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Kenneth Carder
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A graduate of East Tennessee State University (B.S.), Wesley Theological Seminary (M.Div.), and Vanderbilt Divinity School (D.Min), Dr. Carder, Professor of Pastoral Formation and Director for the Center for Excellence in Ministry at Duke Divinity School, served as Bishop of the Mississippi and Nashville Areas of the United Methodist Church. Prior to that he served as a pastor in Tennessee, Virginia, and Maryland. He is the author of three books, including A Bishop’s Reflections, Living Our Beliefs.During the 2000-04 Quadrennium, Bishop Carder served as president of the General Board of Discipleship and chair of the Council of Bishops Committee on Theological Education. |
R. Kendall Soulen
1. Evil
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R. Kendall Soulen is Professor of Systematic Theology at Wesley Theological Seminary. He earned a B.A. at Yale University, an M.Div. at Candler School of Theology at Emory University, and a Ph.D. at Yale. Soulen has written extensively, especially in the area of Jewish-Christian relations. He is the author of The God of Israel and Christian Theology, co-author of the Handbook of Biblical Criticism, editor of Abraham’s Promise: Judaism and Jewish Christian Relations, and co-editor of God and Human Dignity. Soulen is the recipient of numerous fellowships and awards, and serves as an editor or board member of four academic journals. He is ordained in the United Methodist Church.
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John Polkinghorne
2. Religion and Science
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Dr. Polkinghorne is an Anglican priest, the past President of Queens' College, Cambridge University, a former Professor of Mathematical Physics at Cambridge, and a Fellow of the Royal Society. After a number of years as a distinguished Cambridge professor, Polkinghorne resigned his chair in physics to study for the Anglican priesthood. After serving for several years in parish ministry, he returned to Cambridge to serve as President of Queen's College. During the same time period, he wrote a series of books on the compatibility of religion and science. These include Science and Creation, and most recently, Science and Providence, and The Faith of a Physicist. His earlier scientific works include The Analytic S-Matrix (with Eden, Landshoff and Olive) and Models of High Energy Processes. Dr. Polkinghorne was the recipient of the 2002 Templeton Prize in Science and Religion.
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Sathianathan Clarke
3. Other Religions
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Dr. Clarke is Professor of Theology, Culture, and Mission at Wesley Theological Seminary. He came to Wesley in 2005 from his native India, where he was Associate Professor of Theology and Ethics at The United Theological College in Bangalore. He also served as Visiting Professor of World Christianity at Harvard Divinity School. He is the author of Dalits & Christianity: Subaltern Religion & Liberation Theology in India and co-editor of Religious Conversions in India: Modes, Motivations, and Meanings. Dr. Clarke holds a Th.D. from Harvard University, an S.T.M. from Yale University, a B.D. from United Theological College, Bangalore, and M.A. and B.A. degrees from the University of Madras. He is an ordained priest in the Church of South India and has worked with untouchable communities (Dalits) in India and Christian parishes in the Boston area. |
Scott Jones
4. Evangelism and Tolerance
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Scott Jones is Bishop of the United Methodist Church in Kansas. Jones attended Perkins School of Theology at Southern Methodist University and served as a pastor in Texas churches for eleven years. During his local church ministry, Jones was adjunct faculty at Perkins, teaching United Methodist history. In 1997, Jones returned to Perkins as McCreless Professor of Evangelism and served as director of the Center for the Advanced Study and Practice of Evangelism. He has spent the past seven years preaching and teaching around the United States, Europe, Africa and Asia. He has written extensively on the subject of evangelism and mission. Jones was elected to the episcopacy in 2005.
