Gary M. Simpson
Professor of Systematic Theology  

Email: gsimpson@luthersem.edu Personal Website: www.luthersem.edu/gsimpson/ Office: (651) 641-3253    Office: BH 104B

See personal website for course materials.
	See academic catalog for general course descriptions.
CL 4510 F6	MINISTRY OF EVANGELISM/CONGREGATION	Spring Semester 2009-2010
ST 3433 F6	ETHICS II: ETHICS OF M L KING, JR.	Spring Semester 2009-2010
ST 8455	NATURAL LAW AND CHRISTIAN ETHICS	Spring Semester 2009-2010
CC 1613	CC: THE HOLY LAND- PRAYERS, PEOPLE,	January Term 2009-2010
CL 8950	TRINITY AND MISSION	Fall Semester 2009-2010
IC 2620 01	LUTHERAN CONFESSIONAL WRITINGS	Fall Semester 2009-2010
IC 2620 01 P1	PRECEPT 1	Fall Semester 2009-2010
IC 2620 01 P2	PREC 2-CANCELED-SEE IC2620-01-P2-50	Fall Semester 2009-2010
IC 2620 01 P2 50	PRECEPT 2 - ONLINE	Fall Semester 2009-2010
IC 2643 50	THE GOSPEL & GLOBAL MEDIA - ONLINE	Fall Semester 2009-2010
CL 7512	PASTORAL IDENT, LDRSHP, SPIR LIFE	DMIN Session II - CML 2009-2010
CL 7542	PROGRAM REVIEW AND THESIS PROPOSAL	DMIN Session II - CML 2009-2010
CL 7551	THESIS PROJECT	DMIN Session II - CML 2009-2010
CL 8530	GOSPEL AND CULTURES	Spring Semester 2008-2009
IC 2630	CONFESSING CHRIST	Spring Semester 2008-2009
ST 3421 F6	ETHICS II: ETHICS OF D. BONHOEFFER	Spring Semester 2008-2009
GR 8620	THE VOCATION OF THE THEOLOGIAN	January Term 2008-2009
CL 7511	INTEGRATING THEOLOGY & MINISTRY	DMIN Session I - CML 2008-2009
CL 7531	THEOL FOUND / CONG VITALIZAl-PART I	DMIN Session I - CML 2008-2009
CL 7541	INTRODUCTION TO RESEARCH METHODS	DMIN Session I - CML 2008-2009
CL 7551	THESIS PROJECT	DMIN Session I - CML 2008-2009

Gary M. Simpson is available to speak at your congregation's event or adult forum on the following topics. For other faculty and staff resources, visit our Online Resource Guide

• Bio-Genetic Ethics and the Big Questions of Life
• Bonhoeffer for Today
• Faith and American Public Life
• Faith and Public Policy
• Foundations of Christian Ethics
• Foundations of Lutheran Ethics
• Homosexuality: Tradtional and Current Ethical Assessments
• How Is and Isn't America a "Christian Nation?"
• Is There a Lutheran Ethic of Marriage?
• Jesus Today: Who Do Contemporary Theologians Say He Is?
• Luther and Spirituality
• Luther's Catechism and Today's Questions
• Matters of Faith and Politics
• Praying the Christian Life
• Reformation Theology: Then and Now
• Trinity Matters Today
• What is the Church? Current Ecumenical Perspectives and Why They Matter

Publications:
		"'By the dawn’s early light’" The Flag, the Interrogative, and the Whence and Whither of Normative Patriotism," Word & World 23 (Summer 2003):272-283.
		Critical Social Theory: Prophetic Reason, Civil Society & Christian Imagination
		“‘Changing the Face of the Enemy”: Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Beloved Community.” Word & World. 28/1 (Winter 2008): 57-65.
		“‘Thou Shalt Not Kill’—The First Commandment of the Just War Tradition.” In The Ten Commandments: The Reciprocity of Faithfulness. Edited by William Brown. Louisville, KY: Westminster John Knox Press 2004
		“Being Neighbor in the Coming Pandemic Crisis: Thinking with Luther in the 21st Century.” Caring Connections: An Inter-Lutheran Journal for Practitioners and Teachers of Pastoral Care and Counseling 4.4.(2008)
		“Christology and Ethics in Dietrich Bonhoeffer and Martin Luther King, Jr.” In Dietrich Bonhoeffer and Martin Luther King: Receiving Their Legacies for Christian Social Thought, eds., Willis Jenkins & Jennifer McBride. Fortress Press.  Forthcoming
		“Civil Society and Congregations as Public Moral Companions.” Word & World XV (Fall 1995):420-427.
		“Ecclesial Communion, God’s Publicity and Global Citizenship” In Being the Church in the Midst of Empire: Trinitarian Reflections. Theology in the Life of the Church, Volume 1. Edited by Karen L. Bloomquist. Minneapolis: Lutheran University Press.  2007
		“Law and Gospel,” “Lutheran Ethics,” “Just-War Theory,” and “Fruit of the Spirit.” In Dictionary of Scripture and Ethics, ed. Joel Green, et al. Baker.  Forthcoming
		“No Trinity, No Mission: The Apostolic Difference of Retrieving the Trinity.” Word & World (Summer 1998).

View a detailed curriculum vitae for Gary M. Simpson here. This includes education, professional positions, activities, memberships and publications.

Ordained	ELCA	1977
M.Div., Th.D.	Christ Seminary-Seminex	1976, 1983
B.A.	Concordia Senior College Fort Wayne, IN	1972
A.A.	Concordia Junior College Ann Arbor, MI	1970

Gary Simpson was named associate professor of systematic theology at Luther Seminary in 1990 and professor of systematic theology in 1998. Earlier, he served as a Lutheran pastor for 14 years. Simpson was pastor of Immanuel Lutheran Church, Alameda, Calif., (1976-1983) and Protestant chaplain of [more...]

"What is needed is a congregational, missional imagination.”

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