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Bowen, John P.

Director of the Institute of Evangelism, Professor of Evangelism

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B.A., M.A., Cert.Ed. (Oxford), Dip.Th. (London), D.Min. (McMaster).

Before coming to Wycliffe College in 1997, John Bowen worked for many years with Inter-Varsity Christian Fellowship of Canada. He teaches courses on evangelism and culture, church planting, leadership, preaching, and evangelistic teaching, and brings to the classroom a particular interest in lay leadership, the spirituality of movies and the theology of C.S.Lewis and the Inklings. John's second responsibility at the College is to direct the Institute of Evangelism, which was begun in 1991 to provide resources in evangelism and congregational development for the church across Canada. In this capacity, he speaks and leads workshops at conferences for clergy and lay leaders. He also edits and writes for two series of booklets, one evangelistic (The Dare Booklets), the other practical manuals for church leaders (The Wycliffe Booklets on Evangelism). The Institute also produces good idea!, a twice-yearly magazine about congregational evangelism. Originally from Wales, John is married to Deborah, an English professor; they have two adult children.

Major Publications:
Evangelism for ‘Normal’ People(2002)

The Spirituality of Narnia (2007)

Phone:	416-946-3534
Email:	john.bowen@utoronto.ca

Donaldson, Terence L.

Lord and Lady Coggan Professor of New Testament Studies

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B.Sc.(Toronto), M.Rel., Th.M., Th.D. (Wycliffe), D.Cn.L. (Emmanuel & St. Chad).

After completing his doctorate in 1982 (at Wycliffe), Terry Donaldson taught for seventeen years in Saskatoon at the College of Emmanuel and St. Chad, the Anglican seminary on the campus of the University of Saskatchewan. In 1999, he returned to Toronto where he took up his present position in New Testament at Wycliffe College. His teaching and research interests include: Matthew; Paul; hermeneutics; Second-Temple Judaism; Gentilization of early Christianity, and early Christian-Jewish relations. As well as books, he has published about thirty-five journal articles or chapters, and many reviews. His current research project has to do with ethnicity, identity and the emergence of Gentile Christianity. As a scholar, he is fascinated with the process by which the early church, from its beginnings as an eschatological renewal movement entirely within the Jewish environment, developed within a century or so into a largely Gentile religion, separate and distinct from the synagogue. As a Christian educator and layperson, he is concerned to lead students (and others) to a richer appreciation of the gospel that stands at the heart and centre both of the Bible and of the grand and richly diverse tradition of the church. Outside work Terry enjoys banjo-playing, ballroom dancing, bread-baking, camping, and cycling. Terry and his wife Lois live in downtown Toronto and are members of St. Aidan's parish. They have two adult children and one grandchild.

Major Publications:
Jesus on the Mountain (1985)
Paul and the Gentiles (1997)
Religious Rivalries and the Struggle for Success in Caesarea Maritima (editor; 2000)
Judaism and the Gentiles (2007)
Jews and Anti-Judaism in the New Testament: decision points and divergent interpretations (2010).

Phone:	416-946-3537
Email:	terry.donaldson@utoronto.ca

Hayes, The Reverend Alan

Bishops Frederick and Heber Wilkinson Professor of Church History

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B.A. (Pomona), B.D., Ph.D. (McGill).

Alan Hayes has taught church history at Wycliffe since 1975, when he completed his Ph.D. in religious studies at McGill University, Montreal. His teaching and research specializations include Anglicanism, Canadian Protestantism, early Christianity, Reformation, and historiography. The public is welcome to visit his course materials, which he has published at his website. The historical theme which most interests him is the diversity of ways in which Christian institutions and spiritualities sometimes reflect and sometimes challenge the assumptions of their surrounding cultures. His most current research project is the history of theological education since the New Testament period. Alan is a member of the board of the Historical Society of the Episcopal Church, and an editor of Anglican and Episcopal History.He lives in Oakville, where he is honorary assistant priest at St. Simon's Anglican Church. On most Sundays, however, he can be seen slipping into worship services where no one knows him; he writes a column on these experiences for the Niagara Anglican. He is married to the Reverend Morar Murray-Hayes, the minister of Maple Grove United Church, Oakville, and they have two very clever, talented, and beautiful daughters and two rather homely and dim-witted dogs. He plays the piano better than he sings, prefers summer to winter, likes taking walks, and enjoys ballroom dancing.

