Robert A. J. Gagnon

Robert A. J. Gagnon (born July 31, 1958) is an American theological writer, professor of New Testament Theology at Houston Baptist University (since 2018), former associate professor of the New Testament at the Pittsburgh Theological Seminary (1994–2017), and an elder in the Presbyterian Church (USA). He holds a BA from Dartmouth College, an Master of Theological Studies from Harvard Divinity School, and a PhD from the Princeton Theological Seminary. he resigned from the faculty of the PCUSA-affiliated Pittsburgh Theological Seminary. However, he "said the decision was mutual and that his departure had nothing to do with any 'moral turpitude.'"

Gagnon has been described by theologian James V. Brownson as "the foremost traditionalist interpreter" on this topic, and has published several books and articles about the subject. Gagnon's use of arguments based on "natural law" were targeted by liberal theologians like Jack Bartlett Rogers, who alleged Gagnon employed a "nonbiblical standard" in which "all people who are homosexual have willfully chosen that behavior and therefore can successfully change their sexual identity,". Gagnon responded this was an "outrageous misrepresentation" of his views. In the coauthored book Homosexuality and the Bible, Gagnon presents a conservative side of the debate on homosexuality and the church, while Dan O. Via, professor emeritus of New Testament at Duke Divinity School, presents an opposing view.

In his paper Why the 'Weak' at Rome Cannot Be Non-Christian Jews, Gagnon disputes work by Mark D. Nanos, who argues that Paul the Apostle was a Torah-observant follower of Judaism.

One of the authors of The Encyclopedia of Christian Civilization, New Dictionary of Christian Apologetics, Dictionary for Theological Interpretation of the Bible, and Oxford Handbook of Evangelical Theology.

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