The Character of a Nation

James Calvin Davis is a scholar of theological and philosophical ethics and American religious history who serves as the George Adams Ellis Professor of Liberal Arts & Religion at Middlebury College in Vermont. He is the author of The Moral Theology of Roger Williams: Christian Conviction and Public Ethics (2004) and editor of the annotated On Religious Liberty: Selections from the Works of Roger Williams (2008), as well as In Defense of Civility (2010), Forbearance: A Theological Ethic for a Disagreeable Church (2017), and the more whimsical American Liturgy: Finding Theological Meaning in the Holy Days of US Culture (2021).