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Amy-Jill Levine
5. The God of the
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Amy-Jill Levine is the E. Rhodes and Leona B. Carpenter Professor of New Testament Studies at Vanderbilt University Divinity School. Dr. Levine also served as the Sara Lawrence Lightfoot Assoc. Professor of Religion at Swarthmore College. Holding a B.A. from Smith College and an M.A. and Ph.D. from Duke University, Levine has been awarded grants from the Mellon Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the American Council of Learned Societies. Her numerous publications address Christian Origins, Jewish-Christian Relations, and Sexuality, Gender, and the Bible. Her current projects include the editing of the fourteen-volume series, The Feminist Companions to the New Testament and Early Christian Writing (Continuum/Sheffield University Press). |
Richard B. Hays
6. Jesus and Christianity
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A graduate of Yale University (B.A., M.Div.) and Emory University (Ph.D), Dr. Richard B. Hays, George Washington Ivey Professor of New Testament at Duke Divinity School, is internationally recognized for his work on the letters of Paul and on New Testament ethics. His scholarly work has bridged the disciplines of biblical criticism and literary studies, exploring the innovative ways in which early Christian writers interpreted Israel’s Scripture. His book The Moral Vision of the New Testament: Community, Cross, New Creation was selected by Christianity Today as one of the 100 most important religious books of the twentieth century. Professor Hays has chaired the Pauline Epistles Section of the Society of Biblical Literature, as well as the Seminar on New Testament Ethics in the Society for New Testament Studies.
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N.T. Wright
7. Resurrection
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N. T. (Tom) Wright is one of today's best known and respected New Testament scholars and Christian speakers. Born in 1948, he studied for the ministry at Wycliffe Hall, Oxford, and was ordained as Junior Research Fellow and Junior Chaplain at Merton College, Oxford. From 1978 to 1981, he was Fellow and Chaplain at Downing College, Cambridge, and then moved to Montreal as Assistant Professor of New Testament Studies at McGill University. He returned in 1986 to Oxford as University Lecturer in New Testament, and Fellow and Chaplain of Worcester College, Oxford. He became Dean of Lichfield in 1994 and Canon Theologian of Westminster Abbey in 2000. More recently, he was appointed Bishop of Durham, England. Dr. Wright has written over thirty books, including the award-winning The Resurrection of the Son of God and, most recently, Simply Christian. |
Ben Witherington
8. The Gnostic Gospels
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A graduate of UNC Chapel Hill, Gordon-Conwell Seminary (M.Div.), and the University of Durham in England (Ph.D), Ben Witherington III is Professor of New Testament Interpretation at Asbury Theological Seminary in Wilmore, Kentucky. Witherington has also taught at Ashland Theological Seminary, Vanderbilt University, Duke Divinity School and Gordon-Conwell Seminary. Witherington has presented seminars for churches, colleges and biblical meetings not only in the United States but also in England, Estonia, Russia, Europe, South Africa, Zimbabwe and Australia. Witherington has written over thirty books, including the widely acclaimed The Jesus Quest and The Paul Quest. He has been interviewed by many network television programs, and his work frequently appears in a wide range of journals, magazines, and websites. |
Douglas M. Strong
9. The Sins of the Church
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Douglas M. Strong is Professor of Church History and Associate Dean at Wesley Theological Seminary in Washington, D.C. A graduate of Houghton College (B.A.) and Princeton Theological Seminary (M.Div. and Ph.D.), he is a specialist in the history of American religion and social reform. Dr. Strong is the author of numerous articles and two books, Perfectionist Politics: Abolitionism and the Religious Tensions of American Democracy and They Walked in the Spirit: Personal Faith and Social Action in America. He is also the co-editor of Readings in Christian Ethics: A Historical Sourcebook. Dr. Strong is past president of the Wesleyan Theological Society and a member of several academic governance boards. He is an ordained elder in the United Methodist Church. |
L. Gregory Jones
10. Forgiveness
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A graduate of the University of Denver (B.A., M.P.A.) and Duke Divinity School (M.Div., Ph.D), Gregory Jones has served as Dean of Duke University Divinity School since 1997. Dean Jones is widely recognized as a scholar and church leader on such issues as forgiveness and reconciliation, Christian vocation, and strengthening the church and its ministry. He writes a regular column, "Faith Matters," for The Christian Century, for which he is also an editor-at-large. Dean Jones serves on the board of trustees of the Center of Theological Inquiry in Princeton, N.J., and is president of the Association of United Methodist Theological Schools. He also is a member of the University Senate of the United Methodist Church. His newest book is Resurrecting Excellence: Shaping Faithful Christian Ministry. |
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