John Jefferson Davis is Professor of Systematic Theology and Christian Ethics at Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary

Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary

Gordon–Conwell Theological Seminary is an evangelical theological seminary whose main campus is based in South Hamilton, Massachusetts, with three other campuses in Boston, Charlotte, North Carolina and Jacksonville. The current president of Gordon-Conwell is Dennis Hollinger...

, where he has taught since 1975. He is an ordained Presbyterian pastor.

Thought

John Jefferson Davis has been actively publishing in ethics and systematic theology for nearly three decades. His most influential debates involve women's ordination, or Christian Egalitarianism

Christian Egalitarianism

Christian Egalitarianism , also known as biblical equality, is a Christian form of the moral doctrine of Egalitarianism. It holds that all human persons are created equally in God's sight—equal in fundamental worth and moral status...

. Davis has also taken part in a popular debate with John Sanders over Open Theism

Open theism

Open theism is a recent theological movement that has developed within evangelical and post-evangelical Protestant Christianity as a response to certain ideas that are related to the synthesis of Greek philosophy and Christian theology...

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Publications

• Worship and the Reality of God: An Evangelical Theology of Real Presence (IVP Academic, 2010)
• Evangelical Ethics: Issues Facing the Church Today (P&R Publishing, 2004)
• The Frontiers of Science & Faith: Examining Questions from the Big Bang to the End of the Universe (IVP, 2001)
• Christ's Victorious Kingdom (Audubon Press, 1996)
• Foundations of Evangelical Theology (Baker Books, 1984)
• Theology Primer: Resources for the Theological Student (Baker Books, 1981)