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David C. Cramer, PhD

Core Adjunct Faculty

David C Cramer
dcramer@ambs.edu
PhD, Baylor University, 2016
MA, Trinity International University, 2009
MDiv, Trinity Evangelical Divinity School, 2008
BA, Bethel College, Indiana, 2005
 

About David

David Cramer, PhD, has a passion for understanding the difference the Christian faith makes for how Christians live in contemporary society. His scholarship focuses on the tradition of Christian social ethics from the early 20th-century social gospel movement to its 21st-century expression in Anabaptist theological ethics.

Before teaching courses in theology and ethics at 香蕉影视 beginning in 2017, he taught Christian Scriptures at Baylor University as a presidential scholar and was an adjunct instructor in theology, ethics, philosophy and Scripture at Bethel University in Mishawaka, Indiana.

David is the Communications Assistant Program Director for the Institute for Social Concerns at the University of Notre Dame. From 2018 to 2025, David served as Managing Editor of the Institute of Mennonite Studies, where he edited over two dozen books and a dozen issues of Vision: A Journal for Church and Theology. Previously, he worked for Baker Academic and Brazos Press in Grand Rapids, Michigan. From 2017 to 2025, he also served as pastor of Keller Park Church, a Central District Conference (MC USA) congregation in South Bend, Indiana.

David is听co-author of听听(Baker Academic, 2022), and his听writing has appeared in scholarly and popular outlets, including听Anabaptist World,听Christian Century听and听Sojourners.

Publications

  • 鈥淚ntroduction to Joel,鈥� in Anabaptist Community Bible, ed. John D. Roth (MennoMedia, 2025), 1085鈥�86.
  • 鈥淲hy I got arrested in Washington,鈥� Anabaptist World, February 2024, 23.
  • 鈥淧acifism | Christianity | Reformation Era,鈥� in Encyclopedia of the Bible and Its Reception Online, edited by Constance M. Furey, et al. (De Gruyter, 2024), vol. 22, 1044鈥�45.
  • 鈥淚 was a Christian nationalist,鈥� Anabaptist World, August 25, 2023, 8鈥�10.
  • A Field Guide to Christian Nonviolence (Baker Academic, 2022), co-author.
  • “From Nonviolence to Antiviolence: Resistance to Sexual and Gender-Based Violence,鈥� Mennonite Quarterly Review 96 (2022): 93鈥�102, co-author.
  • 鈥淒igital Discernment: An Experiment in Developing: Organic Anabaptist Practices of Social Media Use,鈥� Conrad Grebel Review 39 (2021): 83鈥�94.
  • 鈥溾�業t Has Seemed Good to the Holy Spirit and to Us鈥�: From Biblicist Arguments to Pneumatological Witness,鈥� Direction 50 (2021): 14鈥�27. 
  • 鈥淎 Field Guide to Christian Nonviolence: There are different ways to understand the gospel鈥檚 call to peace鈥攁nd that鈥檚 a good thing,鈥� Sojourners Magazine, January 2016, 31鈥�35.
  • 鈥淵earning to Breathe Free: Churches on the U.S.-Mexico border are making a statement about immigration鈥攂y working together to meet humanitarian need,鈥� Sojourners Magazine, May 2015, 35鈥�38.
  • 鈥淏y What Criteria Does a 鈥楪rand, Noble Experiment鈥� Fail? What the Case of John Howard Yoder Reveals about the Mennonite Church,鈥� Mennonite Quarterly Review 89 (2015): 171鈥�93, co-author.
  • 鈥淭heology and Misconduct: The Case of John Howard Yoder,鈥� Christian Century, August 20, 2014, 20鈥�23, co-author.
  • 鈥淩ealistic Transformation: The Impact of the Niebuhr Brothers on the Social Ethics of John Howard Yoder,鈥� Mennonite Quarterly Review 88 (2014): 479鈥�515.
  • 鈥淢ennonite Systematic Theology in Retrospect and Prospect,鈥� Conrad Grebel Review 31 (2013): 255鈥�73.
  • The Activist Impulse: Essays on the Intersection of Evangelicalism and Anabaptism (Pickwick, 2012), co-editor.
  • 鈥淩ecovering the Christian Practice of Dying: A Response to Stanley Hauerwas鈥� 鈥楩inite Care in a World of Infinite Need鈥�,鈥� Christian Scholar鈥檚 Review 41 (2012): 357鈥�66.