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Steven M. Studebaker, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Systematic and Historical Theology Howard and Shirley Bentall Chair in Evangelical Thought McMaster Divinity College 1280 Main Street West Hamilton, ON, Canada L8S 4K1 Office: (905) 525-9140, ext. 20097 Cell: (905) 414-7985 [email protected] Faculty website: http://www.mcmasterdivinity.ca/faculty/core/steven-m-studebaker Centre for Post-Christendom Studies website: https://www.mcmasterdivinity.ca/pcs/

Education

1998–2003 Ph.D. Marquette University, Milwaukee, WI 1995–1998 M.A. Trinity Evangelical Divinity School, Deerfield, IL 1988–1992 B.A. Northwest University, Kirkland, WA Teaching Experience

2006– Associate Professor of Systematic and Historical Theology Howard and Shirley Bentall Chair in Evangelical Thought McMaster Divinity College Hamilton, ON

Professional degree M.Div./M.T.S. courses:

• Foundations in Theology and History 1 & 2 (co-taught with Gord Heath) • Theology for the Contemporary Church and Christian Life (Hybrid Course) • Systematic Theology 1 and 2 • Introduction to Christian Doctrine • Theology for Contemporary Christian Life and Ministry (hybrid online course) • Contemporary Theology • Christianity and Culture • Charismatic Theology • Global Pentecostalism • Protestant Theologians • Theology of the Holy Spirit • Theology of Leadership (taught in traditional classroom and hybrid formats) • Church History 2

Advanced degree M.A./Ph.D. seminars:

• Varieties of Redemption • The History and Doctrine of the Trinity • Current Issues in Theology • Christianity and Culture

2003–2006 Assistant Professor of Theology Emmanuel College Franklin Springs, GA

Courses:

• New Testament Literature and History • Gospel of John

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• Introduction to Christian Ethics • Christianity and Culture • God and Revelation • Christ and Redemption • Spirit and Consummation • Pentecostal History and Theology

2003 Adjunct Instructor Carthage College Kenosha, WI

Course:

• Understandings of Religion (one section) 2002–2003 Adjunct Instructor

Marquette University Milwaukee, WI

Course:

• Protestant Thought and Practice (one section) • Theology of the Holy Spirit (one section)

2003 Adjunct Instructor Trinity Evangelical Divinity School Deerfield, IL

Course: • American Church History (one section)

2002–2003 Teaching Fellow Marquette University Milwaukee, WI

Courses:

• Introduction to Theology (four sections)

2000–2001 Mentored teaching experience Marquette University Milwaukee, WI

Faculty mentor: D. Lyle Dabney, Associate Professor of Systematic Theology Course: • Protestant Thought and Practice (two sections) Thesis and Dissertation Supervision Primary Dissertation Supervision (graduated) 1. Andrew K. Gabriel

• Dissertation: “God in Third Person: Toward a Pneumatological Doctrine of God” (January 22, 2010).

• Revised dissertation published as The Lord is the Spirit: The Holy Spirit and the Divine

Attributes (Pickwick, 2011).


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• 2010— Assistant Professor of Bible and Theology, Horizon College and Seminary, Saskatoon, SK. (faculty website)

2. David Courey • Dissertation: “What hath Wittenberg to do with Azusa?: Luther’s Theology of the Cross

and Pentecostal Triumphalism” (graduated May 2011). • Revised dissertation published as What Has Wittenberg to Do with Azusa?

Luther's Theology of the Cross and Pentecostal Triumphalism (New York: Bloomsbury, 2015).

• Dissertation won the President’s Gold Medal Award.

• 2013— Dean of Graduate Studies, Continental Theological Seminary (website).

3. James Keller

• Dissertation “Christ for All: Toward a Lutheran Theology of Religions” (October 18, 2011).

• Executive Director, Lutheran Bible Translators of Canada (website). 4. Josh Samuel

• Dissertation “‘God is really among You!’: The Spirit’s Immediacy in Pentecostal Corporate Worship (January 15, 2014).

• Revised dissertation accepted for publication by CPT Press.

• 2014— Associate Professor of Bible and Theology, Master’s College, Peterborough,

Ontario.

5. Brad Broadhead • Dissertation: “A Jazz-Shaped Approach to the Problem of Freedom in the

Contemporary West” (defended May 19, 2016). • Revised dissertation accepted for publication with Pickwick.

6. Jon Stovell • Dissertation: “As with the King, so with the Kingdom: A Christomorphic

Eschatology” (defended June 27, 2016). 7. Justin Roberts

• Dissertation: “Sanctum Sanctorum: On the One Whose Name is Holy” (defended April 20, 2017).

• Dissertation accepted for publication Pickwick.

8. Glen Sadlier

• Dissertation: “Triangulating the Princeton Paradigm: B. B. Warfield’s Theology on Human Knowledge and the Task of Pastoral Ministry (defended April 18, 2017).

9. David Tarus

• Dissertation: “A Different Way of Being: Toward a Reformed Theology of Ethnopolitical Cohesion for the Kenyan Context (defended April 21, 2017).

• Dissertation to be published as A Different Way of Being: Toward a Reformed Theology

of Ethnopolitical Cohesion for the Kenyan Context (Carlisle, UK: Langham Monographs, anticipated 2019).


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Primary MA, MDiv, and MTS Theses Supervision (graduated) 1. Taesoo Lee:

• MTS Thesis: “A Critical Analysis of Clark H. Pinnock’s Inclusive View of the Salvation of the Unevangelized” (March 28, 2008).

2. Kris Hiuser:

• Thesis: “To Kill a Mockingbird? A Theology of Animals and a Christian Response” (March 23, 2010).

• PhD, University of Chester, UK (graduated 2015).

3. Andrew Mills:

• Thesis: “The Promise of the Emerging Church: A Critical Engagement” (March 16, 2010).

4. Josephine Braun:

• Thesis: “Towards a Contextual Theology of Community: An Exploration of the Body of Christ Metaphor” (March 15, 2010).

5. Timothy Clayton:

• Thesis: “Developing an Ecclesiology based upon Kaleidoscope Atonement Theory” (December 30, 2012).

6. Megan Purdy:

• MDiv Thesis: “Mistaken Identity: Materialism and the Evangelical Church” (March 19, 2014).

