Ronald Cole-Turner

COLE-TURNER, Ronald Stephen. b. Logansport, Indiana, 22 December 1948. Born into a preacher’s family, Cole-Turner was educated at Wheaton College (BA, 1971) and Princeton Theological Seminary (MDiv, 1974; PhD, 1983), and ordained in the United Church of Christ. He served two pastorates in New York and three years as a campus minister at the Michigan Technological Institute in Houghton, before becoming a professor of theology at Memphis Theological Seminary, Tennessee, in 1985. He has taught theology and ethics at Pittsburgh Theological Seminary since 1996. He has a particular interest in the ethical questions raised by stem cell research and genetic modification. Cole-Turner’s published...