occupation nancy j. duff
Princeton University is a private Ivy League ___MASK85___ university in Princeton , New Jersey , United States . Nancy J . Duff ( born May 2 , 1951 ) is an American ___MASK15___ of theology . Duff is the Stephen Colwell Associate ___MASK15___ of Christian Ethics at Princeton Theological Seminary , where she has taught since 1990 . Duff is also a Presbyterian minister in the PCUSA denomination . She is married to United Methodist Minister David Mertz . She has taught courses on the Decalogue , Biomedical ethics , human sexuality , liturgy and the Christian life , Dietrich Bonhoeffer , James Cone , types of Christian ethics , and vocation in Christian tradition and contemporary life . A seminary , theological seminary , theological college or divinity school is an educational institution for educating students ( sometimes called " seminarians ") in theology , generally to prepare them for ordination as ___MASK28___ , academia , or ___MASK23___ . The English word is taken from the Latin " seminarium ", translated as " seed - bed ", an image taken from the Council of Trent document " Cum adolescentium aetas " which called for the first modern seminaries . In the West , the term now refers to Roman Catholic educational institutes and has widened to include other Christian denominations and American Jewish institutions . Princeton Theological Seminary ( PTS ) is a seminary in Princeton , New Jersey , and the largest of ten seminaries associated with the Presbyterian Church ( USA ). It is the second - oldest seminary in the United States , founded in 1812 under the auspices of Reverend Dr . Archibald Alexander , the ___MASK40___ Assembly of the Presbyterian Church , and the College of New Jersey ( now Princeton University ). Dietrich Bonhoeffer ( 4 February 1906  9 April 1945 ) was a German Lutheran ___MASK16___ , ___MASK74___ , anti - Nazi dissident , and key founding member of the Confessing Church . His writings on Christianity ' s role in the secular world have become widely influential , and his book " The Cost of Discipleship " has become a modern classic . The Presbyterian Church ( USA ), or PC ( USA ), is a mainline Protestant Christian denomination in the United States . A part of the Reformed tradition , it is the largest Presbyterian denomination in the U . S ., and known for its relatively progressive stance on doctrine . The PC ( USA ) was established by the 1983 merger of the Presbyterian Church in the United States , whose churches were located in the Southern and border states , with the United Presbyterian Church in the ___MASK95___ , whose congregations could be found in every state . Archibald Alexander ( April 17 , 1772  October 22 , 1851 ) was an American Presbyterian ___MASK74___ and professor at the Princeton Theological Seminary . He served for 9 years as the President of Hampden  Sydney College in Virginia and for 39 years as Princeton Theological Seminary ' s first professor from 1812 to 1851 . The Cost of Discipleship is a ___MASK17___ by the German ___MASK74___ Dietrich Bonhoeffer , considered a classic of Christian thought . The original German title is simply ( Discipleship ). It is centred on an exposition of the Sermon on the Mount , in which Bonhoeffer spells out what he believes it means to follow Christ . It was first published in 1937 , when the rise of the Nazi regime was underway in Germany and it was against this background that Bonhoeffer ' s theology of costly discipleship developed , which ultimately led to his death .