7. Timothy Sasaki:

• MTS Thesis: “Kenotic-Sacrifice in Community: A Voluntarist Ecclesial Epistemology” (March 27, 2014).

8. Dan Best:

• MA Thesis: Dan Best, “When Freedom is Close . . .”: Jürgen Moltmann’s Use of Contradiction in His Trilogy,” March 17, 2015.

• PhD student at Knox College, University of Toronto.

9. Michael Brain:

• MA Thesis: “Karl Barth and the Eternal Generation of the Son: Orthodoxy and Modernity in Barthian Theology,” March 23, 2016.

• Thesis won the President’s Gold Medal Award. • PhD student at Wycliffe College, University of Toronto.

10. Heather Card:

• MTS Thesis “Trinitarian Principles for Church Boards and the Pastoral Performance Review,” March 24, 2016.

• Doctoral studies (Doctor of Practical Theology at McMaster Divinity College.

11. Joshua Heath:


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• MTS thesis “Martin Luther’s Two Kingdoms for Post-Christendom Political Engagement,” March 21, 2018.

• PhD student Trinity College, University of Toronto.

External PhD Dissertation and MA Theses Examiner

1. Reita Yazawa (PhD), “The Covenant of Redemption in the Theology of Jonathan Edwards: The Nexus between the Immanent and the Economic Trinity,” Calvin Theological Seminary, May, 2012. Primary reader: John Bolt.

2. David Trementozzi (PhD), “Renewing the Christian Doctrine of Salvation: Toward a Dynamic,

Holistic, and Transformational Soteriology,” Regent University. Primary reader: Amos Yong. Oral defense at Regent August 12, 2013.

• Published as Salvation in the Flesh: Understanding How Embodiment Shapes Christian

Faith, Theological Studies Series, 7 (Eugene: Pickwick, 2018).

3. Frank Emanuel (PhD), “A Theology of Social Engagement for Evangelicals: The Reign of God and Social Transformation,” Saint Paul University, February 28, 2015. Primary reader: Heather Eaton.

4. Michael A. Tapper (PhD), “The Trinitarian Culture and Corporate Worship Practices of Canadian Pentecostals: A Contribution from the Theology of Colin Gunton,” Saint Paul University, May 28, 2015. Primary reader: Catherine Clifford.

• Published as Canadian Pentecostals, the Trinity, and Contemporary Worship Music,

Global Pentecostal and Charismatic Studies, ed. William K. Kay and Mark Cartledge (Leiden/Boston: Brill, 2017).

5. Brent A. Rempel (MA), “The Indivisible Redemption of God, Justification and Union with Christ:

Jonathan Edwards in Dialogue with the Puritan Tradition,” Providence Theological Seminary,” April 2016. Primary supervisor: Patrick Franklin.

6. Nick Drake (PhD), Dissertation topic: Pentecostal Worship and Calvin’s Theology of Union with

Christ. University of Birmingham, UK. Primary supervisor: Allan Anderson.

Books * Proposal submitted to Eerdmans, Gospel and Our Culture Series, From Monks to Punks:

The Renewal of the Church in Canada, co-author Lee Beach. Requested revision and re-submission.

2021 The Spirit of Atonement: Pentecostal Contributions and Challenges to the Christian

Traditions (London: Bloomsbury), under contract.

2020 Proposal for From Northampton to Azusa: Pentecostals and the Theology of Jonathan Edwards, ed. with Amos Yong. Book consists of five parts with three chapters in each part, with a response by Amy Plantinga Pauw. Authors include a range from senior (e.g., Michael McClymond) to young (e.g., Angela Tarango) scholars.

2019 The Reformation: Past Voices, Current Implications, ed. Steven M. Studebaker and

Gordon Heath (Eugene, OR: Pickwick, 2019), forthcoming.

2018 Pentecostal Theology and Ministry for Post-Christendom, ed. Steven M. Studebaker (Eugene, OR: Pickwick, 2018), forthcoming.


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2018 Theological Method: Five Views, ed. with Stanley E. Porter (Downers Grove: InterVarsity Press, 2018).

2016 A Pentecostal Political Theology for American Renewal: Spirit of the Kingdoms, Citizens

of the Cities, CHARIS series (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016). Link • Finalist for the 2018 Pneuma Award 2015 The Globalization of Christianity: Contexts and Consequences for Christian Life and

Ministry, ed. Gordon Heath and Steven Studebaker (Eugene, OR: Pickwick, 2015). Link Reviews: • James Elisha Taneti, Review and Expositor 113.4 (2016): 566–67.

• Emma Wild-Wood, Studies in World Christianity 21.2 (2015): 185–86. 2012 From Pentecost to the Triune God: A Pentecostal Trinitarian Theology, Pentecostal

Manifestos Series, ser. eds. Amos Yong and James K. A. Smith (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2012). Link • Nominated for the 2014 Grawemeyer Award in Religion • Received the 2014 Pneuma Book of the Year Award Reviews: • David Bradnick, The Pneuma Review, January 21, 2017 (link).

• Review Article, Stephen H. Webb, “How Revolutionary is the Holy Spirit?” Reviews in Religion and Theology 21.1 (2014): 1–7.

• Martin Hailer, Theologische Literaturzeitung 139, nos. 7–8 (2014): 935–37. • William T. Purinton, Trinity Journal 35.1 (2014): 365–67. • Woodrow E. Walton, Africanus Journal (2014): 44–45 (link)

• Chris Skilton, Ministry Today 62 (2014).

• Joseph Dutko, Canadian Journal of Pentecostal-Charismatic Christianity 5.1 (2014): 100–102.

• John C. Haughey, Theological Studies 75.2 (2014): 423–25.

• Stina Busman Jost, Pneuma The Journal of the Society for Pentecostal Studies 36.1 (2014): 112–14.

• Ronald T. Michener, One in Christ 47.2 (2013): 356–59. • Wolfgang Vondey, Religious Studies Review 39.4 (2013): 246–47. • William P. Atkinson, Evangelical Quarterly 86.1 (2014): 86. • Andy Lord, Theology 116 (2013): 438–39. • Christopher Villiers, The Theological Book Review (UK)


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• Monte Lee Rice, Encounter: Journal for Pentecostal Ministry 10 (fall 2013): link (AG USA)

• Christopher Stephenson, Renewal Dynamics, official blog for the Regent University School of Divinity and the Center for Renewal Studies (link).

