Meet Dr. David Hunter
David G. Hunter received his Ph.D. in 1986 from the Department of Theology at the University of Notre Dame in its Christianity and Judaism in Antiquity program. He comes to the University of Kentucky from Iowa State University, where he has held the Monsignor James A. Supple Chair of Catholic Studies since 1999. Prior to that David taught for fifteen years at the University of St. Thomas in St. Paul, Minnesota.
David’s academic interests lie in the early history of Christianity and the history of Christian thought. He has published several books and a number of articles on Greek and Latin writers of the early church, among them Augustine, Ambrose, Jerome, Clement of Alexandria, and John Chrysostom. David’s most recent book, Marriage, Celibacy, and Heresy in Ancient Christianity: The Jovinianist Controversy (Oxford University Press, 2007), examines early Christian debates about marriage and celibacy. He is currently writing a history of the requirement of priestly celibacy in the Catholic Church.
David is married and has two (almost) grown sons. Gregory, age 20, has just completed his sophomore year at Carleton College in Minnesota. Robert, age 18, will graduate from Ames High School in Iowa in the spring of 2008. David’s wife, Lynn, went back to graduate school this year at the University of Iowa to pursue a master’s degree in Social Work. David will begin teaching at the University of Kentucky in the autumn of 2007, although the family will not relocate to Lexington until the summer of 2008.
