Brendan W. Case

Brendan W. Case, Th.D., serves as the program's Associate Director for Research. A Christian theologian by training, Case’s work brings theology and philosophy into conversation with the empirical social sciences to understand the nature, distribution, and determinants of a good life. Dr. Case is the author or co-author of five books: The Gentleness of Wisdom: A Christian Ethics of Charity, Anger, and Enmity (Routledge, 2026); Doubting Thomas: Early Franciscan Disputes with Aquinas (University of Notre Dame Press, 2026); The Justification of the Sinless: Supralapsarian Christology and the Goodness of the Incarnation (Baker Academic, 2026); The Accountable Animal: Justice, Justification, and Judgment (T&T Clark, 2021), and (with William Glass) Least of the Apostles: Paul and His Legacies in Earliest Christianity (Pickwick Press, 2022). He is the author or co-author of dozens of academic articles in journals including Modern Theology, the International Journal of Systematic Theology, Nature Humanities and Social Sciences Communications, Studies in Christian Ethics, and Franciscan Studies. He has written for the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Christianity Today, and is a regular contributor to Common Good. Before coming to Harvard, he completed his Th.D. at Duke Divinity School, and served as a Postdoctoral Research Associate at Baylor University's Institute for Studies of Religion.