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James Gustafson

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#1020

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#1888

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#438

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#622

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#1272

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James Gustafson

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#3300

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#5360

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#1064

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#140

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#171

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#67

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PhD Theology University of Chicago
Masters Theology University of Chicago
Bachelors Philosophy University of Chicago

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According to Wikipedia, James M. Gustafson was an American theological ethicist. He received an honorary doctorate by the Faculty of Theology at Uppsala University in 1985. He has held teaching posts at Yale Divinity School and the Department of Religious Studies , the University of Chicago as professor of theological ethics in the Divinity School , and Emory University as the Henry R. Luce Professor of Humanities and Comparative Studies. He retired in 1998 after 43 years of teaching and research, after being Woodruff Professor of Comparative Studies and of Religion in the Emory College and Graduate School of Arts & Sciences. He received the Lifetime Achievement Award for "creative and lasting contributions to the field of Christian ethics" on January 7, 2011, at the annual meeting of the Society of Christian Ethics in New Orleans.

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The Social Construction of Reality: A Treatise in the Sociology of Knowledge@@@The Invisible Religion: The Problem of Religion in Modern Society (1968) (494)
Ethical and social issues in screening for genetic disease. (1972) (108)
The Future of Voluntary Organisations. (1979) (87)
Ethics from a theocentric perspective (1981) (85)
Mongolism, Parental Desires, and the Right to Life (2015) (76)
Can ethics be Christian (1975) (53)
Moral discourse about medicine: a variety of forms. (1990) (46)
Professions as "Callings" (1982) (45)
The Contributions of Theology to Medical Ethics (1975) (39)
The advancement of theological education (1957) (36)
The Place of Scripture in Christian Ethics: A Methodological Study (1970) (36)
A Sense of the Divine: The Natural Environment from a Theocentric Perspective (1994) (36)
Protestant and Roman Catholic Ethics: Prospects for Rapprochement (1978) (29)
The purpose of the church and its ministry : reflections on the aims of theological education (1956) (28)
The Clergy in the United States (1965) (26)
Moral education : five lectures (1970) (24)
Theology and Christian Ethics (1974) (24)
Christ and the moral life (1968) (21)
Treasure in Earthen Vessels: The Church as a Human Community (1985) (17)
Context Versus Principles: A Misplaced Debate in Christian Ethics (1965) (17)
The church as moral decision-maker (1970) (16)
Theology and Ethics (1982) (15)
An Analysis of Church and Society Social Ethical Writings (1988) (14)
The U S Business Corporation: An Institution in Transition (1988) (14)
Theology confronts technology and the life sciences. (1978) (14)
The Sectarian Temptation: Reflections on Theology, the Church and the University (2013) (13)
Christian ethics and the community (1971) (12)
EDUCATION FOR MORAL RESPONSIBILITY (1970) (12)
TRACING A TRAJECTORY (1995) (11)
A Protestant Ethical Approach (1970) (11)