2012 (co-wrote with Robert Caldwell) The Trinitarian Theology of Jonathan Edwards: Text,

Context, and Application (Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2012). Link Reviews:

• William M. Schweitzer, The Journal of Theological Studies, 67 (2016): 367–69.

• Karin Spiecker Stetina, Trinity Journal 36, no. 1 (2015): 142–44. • Amy Plantinga Pauw, Journal of Reformed Theology 9 (2015): 84–85. • Henry H. Knight, III, Wesleyan Theological Journal 49 (2014): 295–97.

• Chris Chun, Themelios: An International Journal for Students of Theological and Religious Studies 39:3 (2014): 574–75. Link

• Nathan Finn, Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society 57 (2014) 870–74.

• David P. Barshinger, Fides et Historia 45.1 (2013): 154–56.

• Douglas Sweeney, “Sweeney’s Booknotes,” Jonathan Edwards Center at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School • Don Schweitzer, Religious Studies Review 38.3 (2012): 153–54.

2011 The Trinitarian Vision of Jonathan Edwards and David Coffey (Amherst, NY: Cambria

Press, 2011). Link

Reviews: • Myk Habets, American Theological Inquiry • Wolfgang Vondey, One in Christ 46.2 (2012): 361.

• Douglas Sweeney, “Sweeney’s Booknotes,” Jonathan Edwards Center at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School

2010 (co-edited with Michael Wilkinson), A Liberating Spirit: Pentecostals and Social Action

in North America, Pentecostals, Peacemaking, and Social Justice Series, ser. eds. Paul Alexander and Jay Beaman (Eugene, OR: Pickwick Press, 2010). Link Review: • Heather D. Curtis, Church History 81 (2012): 254–57. • Murray W. Dempster, Pneuma: The Journal of the Society for Pentecostal Studies 34 (2012): 445–46.

2010 Pentecostalism and Globalization: The Implications of Global Pentecostalism for North


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American Pentecostal Theology and Ministry, ed. Steven M. Studebaker (Eugene, OR: Pickwick Press, 2010). Link Reviews:

• Seth Zielicke, Pneuma: The Journal of the Society for Pentecostal Studies 34 (2012): 158–59. • Amos Yong, Religious Studies Review 37 (2011): 273–74.

2009 Jonathan Edwards’ Social Augustinian Trinitarianism in Historical and Contemporary

Perspectives (Piscataway, NJ: Gorgias Press, 2009). Link Reviews:

• Peter J. Leithart discusses the book on his First Things blog: “Edwards’s Social Trinity?” May 12, 2014; “Trinitarian Prisca Theologia,” May 12, 2014; and “Triune Metaphysics” May 13, 2014.

• Kyle Strobel, Scottish Bulletin of Evangelical Theology 31/1 (2013): 91.

• Keith Johnson, Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society 54.2 (2011): 427–31.

2008 Defining Issues in Pentecostalism: Classical and Emergent, ed. Steven M. Studebaker

(Eugene, OR: Pickwick Press, 2008). Link Reviews: • Peter D. Hocken, Journal of Church and State 54.1 (2012: 140.

• Myk Habets, Pacific Journal of Baptist Research 3 (2007): 60–62. • William W. Menzies, Enrichment 15 (Summer 2010): 136–37. • Wolfgang Vondey, Pneuma Review 12:2 (2009).

• Shane Clifton, Pneuma: The Journal of the Society for Pentecostal Studies, 31 (2009): 113–14. • Christopher Stephenson, H-Pentecostalism, H-Net Reviews. December, 2008.

Journal Articles 2019 Journal of Pentecostal Theology Roundtable Essay on Vondey’s Pentecostal Theology. 2014 (with Lee Beach) “Friend or Foe? The Role of the Scholar in Emerging Christianity,”

Theological Education 48.2 (2014): 43–56. 2012 (with Lee Beach) “Emerging Churches in Post-Christian Canada,” Religions (Special

Issue: Progressive Evangelicalism) 3.3 (2012): 862–79. Link to article.

2011 “The Plausibility of the Independent Origins of Canadian Pentecostalism: Winds from the North.” Pneuma: The Journal of the Society for Pentecostal Studies 33 (2011): 417–25.

2010 “Clark Pinnock: A Canadian Charismatic Pilgrim.” Canadian Journal of Pentecostal-

Charismatic Christianity 1 (2010): 1–29.

2010 “The Pathos of Theology as a Pneumatological Derivative or a Poiemata of the Spirit? A


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Review Essay of Reinhard Hütter’s Pneumatological and Ecclesiological Vision of Theology.” Pneuma: The Journal of the Society for Pentecostal Studies 32 (2010): 269–82.

2009 (with Michael Wilkinson) “A Liberating Spirit: Liberation Theology and the Pentecostal

Movement.” The Ecumenist: A Journal of Theology, Culture, and Society (2009): 1–8.

2008 “The Spirit in Creation: A Unified Theology of Grace and Creation Care.” Zygon: Journal of Religion and Science (2008): 943–60.

2008 “Integrating Social and Augustinian Theories of Divine Person: A Proposal from the

Theology of Jonathan Edwards and David Coffey.” Canadian Evangelical Review 34–35 (Fall 2007–Spring 2008): 3–19.

2007 “Theology: A Question of Discipleship.” McMaster Journal of Theology and Ministry 8

(2007): 9–22. This is a publication of the lecture I presented at the service for my installation as professor of Systematic and Historical Theology at McMaster Divinity College March 28, 2007.

2006 “Integrating Pneumatology and Christology: A Trinitarian Modification of Clark H. Pinnock’s Spirit Christology.” Pneuma: The Journal of the Society for Pentecostal Studies 27 (2006): 5–20.

2005 “Jonathan Edwards’ Pneumatological Concept of Grace and Dispositional Soteriology: Resources for an Evangelical Inclusivism.” Pro Ecclesia 14 (2005): 324–39.

2004 “Supreme Harmony or Supreme Disharmony? An Analysis of Amy Plantinga Pauw’s ‘The Supreme Harmony of All’: The Trinitarian Theology of Jonathan Edwards.” Article Review for Scottish Journal of Theology 57 (2004): 479–85.

