Doug Ottati
Craig Family Distinguished Professor of Reformed Theology and Justice
Education
- Ph.D., M.A. University of Chicago
- A.B. University of Pennsylvania
Background
Before coming to Davidson, I taught at Union Seminary in Richmond, Virginia. My scholarly interests include contemporary theology and ethics, as well as the history of theology and ethics in America. I am a past president of the Society of Christian Ethics.
My recent books include Living Belief: A Short Introduction to Christian Faith, A Theology for the Twenty-First Century, Theology for Liberal Presbyterians and Other Endangered Species, and Hopeful Realism: Reclaiming the Poetry of Theology.
Teaching
- Being Human
- The Christian Faith
- Prophetic Christianity in America During the Twentieth Century
- Reformed Theology and Ethics
- Major Figures in Theology and Ethics: Jonathan Edwards, H. Richard Niebuhr
- Seminar in John Calvin's Institutes of the Christian Religion
- The Kingdom of God and a Good Society.