Intersections: Science, Theology, and Ethics (1996) (9)
Truth and the Historicity of man: What Ought I To Do? (1969) (9)
New Congregations: Security and Mission in Conflict. (1967) (7)
Ethics: An American Growth Industry (2015) (6)
Roman Catholic and Protestant Interaction in Ethics: An Interpretation (1989) (5)
Kirman and the Qajar Empire: Local Dimensions of Modernity in Iran, 1794-1914 (2015) (5)
Participation: A Religious Worldview (2016) (4)
Genetic therapy: ethical and religious reflections. (1992) (4)
Interdependence, Finitude, and Sin: Reflections on Scarcity (1977) (4)
A RETROSPECTIVE INTERPRETATION OF AMERICAN RELIGIOUS ETHICS (2016) (4)
Genetic Counseling and the Uses of Genetic Knowledge — An Ethical Overview (1973) (4)
Geographical Literature in Nineteenth-Century Iran: Regional Identities and the Construction of Space (2016) (4)
Nature, Sin, and Covenant: Three Bases for Sexual Ethics (2015) (4)
EXPLAINING AND VALUING: AN EXCHANGE BETWEEN THEOLOGY AND THE HUMAN SCIENCES (1995) (4)
The Transcendence of God and the value of human life (2012) (3)
An Examined Faith: The Grace of Self-Doubt (2003) (3)
Sociobiology: A Secular Theology (1979) (3)
Where theologians and geneticists meet. (1994) (3)
Efficiency, Morality, and Managerial Effectiveness (1989) (3)
An Analysis of the Problem of the Role of the Minister (1954) (2)
Sociology of Religion in Sweden (1960) (2)
Moral Philosophy at Seventeenth-Century Harvard: A Discipline in Transition. By Norman Fiering. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1981. xi + 323 pp. $24.00. (1983) (2)
The Relevance Gap. (1969) (2)
Dye on the Frontier : Henna and the Military Elites of Nineteenth-Century Bam (2019) (1)
Death Is Not the Enemy (2015) (1)
Qajar Ambitions in the Great Game: Notes on the Embassy of ‘Abbas Qoli Khan to the Amir of Bokhara, 1844 (2013) (1)
Response to Margaret Farley (1978) (1)
The Main Issues in Theological Education* (1955) (1)
The use of scripture in Christian ethics (1997) (1)
All things in relation to God. An interview with James M. Gustafson. (1991) (1)
HOUSEHOLD NETWORKS AND RURAL INTEGRATION IN QAJAR KIRMAN (2014) (1)
Theology and Ethics: An Interpretation of the Agenda (1981) (1)
Christian Ethics and Community: Which Community? (1997) (1)
Book Review:Sidgwick's Ethics and Victorian Moral Philosophy J. B. Schneewind (1979) (0)
Book Review:Ethical Writings. Vol. 8 of The Works of Jonathan Edwards Jonathan Edwards, Paul Ramsey (1990) (0)
Studies in Religious Ethics: Taking Human Life (1976) (0)
H. Lyman Stebbins: British Imperialism in Qajar Iran: Consuls, Agents and Influence in the Middle East. xv, 304 pp. London and New York: I.B. Tauris, 2016. ISBN 978 1784 53502 5. (2017) (0)
The Robe and the Sword: The Methodist Church and the Rise of Imperialism (1962) (0)
Richard A. McCormick S.J. Ambiguity in Moral Choice. Pp. 112. (The 1973 Pere Marquette Theology Lecture.) (1974) (0)
Professor and Public Ethics. Studies of Northern Moral Philosophers before the Civil War . By Wilson Smith. Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press, 1956. 244 pp. $4.00. (1958) (0)
The relationship of empirical science to moral thought (2012) (0)
Rejoinder to Hans Jonas (1981) (0)
Christian Attitudes toward a Technological Society (1959) (0)
Book Review:Richard Niebuhr: A Lifetime of Reflections on the Church and the World Jon. H. Diefenthaler (1988) (0)
The Power to Be Human, by Charles C. West. 270 pp. New York, Macmillan, 1971. $7.95 (1972) (0)
Patterns of Christian Social Action (1961) (0)
Book Review:Lord Gifford and His Lectures: A Centenary Retrospect Stanley L. Jaki (1988) (0)
A Theory of Justice, By John Rawls, Cambridge, Massachusetts, Harvard University Press, 1971. 607 pp. $15.00 and $3.95 (paperback) (1973) (0)
Book Review: The Groundwork of Christian Ethics (1973) (0)
