Faculty
The faculty at Asbury Seminary are engaging instructors, innovative thinkers, rigorous researchers and accomplished writers. They are committed to seeing students excel academically, but more importantly they desire to see a maturing of spiritual growth and formation.
Our multicultural faculty totals 201 people, including visiting and affiliate professors. They represent eight Protestant denominations and come from various cultures and backgrounds, from church planting to graduates of medical school. During any given year, one-third of them are teaching abroad, making them well prepared to teach students with a global perspective. In 2011, they published more than 109 works. Many are award-winning authors like Craig Keener and Ben Witherington III. The faculty has also helped lead the way in developing online education. Asbury Seminary was one of the first institutions of its kind to offer online classes. The program has ballooned since its inception and now includes more than 150 classes per year.
Educational Assumptions
In the search for truth, the faculty at Asbury Seminary affirms the following guidelines: Scripture, reason, experience and tradition. While Asbury Seminary stands within the Wesleyan tradition and holds to a clearly defined statement of faith, the faculty is committed to academic freedom. Central to all academic work at the Seminary are two commitments: the first to Jesus Christ as sovereign Lord and the second to the pursuit of truth as a corporate and personal vocation. Faculty members and students are encouraged to carry on research, lecturing and publishing that reflect a growing knowledge of God and a widening awareness of truth. The faculty members are committed to the objective study and discussion of all theological opinions, and the Seminary regards liberty of conscience as an important dimension of theological and personal integrity.
Dr. Emilio Alvarez
Associate Provost of Lifelong Learning
Dr. Bill T. Arnold
Paul S. Amos Professor of Old Testament Interpretation
Dr. Stephen Bailey
Associate Professor of Missions and Development Studies
Dr. David R. Bauer
Dean of the School of Biblical Interpretation
Dr. Meesaeng Lee Choi
Professor of Church History and Historical Theology
Dr. Kenneth J. Collins
Professor of Historical Theology and Wesley Studies
Dr. John A. Cook
Professor of Old Testament and Semitic Languages
Dr. Janet B. Dean
Professor of Pastoral Counseling Education
Dr. Joseph R. Dongell
Professor of Biblical Studies
Dr. Jeffrey W. Frymire
Associate Professor of Homiletics
Dr. R. Stephen Gober
Executive Director of Academic Affairs for the Asbury Latino Center
Dr. Andrew Graham
Associate Professor of Counselor Education
Dr. David J. Gyertson
Distinguished Leader in Residence
Dr. Russell Hall
Associate Professor of Counselor Education
Dr. James K. Hampton
Professor of Youth Ministry
Dr. Christine Johnson
Assistant Professor of Historical Theology
Dr. Craig S. Keener
F. M. and Ada Thompson Professor of Biblical Studies
Dr. Maria Russell Kenney
Assistant Professor of Christian Ethics
Dr. Chris A. Kiesling
Professor of Discipleship and Human Development
Dr. Kevin Kinghorn
Professor of Philosophy and Religion
Dr. Fredrick J. Long
Professor of New Testament
Dr. Ellen L. Marmon
Professor of Christian Discipleship
Dr. Stephen L. Martyn
Professor of Christian Spirituality
Dr. Michael D. Matlock
Professor of Inductive Biblical Studies, Old Testament & Early Judaism
Dr. Thomas McCall
Timothy C. and Julie M. Tennent Chair of Theology
Dr. Philip R. Meadows
The Sundo Kim Professor of Evangelism
Dr. Jim Miller
Professor of Inductive Biblical Studies and New Testament
Dr. Stacy R. Minger
Associate Professor of Preaching
Dr. W. Jay Moon
Professor of Church Planting and Evangelism
Dr. Tapiwa Mucherera
Professor of Pastoral Counseling
Dr. Kenneth Myers
Assistant Professor of Counselor Education
Dr. J. Steven O’Malley
John T. Seamands Professor of Methodist Holiness History
Dr. Luther Oconer
Associate Professor of Global Wesleyan Theology
Dr. Stephen W. Offutt
Associate Professor of Development Studies
Dr. Joseph Okello
Professor of Philosophy of Christian Religion
Dr. Gregg A. Okesson
Provost and Senior Vice President of Academic Affairs
Dr. John Oswalt
Visiting Distinguished Professor of Old Testament
Dr. Lalsangkima Pachuau
John Wesley Beeson Professor of Christian Mission
Dr. Michael L. Peterson
Professor of Philosophy of Religion
Dr. Jonathan A. Powers
Associate Dean of the E. Stanley Jones School of Mission and Ministry
Dr. John Ragsdale
Associate Professor of Academic Affairs
Dr. Ruth Anne Reese
Professor of New Testament
Dr. A. Sue Russell
Professor of Mission and Contextual Studies
Dr. Brian D. Russell
Professor of Biblical Studies
Dr. Angel D. Santiago-Vendrell
E. Stanley Jones Associate Professor of Evangelism
Dr. Jose Javier Sierra
Associate Professor of Counseling
Dr. Jacqueline Smith
Dean of the School of Counseling
Dr. Lawson G. Stone
Professor of Old Testament
Dr. Stephen P. Stratton
Professor of Counseling and Pastoral Care
Dr. Timothy C. Tennent
President
Dr. James R. Thobaben
Dean of the School of Theology and Formation
Dr. Paul A. Tippey
Dean of Library, Information, and Technology Services
Dr. Thomas F. Tumblin
Professor of Leadership
Dr. Jason Vickers
Professor of Theology
Dr. Michael C. Voigts
Professor of Christian Spirituality
Dr. Ben Witherington III
Jean R. Amos Professor of New Testament for Doctoral Studies
