E. David Cook
Senior Fellow Alumnus
E. David Cook is a Fellow of Green College, Oxford, and he is the first Holmes Professor of Faith and Learning at Wheaton College. He is also a distinguished visiting professor of Christian ethics at the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, Kentucky.
Dr. Cook holds a B.A. from Arizona State University, a M.A. from Edinburgh University, a Ph.D. from New College, Edinburgh, a M.A. from Oxford University, and a DLitt from Gordon College, Massachusetts. He taught for six years at St. John’s College and the University of Nottingham. He has taught medical ethics, philosophy, theology, and Christian ethics at Oxford since 1979.
He serves as the founding director of the Whitefield Institute, Oxford, which funds and supports research in theology, ethics, and education. Cook is also a Fellow at the Center for Bioethics and Human Dignity. He is a member of the U.K. Xenotransplantation Authority, the Council of Europe Xenotransplantation Advisory Group, the Archbishops’ Medical Ethics Committee, The Central Oxford Research Ethics Committee, and The John Radcliffe Hospital Ethics Committee. He is a regular broadcaster on national radio and television on medical and moral issues and has written extensively in the area.
He is married, has two grown children, and one grandson. He and his wife are members of Abingdon Baptist Church in Oxford.
Selected Publications and Scholarly Work
• Blind Alley Beliefs (1996)
• Patients’ Choice (1993)
• Dilemmas of Life: Deciding What’s Right and What’s Wrong (1990)
• The Moral Maze: A Way of Exploring Christian Ethics (1983)