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D R . V I N C E B A N T U C U R R I C U LU M V I TA E

Dr. Vince BantuVisiting Professor of Missiology

CONTACT

To reach me, please call or e-mail Gerry Reimer, our Faculty Secretary, at 314.434.4044, ext. 4201, or gerry.reimer@covenantseminary.edu

FACULTY MEMBER SINCE

2016

SELECT COURSES TAUGHTCity Ministry PracticumGod’s World MissionIntercultural City MinistryPeople’s Religious Traditions

ACADEMIC QUALIFICATIONS

Wheaton College, Wheaton, ILBA (theology)

Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary - Boston, MA MDiv

Princeton Theological Seminary - Princeton, NJThM (church history)

The Catholic University of America - Washington, DCMA and PhD (Semitic and Egyptian languages)

MINISTRY EXPERIENCE

Cambridge Community Fellowship Church - Cambridge, MA Pastoral Intern (2005 – 2008)

Emmanuel Gospel Center - Cambridge, MA Program Coordinator (2006 – 2008)

Greater Life Christian Fellowship - St. Louis, MOAssociate Pastor (2013 – 2015)

Jubilee Community Church - St. Louis, MOTeaching Pastor (2015 – 2017)

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

Bakke Graduate University - Seattle, WAAdjunct Professor of Church History (2014)

Pillar College - Newark, NJAdjunct Professor of Church History (2014)

New York Theological Seminary - New York, NYTeaching Assistant (2104 – 2015)Adjunct Professor of Old Testament (2015)

Nyack College - New York, NYAdjunct Professor of Theology (2015)

North Park Theological Seminary - Chicago, ILAdjunct Professor of Urban Ministry (2015 – 2016

Fuller Theological Seminary - Pasadena, CAAdjunct Professor of Urban Ministry (2015 – 2016)

Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary - South Hampton, MAAdjunct Professor of Church History (2014 – Present)

Covenant Theological Seminary - St. Louis, MO

Visiting Professor of Missiology (2015 – Present)

Center for Early African Christianity - St. Davids, PA

Adjunct Professor of Egyptian Christianity (2016)

PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES, MEMBERSHIPS, AND AWARDS

Co-Founder and Member, Theological Committee, Christian Community Development Association (2012–present)

Doctoral Fellowship, The Forum for Theological Exploration (2014–2015)

RESEARCH AND PUBLICATIONS

No Further Burden: Exploring the Multiethnic Roots of Christianity. Missiological Engagements Series. InterVarsity Academic. Forthcoming.

“The Decline of Nubian Christianity under Islam.” Africanus Journal, ed. William Spencer. Forthcoming.

“Jeremiah’s Vision of Shalom.” Conspire 6.2 (2014): 16–18.

“The Ministerial Significance of Early Syriac Theology.” Ex Auditu (2013): 137–55.

“Cultivating Autochthonous Leadership: Why Ministry in Under-Resourced Communities Should be Led from Within.” CCDA Theological Journal (2013): 43–49.

“A View of Athens from Jerusalem: The Attitude Toward Education in Early Christianity.” CCDA Theologi-cal Journal (2012): 3–16.

LECTURES AND PRESENTATIONS

Invited Lectures

“The Multiethnic Roots of Christianity.” Summer Institute for Reconciliation. Duke Divinity School. June 2017.

“Reconciliation Dialogue Among Ethnic Minorities.” Leadership Development Resource National Confer-ence. Covenant Theological Seminary. September 2016.

“How Missional Service is Pulling Christians Together Around the World: Generational, Ethnic, and De-nominational Barriers Can Be Overcome.” Panel discussion moderator. Covenant Theological Seminary. January 2016.

“What Has Ferguson to Do with Jerusalem? The Role of Social Justice in the Christian Tradition.” Leader-ship Development Resource National Conference. Covenant Theological Seminary. September 2015.

“Intercultural Church Planting and the Ancient Future of Globalizing Christianity.” City Ministry Initiative Conference—Welcome One Another as Christ Welcomed You: Racial Identity in Christ. Covenant Theo-logical Seminary. April 2015.

“Faith and the Theology of Suffering.” Chapel address. Hope College. February 2015.

“Wealth, Poverty, and Divine Favor in the Early Church.” Christian Community Development Association National Conference. Durham, NC. September 2014.

“Shifting Identities: Faith and Ethnicity in Late Fifth-Century Egypt.” Center for the Study of Early Christi-anity, Catholic University of America. February 2014.

“Principles of Christian Community Development.” Theology and Peace Annual Conference. University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. June 2013.

“Multi-ethnicity in Early Christianity.” Beyond Colorblind Conference. Gordon College. January 2013.

“Global Christianity in Church History.” Chapel address. Eastern Nazarene College. September 2011.

Other Lectures

“Visions of Change: Coptic Sources on the Arab Muslim Conquest.” 11th International Congress of Cop-tic Studies. Claremont Graduate University. July 2016.

“Ephrem and Nicene Terminology: Trends Across Syrica Literary Genres.” North American Patristics Soci-ety, Chicago, IL. May 2016.

“Faith and Identity Politics in Sixty-Century Anti-Chalcedonian Egypt.” Sixteenth St. Shenouda-UCLA Con-ference of Coptic Studies. St. Shenouda the Archimandrite Coptic Society. July 2015.

“Ethnic Boundaries in Late Antique Egyptian Religious Discourse.” Near and Middle Eastern Civilizations Graduate Students’ Association Symposium—Making and Breaking Boundaries: The Political, Cultural, Ethnic, and Religious Networks, and the Ever-Changing ‘Borders’ of the Near and Middle East. University of Toronto. February 2015.

“Egyptian Ethnic Identity Development in the Syriac Writings of Timothy Aelurus.” Dorushe Graduate Student Conference on Syriac Studies. Duke University. March 2014.

“Early Christian Responses to Poverty.” Christian Community Development Association National Confer-ence. New Orleans, LA. September 2013.

“Contextualized Christianity: Ethnicity and Faith in The Life of Longinus.” Christian Community Develop-ment Association National Conference. Minneapolis, MN. September 2012.

“Christians and Muslims in the African-American Community: An Interfaith Dialogue.” America’s Islamic Heritage Museum. Washington, DC. July 2012.

“The Chalcedonian Schism and the Westernization of Christianity.” Christian Community Development Association National Conference. Cincinnati, OH. September 2009.

“Foxes and Lions: Commentary on the Homiletial Agenda in Shenoute’s Discourses.” Archbishop Iako-vos Graduate Students’ Conference in Patristic Studies. Holy Cross Greek Orthodox School of Theology. March 2009.

“Theologizing Violence in Early Christianity.” Urban Youth Workers Institute National Conference. Los Angeles, CA. May 2007.

“Christianity and Culture.” Seminary Consortium for Urban Pastoral Education (SCUPE) Congress on Urban Ministry. Chicago, IL. June 2006.

LANGUAGES

CopticSyriacGreekHebrewLatinArmenianSpanish (spoken and read)