David P. Gushee

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Jump to: navigation, search


Dr. David P. Gushee is an historian, ethicist, public intellectual, and professor dealing primarily with ethical issues and Christian thought. Gushee is the Distinguished University Professor of Christian Ethics at Mercer University, and was formerly the Graves Professor of Moral Philosophy and the Senior Fellow of the Carl F. H. Henry Center for Christian Leadership at Union University in Jackson, Tennessee. Gushee also serves as the president of Evangelicals for Human Rights, an organization advocating for an end to torture, especially that sponsored by the United States government. Additionally, he is a columnist for Christianity Today, the Associated Baptist Press, and countercultureblog.com.

[edit] Scholarship and Recognition

Gushee is an internationally recognized Holocaust scholar and ethicist. He was appointed in 2008 by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum to serve as a member of the Church Relations and the Holocaust Committee.[1] He is the author of approximately 70 articles, chapters and reviews and has written or edited nine books. Gushee was ordained at Walnut Hills Baptist Church in Williamsburg, Virginia in 1987.[2]

His book Only Human: Christian Reflections on the Journey Toward Wholeness was listed on Amazon.com's Top 10 “Christianity” books of 2005, and his book Kingdom Ethics: Following Jesus in Contemporary Context was Christianity Today's Theology/Ethics Book of the Year for 2004. He has also received the Evangelical Press Association's Christian Journalism Award for 1991, 1992 and 1997.

Gushee was granted an honorary Doctor of Divinity (D.D.) degree in May 2009 by the John Leland Center for Theological Studies.

[edit] Education

Gushee received his Ph.D. in Christian ethics from Union Theological Seminary in 1993, having earned his M.Phil. from Union Theological Seminary in 1990. Gushee earned his M.Div. from Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in 1987. He graduated Phi Beta Kappa with a B.A. from the College of William and Mary in 1984.

[edit] Books

  • (2008). The Future of Faith in American Politics: The Public Witness of the Evangelical Center. Waco, TX: Baylor University Press. 
  • (2005). Only Human: Christian Reflections on the Journey Toward Wholeness. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass. 
  • (2004). Getting Marriage Right: Realistic Counsel for Saving and Strengthening Marriages. Grand Rapids, MI: Baker. 
  • (2003). Righteous Gentiles of the Holocaust: Genocide and Moral Obligation (2nd ed.). Minneapolis, MN: Paragon House. 
  • with Glen H. Stassen (2003). Kingdom Ethics: Following Jesus in Contemporary Context. Downers Grove, IL: Intervarsity Press. 
  • Ed. (2000). Christians and Politics Beyond the Culture Wars: From Despair to Mission. Grand Rapids, MI: Baker. 
  • Ed. (1999). Toward a Just and Caring Society: Christian Responses to Poverty in America. Grand Rapids, MI: Baker. 
  • Ed. with David S. Dockery (1999). The Future of Christian Higher Education. Broadman & Holman. 
  • with Robert H. Long (1998). A Bolder Pulpit: Reclaiming the Moral Dimension of Preaching. Valley Forge, PA: Judson Press. 
  • Ed. with Walter Jackson (1996). Preparing for Christian Ministry: An Evangelical Approach. Grand Rapids, MI: Baker. 
  • (1994). The Righteous Gentiles of the Holocaust: A Christian Interpretation. Minneapolis: Augsburg Fortress. 

[edit] Articles

 This section may require cleanup to meet Wikipedia's quality standards. Please improve this section if you can. (October 2009)
  • 5 Reasons Torture is Always Wrong [1]
  • A new alliance for creation[2]
  • Commentaries on "The Passion of the Christ": Passions and "The Passion' [3]
  • The Consistent Ethic of Life [4]
  • The Middle East's Death Wish-and Ours [5]
  • Post-Christendom Christianity? [6]
  • The Sanctity of Life [7]
  • Spirituality, Moral Choices, and Health [8]
  • Time for a national death-penalty moratorium [9]
  • We Risk Not Just Suffering, But Annihilation [10]
  • When Marriage Brings Suffering [11]

[edit] External links

[edit] References

  1. ^ "Committee on Church Relations and the Holocaust web page". http://www.ushmm.org/research/center/church/. Retrieved 10-08-2009. 
  2. ^ "David P. Gushee Bio". http://www.davidpgushee.com/Welcome_files/gusheelongbio.pdf. Retrieved 10-08-2009. 
Retrieved from "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_P._Gushee"