E-mail:
anderson@cord.edu

Office Phone:
218-299-3417

Office:
Academy 202

DR. PER M. ANDERSON

Education:

• Ph.D., The Divinity School, The University of Chicago, 1991
• Area: Theology
• Dissertation: "Theodicy in a New Key: The Problem of Consent to the Negative in a Technological Culture"
• Advisor: Langdon Gilkey; Readers: Anne Carr, David Tracy
• M.Div., The Divinity School, Harvard University, 1980
• B.A., St. Olaf College, 1977
• Majors: Philosophy and Religion
• Junior Year: Manchester College, Oxford, England, 1975-76

Teaching and Research Experience:

• Professor/ Chair of the Department of Religion, Concordia College, 2004-Present.
• Co-Director of Environmental Studies
•  Instructor, Assistant Professor, Associate Professor, Concordia College, from 1986-2003.
• Courses Taught: Word and Sacrament in the Community of Faith; Ethics in the Christian Community; Biomedical Ethics; Christian Sexual Ethics; Theology and Culture; Senior Research Seminar; Environmental Ethics; Shapers of Modern Theology; Theology and Lutheran Tradition
• Research Coordinator, Hyde Park Ecumenical Project, Chicago, IL, 1984-86
• 1984-85 Program: "Dialogue in Diversity: The Challenges of a Divided World to Theological Studies"
• 1985-86 Program: "The Collapse of Dialogue?: Social Conflict in Contemporary Culture"
• Assistant Professor, St. Mary's Junior College, Minneapolis, MN, 1980-83
• Courses Taught: Ethical Problems in Health Care; Human Religious Experience; Jesus the Christ; Theological Dimensions of Health Care; Suffering and Death in Life
• Teaching Fellow in Ministerial Studies, The Divinity School, Harvard University, 1979-80, Teaching Assistant: Orientation to the Ministry

Memberships:

• American Academy of Religion
• Society of Christian Ethics
• Society for Values in Higher Education
• Phi Beta Kappa

Honors:

• Distinction, Ph.D. Dissertation, The Divinity School, The Universtiy of Chicago, 1991
• Fellow, Society for Values in Higher education, Elected 1991
• Honorary Charlotte W. Newcombe Doctoral Dissertation Fellow, Woodrow Wilson Fellowship Foundation, 1987
• Advanced Study Grant, The Lutheran Church in America, 1985-86
• Divinity School Scholarship, The University of Chicago, 1983-86
• Future Faculty Fellowship, The American Lutheran Church, 1983-85
• George Chase Christian Scholarship, Harvard University, 1979
• B.A. magna cum laude with Distinction in Religion, St. Olaf College, 1977
• Phi Beta Kappa, Delta of Minnesota, St. Olaf College, 1977
• E.O. Ringstad Prize in Philosophy, St. Olaf College, 1974, 1975, 1977

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