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Max Stackhouse, influential theologian and ethicist, dies at 80

Max L. Stackhouse, an influential theologian and social ethicist, died at the age of 80 at his home in West Stock­bridge, Massachusetts, on January 30.

Stackhouse taught at Andover Newton Theological School for nearly 30 years, and then at Princeton Theological Seminary from 1993 to 2006. He was an or­dained minister in the United Church of Christ and had served as president of the American Theological Society and the Society for Christian Ethics.

He authored or edited 25 books, including On Moral Business and God and Globalization.