David Gushee earned his Ph.D. in Christian Ethics in 1993 from Union Theological Seminary in New York. During his teaching career he has taught full-time at three institutions: Southern Baptist Theological Seminary (1993-1996), Union University (1996-2007), and Mercer University (2007-today).
Prof. Dr. Gushee joined the faculty at VU Faculty in Religion and Theology in 2021 as Chair in Christian Social Ethics. He currently supervises 6 PhD students, and has served as chair of the PhD Proposal Advisory Committee since 2023.
Prof. Dr. Gushee is the author or editor of 31 books, primarily in Christian social ethics. His publishing career began with The Righteous Gentiles of the Holocaust: A Christian Interpretation (1994). Highlights of his published works in the ensuing three decades include Kingdom Ethics, with Glen Stassen (2003, 2016); The Sacredness of Human Life (2013); Changing Our Mind (2014); After Evangelicalism (2020); Defending Democracy from its Christian Enemies (2023), and The Moral Teachings of Jesus (2024). He is under contract for four more books; his next to be released will be Job In Exile: A Guide for Spiritual Refugees (September 2025)
Dr. Gushee is the elected past-president of both the American Academy of Religion and the Society of Christian Ethics. He is Visiting Fellow at the McDonald Centre for Theology, Ethics, and Public Life, Faculty of Theology and Religious Studies, University of Oxford. He continues to be widely sought as a commentator on social-ethical issues in the US and around the world.