Book Review:Medicine and Religion: Strategies of Care. Donald W. Shriver (1981) (0)
The U.S. Business Corporation: An Institution in Transition. (1990) (0)
Response to Van Rensselaer Potter, "Getting to the Year 3000: Can Global Bioethics Overcome Evolution's Fatal Flaw?" (2015) (0)
The Churches and Rapid Social Change, by Paul Abrecht. 216 pp. Garden City, Doubleday & Company, 1961. $3.95 (1962) (0)
James M. Gustafson Papers, 1948-2004 (2014) (0)
Book Review:Resurrection and Moral Order: An Outline for Evangelical Ethics Oliver O'Donovan (1988) (0)
RESPONSE TO ROTTSCHAEFER, BECKLEY, AND KONNER (1995) (0)
The Quest for a Religious America (1967) (0)
Book Review:Wholly Human: Essays on the Theory and Language of Morality Bruno Schuller, Peter Heinegg (1988) (0)
Book Review:Christian Social Ethics in a Revolutionary Age: An Analysis of the Social Ethics of John C. Bennett, Heinz-Dietrich Wendland and Richard Shaull Carl-Henric Grenholm (1977) (0)
The University as a Community of Moral Discourse (1973) (0)
Book Review:Struggle and Fulfillment: The Inner Dynamics of Religion and Morality Donald Evans (1983) (0)
The perceived self: G. H. Mead and Martin Buber on the interpersonal self (1994) (0)
War and Christian Ethics. Arthur F. Holmes (1977) (0)
Modern Dilemmas, Traditional Teachings (1980) (0)
Book Review:Jonathan Edwards: Art and the Sense of the Heart Terrence Erdt (1982) (0)
Genetic screening and human values: an analysis. (1974) (0)
Book Review:The Ethics of Freedom Jacques Ellul, G. W. Bromiley (1978) (0)
The Communion of Saints; A Dogmatic Inquiry into the Sociology of the Church, by Dietrich Bonhoeffer. 259 pp. New York, Harper & Row, 1963. $4.00 (1965) (0)
The Human Mystery By Sir John C. Eccles (review) (1980) (0)
How We Die: Reflections on Life's Final Chapter (review) (2015) (0)
Book Review:Christians and Marxists: The Mutual Challenge to Revolution Jose Miguez Bonino (1978) (0)
Situation contra Prinzipien (1969) (0)
Congregationalism: A Restatement. By Daniel T. Jenkins. New York: Harper & Bros., 152 pp., $2.00. (1955) (0)
Contribution of Two Niebuhrs in American History (1979) (0)
Religion and Culture; Essays in Honor of Paul Tillich, Edited by Walter Leibrecht. 399 pp. New York, Harper & Brothers, 1959. $7.50 (1959) (0)
Book Review: Christian Ethics Today (1959) (0)
Opium, Carpets and Constitutionalists A Social History of the Elite Households of Kirman, 1859--1914 (2010) (0)
Foreword (1970) (0)
Surviving the Future by Arnold Toynbee (Oxford University Press; 164 pp.; $5.95) (1972) (0)
Book Review:The Radical Imperative: From Theology to Social Ethics John C. Bennett (1977) (0)
Nile Green. Terrains of Exchange: Religious Economies of Global Islam. New York: Oxford University Press, 2014. 288 pages. Cloth US$37.50 ISBN 978-0-1902-2253-6. (2016) (0)
Book Review:Ethics in the New Testament Jack T. Sanders (1978) (0)
Volume Information (1982) (0)
Book Review: Fabricated Man: The Ethics of Genetic Control (1971) (0)
I TYPES OF MORAL LIFE: An Essay in Slight Exaggeration (1962) (0)
The Protestant Ethic and Modernization: A Comparative View . Edited by S. N. Eisenstadt. New York: Basic Books, 1968. vii + 407 pp. $4.95. (1971) (0)
The Study of Religion in Colleges and Universities: A Practical Commentary (2015) (0)
Book Review:Conscience and Casuistry in Early Modern Europe Edmund Leites (1989) (0)
Editorial: Introducing Students to Medicine by an Expanded Gross Anatomy Course (2015) (0)
The Church, The University and Moral Discourse (1983) (0)
The Politics of Transfiguration: By Paul Lehmann New York, Harper and Row, 1975, 366 pp. $12.95 (1975) (0)
Book Review: Toward a New Catholic Morality (1971) (0)
II Protestant Sociology of the Family (1957) (0)

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