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 and the Weyerhaeuser Award
for Excellence in Teaching
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). Most recently, he co-edited John Howard
Yoder’s War of the Lamb: The Ethics of Nonviolence and Peacemaking
(Brazos Press, 2009). His forthcoming book is Incarnational Discipleship in a Secular Age (2012).
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. He is a member of the Nuclear
Weapons Freeze Campaign, and the Strategy Committee of Peace Action, the
largest grass-roots U.S. peace organization.
Areas of Expertise, Research, Writing, and Teaching:
Christian ethics, Sermon on the Mount, peacemaking, social justice, incarnational discipleship as a method in Christian ethics, just peacemaking theory, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, John Howard Yoder, Michael Walzer, Reinhold Niebuhr, and H. Richard Niebuhr