KOINOS SEMINARS

Faculty

Miriam Adeney, BA, MA, PHD, is president-elect of the American Society of Missiology, professor (Seattle Pacific University), author, missionary and mother. She is also a contributing editor and member of the board of directors of Christianity Today. Her books include Daughters of Islam: Building Bridges with Muslim Women and God’s Foreign Policy: How to Help the World’s Poor.
Global Missions 101

Carl E. Armerding, BA, BD, MA, PHD, is a distinguished Old Testament scholar who served as a founding faculty member and second president of Regent College. He is emeritus professor, Schloss Mittersill Study Centre (Austria) and senior fellow of Oxford Centre for Mission Studies. Author of The Old Testament and Criticism and several commentaries, he co-edited A Guide to Biblical Prophecy and edited Evangelicals and Liberation.
Old Testament 101

W. Ward Gasque, BA, BD, MTH, PHD has invested his life in empowering the laity with good theology. He is the author of two books in the area of New Testament history, co-editor of four books of essays, and editor of two commentary series. He served as the first E. Marshall Sheppard Professor at Regent College. Currently, he is the English Ministries Pastor at Richmond Chinese Alliance Church.
Bible 101 and New Testament 101

Edna Grenz, CERTCE, BMUS, MMUS, DWS, is the Minister of Worship at First Baptist Church, Vancouver. A graduate of the Robert E. Webber Institute for Worship Studies, she has a passion for planning worship services that are both theologically sound and diverse in style. She has led workshops around the world and seeks to help believers in the less liturgical churches to appreciate the Christian calendar.
Christian Worship 101

Susan Phillips, BA, PHD, is Executive Director and Professor of Sociology and Christianity at New College Berkeley and teaches in the area of Christian spirituality at the Graduate Theological Union, San Francisco Theological Seminary, Fuller Theological Seminary, and Regent College. She is co-editor of The Crisis of Care: Affirming and Restoring Caring Practices in the Helping Professions and author of Candlelight: Illuminating the Art of Spiritual Direction.
Christian Spirituality 101

Archie Spencer, BTH, MTS, MDIV, THD, is Associate Professor of Theology at Trinity Western University and Associated Canadian Theological Schools (ACTS) and also holds the John H. Pickford Distinguished Chair of Theology at Northwest Baptist Seminary. He has authored a major monograph on ethics in the theology of the Swiss theologian, Karl Barth, and has published numerous articles in academic journals.
Christian Theology 101

Soo-Inn Tan, BDS, MDV, MTH, DMIN, is well-known Malaysian-Singaporean Bible teacher, writer, and encourager of younger Christian professionals to follow Christ in their vocations Monday to Friday as well as on the weekend. He is the author of Making Sense, Travel Mercies, and a new book on friendship, Friends in a Broken World. His website and e-commentary Grace@Work are read by thousands throughout Asia and around the world.
Christian Ministry 101

Donald Tinder, BA, MDIV, MA, MPHIL, PHD, is Professor of Historical Theology and coordinator of the PhD program at the Evangelical Theological Faculty (ETF) in Leuven, Belgium. Formerly Academic Dean and Professor at Tyndale Theological Seminary in the Netherlands, and adjunct professor at Olivet Theological Seminary, San Francisco, he is an authority on the history of evangelical Christianity. Many of his writings have appeared in Christianity Today, where he served as Associate Editor before moving to Europe.
History of Christianity 101

Jonathan Wilson, BA, MCS, PHD, is the author of the award-winning book, Why Church Matters: Worship, Ministry, and Mission in Practice; God So Loved the World: A Christology for Disciples; and Gospel Virtues: Practicing Faith, Hope, and Love in Uncertain Times. He is Pioneer McDonald Professor of Theology at Carey Theological College. Prior to his recent return to Vancouver (where began graduate studies and where he met his wife, Marti), he taught at Westmont College and Acadia Divinity College.
Christian Ethics 101