whose Conscience? Which Religious Liberty? Rhetoric of Conscience and the Unfinished Baptist Doctrine of Soul Competency, 34 American Baptist Quarterly 271 – 288 (2015).
Presentations
- Baptist Contributions to a Communitarian Conscience
National Association of Baptist Professors of Religion (NABPR), May 1, 2023 - The Future of Church-State Relations: Problems and Possibilities," Ethics and Law Working Group (panel), Society of Christian Ethics , January 2022.
Ethics and Law Working Group (panel), Society of Christian Ethics, January 1, 2022 - Lot's Daughters, Ruth and Naomi, and the '1619 Project': Lessons for Contemporary Reparations Discourse," , online, January 2021.
Society of Christian Ethics, January 1, 2021 - "Perspectives on the Communitarian Conscience" A Critical Time for Bridge-Building: Catholic Theological Ethics Today, Catholic Theological Ethics in the World Church (CTEWC), Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina, July 2018.
Catholic Theological Ethics in the World Church (CTEWC), July 1, 2018 - Distinct Bases, Crossing Paths: Rights of Internal and External Dissent in the Baptist and Catholic Traditions
National Association of Baptist Professors of Religion (NABPR) Region-at-Large, June 1, 2017 - Separation of Church and State: A Renewed Case for an Historic Baptist Witness," June 2017.
American Baptist Churches-USA Biennial Mission Summit, January 1, 2017 - Finding a Basis for 'Burden Sharing' in a Communitarian Conception of Human Rights
October 1, 2016 - Commitmentarian Biblical Ethics: A Legal Text-Based Approach
Biblical Ethics in the 21st Century, April 1, 2016 - The Rise and Fall of Kentucky Southern College: A Case Study
June 1, 2010
Media
- The Desire for Retaliation is a Fool's Errand Baptist News Global, November 22, 2023
- Revisiting 'Natural Law' and Gun Rights Baptist News Global, November 8, 2023
- Republicans, Democrats, PHNs and Cutting the Baby in Half Baptist News Global, October 16, 2023
- This More Appropriate Stephen Foster Song Can Replace 'My Old Kentucky Home' Courier- Journal (Louisville, Ky.), September 9, 2020
- How Hard It Is to Enter the Kingdom of God Baptist News Global, February 19, 2015