Dr. David P. Gushee is an historian, ethicist, public intellectual, and professor dealing primarily with ethical issues and Christian

Christian

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 thought. Gushee is the Distinguished University Professor of Christian Ethics at Mercer University

Mercer University

Mercer University is an independent, private, coeducational university with a Baptist heritage located in the U.S. state of Georgia. Mercer is the only university of its size in the United States that offers programs in eleven diversified fields of study: liberal arts, business, education, music,...

, and was formerly the Graves Professor of Moral Philosophy and the Senior Fellow of the Carl F. H. Henry

Carl F. H. Henry

Carl Ferdinand Howard Henry was an American evangelical Christian theologian who served as the first editor-in-chief of the magazine Christianity Today, established to serve as a scholarly voice for evangelical Christianity and a challenge to the liberal Christian Century.-Early Years and...

 Center for Christian Leadership at Union University

Union University

Union University is a private, evangelical Christian, liberal arts university located in Jackson, Tennessee, with additional campuses in Germantown, Tennessee, and Hendersonville, Tennessee...

 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

Christianity Today

Christianity Today is an Evangelical Christian periodical based in Carol Stream, Illinois. It is the flagship publication of its parent company Christianity Today International, claiming circulation figures of 140,000 and readership of 290,000...

 and the Associated Baptist Press

Associated Baptist Press

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Gushee agreed to serve on The Constitution Project's Guantanamo Task Force in December 2010. He helped draft the Evangelical Climate Initiative

Evangelical Climate Initiative

The Evangelical Climate Initiative is an initiative by some American evangelical leaders and organizations to mitigate global warming. ECI's first statement, calling for reductions in carbon dioxide emissions, was initially signed by 86 evangelical leaders. Signatories included Rick Warren, the...

's Call to Action.

Scholarship and Recognition

Gushee is an internationally recognized Holocaust scholar and ethicist. He was appointed in 2008 by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

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 to serve as a member of the Church Relations and the Holocaust Committee. 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

Williamsburg, Virginia

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 in 1987.

His book Kingdom Ethics: Following Jesus in Contemporary Context was Christianity Todays Theology/Ethics Book of the Year for 2004. He has also received the Evangelical Press Association

Evangelical Press Association

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's Christian Journalism Award for 1991, 1992 and 1997.

Gushee was granted an honorary Doctor of Divinity

Doctor of Divinity

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 (D.D.) degree in May 2009 by the John Leland Center for Theological Studies

John Leland Center for Theological Studies

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Education

Gushee received his Ph.D.

Ph.D.

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 in Christian ethics from Union Theological Seminary

Union Theological Seminary in the City of New York

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 in 1993, having earned his M.Phil. from Union Theological Seminary in 1990. Gushee earned his M.Div. from Southern Baptist Theological Seminary

Southern Baptist Theological Seminary

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 in 1987. He graduated Phi Beta Kappa with a B.A.

Bachelor of Arts

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 from the College of William and Mary

College of William and Mary

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in 1984.