Faculty Role: Lecturer
EuNC Learning Centres involved in: Germany
Clusters teaching in:

• Theology, Tradition and Identity

Education:

• BA in Religion - European Nazarene Bible College (through MidAmerica Nazarene College) in 1985
• MDiv - Nazarene Theological Seminary, Kansas City, MO (USA) in 1989

• PhD - Nazarene Theological College (through University of Manchester) in 2015

Publications:

Books

• Full and Present Salvation in Christ. Eugene, OR: Pickwick Publications, 2018
• EuNC On Mission. Kansas City, MO: The Foundry Publishing, 2021

Articles

• “Kurzer Abriss der Geschichte und des Aufbaus der Kirche des Nazareners.“ (Outline of the history and organisation of the Church of the Nazarene.) Presentation at the historical society of free churches in Germany on November 8, 1996.
• “Robert Pearsall Smith and the Holiness Movement in Germany” in Dwight D. Swanson (ed.), European Explorations in Christian Holiness (September 1999), 84-98.
• “God’s Love First: Prevenient Grace.” A Primer for Nazarenes. In: Holiness Today (April 1999). Kansas City: Nazarene Publishing House, 1999.
• “Wesleyan Theology: A Practical Theology”. Paper read at the second Global Theology Conference of the Church of the Nazarene in the Netherlands in March 2007. Didache – Faithful Teaching, Vol. 7, No. 1, June 2007.
• “Mysticism/Mystical Theology”; “Pietism”; “Socialism” in Al Truesdale (ed.), Global Wesleyan Dictionary of Theology. Kansas City: Beacon Hill Press, 2013.
• ”Die Kirche des Nazareners als theologische Erneuerungsbewegung.“ (The Church of the Nazarene as a theological renewal movement.) Presentation at the autumn meeting of the Vereins zur Freikirchenforschung (historical society of free churches in Germany) in Karlsruhe on September 11, 2016.
• “Growing Up in Luther’s Shadow.” Article in Holiness Today (May 2017). Kansas City: Nazarene Publishing House, 2017
• “Kirche des Nazareners (KdN)“ (article on the Church of the Nazarene) in Heinzpeter Hempelmann und Uwe Swarat (eds.), Evangelisches Lexikon für Theologie und Gemeinde, (Protestant Dictionary for Theology and Church.) 2nd edition. Witten: SCM Brockhaus, 2019.
• “Theodor Jellinghaus – Theologian of the Nineteenth Century Heiligungsbewegung in Germany: His Ecclesiological Concept.” A paper presented at the Annual Conference of the European Academy of Religion, Bologna (Italy), March 7, 2019
• “Christian Discipleship in a Time of Uncertainty.” A paper presented at the Eurasia Theology Conference in Kyrenia (Cyprus), November14, 2019
• “Life with God.” Article in Holiness Today (March-April 2021). Kansas City: Nazarene Publishing House, 2021
• “Kirche des Nazareners.” Article in Oekumenische Konfessions- und Kirchenkunde in Quellen (OEKKQ), ed. Katharina Brecht and Hacik Gazer, 2022
• “Liebe sitzt auf dem Thron, der das Innerste der Seele eines Gläubigen erfüllt; nämlich Liebe zu Gott und Menschen, die das ganze Herz erfüllt und alleine regiert.” Article for Wesley Projekt, 2022

Biography:

• Married, father of two daughters (and father-in-law to their husbands), grandfather to four grandchildren (2 boys, 2 girls)
• Pastoring three churches on Germany District of the Church of the Nazarene (Seligenstadt, Buesingen, Gottmadingen) for 10 years
• Serving at European Nazarene Bible College/European Nazarene College for 27 years as lecturer, administrative manager, and for 15 years as rector
• Serving the International Church of the Nazarene as Director of Global Education and Clergy Development since April 2020