Education
- Ph.D. University of Utrecht, Netherlands
- M.A. Westminster Theological Seminary, Philadelphia, PA
- B.A. Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, FL
Publications
Books
To the Ends of the Earth: An Introduction to Mission Studies Today. Downers Grove: Intervarsity Press (contracted; projected 2011)
Chosen by God For the Sake of the World: A Missional Ecclesiology for Today. Grand Rapids: Baker Academic Books (contracted; projected 2010)
“As the Father Has Sent Me, I Am Sending You”: J.E. Lesslie Newbigin’s Missionary Ecclesiology. Zoetermeer: Boekencentrum Publishing House (2000).
Reviews:
Van ‘t Wout, G. Soteria (December 2001) [Dutch], 46-47.
Beeby, Dan. Gospel and Our Culture Network Newsletter, 33, (Spring 2002), 4-5.
Bliese, Richard. Mission Studies 19, 1, 37, (April 2002), 198-199.
Watt, C. Peter. Missionalia 30, 2, (August 2002), 316.
Kettle, David. European Journal of Theology 11, 2, (October 2002), 161-162.
Kim, Kirsteen. Anvil 19, 3, (2002), 243-244.
Hunsberger, George. International Bulletin of Missionary Research 27, 1, (January 2003), 40.
Kandiah, Krish. Themelios 28, 2, (Spring 2003), 115-116.
Brink, Gijsbert van den, Nederlands theologisch tijdschrift, 57, 2 (April 2003), 165-166.
Jackson, E. M. BIAMS Newsletter 21 (September 2003), 7-9
Books Co-Authored
Liberating Christian Philosophy. Grand Rapids: Baker Academic Books (contracted; projected 2011). Co-authored with Craig G. Bartholomew.
Living at the Crossroads: An Introduction to Christian Worldview. Grand Rapids: Baker Academic Books; London: SPCK (2008). Co-authored with Craig G. Bartholomew.
Website: www.christian-worldview.ca
Translation into Korean. Seoul, SK: Intervarsity Press. In process.
The Drama of Scripture: Finding Our Place in the Biblical Story. Grand Rapids: Baker Academic Books, (2004). Co-authored with Craig G. Bartholomew.
Website: www.biblicaltheology.ca
First revised, abridged study version. London, UK: SPCK (2006).
Second revised, abridged version. Grand Rapids, MI: Faith Alive (2009). Published under new title: The True Story of the Whole World: Finding Your Place in the Biblical Drama
Translation into Russian. Cherkasy, Ukraine: Colloquium Publishing (2009).
Translation into Korean. Seoul, SK: Intervarsity Press. Forthcoming 2010.
Translation into Chinese. Enoch Communications. Forthcoming 2010-11.
Translations into Japanese and Spanish in process.
Books Co-Edited
The Gospel and Globalization: Exploring the Religious Roots of Globalization. Vancouver: Regent College Press and Geneva Society; Milton Keynes, UK: Paternoster (2009). Co-edited with Erin G. Glanville. Preface and Introduction co-authored, 7-9, 11-25.
That the World May Believe: Essays on Mission and Unity in Honour of George Vandervelde. Lanham, MA: University Press of America (2006). Co-edited with Margaret O’Gara. Introduction co-authored, v-x.
Book Chapters
“The Identity and Role of the Church in the Biblical Story: Missional By Its Very Nature,” in Stanley Porter and Cynthia Westfall (eds.), The Church—Then and Now. McMaster New Testament Studies (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans). Forthcoming.
“Bible and Mission: Missiology and Biblical Scholarship in Dialogue,” in Stanley Porter and Cynthia Westfall (eds.), Christian Mission: Old Testament Foundations and New Testament Developments. McMaster New Testament Studies (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans). Forthcoming.
“Nourishing Our Missional Identity: Worship and the Mission of God’s People,” in Michael Parsons and David J. Cohen (eds.), Worship: Text and Practice (Eugene, OR: Pickwick Publications, Wipf and Stock Publishers). Forthcoming.
“Probing the Historical and Religious Roots of Economic Globalization,” in Michael W. Goheen and Erin G. Glanville (eds.), The Gospel and Globalization: Exploring the Religious Roots of Globalization (Vancouver: Regent College Press and Geneva Society; Milton Keynes, UK: Paternoster, 2009), 69-90.
