Warren Kinghorn

Esther Colliflower Associate Professor of the Practice of Pastoral and Moral Theology; Co-Director, Theology, Medicine, and Culture Initiative; Associate Professor of Psychiatry, Duke University Medical Center

Office

0022 Westbrook

Duke Divinity School
Box 90968
Durham, NC 27708-0968

Dr. Kinghorn is a psychiatrist whose work centers on the role of religious communities in caring for persons with mental health problems and on ways in which Christians engage practices of modern health care. Jointly appointed within Duke Divinity School and the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences of Duke University Medical Center, he is co-director of the Theology, Medicine, and Culture Initiative and is a staff psychiatrist at the Durham VA Medical Center. He has written on the moral and theological dimensions of combat trauma and moral injury, on the moral and political context of psychiatric diagnosis, and on the way that St. Thomas Aquinas’ image of the human as wayfarer might inform contemporary practices of ministry and mental health care. 

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News and Stories

Loneliness Is Killing Us Link opens in new tab

The Theology, Medicine, and Culture Initiative at Duke Divinity School in partnership with John Swinton and the University of Aberdeen in Scotland hosted a gathering, “Beyond Symptoms: Mental Health and the Crisis of Disconnection."

Kinghorn on the Moral / Medical Divide Link opens in new tab

Kinghorn responds to Pastor John MacArthur's controversial statements about mental health in a July 11 article published in Mere Orthodoxy.

Warren Kinghorn Casts a Christian Vision for Mental Health Care Link opens in new tab

Dr. Warren Kinghorn, M.D., Th.D., has written a new book, "Wayfaring: A Christian Approach to Mental Health Care," published July 11, 2024 by Eerdmans Publishing Co.

Recent Publications on Scholars@Duke

Recent Courses on Scholars@Duke

  • XTIANTHE 999: Directed Study More info
  • XTIANETH 999: Directed Study More info
  • XTIANETH 761: Health Care in Theological Context I More info
  • PASTCARE 999: Directed Study More info
  • PASTCARE 804: Theology and Trauma More info
  • PASTCARE 779: Christian Approaches to Mental Health Care More info
  • EHD 796T: Bass Connections Education & Human Development Research Team More info
  • EHD 795T: Bass Connections Education & Human Development Research Team More info
  • EHD 396T: Bass Connections Education & Human Development Research Team More info
  • EHD 395T: Bass Connections Education & Human Development Research Team More info