2004 “The Mode of Divine Knowledge in Reformation Arminianism and Open Theism.” Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society 47 (2004): 469–80.

2003 “Jonathan Edwards’ Social Augustinian Trinitarianism: An Alternative to a Recent Trend.” Scottish Journal of Theology 56 (2003): 268–85.

2003 “Pentecostal Soteriology and Pneumatology.” Journal of Pentecostal Theology 11.2 (2003): 248–70.

1999 “Ex opere operato: A Proposal for Lutheran and Catholic Unity.” One in Christ 35

(1999): 326–38.

Book Essays

2020 “The Trinity.” Routledge Handbook of Pentecostal Theology, ed. Wolfgang Vondey (Routledge, 2020), forthcoming.

2019 “Karl Barth, Pentecostals, and the Trinity.” In Karl Barth and Pentecostals, ed. Andrew

Gabriel and Frank Macchia (Bloomsbury, 2019). 2018 “Beyond the Ecumenical Impasses of Classical Pentecostalism and Charismatic

Experience.” In Christian Unity and Pentecostal Faith, ed. Peter Hocken, Tony Richie, and Christopher Stephenson, Global Pentecostal and Charismatic Studies Series (Leiden: Brill, 2018), in-press.

2018 (with Lee Beach) “From Monks to Punks: Emerging Christianity in Canada.” In

Emerging Christianity, ed. Randall Reed and Michael Zbaraschuk (Eugene, OR:


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Cascade, 2018), in-press. 2016 “Soteriology: A Story of the Spirit,” in Third Article Theology: A Pneumatological

Dogmatics, ed. Myk Habets, 233–49 (Minneapolis: Fortress Academic, 2016). 2015 “God as Being and as Trinity: Pentecostal-Tillichian Interrogations.” In Paul Tillich and

Pentecostal Theology: Spiritual Presence and Spiritual Power, ed. Nimi Wariboko and Amos Yong, 58–70 (Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 2015).

2013 “Toward a Pneumatological Trinitarian Theology: Amos Yong, the Spirit, and the Trinity.” In The Theology of Amos Yong and the New Face of Pentecostal Scholarship: Passion for the Spirit, ed. Wolfgang Vondey and Martin W. Mittelstadt, 83–101 (Leiden: Brill, 2013).

2013 Translation into German of “Pentecostal Soteriology and Pneumatology,” by Jörg Haustein and Giovanni Maltese for a German anthology of Pentecostal theology (Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht). Article originally published in Journal of Pentecostal Theology 11.2 (2003): 248–70.

2013 “From Doctoral Program to Classroom.” Those Who Can, Teach, ed. Stanley E. Porter,

177–91 (Eugene, OR: Pickwick: 2013). 2012 “Reflections on the Church Then and Now.” In The Church: Then and Now, ed. Stanley

E. Porter and Cynthia Long Westfall, 218–39 (Pickwick, 2012).

2011 “Christian Mission and the Religions as Participation in the Spirit of Pentecost.” The Wide Reach of the Spirit: Renewal and Theology of Mission in a Religiously Plural World, ed. Amos Yong and Clifton Clarke, Asbury Theological Seminary Series in Christian Revitalization – Pentecostal/Charismatic section, 71–94 (Lexington, KY: Emeth Press, 2011).

2011 “Baptism among Pentecostals” and “Response.” In Baptism: Historical, Theological, and

Pastoral Perspectives, ed. Gordon L. Heath and James D. Dvorak, 201–24 (Eugene, OR: Wipf & Stock, 2011).

2010 “Creation Care as ‘Keeping in Step with the Spirit,’” and “Pentecostal Social Action: An

Introduction” (with Michael Wilkinson). In A Liberating Spirit: Pentecostals and Social Action in North America, ed. Michael Wilkinson and Steven M. Studebaker; Pentecostals, Peacemaking, and Social Justice Series, ser. eds. Paul Alexander and Jay Beaman, 248–63 and 1–19 (Eugene, OR: Pickwick Press, 2010).

2010 “Globalization and Spirit Baptism” and “Introduction: Globalization, Global Christianity,

and Global Pentecostalism” (with Nikola T. Caric). In Pentecostalism and Globalization: The Implications of Global Pentecostalism for North American Pentecostal Theology and Ministry, ed. Steven M. Studebaker, 87–108 and 1–25 (Pickwick Press, 2010).

2008 “Introduction: Classical and Emergent Pentecostal Theology” and “Beyond Tongues: A

Pentecostal Theology of Grace.” In Defining Issues in Pentecostalism: Classical and Emergent, ed. Steven M. Studebaker (Eugene, OR: Pickwick Press, 2008), 1–10 and 46–68.

2008 “Jonathan Edwards’ Trinitarian Theology in the Context of the Early-Enlightenment Deist Controversy.” In The Contribution of Jonathan Edwards to American Culture and Society: Essays on America’s Spiritual Founding Father, ed. Richard A. S. Hall, 281–301 (Lewiston, NY: Mellen Press, 2008).


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Dictionary & Encyclopedia Entries 2010 “Jonathan Edwards.” In Dictionary of Christian Spirituality, ed. Glen G. Scorgie (Grand

Rapids: Zondervan Academic, 2010), 421–22. 2008 Core Article: “Pentecostalism.” In The Encyclopedia of Christian Civilization, ed.

George T. Kurian, 4 vols. Oxford: Blackwell. 3:1802–9. 2008 Bio-Bibliographical Essay: “Jonathan Edwards.” In Encyclopedia of Christian Literature,

ed. George T. Kurian and James D. Smith, III. Peabody, MA: Hendrickson.

Book Reviews 2018 Review of Canadian Pentecostals, the Trinity, and Contemporary Worship Music, by

Michael A. Tapper, for Canadian Journal of Pentecostal-Charismatic Christianity 9 (2018): forthcoming.

