James Gustafson

James M. Gustafson (December 3, 1925 – January 15, 2021) was an American theological ethicist.

Biography Gustafson received an honorary doctorate by the Faculty of Theology at Uppsala University in 1985. He has held teaching posts at Yale Divinity School and the Department of Religious Studies (1955–1972), the University of Chicago as professor of theological ethics in the Divinity School (1972–1988), and Emory University as the Henry R. Luce Professor of Humanities and Comparative Studies. He retired in 1998 after 43 years of teaching and research, after being Woodruff Professor of Comparative Studies and of Religion in the Emory College and Graduate School of Arts & Sciences. He received the Lifetime Achievement Award for "creative and lasting contributions to the field of Christian ethics" on January 7, 2011, at the annual meeting of the Society of Christian Ethics in New Orleans.

Some of his prominent students include Stanley Hauerwas, William Schweiker, Lisa Sowle Cahill, William C. Spohn, Martha E. Stortz, and Barry J. Stenger.