Don H. Compier

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Don H. Compier became the founding Dean of the Community of Christ Seminary, Graceland University in 2002. He serves on the Standing High Council of the Community of Christ as well as a number of other committees including the Diversity Task Force, the Committee on Homosexuality and the Church, the Ministerial Education Task Force, the Theology Task Force, and the Steering Committee of the Co-Missioned Pastor Initiative.

Prior to becoming Dean of the Seminary, Compier was a Professor of Religion at Graceland University from 2001 to 2002. He was Associate Professor of Theology from 1997 to 2001 and an Assistant Professor of Systematic Theology from 1992 – 1997 at the Church Divinity School of the Pacific and Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley, California. He was also an Instructor at Emory University in the Department of Religion from 1990 – 1991. Compier received his Ph. D. in Theological Studies from the Graduate School of Religion at Emory University in 1992; an M.A. in Religion from Park College in 1985 and a B.A. from the University of the Pacific in 1978 where he majored in Religion and European History.

Compier has published more than fifteen peer-reviewed scholarly articles in the field of theology and religion. His has written two books: John Calvin’s Rhetorical Doctrine of Sin (Edwin Mellen Press, 2001) and What is Rhetorical Theology? Textual Practice and Public Discourse (Trinity Press International, 1999). He is the co-editor of two books: “Theology 11: The Transformative Power of Theological Education” with Suzanne Trewitt McLaughlin, (Graceland University Press, 2004) and “Theology 10: Theologies of Scripture” (Graceland University Press, 2002) with Shandra Newcom-Wolsey.