2015 Review of Trinity after Pentecost, by William P. Atkinson, for Pneuma: Journal of the

Society for Pentecostal Studies 37 (2015): 151–53. 2014 Review of The Holy Spirit–In Biblical Teaching through the Centuries and Today, by

Anthony C. Thiselton, for Journal of Theological Studies 65 (2014): forthcoming. 2014 Review of Theological Hermeneutics in the Classical Pentecostal Tradition: A

Typological Account, by L. William Oliverio, for Themelios 39 (2014): forthcoming. 2014 Review of Practicing the Faith: The Ritual Lie of Pentecostal-Charismatic Christians, by

Martin Lindhardt, for Pneuma: Journal of the Society for Pentecostal Studies 36 (2014): forthcoming.

2010 Review of The Trinity–Life of God, Hope for Humanity: Towards a Theology of Communion, by Thomas J. Norris, for Pneuma: Journal of the Society for Pentecostal Studies 32 (2010): 159–60.

2009 Review of Peace to War: Shifting Allegiances in the Assemblies of God, by Paul Alexander, for H-Pentecostalism, H-Net Humanities and Social Sciences Online.

2009 Booknote of Understanding Jonathan Edwards: An Introduction to America’s

Theologian, ed. Gerald R. McDermott, for Religious Studies Review 35 (2009): 160–61. 2009 Booknote of Faith Comes by Hearing: A Response to Inclusivism, eds. Christopher W.

Morgan and Robert A. Peterson, for Religious Studies Review 35:1 (2009): 42. 2009 Review of He Who Gives Life: The Doctrine of the Holy Spirit, by Graham A. Cole, for

Pneuma: Journal of the Society for Pentecostal Studies 31 (2009): 146–47.

2007 Review of Truth Aflame: Theology for the Church in Renewal, by Larry D. Hart, for Pneuma: Journal of the Society for Pentecostal Studies 28 (2007): 345–46.

2006 Booknote of The Benefits of Providence: A New Look at Divine Sovereignty, by James S. Spiegel, for Religious Studies Review 32 (2006): 180.

2006 Booknote of Scripture Alone: The Evangelical Doctrine, by R. C. Sproul, for Religious

Studies Review 32 (2006): 111. 2005 Booknote of An Absolute Sort of Certainty: The Holy Spirit and the Apologetics of


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Jonathan Edwards, by Stephen J. Nichols, for Religious Studies Review 30 (2005): forthcoming.

2004 Review of Rediscovering the Triune God: The Trinity in Contemporary Theology, by Stanley J. Grenz, for Pneuma: Journal of the Society for Pentecostal Studies 25 (2004): 396–98.

2004 Review of Encountering the Holy Spirit: Paths of Christian Growth and Service, by French L. Arrington, for Pneuma: Journal of the Society for Pentecostal Studies 26 (2004): 166–68.

2004 Booknote of Jonathan Edwards: A Life, by George M. Marsden, for Religious Studies Review 30:1 (2004): 79.

2004 Review of ‘The Supreme Harmony of All’: The Trinitarian Theology of Jonathan Edwards, by Amy Plantinga Pauw, for Fides et Historia 36 (2004): 156–57.

2002 Booknote of God of Grace and God of Glory: An Account of the Theology of Jonathan Edwards, by Stephen R. Holmes, for Religious Studies Review 28.1 (2002): 56.

2001 Review of Jonathan Edwards Confronts the Gods: Christian Theology, Enlightenment Religion, and Non-Christian Faiths, by Gerald R. McDermott, for Pneuma: Journal of the Society for Pentecostal Studies 23 (2001): 166–68.

2001 Review of Edwards in Our Time: Jonathan Edwards and the Shaping of American

Religion, ed. Sang Hyun Lee and Allen C. Guelzo, for Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society 44 (2001): 365–66.

2000 Review of What Happens in Holy Communion? by Michael Welker, for Pneuma:

Journal of the Society for Pentecostal Studies 22 (2000): 337–40.

Lectures and Conference Papers 2017 “Edwards’ Progressive Pneumatology and Trinitarian Theology,” invited presentation for

papers on theme of “The God of Jonathan Edwards” for the Models of God Interest Group. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Evangelical Theological Society (Providence, RI), November 15–17, 2017.

2017 Walter J. Hollenweger Annual Lecture, “The Spirit and the Atonement: Pentecostal

Challenges to the Christian Traditions.” Co-Sponsored by The Cadbury Centre for the Public Understanding of Religion and University of Birmingham Centre for Pentecostal and Charismatic Studies, University of Birmingham (Birmingham, UK), June 6, 2017. http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/ptr/departments/theologyandreligion/research/cpur/news/2017/hollenweger-lecture-2017.aspx

2017 (with Lee Beach) “Emerging Christianity and the Future of Evangelicalism.” Paper

presented at the annual meeting of the Canadian-American Theological Association (CCHSS), Ryerson University (Toronto, ON), May 28, 2017.

2017 “Pneumatological Realism: A Proposal for a Pentecostal Political Theology.” Paper

presented at the annual meeting of the Society for Pentecostal Studies (St. Louis, MO), March 9–11, 2017.

2015 (with Lee Beach) “From Monks to Punks: Emerging Christianity in Canada,” The

Emerging Church, Millennials, and Religion Seminar, 2015 annual meeting of the American Academy of Religion (Atlanta, GA), November 21–24, 2015.


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2012 (with Lee Beach, collaborator on Lilly Grant project—emerging Canadian Christianity) “Friend or Foe? The Role of the Scholar in Emerging Christianity.” Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Canadian Evangelical Theological Association, Congress of Humanities and Social Sciences, (Kitchner-Waterloo, ON), May 27, 2012.

2010 “From Spirit Baptism to the Trinitarian God.” Paper presented at the annual meeting of

the Society for Pentecostal Studies, North Central University (Minneapolis, MN), March 4-6, 2010.

2010 “Clark Pinnock: A Canadian Charismatic Pilgrim.” Paper presented at the Canadian

Pentecostal Symposium, annual meeting of the Society for Pentecostal Studies, North Central University (Minneapolis, MN), March 4-6, 2010.

2010 “A Pentecostal Theology of Religions and Missions.” Paper presented at Regent University’s Religious Pluralism and the Great Commission Colloquium (Virginia Beach, VA), February 27, 2010.

2009 “God suffers with Us in Christ.” Paper presented at the McMaster Divinity College Theology Conference (Hamilton, ON), May 9, 2009.

