Stephen Charles Mott
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Stephen Charles Mott | |
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Born | April 9, 1940 |
Occupation | Teacher |
Academic background | |
Education | Wheaton College, Illinois |
Alma mater | Harvard University |
Doctoral advisor | Krister Stendahl |
Other advisors | James Luther Adams |
Academic work | |
Discipline | Social ethics |
Institutions | United Methodist Church |
Notable works | Biblical Ethics and Social Change |
Stephen Charles Mott (b. April 9, 1940) is a teacher among Evangelical Christians in the U.S. in the teaching and academic study of social ethics since the early 1970s.[1]
Education
He has a BD degree from Wheaton College, Illinois, and a Ph.D. degree from Harvard University, where he studied under New Testament scholar Krister Stendahl and social ethicist James Luther Adams.[citation needed]
Professional career
He is an ordained minister in the United Methodist Church and served as Professor of Christian Social Ethics at Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary in South Hamilton, Massachusetts for almost a quarter century. When he started teaching in the early 1970s, the courses he offered at Gordon-Conwell were unique across all evangelical theological schools in any English-speaking countries at the time. These courses included The Social Stance of Jesus and Biblical Social Ethics.
In 1995 he left his teaching position and became pastor of Cochesett United Methodist Church in West Bridgewater, Massachusetts, from which he retired in summer 2005. Since his retirement, he is serving part-time as a volunteer with the Essex County Community Organization and is on the Leadership Team of Christians Supporting Community Organizing, president of the James Luther Adams Foundation, and on the Board of Directors of North Shore Community Action Programs.
Books
His most notable books are Biblical Ethics and Social Change (Oxford University Press, rev. ed. 2011 [1982])[2][3] and A Christian Perspective on Political Thought (Oxford University Press, 1993).[4][5]
References
- ^ The Rev. Dr. Stephen Charles Mott
- ^ Weigel, Peter (2012). "Biblical Ethics and Social Change (2nd Edition). By Stephen Charles Mott. New York: Oxford University Press, 2011. xix 240 pp. $29.95 paper". Politics and Religion. 5 (2): 483–485. doi:10.1017/S1755048312000181.
- ^ Houston, Walter J. (2012). "Biblical Ethics and Social Change. Second edition. By Stephen Charles Mott". The Journal of Theological Studies. 63 (2): 667–669. doi:10.1093/jts/fls066.
- ^ Tinder, Glenn (1994). "A Christian Perspective on Political Thought: By Stephen Charles Mott New York, Oxford University Press, 1993. 338 pp. $55.00 cloth, $29.95 paper". Theology Today. 51 (2): 308–312. doi:10.1177/004057369405100219.
- ^ Benne, Robert (1994). "A Biblical Perspective on Politics - Stephen C. Mott: A Christian Perspective on Political Thought. (New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1993. Pp. i, 338. $29.95.)". The Review of Politics. 56 (4): 779–781. doi:10.1017/S0034670500019227.
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