David Gushee
Dr. David P. Gushee is the Distinguished University Professor of Christian Ethics at Mercer University. He teaches at McAfee School of Theology and throughout Mercer University in his specialty, Christian ethics. He is the president of Evangelicals for Human Rights, a columnist for Associated Baptist Press, and a contributing editor for Christianity Today. Dr. Gushee also serves as co-chair of the Biblical/Contextual Ethics Group of the American Academy of Religion and on the Christian Ethics Commission of the Baptist World Alliance.
He has published eleven books, over 80 scholarly essays, book chapters, articles, and reviews, and hundreds of magazine articles and opinion pieces. His books include the award-winning Kingdom Ethics, as well as Righteous Gentiles of the Holocaust and Only Human. He was the principal drafter of both the Evangelical Climate Initiative (2006) and the Evangelical Declaration against Torture (2007). He earned his Bachelor of Arts at the College of William and Mary (1984), Master of Divinity at Southern Baptist Theological Seminary (1987), and both the Master of Philosophy (1990) and Doctor of Philosophy (1993) at Union Theological Seminary in New York.