Brian Brock

He is most notable for his contribution to the emerging field of disability theology, but has written widely in moral theology. In 2018, he was awarded "Alumnus of the Year" by Loma Linda University, being described as "a maker of social change who betters understanding of the Christian tradition." He is regularly invited to offer plenary addresses at conferences relating to questions around disability and religion, or Christian Ethics more broadly construed.

Since 2016, Brock has been Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Disability and Religion. Along with Susan Parsons, he is the founding editor of the academic monograph series, "T&T Clark Enquiries in Theological Ethics". Since 2012 he has served on the Theological Commission of the Diocese of Aberdeen and Orkney, Scottish Episcopal Church.

Brock's first monograph, Singing the Ethos of God: On the Place of Christian Ethics in Scripture was published in 2007. It was the subject of a special review edition of the journal European Journal of Theology in 2009. He is also the author of Christian Ethics in a Technological Age (2010) and Captive to Christ, Open to the World: On Doing Christian Ethics in Public (2014), which was discussed on the prominent evangelical podcast Mars Hill. Along with Stanley Hauerwas, he wrote Beginnings: Interrogating Hauerwas(2016), which was the subject of a special symposium hosted by the School of Theology, Philosophy, and Music at Dublin City University. His Disability in the Christian Tradition: A Reader, which he prepared with John Swinton was the subject of a special edition of the Journal of Religion, Disability & Health. The project he has been working on for over a decade, a theological account of disability, is set for publication with Baylor University Press in 2019 under the title Wondrously Wounded: Theology, Disability, and the Body of Christ.

Brock conducted postdoctoral studies (2003-2004) at the Friedrich Alexander University of Erlangen–Nuremberg under Hans Ulrich. In October 2004, he was appointed as a lecturer in Practical and Moral Theology at the University of Aberdeen. He was elevated to a Personal Chair in 2018. He has been a visiting scholar at Duke Divinity School (2008-2009) and the University of the Reformed Church in Kampen in 2014.

Brock was born and raised in Baytown, Texas where he was educated at Robert E. Lee High School. Before training as a theologian, he worked as an investigative reporter and editorialist from 1997-1999 for the Baytown Sun.

Brock studied Biology at Colorado Christian University before taking a Masters in Biomedical and Clinical Ethics at Loma Linda University. In 1997, he moved to the United Kingdom, where he studied Theology at the University of Oxford, before completing his doctoral studies in Christian Ethics in 2003 at King's College London, working under Michael Banner and Colin Gunton.

Brian Brock (born 1970) is a Scottish/American theologian. He holds a Personal Chair in Christian Ethics at the School of Divinity, History, and Philosophy, University of Aberdeen.