“Liberating the Gospel in Western Culture: Lesslie Newbigin’s Contribution,” Introduction to Korean translation of Lesslie Newbigin, Gospel in a Pluralist Society (Seoul: Korea Intervarsity Press, 2007), 461-470.
“Mission and Unity: The Theological Dynamic of Comity,” in Michael W. Goheen and Margaret O’Gara (eds.), That the World May Believe: Essays on Mission and Unity in Honour of George Vandervelde (Lanham, MA: University Press of America, 2006), 83-91.
“Delighting in God’s Good Gift of Competition and Sport,” in Richard Edlin and Jill Ireland (eds.), Engaging the Culture: Christians at Work in Education (Sydney, Australia: National Institute for Christian Education, 2006), 173-186.
“A Critical Examination of David Bosch’s Missional Reading of Luke,” in Craig G. Bartholomew, Joel B. Green, Anthony C. Thiselton (eds.), Reading Luke: Interpretation, Reflection, Formation (Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 2005), 229-264.
“The Gospel and the Idolatrous Power of Secular Science,” in Jill Ireland, Richard Edlin, and Ken Dickens (eds.), Pointing the Way: Directions for Christian Schooling in a New Millennium (Sydney, Australia: National Institute for Christian Education, 2004), 33-54.
“The Gospel and the Idolatrous Spirit of the Western Academy,” in John Hulst and Peter Balla (eds.), The Word of God and the Academy in Contemporary Culture (Budapest, Hungary: Karoli Gaspar Press, 2003), 21-38.
“Agogyan engem küldött az Atya, én is úgy küldelek el titeket–Lesslie Newbigin missziói ekkléziológiája” [“As the Father Has Sent Me, I Am Sending You: Lesslie Newbigin’s Missionary Ecclesiology”], in Anna Marie Kool (ed.), Egyház és misszió a szekularizált magyar társadalomban [Church and Mission in Secularized Hungarian Culture], [Hungarian] (Hungary: Protestáns Missziói Tanulmányi Intézet, 2002), 13-27.
“A misszionáló gyülekezet: ekkléziológiai vita az Evangélium ès a Kultúránk Hálózat fórumán, Észak-Amerikában” [“The Missional Church: Ecclesiological Discussion in the Gospel and Our Culture Network in North America”], in Anna Marie Kool (ed.), Egyház és misszió a szekularizált magyar társadalomban [Church and Mission in Secularized Hungarian Culture], [Hungarian] (Budapest, Hungary: Protestáns Missziói Tanulmányi Intézet, 2002), 51-64.
“The Missional Calling of Believers in the World: The Contribution of Lesslie Newbigin,” in Thomas F. Foust, George R. Hunsberger, J. Andrew Kirk, and Werner Ustorf (eds.), A Scandalous Prophet: The Way of Mission After Newbigin, (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2001), 37-54.
“Charting a Faithful Path Amidst Postmodern Winds,” in Hans Boersma (ed.), In the LambLight: Christianity and Contemporary Challenges to the Gospel (Vancouver: Regent College Publishing, 2001), 17-31.
“Building for the Future: Worldview Foundations of Sand and Rock,” in George Carillet and Sergei Golovin (eds.), Man and the Christian Worldview. Volume 5. Worldview and Lifestyle: What Are We Bequeathing to Our Children? [Translated into Russian] (Simferopol, Ukraine: Crimean-American College Press, 2000), 27-37. Personal worldview statement also appended to article.
“Creational Revelation, Scriptural Revelation, and Science,” in Jitse van der Meer (ed.), Facets of Faith and Science. Volume 4: Interpreting God's Action in the World (Lanham: The Pascal Centre for Advanced Studies in Faith and Science/University Press of America, 1996), 313-330.
“Organism of Revelation,” in Jitse van der Meer (ed.), Facets of Faith and Science. Volume 4: Interpreting God's Action in the World (Lanham: The Pascal Center for Advanced Studies in Faith and Science/University Press of America), 1996, 331-345.
“Understanding Revelation in an Age Dominated by Science,” Timothy Phillips and Dennis Okholm (eds.), in The Relationship of Theology and Science (Wheaton: Wheaton College Press, 1994), 214-238.
