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Nationality
  
American

Role
  
Professor

Name
  
Paul Ramsey

Religion
  
Protestant

Occupation
  
Christian ethicist


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Born
  
December 10, 1913 (
1913-12-10
)
United States

Died
  
February 29, 1988, Princeton, New Jersey, United States

Education
  
Yale University (1943), Millsaps College (1935)

Awards
  
Guggenheim Fellowship for Humanities, US & Canada

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Books
  
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Robert Paul Ramsey (December 10, 1913 – February 29, 1988) was an American Christian ethicist of the 20th century. He was a Methodist and a native of Mississippi. He graduated from Millsaps College in Mississippi and Yale University. The major portion of his academic career was spent as a tenured professor at Princeton University until the end of his life in 1988.

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Life

Paul Ramsey undertook his doctoral studies at Yale where he was mentored by H. Richard Niebuhr. He subsequently taught Christian Ethics at Princeton. He has been credited with re-introducing just war theory into Protestant ethical reflection. His popular text book Basic Christian Ethics was reviewed by a young John Rawls.

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