Faculty News Updates

  • Anthony Reddie becomes Director of the Oxford Centre for Religion and Culture

    September 10, 2019
    From Regent’s Park College, University of Oxford: We are delighted to announce that the new Director of the College’s ‘Oxford Centre for Religion and Culture’ will be Professor Anthony Reddie, currently Extraordinary Professor of Theological Ethics at the University of South Africa. Professor Reddie is a leading scholar in the field of Black Theology; editor of Black Theology journal, ...
  • David Fergusson appointed as Regius Professor of Divinity

    November 12, 2020
    The faculty of divinity at Cambridge have announced the appointment of a new Regius Professor of Divinity: After a long search process, we are pleased to announce that Prof David Fergusson (Edinburgh) has accepted the appointment as Regius Professor of Divinity. Prof Fergusson is a leading specialist in Christian Theology, with much experience of academic leadership, ...
  • David S. Dockery to join Southwestern Seminary faculty

    August 27, 2019
    Renowned theologian and Christian higher education leader David S. Dockery has been appointed to the faculty of the Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary as professor of theology, President Adam W. Greenway announced Aug. 27 during the seminary’s fall convocation. Dockery, who most recently served as president and chancellor of Trinity International University/Trinity Evangelical Divinity School, will ...
  • Dwight Radcliff Named Assistant Professor of Mission, Theology, and Culture and Director of the William Pannell Center for African American Church Studies

    August 22, 2019
    Fuller Theological Seminary is excited to announce the appointment of Dwight Radcliff Jr. as director of the William E. Pannell Center for African American Church Studies and assistant professor of mission, theology, and culture, effective July 1, 2019. Dr. Radcliff will work alongside Assistant Provost Clifton Clarke in Southern California and in collaboration with Vince ...
  • ETS Selects Ken Magnuson as New Executive Director.

    May 9, 2020
    On May 4, 2020, the Executive Committee of the Evangelical Theological Society accepted the recommendation of the Executive Director Search Committee and unanimously selected Ken Magnuson as the Society’s second Executive Director.  David S. Dockery, chair of the search committee remarked that the committee reviewed applications and nominations from a large group of qualified individuals. “It ...
  • Hans Küng

    April 7, 2021
    Swiss-born Catholic theologian Hans Küng passed away at his home in Tubingen, Germany on Tuesday. He was 93. You can read reports via these links from the New York Times and Catholic News Service.
  • In Memoriam: Geoffrey Wainwright

    March 19, 2020
    Born in Yorkshire, England, and a cricket player in his youth, Geoffrey Wainwright studied in Cambridge, Geneva, and Rome. He is an ordained minister of the British Methodist Church, and after serving a circuit ministry in Liverpool during the heyday of the Beatles, he went for six years as a missionary pastor and teacher to ...
  • In Memoriam: James Leo Garrett Jr.

    February 9, 2020
    From Christianity Today (Wyman Richardson): James Leo Garrett Jr. was Distinguished Professor of Theology, Emeritus, at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in Fort Worth, Texas, until his death several days ago. He was a graduate of Baylor University (BA in English, 1945), Southwestern Seminary (BD, 1948, and ThD, 1954), Princeton Theological Seminary (ThM, 1949), and Harvard University (PhD, 1966). ...
  • In Memoriam: Keith Yandell

    May 5, 2020
    From the Henry Center for Theological Understanding, Keith Yandell is gone. After a long battle with multiple health problems, on the morning of April 28, 2020 he drew his last breath. He is now “absent from the body and at home with the Lord” (2 Cor 5:8). Keith was the Julius R. Weinberg Professor of Philosophy at ...
  • In Memoriam: Larry Hurtado and Jaegwon Kim

    November 30, 2019
    Larry Hurtado (Emeritus Professor in New Testament Language, Literature & Theology, Edinburgh) and Jaegwon Kim (Emeritus Professor of Philosophy, Brown) have passed away this week. Although Hurtado’s work was mainly in the field of early Christianity and Kim’s work was mainly in the field of philosophy of mind and metaphysics, and not in systematic theology, ...
  • James I. Packer is with the Lord. (1926-2020)

    July 18, 2020
    J. I. Packer —”One of the most influential evangelical leaders of our time” (Christianity Today)— passed away yesterday at age 93. Across the web, tributes are pouring in about his life, ministry, and sprawling legacy. Below are links to some of them: “Remembering J.I. Packer” – Regent College “J. I. Packer, ‘Knowing God’ Author, Dies ...
  • Johann Baptist Metz, Theologian of Compassion, Dies at 91

    December 12, 2019
    Johann Baptist Metz, one of the most influential Roman Catholic theologians of the 20th century and a pioneer of Jewish-Christian dialogue in the aftermath of the Holocaust, died on Dec. 2 in Münster, Germany. He was 91. His death was confirmed by the University of Münster, where he taught for many years. Professor Metz, an ordained priest, ...
  • John Behr appointed as a Professor in Divinity, Eric Saak takes up a Chair in Ecclesiastical History at University of Aberdeen