Major Publications:
Anglicans in Canada: controversies and identity in historical perspective (2004)
The Parish and Cathedral of St. James', Toronto 1797-1997 (with others, 1998)
Church and Society in Documents A.D. 100-600 (1997)
By Grace Co-workers: building the Anglican Diocese of Toronto, 1780-1989 (editor and contributor, 1989)
Several entries for the Dictionary of Canadian Biography

Phone:	416-946-3532
Email:	alan.hayes@utoronto.ca
Website:	http://individual.utoronto.ca/hayes

Jervis, The Reverend Ann

Professor of New Testament; Advanced Degree Director

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B.A. (York), M.Div. (Queen's), Th.D. (Wycliffe/Toronto).

Ann Jervis has been teaching New Testament studies at Wycliffe since 1990. She has a cross appointment as Professor of NT at Wycliffe and Trinity College. Ann’s academic interests revolve around Paul and Paul’s world. She has published three books on Paul and several scholarly articles. She is currently writing a book for Eerdmans on Paul’s view of suffering and her next project is a book with Hendrickson on Paul’s ethics. She has also written and taught in the area of women in the early church. She has been an invited speaker at institutions and conferences in Europe, the United States and the Caribbean. She is a member of the Center of Theological Inquiry of Princeton and is involved in the Princeton Pastor-Theologian program, the purpose of which is to enable church leaders to think deeply about the Christian faith. Ann is an ordained priest in the Diocese of Toronto and an honorary assistant at Church of the Redeemer, Toronto.

Major Publications:
The Purpose of Romans: A Comparative Letter Structure Investigation (1991)
The Gospel in Paul: Studies on Corinthians, Galatians and Romans (1991) (co-editor).
Galatians (1999)

At the Heart of the Gospel: Suffering in the Earliest Christian Message(2007)

Galatians (2011)

Phone:	416-946-3539
Email:	a.jervis@utoronto.ca

Kupp, David

Professor of Pastoral Theology in Urban and International Development

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B.A. (Whitworth University), M.A. (Fuller Seminary), Ph.D. (University of Durham, UK)

David has been teaching Urban and International Development courses at Wycliffe since 2009. He is also senior partner at Kabisa International where he consults in international projects, community engagement models, and NGO strategy. David is into complex and integrated tapestries – seeking to interweave the academic, professional and practitioner worlds of social change, community development, aid and faith. He is an endless student in the art and science of action-research, citizen advocacy, contextual theology and community adult learning approaches. Over the past 30 years he has had opportunity to be a listener, facilitator, researcher, manager and trainer with organizations, church agencies and projects in 25 countries. In the past decade David also greatly enjoyed co-facilitating with his global team a series of innovation projects across the 97 national partners of World Vision International.

David has authored academic, professional and popular publications in the fields of biblical studies, poverty and theology, global issues, faith-based humanitarian organizations, urban transformation, community development, environment, gender and NGO management.

David is married to Ellen Ericson Kupp, Senior Partner at Kabisa International, where she consults in communications and organizational change projects with a range of local and international non-profits. They have three adult children. If you can’t find David, he’s somewhere in the city with a community project. Or he may have snuck off to his woodworking shop, or disappeared among the islands of Georgian Bay.

Malcolm, Wanda

Professor of Pastoral Psychology

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B.A. (Lakehead), M.A. (O.I.S.E.), and Ph.D. (York).

Wanda Malcolm is at Wycliffe half time where she teaches courses in self and pastoral care, pastoral psychology, and forgiveness and reconciliation. She also has a private practice in clinical psychology (www.wandamalcolm.com), and works with Dr. Leslie Greenberg (the founder of Emotion-Focused Therapy) to provide EFT training to counsellors in Hong Kong and Malaysia. They are curently co-authoring a book entitled " Forgiveness, Letting Go and Emotion-Focused Therapy".

As a clinician who teaches, Wanda brings to Wycliffe a particular interest in working with emotions as a means of intergrating being and doing, teaching practices of effective self and pastoral care, and fostering responsible leadership in the Church and wider community.

Recent publications:
Malcolm, W.et al. (ed.) Women's Reflections on the Complexities of Forgiveness. New York: Brunner-Routledge, 2007.

Malcolm, W. et al. "Facilitating forgiveness in individual therapy as an approach to resolving interpersonal injuries." In E. Worthington, Jr. (Ed.) The Handbook of Forgiveness. New York: Brunner-Routledge, 2005.

Mangina, Joseph

Professor of Systematic Theology,

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A.B. (Princeton), M.Div., Ph.D. (Yale).

