Per Anderson

Department of Religion

Concordia College

Office: Academy 202
Phone: 299-3417 (office) 233-0397 (home)
E-mail: anderson@cord.edu

Academic Experience

Undergraduate education at St. Olaf College, 1973-77. Majors in Philosophy and Religion and junior year abroad at Manchester College, Oxford, England. M.Div. degree awarded by the Divinity School, Harvard University, 1980. Taught religion and ethics at St. Mary's Junior College, Minneapolis, MN, 1980-83. Doctoral work at the Divinity School, University of Chicago, 1983-86. Degree awarded in 1991, dissertation entitled "Theodicy in a New Key: The Problem of Consent to the Negative in a Technological Culture." Joined the faculty at Concordia College in 1986.

Teaching and Research Interests

Ongoing interest in basic Christian ethics with a view to the experience of religious/cultural/moral diversity. Special interest in comparative treatments of American Christian, Native American, and modern Indian thought. Current special topics courses include Biomedical Ethics and Environmental Ethics as expressions of moral novelty and the quest for responsibility in a technological age. Significant involvement in the formation of social statements and social thought in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America and its vision of the church as a community of moral deliberation.

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