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Nationality
  
American

Religion
  
Protestant


Name
  
James Gustafson

Employer
  

Full Name
  
James Moody Gustafson

Born
  
December 2, 1925
Norway, Michigan

Awards
  
Guggenheim Fellowship for Humanities, US & Canada

Books
  
Christ and the moral life, Can ethics be Christian?, Protestant and Roman C, Treasure in Earthen Vessels, A sense of the divine

James M. Gustafson is an American theological ethicist. He has held teaching posts at Yale University in the Divinity School and the Department of Religious Studies (1955–1972), the University of Chicago as professor of theological ethics in the Divinity School (1972–1988), and Emory University as the Henry R. Luce Professor of Humanities and Comparative Studies. Gustafson received an honorary doctorate by the Faculty of Theology at Uppsala University in 1985. He retired in 1998 after 43 years of teaching and research, he was Woodruff Professor of Comparative Studies and of Religion in the Emory College and Graduate School of Arts & Sciences.

Some of his prominent students include Stanley Hauerwas and Douglas Ottati.

References

James Gustafson Wikipedia


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