Joseph, Professor of Systematic Theology, has taught at Wycliffe since 1998. Born and raised in New Jersey, he began his theological studies at Yale Divinity School. Two years of church work in the divided city of Berlin were followed by a return to Yale, where he completed a Ph.D. in systematic theology in 1994. His theological interests run the gamut from ecclesiology, biblical interpretation, Christianity and culture, to ecumenical theology. He serves on the Anglican-Roman Catholic dialogue commission for Canada. Joseph has written two books on the thought of Karl Barth and has recently published a theological commentary on the book of Revelation. He is the editor of Pro Ecclesia: A Journal of Catholic and Evangelical Theology. He and his wife, Dr. Elisa Mangina, attend the Church of St. Martin-in-the-Fields in Toronto, where she serves as assistant organist and choir director. They are the parents of two children.

Major Publications:

Revelation in the Brazos Theological Commentary series (2010)
Karl Barth: Theologian of Christian Witness (2004).
Karl Barth on the Christian Life: The Practical Knowledge of God (2001).
"After Mediating Theologies: Karl Barth Between Radical and Neo-Orthodoxy" Scottish Journal of Theology 56/04 (2003)

Phone:	416-946-3523
Email:	joseph.mangina@utoronto.ca

Power, Thomas

Adjunct Professor of Church History, Theological Librarian, Coordinator of Online Courses, and Coordinator of Internships MTS (Development)

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B.A., Ph.D. (Trinity College, Dublin), M.L.S. (Toronto), Certificate in Distance Education (Wisconsin-Madison).

Tom Power hails from Ireland where he was educated at Trinity College Dublin. He has taught history at the University of New Brunswick and the University of Toronto. He joined the faculty of Wycliffe College in 1998 as college librarian, and continues as theological librarian in the John W. Graham Library. As adjunct professor of church history his teaching interests focus on evangelical spirituality in the 18th century, Celtic Christianity, and Irish church history. He coordinates the web-enhancement of class-based courses and the development of online courses at Wycliffe. He is currently working on a new book provisionally entitled, Mines and Ministers: Religious Controversy in an Irish Mining Community, which deals with the impact of evangelicals on a copper mining community in mid-19th century Ireland. Tom enjoys Irish music and organizing walking/study tours in Ireland and Britain. He and his wife, Marlene, are the parents of two children.

Major Publications:
Guide For the Christian Perplexed (ed.) (2012)
Forcibly Without Her Consent: Abductions in Ireland, 1700-1850 (2010)
Converts and conversion in Ireland, 1650-1850 (co-editor & contributor) (2005)
“Publishing and sectarian tension in south Munster in the 1760s” Eighteenth-Century Ireland 18 (2004)
Land, Politics and Society in Eighteenth-Century Tipperary (1993)
Endurance and Emergence: Catholics in Ireland in the Eighteenth-Century (co-editor and contributor) (1990)
Entries in the Dictionary of National Biography (2004)

Phone:	416-946-3526
Email:	thomas.power@utoronto.ca

Radner, The Reverend Ephraim

Professor of Historical Theology

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AB (Dartmouth College), Ph.D. (Yale)

Prior to his appointment as Professor of Historical Theology, Rev. Dr. Radner, was rector of the Episcopal Church of the Ascension, Pueblo, Colorado, His range of ministerial experience includes Burundi, where he worked as a missionary, Haiti, inner-city Cleveland, and Connecticut. He has taught at seminaries in Connecticut and Colorado. In the Anglican Communion context he is a member of the Covenant Design Group. He is a violinist, hiker, and traveler. He is married to the Rev. Annette Brownlee, and they are the parents of Hannah and Isaac.

Major Publications

Reclaiming faith: essays on orthodoxy in the Episcopal Church and the Baltimore declaration (1993).

Inhabiting unity: theological perspectives on the proposed Lutheran-Episcopal Concordat (1995)

The rule of faith : Scripture, canon, and creed in a critical age(1998)

Hope among the fragments: the broken church and its engagement of Scripture (2004)

The fate of Communion: the agony of Anglicanism and the future of a global church (2006)

Leviticus (2007)

Spirit and Nature: the Saint Medard Miracles in 18th-century Jansenism (2002)

The World in the Shadow of God:an introduction to Christian natural theology (2010)

A Brutal Unity: the Spiritual Politics of the Christian Church (2012)

Phone:	416-946-3533
Email:	e.radner@wycliffe.utoronto.ca

Robinson, The Reverend Dr. Peter

Professor of Proclamation, Worship and Ministry

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B.Sc., M.C.S., Ph.D. – Christian Doctrine

Peter started in his current position in January 2011. He is ordained in the Anglican Church and has served in parishes in London, England, Mississauga, Ontario and Richmond Hill, Ontario. He has taught at Tyndale Seminary. His current research focuses on the relationship between theological anthropology, Trinitarian theology and ecclesiology. He enjoys bread making, kayaking, biking and sailing. He is married to Tiffany (a ThD candidate at Wycliffe) and they are the parents of Ben, Sofia and Anna.