    September 19, 2019
    The School of Divinity, History and Philosophy has announced the appointment of two world-leading professors. Professor John Behr has been appointed as a Professor in Divinity, and will be offering specialisation in Patristics and Orthodox Theology. Professor Behr is Fr Georges Florovsky Distinguished Professor of Patristics and a former dean of St Vladimir’s Seminary, New York, and ...
  • Nancy Pineda-Madrid to Loyola Marymount’s Chair in Catholic Theology

    September 20, 2019
    BCLA Announces the next T. Marie Chilton Chair of Catholic Theology at Loyola Marymount University: Prof. Nancy Pineda-Madrid From the news service at Loyola Marymount Bellarmine College of Liberal Arts: Since its founding in 1999, the T. Marie Chilton Chair was held by Thomas Rausch, S.J., who retired from the full-time Loyola Marymount University faculty in 2017. ...
  • Oliver Crisp Soon to Begin New Position at St. Andrews

    August 16, 2019
    Originally posted January 14, 2019 on Fuller Theological Seminary’s website: “Oliver Crisp, professor of systematic theology, has accepted the position of professor of analytic theology as a member of the Institute for Analytic and Exegetical Theology in the School of Divinity, University of St. Andrews effective September 1, 2019. We ...
  • Prof Christoph Schwöbel  (1955-2021)

    September 20, 2021
    We regret to report that friends of professor Christoph Schwöbel have shared news, online, of his very recent passing away. Professor Schwöbel was the 1643 Chair in Divinity at University of St. Andrews. Some of Professor Schwöbel’s distinguished career includes being professor of Systematic Theology at the University of Tubingen since 2004, teaching at the ...
  • Prof. Eberhard Jüngel (1934-2021)

    September 28, 2021
    Friends are reporting the death of Prof. Eberhard Jüngel (1934-2021), Emeritus Professor of Systematic Theology and the Philosophy of Religion at the University of Tübingen.
  • Regent College Appoints Jens Zimmermann to J.I. Packer Chair

    October 4, 2019
    The wait is over for those eagerly anticipating the announcement regarding Regent College’s J.I. Packer Chair of Theology. We are thrilled to announce that Dr. Jens Zimmermann will be taking up this key position in the Fall Term 2020. Born and raised in Germany, Zimmermann joins Regent from Trinity Western University, where he served for twenty years, including ...
  • Renowned Professor, John Mbiti, Dies at 87 Years Old

    October 7, 2019
    Kenyan Scholar John Mbiti has passed away. Kenya is mourning the death of celebrated scholar Prof John Mbiti who breathed his last today, Sunday 06 October 2019. The acclaimed scholar is known for his outstanding work and contribution in philosophy and religion. Responding to news about his death, Prof Makau Mutua ...
  • University of York Launches a New MA in Analytic Theology

    March 16, 2021
    University of York Department of Philosophy has launched a new MA in Analytic Theology: https://www.york.ac.uk/study/postgraduate-taught/courses/ma-analytic-theology/ Apply the study of philosophy to theology and engage with some of the most complex and historically significant questions that have shaped Western and Middle Eastern civilisation. Move from studying philosophical and theological problems to investigating them as a researcher in your own right. Focus on ...
  • Willard M. Swartley, AMBS Professor Emeritus Remembered for Prolific Scholarship, Faith and Humility, has Passed Away

    November 10, 2019
    ELKHART, Indiana (Anabaptist Mennonite Biblical Seminary) — The Anabaptist Mennonite Biblical Seminary (AMBS) community is grieving the sudden loss of a beloved colleague, teacher, mentor and friend. Willard M. Swartley, Ph.D., professor emeritus of New Testament, died of natural causes at age 83 on Nov. 6, 2019, in Goshen, Indiana. He had lived with a heart ...
  • William J. Abraham 1947-2021

    October 15, 2021
    Last week many in the theology community gave voice to sorrow at the sudden passing of theologian William J. Abraham. Abraham was a winsome philosophical theologian, Methodist scholar, and philosophical theologian. Among his many publications are books on divine revelation, the Christian canon, evangelism, divine action, and grief. Abraham was one of the editors ...
  • William J. Abraham Named Inaugural Director of the Recently Established Wesley House of Studies at Truett Theological Seminary (Baylor University)

    June 28, 2020
    June 24, 2020 – “Following extended conversations with and consultation of seminary faculty, alumni and friends, Dean Todd D. Still, Ph.D., announced today, with strong support from university administration, the formation of a Wesley House of Studies at Baylor University’s Truett Seminary. In conjunction, he announced that Dr. William J. Abraham, a theologian, philosopher, author and ...
  • Wycliffe Hall announces the appointment of NT Wright as their Senior Research Fellow

    August 22, 2019
    Wycliffe Hall today announces that the Wycliffe Hall Council intends to appoint NT Wright (The Rt Revd Prof Nicholas Thomas Wright) as Senior Research Fellow, as of 1 October 2019. NT Wright is currently Research Professor of New Testament and Early Christianity at St Mary’s College, St Andrews in Scotland. Revd Dr Michael Lloyd, Principal of ...