Max L. Stackhouse

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Max L. Stackhouse is a professor at Princeton Theological Seminary. He is known for his writings in Religion and Society. His chair designations include the Stephen Colwell Professor of Christian Ethics and director of the Project on Public Theology, and the Rimmer and Ruth de Vries Professor of Reformed Theology and Public Life.

Stackhouse serves on the editorial boards of The Christian Century, First Things, and The Journal of Religious Ethics.

Stackhouse is ordained in the United Church of Christ. However, unlike most clergy and laypeople of his denomination, he typically espouses views that could be characterized as neoconservative.

• January 26, 2003 lecture: "Globalization and the Forms of Grace: Redeeming the Principalities, Authorities, and Dominions"

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• Reformed Theology

Stackhouse's most penetrating work is "The Ethics of Necropolis" (Beacon Press, 1971), a study of justice, including holy war in the Biblical sense, vis-a-vis the military-industrial complex.