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Warren A. Kinghorn

Warren A. Kinghorn

Esther Colliflower Professor of the Practice of Pastoral and Moral Theology
Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, Adult Psychiatry & Psychology
warren.kinghorn@duke.edu
Duke Divinity School, Box 90968, Durham, NC 27708
407 Chapel Drive, Duke Divinity School, Durham, NC 27708

Overview

Medical Professionalism
Religion, Spirituality, and Psychiatry
Philosophy of Psychiatry

Current Duke Appointments & Affiliations

Esther Colliflower Professor of the Practice of Pastoral and Moral Theology · 2025 - Present Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, Adult Psychiatry & Psychology, Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences
Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences · 2025 - Present Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, Adult Psychiatry & Psychology, Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences
Co-Director, Theology, Medicine, and Culture Initiative · 2017 - Present Divinity School
Director for Re-imagining Medicine in the Kenan Institute for Ethics · 2022 - Present Kenan Institute for Ethics, University Institutes and Centers
Professor of the Practice of Pastoral and Moral Theology · 2025 - Present Divinity School
Faculty Associate, Trent Center for Bioethics, Humanities & History of Medicine · 2013 - Present Trent Center for Bioethics, Humanities & History of Medicine, Institutes and Centers
Associate of the Duke Initiative for Science & Society · 2018 - Present Duke Science & Society, University Initiatives & Academic Support Units

Recent News Items

Published September 12, 2024
New Books by Duke Authors: Exploring Politics, Theology, AI and Basketball
Published September 27, 2023
A Role for Theology in the Cancer Patient Experience
Published November 4, 2015
Dr. Warren Kinghorn: How a PTSD diagnosis can help, and harm

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Recent Scholarly Works

Christian Congregations as Sites of Response to Community Substance Use Issues: An Exploratory Needs Assessment Survey of Clergy in North Carolina, USA.

Journal article J Relig Health · June 28, 2026 Opioid overdose deaths have devastated communities across the USA for over two decades. This study explores how Christian clergy in North Carolina perceive and respond to substance use issues, including opioid misuse. An anonymous online survey of clergy i ... Full text Link to item Cite

Searching for a Well on the Antepartum Service

Journal article The Linacre Quarterly · April 30, 2026 Women admitted to inpatient antepartum services are often navigating unexpected obstetric complications. Their tenuous circumstances may persist for days, weeks, or even months, and at times result in extended inpatient stays. Within these admissio ... Full text Cite

Beyond Therapy: Mental Health Problems as Political Problems

Journal article Journal of the Society of Christian Ethics · March 11, 2026 Full text Open Access Link to item Cite
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Recent Grants

Theology Medicine Culture Fellowship Program

Inst. Training Prgm or CMEPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Issachar Fund · 2020 - 2024

God & the book of Nature-Fellowship

FellowshipPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by University of Edinburgh · 2019 - 2022

Innovative practices of health and health care in their Local Communities

Institutional SupportPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Duke Endowment · 2017 - 2022

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Education

Duke University · 2011 Th.D.
Harvard University · 2003 M.D.
Duke University · 2002 M.T.S.