2008 “Spirit Baptism in Global Perspective.” Paper presented at the Pentecostal Forum at

McMaster Divinity College (Hamilton, ON), October 25, 2008.

2008 “Reflections on the Church Then and Now.” Paper presented at the fourteenth annual H. H. Bingham Colloquium in New Testament: “The Church: Then and Now,” McMaster Divinity College (Hamilton, ON), June 7, 2008.

2008 “Creation Care as Keeping in Step with the Spirit: A Trinitarian Theology of Creation Care as Christian Formation.” Paper presented at the seventeenth annual Wheaton Theology Conference, Rediscovering the Trinity: Classic Doctrine and Contemporary Ministry, Wheaton College (Wheaton, IL), April 10-12, 2008.

2008 “A Unified Theology of Grace and Creation Care.” Paper presented at the joint annual meeting of the Wesleyan Theological Society and the Society for Pentecostal Studies, Duke University (Durham, NC), March 13-15, 2008.

2007 “Grace in Trinitarian Perspective.” Paper presented at the 59th annual meeting of the Evangelical Theological Society (San Diego, CA), November 14-16, 2007.

2007 “Analogia Pneumatologia: Searching for a Pneumatological Foundation of Pentecostal

Theology.” Paper presented at the Theological Research Seminar, McMaster Divinity College (Hamilton, ON), October 30, 2007.

2007 “J. H. King and a Pentecostal Theology of Religions: Proposing a Trajectory.” Paper presented at the 36th annual meeting of the Society for Pentecostal Studies, Lee University (Cleveland, TN), March 8-10, 2007.

2007 “Beyond Tongues: A Pentecostal Theology of Grace.” Paper presented at the Pentecostal

Forum at McMaster Divinity College (Hamilton, ON), February 10, 2007.

2006 “J. H. King and a Pentecostal Theology of Religions: Proposing a Trajectory.” Paper presented at the Theological Research Seminar, McMaster Divinity College (Hamilton, ON), November, 2006.


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2005 “Spirit Christology and Ecumenical Convergence: A Comparison of the Spirit Christologies of Jonathan Edwards and David M. Coffey.” Paper presented at the 57th

annual meeting of the Evangelical Theological Society (Valley Forge, PA), November 16, 2005.

2004 “Jonathan Edwards’s Theories of Divine Person in the Context of the Early-

Enlightenment Trinitarian Controversy.” Paper presented at the 56th annual meeting of the Evangelical Theological Society (San Antonio, TX), November 17, 2004.

2003 “Jonathan Edwards’s Trinitarian Theology in the Context of the Early-Enlightenment Deist Controversy.” Paper presented at The Northampton-Stockbridge Tercentenary Celebration of the Birth of Jonathan Edwards (Northampton, Mass.), October 3-5, 2003.

2003 “Jonathan Edwards’s Epistemology, Ontology, and Divine Ideas.” Paper presented at the

Upper Midwest regional meeting of AAR/SBL/ASOR (St. Paul, MN), April 25-26, 2003.

2003 “The Compatibility of Divine Knowledge in Reformation Arminianism and Open Theism.” Paper presented at the joint annual meeting of the Wesleyan Theological Society and the Society for Pentecostal Studies (Wilmore, KY), March 20-22, 2003.

2002 “The Mode of Divine Knowledge in Reformation Arminianism and Open Theism.” Paper presented at the 54th annual meeting of the Evangelical Theological Society (Toronto, ON), November 20, 2002.

2001 “Pneumatology and Pentecostal Soteriology.” Paper presented at the 30th annual meeting of the Society for Pentecostal Studies, Oral Roberts University (Tulsa, OK), March 8-10, 2001.

2000 “Jonathan Edwards’s Augustinian Trinitarian Theology.” Paper presented at the 52nd annual meeting of the Evangelical Theological Society (Nashville, TN), November 15-17, 2000.

2000 “Jonathan Edwards’s Pneumatological Concept of Grace: A Recommendation for a Pentecostal Theology from a Reformed Puritan.” Paper presented at the 29th annual meeting of the Society for Pentecostal Studies, Northwest College (Kirkland, WA), March 2000.

Panel Presentations 2016 Organized panel with Amos Yong—The Spirit from the Great Awakenings through

Azusa: Pentecostal Receptions of Edwards’ Pneumatology—and presented paper “Edwards’ Progressive and proto-Pentecostal Pneumatology,” co-sponsored by Christian Systematic Theology Section and Pentecostal-Charismatic Movements Group, annual meeting of the American Academy of Religion (San Antonio, TX) November 19–22, 2016.

2016 Organized and chaired panel, “Divine Affections and Aesthetics—Edwards, Pentecostals, and the Spirit of Worship,” annual meeting of the Society for Pentecostal Studies (San Dimas, CA) March 10–12, 2016. 2016 Presented paper on Christian Ethics Panel Discussion, “Glossolalia,” annual meeting of

the Society for Pentecostal Studies (San Dimas, CA) March 10–12, 2016.


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2015 Panel presentation and discussion: What specific insights do Catholics and Evangelicals bring to the theological interpretation of evolution? With Ephraim Radner and Jeremy Wilkins. Symposium: “Creatures of God: Theological Anthropology in the Context of Evolution—A Catholic-Evangelical Dialogue,” Wycliffe College (University of Toronto) January 23, 2015.

2011 Respondent to papers on the topic of “Multicultural-izing Pentecostal Studies:

Reflections on the Canadian Experience,” Canadian Pentecostal Symposium, annuam meeting of the Society for Pentecostal Studies (Memphis, TN), March 10–13, 2011.

2011 Respondent on panel discussion of Wolgang Vondey’s Beyond Pentecostalism. Annual

Meeting of the Society for Pentecostal Studies (Memphis, TN) March 10–13, 2011.

2009 Respondent on panel, “Origins and Identity of Pentecostalism in Canada,” Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Religion (Montreal, QC) 2009.

2004 Presented paper, “Critical Confessionalism: Text selection and Teaching Methods within the Context of Confessionalism,” on panel discussing the topic of “Christian Faith and the Historian’s Vocation,” 24th biennial meeting of the Conference on Faith and History, Hope College (Holland, MI), October 14–16, 2004.

