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Gordon T. Smith, PhD

Education:

  • Loyola School of Theology, the Ateneo de Manila University, PhD
  • Canadian Theological Seminary, MDiv

Teaching Career:

  • Academic Vice President, Regent College
  • Dean, Regent College
  • Associate Professor of Spiritual Theology, Regent College
  • Researched key studies in Christian living, including the Lord’s Supper, Christian Spirituality, and Christian Community
  • Theology instructor, Canadian Theological Seminary
  • Theology instructor, Alliance Biblical Seminary in the Philippines

Other Career Highlights:

  • President of reSource Leadership International
  • Pastor in Canada and the Philippines
  • Member, the Canadian Evangelical Theological Association, the American Academy of Religion, and the Overseas Council Network, an international leadership training consortium

Publications:

  • Numerous publications, including A Holy Meal: The Lord’s Supper in the Life of the Church, The Voice of Jesus: Discernment, Prayer and the Witness of the Spirit, Beginning Well: Christian Conversion and Authentic Transformation, Listening to God in Times of Choice,and Courage and Calling

John R. W. Stott, DD

Education:

  • Multiple honorary doctorates from British, Canadian, and American universities
  • Lambeth, DD
  • Ridley Hall Theological College at Cambridge, MA equivalent
  • Rugby School and Trinity College Cambridge, double first (BA equivalent) in French and Theology

Career Highlights:

  • Rector Emeritus of All Souls Church in London—served there for more than 60 years
  • Chaplain to Queen Elizabeth II
  • Knighted as a Commander of the Order of the British Empire
  • President, Evangelical Fellowship in the Anglican Communion
  • Chairman, English Evangelical Council
  • President, British Scripture Union
  • Founder, Langham Partnership International
  • Chairman, International Council of World Evangelization where the famous Lausanne Covenant was penned and ratified
  • Lecturer at various colleges and universities, including Trinity Evangelical Divinity school
  • Led more than 50 university mission trips and trained thousands of leaders in Africa, Asia, and South America
  • Billy Graham noted about Dr. Stott, “I can’t think of anyone who has been more effective in introducing so many people to a biblical worldview.”
  • Named by Time Magazine in 2005 as one of the most influential people in the world

Publications:

  • More than 40 books, including The Cross of Christ,Between Two WorldsThe Contemporary Christian, and his best-known work, Basic Christianity, which has been translated into more than 50 languages

William D. Taylor, PhD

Education:

  • University of Texas, PhD
  • Dallas Theological Seminary, ThM
  • North Texas State University, BA
  • Diploma in Missions, Moody Bible Institute

Teaching Career:

  • Professor, Central American Theological Seminary (1970-1986)
  • Christian ministry and missions instructor at several schools, including Columbia International University, Dallas Theological Seminary, Trinity Evangelical Divinity School, Reformed Theological Seminary, and William Carey University
  • Visiting professor or lecturer, All Nations Christian College in the United Kingdom and the Asia Cross-Cultural Training Institute in Singapore

Other Career Highlights:

  • Global Ambassador, World Evangelical Alliance
  • Executive Director, Missions Commission for the World Evangelical Fellowship—oversaw work in 115 nations with 150 million Christians
  • Editor, Internationalizing Missionary Training,Kingdom Partnerships for Synergy in Missions, and Too Valuable to Lose
  • Staff, InterVarsity Christian Fellowship
  • Missionary, CAM International (1967-1985) – taught and served as a church planter and in pastoral ministry in Guatemala

Publications:

  • Crisis and Hope in Latin America, a book he coauthored with renowned Latin theologian Emilio A. Núñez
  • Variety of Spanish publications

Tite Tiénou, PhD

Education:

  • Fuller Theological Seminary, MA and PhD
  • Faculté Libre de Théologie Evangélique, Maîtrise en Théologie
  • Nyack College, BS

Teaching Career:

  • Senior Vice President of Education, Dean, and Professor of Theology of Missions, Trinity Evangelical Divinity School—expertise in missions, theology, and the church in Africa
  • President and Dean, Faculté de Théologie Evangélique de l’Alliance Chrétienne in Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire, West Africa
  • Faculty, Alliance Theological Seminary
  • Lectured or taught at various institutions around the world

Other Career Highlights:

  • Member, African Studies Association
  • Member, OMSC Study Group on Mission Issues
  • Senior mission scholar in residence, Overseas Ministries Study Center in New Haven, CT
  • Research fellow, Yale Divinity School
  • Ordained pastor in the Central Church of the Christian Alliance denomination
  • Teacher/preacher, various churches in the United States and Africa
  • Recipient of the Contextualization Award granted by the School of World Mission for Fuller Theological Seminary
  • Member, International Advisory Council for Lausanne II (1986-1989)
  • Chairman Emeritus, International Council of Accrediting Agencies
  • Editor, Issues in African Christian Theology

Publications:

  • Numerous publications, including The Theological Task of the Church in Africa, Africa Journal of Evangelical Theology,and Understanding Folk Religion

Peter Toon, DPhil

Education:

  • Oxford University, DPhil
  • University of London and Liverpool University, three master’s degrees
  • Cliff College, King’s College, and the University of Durham

Teaching Career:

