Bio
Robert Benne received his Ph.D.in Ethics at the University of Chicago Divinity School in 1970 and is a permanent faculty member in the graduate school of ILT. He is also Jordan-Trexler Professor of Religion Emeritus and Founding Director of the Robert D. Benne Center for Religion and Society at Roanoke College, Salem, Virginia.
Education
• Ph.D. University of Chicago Divinity School, 1970
• MA University of Chicago Divinity School, 1963
• BA Midland University, 1959
Experience
• Institute of Lutheran Theology, Graduate Programs
• Roanoke College, Religion/Philosophy, Jordan Trexler Professor Emeritus and Research Associate, (present)
• Jordan-Trexler Professor and Chair of the Department of Religion and Philosophy at Roanoke for eighteen years
• Professor of Church and Society at the Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago for seventeen years
Publications
• Benne, R. (2010, Eerdmans) Good and Bad Ways to Think About Religion and Politics
• Benne, R. (2009, Eerdmans, edited by Michael Shahan) a Festschrift in his honor entitled A Report from the Front Lines-Conversations in Public Theology
• Benne, R. (2005, Concordia) Reasonable Ethics: A Christian Approach to Social, Economic, and Political Concerns
• Benne, R. (2001, Eerdmans) Quality With Soul: How Six Premier Colleges and Universities Keep Faith with their Religious Traditions
• Benne, R. (1999) Why Bother? A Whole Vision for a Whole People
• Benne, R. (1998) Seeing Is Believing: Visions of Life Through Film
• Benne, R. (1995) The Paradoxical Vision: A Public Theology for the Twenty-first Century
• Benne, R. (1988 and 2003) Ordinary Saints: An Introduction to the Christian
• Benne, R. (1981). The Ethic of Democratic Capitalism: A Moral Reassessment Life
• Benne, R. (1974). Defining America: A Christian Critique of the American Dream
• Benne, R. (1971). Wandering in the Wilderness: Christians and the New Culture