2004 Presented paper, “Pentecostal Experience intimating Pentecostal Theology,” on panel

discussing the topic of “The Pentecostal Way of doing Theology: Method and Manner,” 33rd annual meeting of the Society for Pentecostal Studies, Marquette University (Milwaukee, WI), March 11–13, 2004.

2002 Presented paper, “A Young Theologian’s Theological Reflections on Pentecostal

Ecumenism,” on panel discussing the Roman Catholic and Pentecostal Ecumenical Dialogue, 31st annual meeting of the Society for Pentecostal Studies, Southeastern University (Lakeland, FL), March 14–16, 2002.

Conference Organization and Leadership 2016–17 Co-organizer with Gord Heath for fall 2017 conference, The Reformation: Then and

Now. 2016 Organized and hosted conference, Pentecostal Ministry and Theology in Post-Christian

and Multicultural Canada, McMaster Divinity College (Hamilton, ON), January 29, 2016.

2012 Co-director (with Richard J. Middleton) of the McMaster Divinity College and Canadian

Evangelical Theology Conference, “New Voices in Canadian Evangelical Theology,” McMaster Divinity College (Hamilton, ON), October 20, 2012.

2011 Organized with Gordon Heath and Kevin Kirk the 2011 McMaster Divinity College

Theology Conference, “Globalization and Christian Faith and Ministry,” McMaster Divinity College (Hamilton, ON), June 11, 2011. Featured speaker (three plenary sessions): Philip Jenkins. Parallel sessions by Peter Althouse, Lee Beach, Janet Clark, Brian Clarke, Prince Conteh, Gord Heath, Michael Knowles, Stuart Macdonald, Christof Sauer, Steve Studebaker, Wafik Wahba, and Michael Wilkinson.

2009 Organized (along with Jim Peterson, Phil Zylla, and Gord Heath) the 2009 McMaster


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Divinity College Theology Conference, “The Dark Night of the Soul: Theological and Pastoral Resources for the Suffering,” McMaster Divinity College (Hamilton, ON), May 9, 2009.

2008 Organized and moderated the second McMaster Divinity College Pentecostal Forum: The Many Faces of Pentecostalism: Pentecostalism and Globalization, McMaster Divinity College (Hamilton, ON), October 25, 2008. Presenters include Allan Anderson, Michael Wilkinson, Byron Klaus, Randall Holm, Joanne Pepper, Steve Studebaker, and David Reed.

2007 Organized and moderated inaugural McMaster Divinity College Pentecostal Forum: Defining Issues in Pentecostalism—Classical and Emerging, McMaster Divinity College (Hamilton, ON), February 10, 2007. Presenters included: Frank Macchia, Amos Yong, Steve Studebaker, Andrew Gabriel, Roger Stronstad, Martin Mittlestad, and Cynthia Long Westfall.

Professional Work and Writings 2008– Advisory Member on the Editorial Board of the Canadian Journal of

Pentecostal-Charismatic Christianity. 2018 Journal article referee for Journal of Religious History.

2017 Journal article referee for Modern Theology.

2017 “Is Christ Relevant to Politics,” in Faith Today March/April 2017, pp. 30–34, cover story with Ephraim Radner, John Stackhouse, and Miroslav Volf.

2017 Journal article referee for Political Theology.

2016 US Election night panel commentary for Lorna Dueck’s CTV program. 2016 Interviewed by Andrea Bennett and Kim Fu for their research project on religious

experience (October 6). 2016 Participant in AAAS Science for Seminaries Faculty Enrichment Retreat at Timberline

Lodge, OR, July 18–21, 2016. 2016 Journal article referee for Political Theology.

2014 Online resource development for Baylor University Press: Amos Yong’s, Renewing

Christian Theology.

2014 Manuscript referee for Oxford University Press. 2014 Manuscript referee for Palgrave Macmillan. 2014 Manuscript referee for T & T Clark.

2013 Blog post, “Syria: A Foreign Policy of Presidential Prestige,” The Bayview Review,

September 9, 2013. 2013 Plenary address, “Servants of Christ, Servants of Caesar: Responding to the Challenge of

Western Decline,” for the Ravi Zacharias Summer School, “Light in Dark Places” (July, 2013).


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2013 with Lee Beach, Seminar, “The Contemporary Church in Canada,” CBOQ Assembly.

2013 Interview with Axiom News, news service for Ontario Alliance of Christian Schools on Christian education in the cultural crossroads, January 11, 2013. Link to the article with

the interview. 2012 Blog post, “Sojourners, ‘Useful Idiots,’ and the “I’ Word,” The Bayview Review,

October 12, 2012. 2012 Blog post for EerdWord, “Creation Care is Christian Formation.” 2012 Blog post for Evangelical Environmental Network, “Keeping in Step with the Spirit.” 2012 Three seminars on Emerging and New Churches in Canada for the Canadian Pentecostal

Seminary and the Associated Canadian Theological Schools (ACTS) “Church Leaders Day,” Trinity Western University, Langley, B.C. (November 2, 2012).

2012 Seminar on New Forms of the Church in Canada for the British Columbia and Yukon

District of the Pentecostal Assemblies of Canada Church Planters Network, Trinity Western University, Langley, B.C. (November 1, 2012).

2010 Webitorial for Christianity.ca, “The New Atheists, Religion, and Violence.” 2009 Webitorial for Christianity.ca, “Fort Hood and the Myths of Secularism.” 2009 Weblog for Christianity.ca, “Jesus is with the God-Forsaken: Encouragement and

Challenge.”

2008 Weblog for Christianity.ca, “Being in, but not of the World.”

2007 “Is being saved the Same Thing as having a Personal Relationship with God?” Ask a Theologian Column in Faith Today May/June (2007): 44.

2007 Weblog for Christianity.ca, “Christian Actors, Christian Plots, and the Gospel Plot:

Theology as scripting Christian life in light of the Gospel.”

2007 Weblog for Christianity.ca, “Theology, A Question of Discipleship.”

2002 Editorial assistance for Bradford E. Hinze and D. Lyle Dabney, ed., Advents of the Spirit: An Introduction to the Current Study of Pneumatology, Marquette Studies in Theology, 30 (Milwaukee, WI: Marquette University Press, 2001).

