Jonathan Lee Walton, Ph.D., is a social ethicist and religious educator known for engaging American evangelical traditions.  On January 1, 2023, he became the 8th president of Princeton Theological Seminary.

 

He is the author of two books, A Lens of Love: Reading the Bible in Its World for Our World, Westminster John Knox Press, and Watch This! The Ethics and Aesthetics of Black Televangelism, NYU Press.  Prior to becoming president of Princeton Seminary, he served as the Plummer Professor of Christian Morals and Pusey Minister in the Memorial Church at Harvard University and as dean of the Divinity School at Wake Forest University.