Dr. David P. 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. Mercer University is an independent private, Coeducational, University with a Baptist heritage located in the U Morality (from the Latin la moralitas "manner character proper behavior" has three principal meanings H. Henry Center for Christian Leadership at Union University in Jackson, Tennessee. A Christian is a person who adheres to Christianity, a monotheistic Religion centered on the life and teachings of Jesus of Nazareth Union University is a four year institution in Jackson, Tennessee, with an additional campus in Germantown Tennessee, a suburb of Memphis Jackson is a city in Madison County, Tennessee, United States.
Gushee is notable for being a nationally recognized Holocaust scholar and ethicist. The Holocaust (from the Greek el ''ὁλόκαυστον'' (el-Latn holókauston holos, "completely" and kaustos, "burnt" also known as He is the author of approximately 70 articles, chapters and reviews as well as the author of 9 books. Gushee was ordained to Christian ministry at Walnut Hills Baptist Church in Williamsburg, Virginia in 1987. In general religious use ordination is the process by which individuals are consecrated, that is set apart as Clergy to perform various religious rites and ceremonies A Christian is a person who adheres to Christianity, a monotheistic Religion centered on the life and teachings of Jesus of Nazareth Williamsburg is a city located on the Virginia Peninsula in the Hampton Roads region in southeastern Virginia [1]
His recent book Only Human was listed on Amazon.com's Top 10 “Christianity” books of the year for 2005, and his book Kingdom Ethics was Christianity Today's Theology/Ethics Book of the Year for 2004. Amazoncom Inc ( is an American electronic commerce ( E-commerce) company in Seattle Washington. Christianity Today is an Evangelical Christian Periodical based in Carol Stream Illinois. He has also received the Evangelical Press Association's Christian Journalism Award for 1991, 1992 and 1997. The Evangelical Press Association is a professional association serving the Christian periodical publishing industry
He is a columnist for Christianity Today, the Associated Baptist Press, countercultureblog. Christianity Today is an Evangelical Christian Periodical based in Carol Stream Illinois. The Associated Baptist Press was founded in 1990 and is the first and only independent Baptist News agency in the United States com and the Jackson Sun.
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Education
- Ph. D. - 1993 - Union Theological Seminary, NY (Christian Ethics)
- M. Phil. - 1990 - Union Theological Seminary, NY (Christian Ethics)
- M. Div. - 1987 - Southern Baptist Theological Seminary
- B. The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary is located in Louisville Kentucky and is the flagship Seminary of the Southern Baptist Convention, or SBC A. - 1984 - College of William and Mary (Phi Beta Kappa)
Books
- The Future of Faith in American Politics: The Public Witness of the Evangelical Center. The College of William and Mary (officially The College of William and Mary in Virginia, also known as William & Mary or W&M) is a Public university The Phi Beta Kappa Society is an academic Honor society with the mission of "fostering and recognizing excellence" in the Undergraduate Liberal arts Waco, TX: Baylor University Press, 2008.
- Only Human: Christian Reflections on the Journey Toward Wholeness. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2005.
- Getting Marriage Right: Realistic Counsel for Saving and Strengthening Marriages. Grand Rapids: Baker, 2004.
- Righteous Gentiles of the Holocaust: Genocide and Moral Obligation. 2nd edition, revised. Minneapolis, MN: Paragon House, 2003.
- Kingdom Ethics: Following Jesus in Contemporary Context, with Glen H. Stassen. Downers Grove, IL : Intervarsity, 2003. Translations: Japanese, Bulgarian, Spanish, Indonesian.
- Christians and Politics Beyond the Culture Wars: From Despair to Mission. Editor/Contributor. Grand Rapids: Baker, 2000.
- Toward a Just and Caring Society: Christian Responses to Poverty in America. Editor/Contributor. Grand Rapids: Baker, 1999.
- The Future of Christian Higher Education, co-edited with David S. Dockery. Broadman & Holman, 1999.
- A Bolder Pulpit: Reclaiming the Moral Dimension of Preaching, with Robert H. Long. Valley Forge: Judson Press, 1998.
- Preparing for Christian Ministry: An Evangelical Approach. Co-edited with Walter Jackson. Grand Rapids: Baker, 1996.
- The Righteous Gentiles of the Holocaust: A Christian Interpretation. Minneapolis: Augsburg Fortress, 1994. German Translation: Die Gerechten Des Holocaust: Warum nur wenige Christen den Juden halfen. Wuppertal: One Way Verlag, 1997.
External links
- David Gushee [2]
Links to articles
- 5 Reasons Torture is Always Wrong [3]
- A new alliance for creation[4]
- Commentaries on "The Passion of the Christ": Passions and "The Passion' [5]
- The Consistent Ethic of Life [6]
- The Middle East's Death Wish-and Ours [7]
- Post-Christendom Christianity? [8]
- The Sanctity of Life [9]
- Spirituality, Moral Choices, and Health [10]
- Time for a national death-penalty moratorium [11]
- We Risk Not Just Suffering, But Annihilation [12]
- When Marriage Brings Suffering [13]