Institutional Service

2018– Faculty Senator to the Board of McMaster Divinity College. 2018 Chair, sub-committee for ATS ten-year self-study, reports 3 (Theological Curriculum)

and 4 (Library). 2018 Steering committee member for ATS ten-year self-study.

2017 Team member of application for ATS Innovations Projects Grant for practice led research

in Doctor of Practical Theology. Awarded $50,000.00.

2017 Doctor of Practical Theology interim director (winter semester). 2016 Graduate Studies Committee (fall semester).


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2016– Co-director with Gord Heath and Lee Beach of the Centre for Post-Christendom Studies

at McMaster Divinity College. 2016 (with Lee Beach) message on new churches in Canada for President’s Dinner, Crossroads

March 14, 2016. 2015–2106 (with Gord Heath) organized and hosted Theological Studies Luncheons, October 5 and

January 25. 2009– Coordinator (with Paul Evans and Wendy Porter) semi-monthly meetings of Theological

Research Seminary, McMaster Divinity College. 2011–2012 Co-chair, the Theological Studies MDiv and MTS Curriculum Review Committee. 2011–2012 Chair, ATS Globalization Self-Study Committee.

2009–2010 Developed Pentecostal Studies Program, McMaster Divinity College. 2009–2010 Divinity Student Association Faculty Representative, McMaster Divinity College. 2006–2009 Faculty Senator to the Board of McMaster Divinity College. 2007–2008 ATS Governance Committee, McMaster Divinity College.

2006 Theological Studies curriculum review for MDiv and MTS programs, McMaster Divinity

College.

2005 Developed curriculum for proposed MDiv degree, Emmanuel College. 2004–2005 Technology Development Committee, Emmanuel College.

Church Ministry

2017 • July 23, preached for Pelham Community Church

• Co-leading Bible study at Pelham Community Church, Ridgeville, ON. • March 7, message for Chapel, McMaster Divinity College, Hamilton, ON. 2016 • Four-week class for Burlington Baptist Church’s adult education Digging Deeper

Series, topic: Horizons of Grace. • March 7, message for Chapel McMaster Divinity College (Hamilton, ON) • August 23, preached for Pelham Community Church 2015 • April 19, preached for the Sunday morning service, Logos Baptist Church, Chinese

English Language congregation (Mississauga, ON) • March 2, message for Chapel McMaster Divinity College (Hamilton, ON) 2014 • March 17, message for Chapel McMaster Divinity College (Hamilton, ON) 2013 • March 6, message for Chapel McMaster Divinity College (Hamilton, ON)


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2012 • February 29, message for Chapel McMaster Divinity College (Hamilton, ON) 2011 • March 23, message for Chapel McMaster Divinity College (Hamilton, ON) 2010 • May 9, spoke at the Sunday gathering of Matthew 25 Intentional Community

(Hamilton, ON) • Co-led and taught Fellowship Group and Bible Study, Fairport Baptist Church

(Fairport, NY) • January 29, homily for McMaster Divinity College Spiritual Formation Retreat

(Ancaster, ON) • January 17, message for Chapel McMaster Divinity College (Hamilton, ON) 2009 • September 20, preached for the Anniversary Service, Durham Baptist Church (Durham,

ON) • August 16, preached for the Sunday morning service, Logos Baptist Church, Chinese

English Language congregation (Mississauga, ON) • March, Message for Chapel McMaster Divinity College (Hamilton, ON) 2007 • February, speaker for Faith Tabernacle’s Men’s Retreat (Brantford, PAOC Retreat

Center) • March, Message for Chapel McMaster Divinity College (Hamilton, ON)

2006 • August, preached for McMaster Divinity College’s New and Returning Student Retreat

(Burlington, ON) • October, spoke to sectional meeting of Pentecostal Assemblies of Canada pastors (Welland, ON)

1993–1995 Associate Pastor, Virginia Assembly of God (Virginia, MN) 1992–1993 Youth Pastor, Avondale Christian Center (Woodinville, WA)

Research Interests

Pneumatology and environmental ethics; Jonathan Edwards’s trinitarianism, pneumatology, and soteriology; the relation between Christology and pneumatology in soteriology; and trinitarian theology.

Academic Awards/Honors/Grants

2018 A Pentecostal Political Theology for American Renewal: Spirit of the Kingdoms, Citizens of the Cities (Palgrave Macmillan, 2016) was a finalist for the 2018 Pneuma Award.

2017 Team member of application for ATS Innovations Projects Grant for practice led research

in Doctor of Practical Theology. Awarded $50,000.00. 2016 McMaster University Arts Research Board Travel Grant for annual meeting of the

American Academy of Religion (fall 2016). 2014 From Pentecost to the Triune God: A Pentecostal Trinitarian Theology (Eerdmans, 2012)

received the 2014 Pneuma Book Award, Society for Pentecostal Studies.


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2014 From Pentecost to the Triune God: A Pentecostal Trinitarian Theology (Eerdmans, 2012)

was nominated for the 2014 Grawemeyer Award in Religion. 2012 McMaster University Arts Research Board Publication Grant for From Pentecost to the

Triune God

2012 McMaster University Arts Research Board Publication Grant for The Globalization of Christianity

2011–2012 Lilly Theological Scholars Grant (collaborative grant for research project with Lee Beach

on emerging churches in Canada). Awarded $14,327.00. 2002–2003 Teaching Fellowship, Marquette University

2001–2002 Dissertation Fellowship, Marquette University

1999–2001 Graduate Teaching Assistantship, Marquette University 1999–2003 Tuition Scholarship, Marquette University 1999 Graduate Research Assistantship, Marquette University Societies 1999– Society for Pentecostal Studies 2000– American Academy of Religion References

1) Amos Yong, PhD Professor of Theology & Mission Director of Center for Missiological Research School of Intercultural Studies Fuller Theological Seminary 135 N. Oakland Ave. Pasadena CA 91182

[email protected] (626) 584-5206 2) Dr. Douglas A. Sweeney, Ph.D. Chair of the Church History and History of Christian Thought Department Professor of Church History and the History of Christian Thought Director, Jonathan Edwards Center Trinity Evangelical Divinity School 2065 Half Day Road Deerfield, IL 60015 [email protected] (847) 317-8047 3) Mark J. Boda, Ph.D. Professor of Old Testament McMaster Divinity College McMaster University


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