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He has a Bachelor's Degree degree from Wheaton College, Illinois, and a Doctor of Philosophy degree from Harvard University, where he studied under New Testament scholar Krister Stendahl and social ethicist James Luther Adams.
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Stephen Mott
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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, most notably, The Social Stance of Jesus and Biblical Social Ethics, which involved discussions on issues that were virtually untouched in the western Evangelical world in those days. On the one hand they exemplified Mott"s scholarly orientation in the interdisciplinary integration of Biblical study and social ethics, while at the same time sharpened Gordon-Conwell"s image of being a socially concerned institution in that period.
Concomitantly, he also pioneered in offering a joint course between Gordon-Conwell and Harvard Divinity School, which he team-taught with Professor
Harvey Cox from the latter school. His most important books are Biblical Ethics and Social Change (Oxford University Press, rev ed 2011 ) and A Christian Perspective on Political Thought (Oxford University Press, 1993).
Both are widely read among scholars and students who are concerned with Christian engagement with the society, especially from a Biblical perspective.
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