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ACADEMIC AND PROFESSIONAL POSITIONS
Associate Professor of
Historical Theology, Lee University, 2006-present
Theology Interest Group Leader,
Society for Pentecostal Studies, 2005-present.
Director, Graduate Studies in
Religion, Lee University, 2003-2005.
Assistant Professor of Historical
Theology, Lee University, 2002-2006.
Instructor in Historical Theology,
Lee University, 1999-2001
Tutor, Centre for Medieval and
Renaissance Studies, affiliated with Keble College, Oxford
University, 1998.
EDUCATION
Wolfson College, Oxford
University
D.Phil. 2002
Thesis:
APer
visibilia ad invisibilia: Theological Method in
Richard of St. Victor (d.1173)@
Advisor:
Richard Cross, Senior Tutor, Oriel College,
Oxford University
Readers:
Lesley Smith, Harris Manchester College, Oxford
University
Grover A.
Zinn, Associate Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences,
William H. Danforth Professor of Religion, Oberlin College
Reformed Theological Seminary (Orlando, FL)
Master of
Divinity
1995
Centre for Medieval and Renaissance
Studies
1994
Affiliated
with Keble College, Oxford University
Visiting
Graduate Student
Lee University (Cleveland,
TN) Bachelor of Arts 1992
Theology and
Biblical Studies
Semester in
Europe Program, Cambridge University
BOOKS
‘Per visibilia ad invisibilia’: Theological Method in
Richard of St. Victor (d. 1173). Bibliotheca
Victorina 19. Turnhout: Brepols, 2006.
Holiness: The Beauty of Perfection. Cleveland,
TN: Pathway Press, 2004.
Classic Texts in the Victorine
Tradition. Edd. Steven Chase, Boyd Taylor Coolman,
Dale M. Coulter, Hugh Feiss, Deborah Goodwin and Michael
A. Signer. 11 Vols. Turnhout: Brepols (forthcoming).
This is
a series of English translations of the twelfth-century
school of St. Victor that Brepols will publish. The
school of St. Victor is a school of thought developed by a
number of important medieval thinkers who lived and worked
in Paris at the same time.
CONFERENCE PAPERS AND ARTICLES
“The Place of the ‘Notations on the
Psalms’ in Richard of St. Victor’s Corpus,” presented at
Forty-first International Congress on Medieval Studies,
Kalamazoo, MI, 2006.
“The Development of Ecclesiology in
the Church of God (Cleveland, TN): A Forgotten
Contribution?” PNUEMA: Journal for the Society of
Pentecostal Studies (forthcoming).
“Pentecostal Visions of the End:
Eschatology, Ecclesiology and the Fascination with the
‘Left Behind’ Series,” Journal of Pentecostal Theology
14.1 (2005): 81-98.
“Historia and Sensus
litteralis: An Investigation into the Literal
Interpretation of a Text at the Twelfth-Century School of
St. Victor,” presented at The Catholic Theological Society
of America conference, June 10-13, Reston, VA.
“Pentecostal Visions of the End:
Eschatology, Ecclesiology and the Fascination with the
‘Left Behind’ Series,” presented at the Roman
Catholic/Pentecostal pre-conference dialogue, Society for
Pentecostal Studies Conference, March 11-13, Marquette
University, Milwaukee, WI.
“The Meaning of Contemplatio
in Richard of St. Victor’s De arca mystica,”
presented at Thirty-eighth International Congress on
Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, MI, 2003.
“What Meaneth This? Pentecostals and
Theological Inquiry,” Journal of Pentecostal Theology
10.1 (October 2001): 38-64.
Respondent to paper presented by Skip
Jenkins at Society for Pentecostal Studies Conference,
March 8-10, 2001, Oral Roberts University, Tulsa, OK.
"Contraries and the Healing of the Human Soul in
Richard of St. Victor," presented at Thirty-fourth
International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, MI,
May 7-10, 1999.
"Arguments from Suitability in Aquinas and Richard of
St. Victor," presented at Thirty-third International
Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, MI, May 7-10,
1998.
"Pseudo-Dionysius in the Twelfth-Century Latin West,"
in Online Medieval Reference Book, 1997.
BOOK REVIEWS
Review of The Metaphysics of the
Incarnation by Richard Cross in Religious Studies
Review (forthcoming).
Review of Pentecostal Theology and
the Christian Spiritual Tradition by Simon Chan in
Asian Journal of Pentecostal Studies (forthcoming).
Review of Pneumatology: The Holy
Spirit in Ecumenical, International, and Contextual
Perspective by Veli-Matti Kärkkäinen in Religious
Studies Review (October 2003).
Review of Another City: An
Ecclesiological Primer for a Post-Christian World in
PNUEMA: The Journal of the for Pentecostal Studies
22.2 (Fall 2000).
“A Review of The Holy Spirit:
Medieval Roman Catholic and Reformation Traditions by
Stanley M. Burgess,” Journal of Pentecostal Theology
14 (April 1999): 135-42.
RESEARCH IN PROGRESS
“Saint Victor and the Development of
Theology (2)” in Teachers, Preachers and Mystics: The
Abbey of St. Victor and the Creation of a New Christian
Culture, eds. Grover A. Zinn, Michael A. Signer, and
Lesley Smith. Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame
Press (due May 2007).
“Richard of St. Victor,” “Hugh of St.
Victor,” “Julian of Norwich,” “Contemplative Life,” and
“Scholasticism,” in Encyclopedia of Christian
Civilization, 3 vols., ed. George T. Kurian. New York:
Blackwell Publishers (due July 2007). Brief articles
between 300 and 1000 words.
Richard of St. Victor and the Art
of Seeing God. Manuscript in progress. Initial
proposal accepted by Catholic University of America Press.
Classic Texts in the Victorine
Tradition, vol. 2.1, edited by Dale M.Coulter and Boyd
Taylor Coolman. Turnhout: Brepols (due July 2007).
GRANTS AND
HONORS
Excellence in Scholarship Award,
Academic Year 2004-2005, Lee University.
Listed in International Directory
of Medievalists. Published in collaboration with
Fédération Internationale des Instituts d'Etudes
Médiévales (FIDEM). Turnhout: Brepols (updated online
version to be published summer 2004 and updated printed
version forthcoming 2005).
John B. Stephenson Fellowship,
Appalachian College Association and Andrew Mellon
Foundation, 2001.
COURSES TAUGHT
Undergraduate
Graduate
Major Thinkers of Western
Christianity
History of Doctrine I (300-1300)
History and Thought of Eastern
Christianity History of
Doctrine II (1300-1800)
Introduction to
Theology Aquinas
Introduction to Christian
Ethics
Cur Deus Homo
The Pastoral Function of Christian
Doctrine
Doctrine of the Spirit
Medieval Spirituality
History of Christianity I (30-1300)
History of Christianity II
(1300-1900)
ACADEMIC AND PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES
Society for the Study of the Bible in
the Middle Ages
Society for Pentecostal Studies
American Society of Church History
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