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). Most
recently, he co-edited John Howard Yoder’s War of the Lamb: The Ethics of
Nonviolence and Peacemaking (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