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Georgetown University Press, 2024
Ki Joo (KC) Choi’s research and teaching interests include Protestant and Catholic moral theology and social ethics, the thought of Jonathan Edwards, theological aesthetics, peace studies, nonprofit ethics, and critical ethnic studies. His publications include the monograph Disciplined by Race: Theological Ethics and the Problem of Asian American Identity (2019), a groundbreaking book in Asian American theology that questions the possibilities of liberative agency in the face of racialization. He is also the author of Art and Moral Change (2024), which challenges prevailing approaches to the relationship between aesthetics and ethics through a novel Edwardsean-theological account of the emotions, affectivity, and virtue. He also coedited the volume Reimagining the Moral Life: On Lisa Sowle Cahill’s Contributions to Christian Ethics (2020) and is currently working on a political theology of nonviolence through the lens of Asian immigrant experience and discourses of belonging.KC is an active member of the Society of Christian Ethics, having served on the Board of Directors and as co-convener of the Asian/Asian American Working Group. He currently serves as coeditor of the Journal of the Society of Christian Ethics. He also served on the grants jury for the American Academy of Religion. His previous academic positions include serving as professor of theological ethics and chair of the Department of Religion at Seton Hall University. Having served in numerous academic administrative-leadership roles, he has extensive experience with Middle States accreditation, core curriculum planning and oversight, interdisciplinary curricular development, and academic policy governance. A graduate of Yale (B.A. and M.Div.) and Boston College (Ph.D., theological ethics), he has been interviewed by a number of media outlets including the Los Angeles Times, Sojourners Magazine, HigherEdJobs, and NJ 101.5 FM.
Protestant and Catholic moral theology and social ethics, the thought of Jonathan Edwards, art/literary theory, theological aesthetics, peace studies, nonprofit ethics, critical ethnic studies, Asian American theology.
“Normative Human Nature and Racial Justice: A Rapprochement?,” in The Oxford Handbook of Theological Anthropology, ed. Jens Zimmermann, Ashley Moyse, and Michael Durdett (Oxford University Press, forthcoming).
“What is Asian about Asian American Theology? Fiction, Heterogeneity, and Ends,” Critical Theology 7, no. 2 (Winter 2025): 3-8.
“Beyond Identity: Sang Hyun Lee’s Call to a Liminal Faith,” Imagine Otherwise, Center for Asian American Christianity, Princeton Theological Seminary, February 12, 2025, https://caacptsem.substack.com/p/beyond-identity-sang-hyun-lees-call.
“The ‘Small Things’ and Social Change,” Political Theology Network, Catholic Re-Visions Series, February 28, 2025, https://politicaltheology.com/the-small-things-and-social-change/.
“‘Neither Here nor There’ as Prophetic Witness: On Asian American Politics between Empires,” in Transpacific Political Theology: Perspectives, Paradigms, Proposals, ed. Kwok Pui Lan (Baylor University Press, forthcoming [August 2024]), 107-122.
Art and Moral Change: A Reexamination (Georgetown University Press, forthcoming [September 2024]), https://press.georgetown.edu/Book/Art-and-Moral-Change.
“Diversity or Option for the Poor?: Confronting the Contradictions Between our DEI Commitments and Enrollment Practices,” Journal of the Society of Christian Ethics 43, no. 1 (Spring/Summer 2023): 1-9.
“Asian American Christianity,” in Handbook of Contemporary Christianity in the U.S.: Historical, Cultural, Theological, and Ethical Explorations, Volume One, ed. Mark A. Lamport (Rowman & Littlefield, 2022), 293-305.
“Interrupting the Violence of Racial Identities: Lessons from Asian American Experience, the Parable of the Good Samaritan, and the Principle of Truth Force,” Journal of the Society of Christian Ethics 42, no.1 (Spring/Summer 2022): 189-206.
“Letter 47” (on politics and 1 Corinthians 12:20-23), Letter to President Biden and the 117th Congress, in American Values, Religious Voices: 100 Days, 100 Letters Project (March 7, 2021), https://www.valuesandvoices.com/letters-2021/letter-47/.
“Natural Law, Moral Reasoning, and Common Morality: Toward a Liberationist Paradigm,” in Reimagining the Moral Life: On Lisa Sowle Cahill’s Contributions to Christian Ethics, ed. Ki Joo Choi, Sarah Moses, and Andrea Vicini, S.J. (Orbis, 2020), 3-16.
Reimagining the Moral Life: On Lisa Sowle Cahill’s Contributions to Christian Ethics, ed. with Sarah Moses and Andrea Vicini, S.J. (Orbis, 2020), https://orbisbooks.com/products/reimagining-the-moral-life.
“Beyond Codes: Values, Virtues, and Nonprofit Ethics,” with Roseanne M. Mirabella, in Routledge Companion to Nonprofit Management, ed. Helmut Anheier and Stefan Toepler (Routledge, 2020), 165-176.
“Where Have All the Asians Gone? A Response to the U.S.C.C.B.’s ‘Open Wide Our Hearts: The Enduring Call to Love,’” Political Theology Network (March 15, 2019), https://politicaltheology.com/where-have-all-the-asians-gone/.
Disciplined by Race: Theological Ethics and the Problem of Asian American Identity (Cascade, 2019), https://wipfandstock.com/9781532634727/disciplined-by-race/.
“Asian American Christian Ethics: The State of the Discipline,” Journal of the Society of Christian Ethics, 38, no. 2 (Winter 2018): 33-44.
“The Priority of the Affections over the Emotions: Gustafson, Aquinas, and an Edwardsean Critique,” Journal of the Society of Christian Ethics 38, no. 1 (Summer 2018): 113-130.
“Mutuality, Equality, and Participation: Practicing Critical Ethics in Philanthropy,” with Roseanne M. Mirabella, in Reframing Nonprofit Organizations: Democracy, Inclusion, and Social Change, ed. Angela M. Eikenberry, Roseanne M. Mirabella, and Billie Sandberg (Irvine, CA: Melvin & Leigh, November 2018): 53-65.
“Pope Francis, Martin Luther King, J, and Social Justice: Why Laudato Si’ is Worth Reading,” NJ Art News/CivicStory (September 2015), https://www.civicstory.org/civicstory-blog/2015/9/5/pope-francis-martin-luther-king-jr-and-social-justice-why-laudato-si-is-worth-reading-9715.
Working Group Grant, for Critical Ethnic Studies, Asian Pacific Asian Religions Research Initiative (or APARRI) (2023-2024)
Interfaith Programming Grant, Association of American Colleges and Universities and Interfaith Youth Core (2021-2022)
Lilly Fellows Program Grant, for Medical Humanities (2018-2019
ET 2106 Doing Christian Ethics
TH 2101 Christian Theology and Justice
TI 2073 Immigration as Theological Problem
TH 3322 K-pop Activism, Asian American Theologies, and Democracy
TH 3338 Theologies of Nonviolence and Just Peacemaking
ET 3100 Theology and Ethics of Food
TH 3471 Theological Aesthetics
TH 3437 Theology and Ethics of Jonathan Edwards
THET 9020 Tradition, Natural Law, and Moral Conflict
Reimagining the Moral Life: On Lisa Sowle Cahill’s Contributions to Christian Ethics, ed. with Sarah Moses and Andrea Vicini, S.J. (Orbis, 2020)
Disciplined by Race: Theological Ethics and the Problem of Asian American Identity (Cascade, 2019)
