Biographical Information:
Glen H. Stassen joined Fuller Seminary’s theological faculty in the winter quarter of 1997 as Lewis B. Smedes Professor of Christian Ethics. He came to Fuller with 34 years of teaching experience at Duke University, Kentucky Southern College, Berea College, and Southern Baptist Theological Seminary.
Dr. Stassen graduated from the University of Virginia with a degree in nuclear physics, and he studied systematic and historical theology, Christian ethics, and political philosophy during his graduate work at Union Theological Seminary in the City of New York and Duke University. He has done postgraduate study at Harvard University, the University of Heidelberg, Union Theological Seminary (New York), and the University of Notre Dame. Stassen’s primary research and teaching interests are theological ethics, incarnational discipleship, peacemaking, social justice, and our need for healing in what he calls an “Age of Interaction.” He has been recognized for his excellence in teaching with Fuller’s 1999 All Seminary Council Faculty Award for Outstanding Community Service to Students, as well as the Seabury Award for Excellence in Teaching at Berea College.
Stassen’s book Kingdom Ethics: Following Jesus in Contemporary Context (2003) received Christianity Today’s Award for Best Book of 2004 in Theology or Ethics. He has published several other books, including Just Peacemaking: The New Paradigm for Ethics of Peace and War (co-edited, 2008, 3rd ed.), Peace Action: Past, Present, and Future (co-edited, 2007), Authentic Faith: Bonhoeffer’s Ethics in Context (edited, 2007), Living the Sermon on the Mount (2006), Authentic Transformation: A New Vision of Christ and Culture (1996, with D. M. Yeager and John Howard Yoder), and Just Peacemaking: Transforming Initiatives for Justice and Peace (1992). He has also co-edited the forthcoming War of the Lamb by John Howard Yoder(Brazos Press, 2009).
Stassen has served in leadership positions within the Council of the Societies for the Study of Religion, National Association of Baptist Professors of Religion, American Academy of Religion, and Society of Christian Ethics.
Areas of Expertise, Research, Writing, and Teaching:
Christian ethics, Sermon on the Mount, peacemaking, social justice, incarnational discipleship, method in Christian ethics, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, John Howard Yoder, Michael Walzer, Reinhold Niebuhr, and H. Richard Niebuhr