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Margaret Visser

Originally from South Africa, Margaret Visser studied at the Sorbonne and received her doctorate in Classics at University of Toronto.

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Curriculum Vitae Lewis B. Smedes Professor of Christian Ethics Fuller Theological Seminary Pasadena, CA 91182 gstassen@fuller.edu EDUCATION Sabbatical leave, Duke University, spring semester, 2000. Writing Christian Ethics as Following Jesus and beginning How to Do Christian Ethics . Sabbatical leave, Union Theological Seminary and Columbia University, 1992-93. Focus on method in Christian ethics, Dietrich Bonhoeffer's theological ethics, political theory and international relations (Just Peacemaking Theory), writing Authentic Transformation. Sabbatical leave, Forschungsstätte der Evangelischen Studiengemeinschaft, Heidelberg, Germany, and the University of Heidelberg, 1981-82. Research on the ethics of peacemaking, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, and H.E. Toedt, writing Journey Into Peacemaking. Visiting Scholar, Harvard University, 1969-72. Research in foreign policy decision-making, international relations, and Christian ethics. Ph.D., Duke University, 1967. Christian ethics, history of Christian thought (Reformation, modern German, American), and political theory. B.D., Union Theological Seminary (New York), 1963; systematic and historical theology, theological ethics. B.A., University of Virginia, 1957, nuclear physics, with distinction. EXPERIENCE 1997- Lewis B. Smedes Professor of Christian Ethics, Fuller Theological Seminary. 1976-96 Professor of Christian Ethics, Southern Baptist Theological Seminary. 1972-76 Associate Professor of Philosophy and Religion, Berea College. 1969-72 Visiting Scholar, Harvard University, 1969-72. 1964-69 Assistant Professor and Chairman, Department of Philosophy and Religion, Kentucky Southern College (now part of the University of Louisville). 1963-64 Instructor, Department of Religion, Duke University. BOOKS Christian Ethics as Following Jesus , with David Gushee (InterVarsity, forthcoming); Just Peacemaking: Ten Practices for Abolishing War, editor (Pilgrim: 1998); Capital Punishment: A Reader , editor (Pilgrim, 1998); Authentic Transformation: A New Vision of Christ and Culture, with John Howard Yoder and Diane Yeager (Abingdon, 1996); Just Peacemaking: Transforming Initiatives for Justice and Peace (Westminster/John Knox: 1992); Journey into Peacemaking (Brotherhood Commission of the Southern Baptist Convention: 1983, 1987).