  • Lecturer at schools around the world (1970s-2009)
  • Taught and lectured at more than 50 institutions worldwide, including Oxford, St. John’s College of Cambridge University, the University of Dunham, Grand Rapids Theological Seminary, Westminster Theological Seminary, Dallas Theological Seminary, and Trinity Evangelical Divinity School
  • Professor Systematic Theology, Nashotah House (1990-1993)

Other Career Highlights:

  • President and CEO, Prayer Book Society
  • Regarded by colleagues as one of the finest minds of the Anglican tradition
  • Special advisor to the Bishops of Durham and Newcastle in the areas of religions and cults
  • Ordained in the Church of England in the Diocese of Liverpool
  • Parish priest and Vicar, St. Mary’s in Staindrop, England
  • Expert in various fields such as Puritan History, Evangelicals in the Church of England, and John Owen
  • Several denominational boards and committees

Publications:

  • More than 25 books, including God’s Statesman: Life and Work of John Owen;What We Believe; Let God Be God; Our Triune God: A Biblical Portrayal of the Trinity; and Genuine Godliness and True Piety: Worshipping God in Faith, Hope and Love
  • Countless booklets and articles
  • Multiple works on topics such as the Lordship of Christ, justification, and sanctification

Bruce K. Waltke, PhD

Education:

  • Hebrew Union College in Jerusalem, postdoctoral fellow
  • Harvard University, MA and PhD
  • Dallas Theological Seminary, ThM and ThD
  • Houghton College, AB

Teaching Career:

  • Distinguished Professor of Old Testament, Knox Theological Seminary
  • Professor Emeritus, Regent College in Vancouver
  • Professor, Reformed Theological Seminary (1996-2010)
  • Professor, Westminster Theological Seminary (1985-1991)
  • Professor, Criswell Bible Institute (1970-1976)
  • Professor, Dallas Theological Seminary (1958-1976)
  • Visiting professor/guest lecturer at institutions around the globe, including Bethel Seminary, Columbia International University, Covenant Theological Seminary, Denver Seminary, Geneva Bible College, Trinity Evangelical Divinity School, Vancouver School of Theology, Western Seminary, and Wheaton College

Other Career Highlights:

  • Recognized as one of the preeminent scholars in Old Testament Studies
  • Speaker at numerous Bible conferences across the United States and Canada
  • InterVarsity Christian Fellowship
  • Campus Crusade for Christ
  • Area field supervisor at excavations at Tel Gezer, Israel
  • Leader of several field study trips to the Middle East and the classical world
  • President, Evangelical Theological Society (1975)
  • Helped in the translation and production of over a dozen versions of the Bible, including theNew American Standard Bible, The New Geneva Study Bible, and the New International Version
  • Honorary member of the committee responsible forToday’s New International Version

Publications:

  • More than 1,000 articles and several books, including Knowing the Will of God, An Old Testament Theology (which garnered an ECPA Christian Book Award in 2008), andGenesis, a book he coauthored with C. J. Fredricks (which won the Gold Medallion Award in 2002)
  • The work The Way of Wisdom: Essays in Honor of Bruce K. Waltke, published by Zondervan in 2000 and edited by J. I. Packer and Sven K. Soderlund, honors Dr. Waltke’s countless contributions to Christian scholarship.

John C. Whitcomb, ThD

Education:

  • Grace Theological Seminary, BD, ThM, and ThD
  • Princeton University, BA

Teaching Career:

  • Professor of Theology and Old Testament, Grace Theological Seminary (1951-1990)
  • Chairman for the Old Testament and Christian Theology Departments, Grace Theological Seminary
  • Director of Doctoral Studies, Grace Theological Seminary
  • Lecturer in Canada, Central African Republic, the Far East, Latin America, and Western Europe

Other Career Highlights:

  • Recognized worldwide as a top-notch biblical scholar and expositor of the Scriptures
  • President, Whitcomb Ministries, Inc.
  • Founder and professor, Christian Workman Schools of Theology
  • Helped establish a church in Puerto Rico
  • Extensive mission work in Peru and China
  • President, Board of Spanish World Gospel Missions, Inc. (40+ years)
  • Board of Trustees, Grace Brethren Foreign Missions (20 years)
  • Editor, The Grace Theological Journal (10+ years)
  • World War II veteran

Publications:

  • Numerous books, including The Early Earth, The World that Perished,Esther: The Triumph of God’s Sovereignty, and The Genesis Flood, a book he coauthored with Dr. Henry Morris
  • Coming to Grips withGenesis: Biblical Authority and the Age of the Earth, a 2008 Master Books publication, was written in Dr. Whitcomb’s honor.

Leon J. Wood, PhD

Education:

  • New York State University and Oriental Institute, Chicago, various graduate studies
  • Michigan State University, PhD
  • Calvin Theological Seminary, ThM
  • Calvin College, AB

Teaching Career:

  • President and Academic Dean, Grand Rapids Bible College and Seminary (now Cornerstone University and Grand Rapids Theological Seminary)
  • Professor of Old Testament, Grand Rapids Bible College and Grand Rapids Baptist Seminary

Other Career Highlights:

  • Helped found the influential Evangelical Seminary’s Dean Council
  • Translator and editor for the New International Version (NIV) Bible

Publications:

  • Numerous publications, including The Distressing Days of the Judges, Israel’s United Monarchy, and commentaries on books of the Bible such as Genesis and Daniel
  • His book The Holy Spirit and the Old Testamentremains one of the key texts in the study of pneumatology even to this day.

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