“Introducing Christian Ethics: Core Convictions for Christians Today”

Introducing Christian Ethics:

Core Convictions for Christians Today

Every few decades, a philosopher enters the annals of history after promulgating breakthrough ideas. Just as often, those historic contributions are only posthumously recognized because contemporaries either dismiss them or under-appreciate their value. Fortunately, neither has been the case with Professor David Gushee!

Since achieving well-deserved notoriety in his previous métier as a conservative evangelical ethicist, Dr. Gushee, a Bonhoeffer scholar, has moved on to new personal, professional, and spiritual formulations of Christian social, political, and religious concepts. After telling his deeply personal story of ideological evolution in Changing Our Mind and his historical analysis of shifting religious beliefs and practices in After Evangelicalism, Gushee now delivers a kind of magnum opus. Introducing Christian Ethics: Core Convictions for Christians Today presents readers with a very accessible structure for moral reasoning, a nuanced redefinition of the Kingdom of God, and a new approach to principles such as virtue, truthfulness, love, and justice is a timely multi-platform tour de force. Gushee’s latest work tackles in readable detail what it means to believe, think, and act as a Christian in today’s turbulent world.

Schenck Talks Bonhoeffer with Dr. David P. Gushee

In this episode of Schenck Talks Bonhoeffer, Rev. Dr. Rob Schenck talks with Dr. David P. Gushee about his history in evangelicalism, his abandonment of the moniker, and his new book Introducing Christian Ethics. Dr. Gushee discusses the profound impact Dietrich Bonhoeffer has on his ethics, as well as his hopes for the impact of this important book. Introducing Christian Ethics discusses issues like creation, patriarchy, white supremacy, abortion, sexuality, marriage, politics, crime, and more. If you find Christian ethics to be an important topic of conversation in today’s political and social climate, we encourage you to share this podcast!

Dr. David P. Gushee (PhD, Union Theological Seminary, New York) is Distinguished University Professor of Christian Ethics, Mercer University, Chair in Christian Social Ethics, Vrije Universiteit, and Senior Research Fellow, International Baptist Theological Study Centre.

Dr. Gushee is the elected Past-President of both the American Academy of Religion and Society of Christian Ethics, signaling his role as one of the world’s leading Christian ethicists. He is the author, co-author, editor, or co-editor of 25 books and approximately 175 book chapters, journal articles, and reviews.

Over a full 28-year career, he’s been a devoted teacher and mentor as Professor Gushee to college students, seminarians, and PhD students. He’s also led significant activist efforts on climate, torture, and LGBTQ inclusion, and is a keynote speaker at churches, forums, and universities.

Find out more about David Gushee by visiting www.davidpgushee.com

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More Reads from Dr. Gushee

After Evangelicalism: The Path to a New Christianity 

Gushee helps post-evangelicals know how to belong and behave, going from where they are to a living relationship with Christ and an intellectually cogent and morally robust post-evangelical faith. He shows that they can have a principled way of understanding Scripture, a community of Christ’s people, a healthy politics, and can repent and learn to listen to people on the margins.

Changing Our Mind

As much as ever, many people still experience deep condemnation by evangelical and other churches, getting kicked out or altogether leaving. Dr. David Gushee offers a powerful, inspiring message of hope and healing by helping Christians to return to Bible study, prayer, and reflection in a way that creates a vision for a more inclusive church.

Righteous Gentiles of the Holocaust

Righteous Gentiles of the Holocaust is an authoritative and indispensable exploration of a highly important aspect of the Holocaust, the willingness of a small, but morally significant, number of non-Jews to take on great risks for themselves and their families to rescue Jews from the Nazi death machine. In this well-documented book, Gushee explores the full range of Gentile responses to the plight of the Jews from overt hostility and obscene brutality to altruistic rescue, the better to understand the achievements of truly Righteous Gentiles.