List of Fuller Theological Seminary people

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This is a partial list of people affiliated with The Fuller Theological Seminary.

1 Alumni
- 1.1 Former faculty
2 Faculty
3 Links
4 References

[edit] Alumni

Miroslav Volf (M.A), influential theologian and Yale Divinity School professor. Director of the Yale Center for Culture and Faith.
Dr. James Brenneman, (M.Div) President of Goshen College
Anthony C. Yu (S.T.B), religion and literary scholar; translator of Journey to the West. Professor at the University of Chicago.
Willie Jennings (M.Div), scholar and theologian at Duke University.[1]
John Piper (B.D), author, theologian and senior pastor of Bethlehem Baptist Church.
Rob Bell (M.Div), author of the acclaimed Velvet Elvis, founding pastor of Mars Hill Bible Church.
Tony Jones (M.Div), national coordinator of "Emergent" a growing, generative friendship of missional Christians and author of many books including "The New Christians."
Bill Bright (B.D), founder of Campus Crusade for Christ.
Joon Gon Kim, founder of Korea Campus Crusade for Christ.
Robert Grant, founder of the Christian Voice organization.
John Ortberg, teaching pastor of Menlo Park Presbyterian Church, and author of several books including The Life You've Always Wanted and If You Want to Walk on Water, You've Got to Get Out of the Boat.
Les Parrott III, Ph.D., professor of clinical psychology for Seattle Pacific University, author, and motivational speaker.
Rick Warren (D.Min), pastor of Saddleback Church and author of The Purpose Driven Church and the best-selling hardback book in U.S publishing history, The Purpose Driven Life.
Les Henson, Senior Lecturer in Intercultural Studies at Tabor College, Melbourne, Australia.
Leith Anderson (D.Min), former president and current president of National Association of Evangelicals.

[edit] Former faculty

Gleason Archer, influential Biblical scholar and theologian. Taught at Fuller from 1948-65.

Edward John Carnell (1919-1967) was the author of Introduction to Christian Apologetics, A Philosophy of the Christian Religion, and many other books. He served as seminary President from 1954-59.

Richard J. Foster, Former Fuller professor. A theologian and author of Celebration of Discipline - named by Christianity Today as one of the 100 Best Religious Books of the 20th Century.

Richard Gorsuch, social psychologist, Professor of Psychology and Director of Research in the School of Psychology. He authored the first academic text on factor analysis (Factor analysis, 1st and 2nd edition, 1974 & 1983). Gorsuch has been a major force in the study of the psychology of religion. He published the first recent article on the psychology of religion to appear in The American Psychologist, the official publication of the American Psychological Association. He also co-authored what is often seen as the seminal text in the field (The psychology of religion: an empirical approach, 1983). He taught at Fuller from 1979 - 2006.

George Eldon Ladd, professor of New Testament exegesis and theology. During a time when dispensationalism held sway over evangelicalism, Ladd was a proponent of the Historic Premillenialist perspective and the "already/not yet" concept of the kingdom of God.

Richard Muller, professor of Church History/Historical Theology. Noted Calvin and Post-Reformation scholar. Currently teaches at Calvin Theological Seminary.

Lewis B. Smedes (1921-2002), influential theologian and writer. Author of Forgive and Forget. Formerly Professor of Theology and Ethics and taught at Fuller for twenty-five years.

Thomas Talbott, a professor of philosophy at Willamette University who is controversial in theological circles for his vigorous defense of the doctrine of Christian universal salvation. Taught at Fuller for three years early in his career.^[1]

C. Peter Wagner, former professor of Church Growth at Fuller Theological Seminary. Coined the term Third Wave; founder of Global Harvest Ministries, and co-founder of the World Prayer Center.

Neil Clark Warren, former dean of the School of Psychology. Founder of eHarmony.

Mel White, former Professor of Communications and Preaching. Infamous within Evangelical Christianity due to his sexuality and ministry to homosexuals following his departure from the Evangelical Protestant movement.

John Wimber, pastor and founder of the Vineyard Movement. Wimber directed the Charles E. Fuller Institute of Evangelism and Church Growth from 1974-1978 and later served as an adjunct professor at Fuller.

Miroslav Volf, influential theologian and currently the Henry B. Wright Professor of Systematic Theology at Yale Divinity School. Author of Exclusion and Embrace, named by Christianity Today as one of the 100 most important religion books of the 20th Century. Volf taught at Fuller from 1991-1998.

[edit] Faculty

Colin Brown, professor of theology and former associate dean of the Center for Advanced Theological Studies (CATS). A prolific author and editor: he wrote many books, including Miracles and the Critical Mind, and edited a famous multi-volume dictionary, The New International Dictionary of New Testament Theology (NIDNTT). Prior to teaching at Fuller, he taught in Germany, Canada, and his native England. His current research on the historical Jesus will be published as a multi-volume monograph.

Warren S. Brown, director of the Lee Edward Travis Research Institute and Professor of Psychology in the School of Psychology. He also served as the principal editor and contributor to Whatever Happened to the Soul?: Scientific and Theological Portraits of Human Nature (1998) and was editor and contributor to Understanding Wisdom: Sources, Science and Society (2000).

Veli-Matti Kärkkäinen, a creative and prolific theologian with notable influence in ecumenical circles.

Charles H. Kraft, linguist and anthropologist. Proponent of the Third Wave of the Holy Spirit Movement. The Sun-Hee Kwak Professor of Anthropology and Intercultural Communication at Fuller.

Richard Mouw, influential Christian philosopher, ethicist and author. Current President of Fuller.

Nancey Murphy, notable philosopher of science and Christian theologian. Known for her works on religion and science. Author of Theology in the Age of Scientific Reasoning, winner of prizes from the American Academy of Religion and the Templeton Foundation.

Cecil Mel Robeck, ordained with the Assemblies of God, a professor of ecumenics, church history, and Pentecostalism with influence in Roman Catholic circles.

David M. Scholer, former Associate Dean for the Center for Advanced Theological Studies and current Professor of New Testament. Scholer is a distinguished authority on ancient Gnosticism and particularly the Nag Hammadi Scrolls. Dr. Scholer is also well-known for his extensive writings and teachings about the role of women in the church and in ministry. His class "Women, the Bible, and the Church", in which he argues from an egalitarian perspective, is one of the most popular classes at Fuller Theological Seminary. Scholer, who has incurable cancer, has been delivering sermons on drawing on religious faith and having a deadly disease. Listen to the sermon Living With Cancer here.

Russell P. Spittler, Senior Professor of New Testament, specializing in Corinthian Christianity. Formerly provost at Fuller.

Glen Stassen, Christian ethicist and son of Harold Stassen. Currently the Lewis B. Smedes Professor of Christian Ethics at Fuller.

Marianne Meye Thompson, George Eldon Ladd Professor of New Testament. Meye Thompson is an expert in the interpretation of the Gospel of John as well as New Testament background.

Richard Peace, an ordained minister in the United Church of Christ and a consultant in church growth and small-group training to church and parachurch organizations. Currently the Robert Boyd Munger Professor of Evangelism and Spiritual Formation at Fuller.