A native of Louisville, Kentucky, Jackson received his B.A. in Philosophy from Princeton and his Ph.D. in Philosophy and Religious Studies from Yale. He is the author of Love Disconsoled: Meditations on Christian Charity (Cambridge, 1999), The Priority of Love: Christian Charity and Social Justice (Princeton, 2003), Political Agape: Christian Love and Liberal Democracy (Eerdmans, 2015), and Mordecai Would Not Bow Down: Anti-Semitism, the Holocaust, and Christian Supersessionism (Oxford, 2021). He is currently working on a book entitled Faith in Science?: How Three Scientific Revolutions Help to Reconcile Theology and Empirical Inquiry. 

While at Princeton, Jackson will teach the undergraduate seminar, “Christianity and the Holocaust.”