Rodney J. Hunter is a Professor of Pastoral Theology, Emeritus, Candler School of Theology, Emory University. He received his B.A. from Yale University (1962). B.D. from Princeton Theological Seminary (1965), and his Ph.D. from Princeton Theological Seminary, (1974). 

His works include Pastoral Care and Social Conflict: Essays in Honor of Charles V. Gerkin (1995), coeditor, and The Dictionary of Pastoral Care and Counseling (1990), gen. ed.