Book Chapters Co-Authored
“Worldview Between Story and Mission.” Postscript co-authored with Al Wolters in a revised and expanded version of Creation Regained: Biblical Basics of a Reformational Worldview (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2005). [Translated into Korean, Italian]
“Story and Biblical Theology,” in Craig Bartholomew, Mary Healy, Karl Möller, Robin Parry (eds.), Out of Egypt: Biblical Theology and Biblical Interpretation (Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 2004), 144-171. Co-authored with Craig Bartholomew.
Academic Journal Articles
“Preaching the Bible as One Story” [translated by Ken Iwasaki into Japanese], Journal of Preaching, Volume 10 (2009), 5-23.
“Continuing Steps Toward a Missional Hermeneutic,” Fideles, 3 (2008), 49-99.
“Chosen by God for the Sake of the World: The Missional Church in the Biblical Story” [translated by Ken Iwasaki into Japanese], Reformed Theology, XXV (October 2008), 69-101.
“The Urgency of Reading the Bible as One Story,” Theology Today, 64, 4 (January 2008), 469-483.
“The Surrender and Recovery of the Unbearable Tension,” Journal of Education & Christian Belief, 11, 1 (Spring 2007), 7-21.
“A Missionary Encounter with Western Culture,” ACT 3 Review, 15, 1 (2006), 155-171.
“The Legacy of Lesslie Newbigin for Today,” Reformation and Revival, 14, 3 (2005), 49-63.
“The Significance of Lesslie Newbigin for Mission in a New Millennium,” Third Millennium, 7, 3 (2004), 88-99.
“The Future of Mission in the World Council of Churches: The Dialogue Between Lesslie Newbigin and Konrad Raiser,” Mission Studies, 21, 1 (2004), 97-111.
“Liberating the Gospel from Its Modern Cage: An Interpretation of Lesslie Newbigin’s Gospel and Modern Culture Project,” Missionalia, 30, 3 (November 2002), 360-375.
“Is Lesslie Newbigin’s Model of Contextualization Anticultural?” Mission Studies, 19, 2, 38 (October 2002), 136-158.
“The Missional Church: Ecclesiological Discussion in the Gospel and Our Culture Network in North America,” Missiology. 30, 4 (October 2002), 479-490.
“‘As the Father Has Sent Me, I Am Sending You’: Lesslie Newbigin’s Missionary Ecclesiology,” International Review of Mission, XCI, 362 (July 2002), 354-369.
“Who Turned Out the Light? Educational Light in a Dark World,” Journal of Education and Christian Belief. 6, 1 (Spring 2002), 41-55.
“Scholarship at the Crossroads: Exploring Lesslie Newbigin’s Missionary Model of Contextualization,” European Journal of Theology 10, 2 (2001), 131-142.
“Gospel and Cultures: Lesslie Newbigin’s Missionary Contribution,” Philosophia Reformata. 66, 2 (2001), 178-188.
“Scholarship at the Crossroads: Exploring Lesslie Newbigin’s Missionary Model of Contextualization,” Contact: The Newsletter of the International Association for the Promotion of Christian Higher Education, 13, 1 (November 2001). Academic insert, 1-8.
“Educating Between the Times: Postmodernity and Educational Leadership,” Journal of Education and Christian Belief, 5, 1 (Fall 2001), 27-39.
“Az Evangélium, Kultúra és Kultúrák [Hungarian: Gospel, Culture, and Cultures” [translated by László Gonda], Lelkipásztor [Lutheran Theological Journal, Hungary], [Hungarian], 9 (2001), 322-327.
“Building for the Future: Worldview Foundations of Sand and Rock,” Religion in Eastern Europe, 20, 5 (October 2000), 30-41.
“Toward a Missiology of Western Culture,” European Journal of Theology, 8, 2 (1999), 155-168.
“Mission in the Ecumenical and Evangelical Traditions,” Pro Rege (December 1992), 1-10.
Positions
- Geneva Professor of Worldview and Religious Studies
Geneva Society Website: www.genevasociety.org - Teaching Fellow, Mission Studies, Regent College, Vancouver, B.C.