Major Publications

“A Little Lower Than God: the Integrity and Dignity of Human Persons and Relationships” in: In Spirit and in Truth: the Challenge of Discernment for Canadian Anglicans Today (Vancouver: Regent College Publishing, 2009), eds. Catherine Sider Hamilton, Peter M.B. Robinson, George Sumner.

“The Trinity: the Significance of Appropriate Distinctions for Dynamic Relationality” in Trinitarian Soundings in Systematic Theology, ed. Paul Metzger. T&T Clark, November 2005.

"Cappadocian Distinctions on the Being of God", in Alive to the Love of God: Festschrift in Honor of James Houston, ed. (Regent College Publishing, 1998).

Phone:	416-946-3529
Email:	peter.robinson@wycliffe.utoronto.ca

Seitz, The Reverend Christopher

Senior Research Professor

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A.B. (North Carolina), M.T.S. (Virginia Seminary), S.T.M., Ph.D. (Yale)

Major Publications

Theology in Conflict: Reactions to the Exile in the Book of Jeremiah (Berlin and New York: Walter de Gruyter, 1989)

Zion's Final Destiny: The Development of the Book of Isaiah (Philadelphia: Fortress Press, 1991)

Isaiah 1—39: Interpretation Commentary Series (Louisville: Westminster John Knox Press, 1993; Japanese trans. 1996; 2^nd ed., 2003)

Word Without End: The Old Testament as Abiding Theological Witness (Grand Rapids, Mich.: Eerdmans Publishers, 1998)

Figured Out: Typology and Providence in Christian Scripture (Louisville: Westminster John Knox Press, 2001)

Isaiah 40—66: The New Interpreter's Bible (Nashville: Abingdon Press, 2001)

Prophecy and Hermeneutics: Toward a New Introduction to the Prophets (Studies in Theological Interpretation; Baker Academic, 2007)

The Goodly Fellowship of the Prophets: The Achievement of Association in Canon Formation (Baker Academic, 2009)

The Character of Christian Scripture: The Significance of a Two Testament Bible (Studies in Theological Interpretation; Baker Academic, 2011)

Colossians: The Brazos Theological Commentary Series (Grand Rapids: Brazos, in preparation)

Books edited

Reading and Preaching the Book of Isaiah, ed.(Philadelphia: Fortress Press, 1988)

Theological Exegesis: Essays in Honor of Brevard S. Childs, ed. (Grand Rapids, Mich.: Eerdmans Publishers, 1998)

Nicene Christianity: The Future for a New Ecumenism, ed.(Grand Rapids, Mich.: Brazos Press, 2002)

I Am The LORD Your God: Christian Reflections on the Ten Commandments ed. (Grand Rapids, Mich.: Eerdmans, 2005)

Canon and Biblical Interpretation, ed. et al. (Milton Keynes: Paternoster/Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 2006)

The Bible as Canon of the Church: Essays in Memorium Brevard S. Childs (Atlanta: SBL, 2013)

Christopher Seitz was Professor of Old Testament at Yale University and the University of St Andrews before coming to Wycliffe in 2007. He is an ordained Episcopal Priest and has served parishes in Texas, Connecticut, Pennsylvania, Germany, France and Scotland. He is also the President of The Anglican Communion Institute and Canon Theologian in the Episcopal Diocese of Dallas. He is the editor of Studies in Theological Interpretation and has published articles in The Journal of Biblical Literature, Zeitschrift fur die alttestamentliche Wissenschaft, Journal for the Study of the Old Testament, Vetus Testamentum, Theologishe Zeitschrift, Pro Ecclesia, Calvin Theological Journal, The Anchor Bible Dictionary, Religion in Geschichte und Gegenwart, Scottish Journal of Theology, Anglican Theological Review, and others. He has been a fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, the Luce Foundation, and the Center for Theological Inquiry. He has supervised numerous PhD students and has published over a dozen books on the interpretation of Old and New Testaments, and in the area of theological hermeneutics.

Phone:	416-946-3551
Email:	christopher.seitz@utoronto.ca

Sumner, The Reverend George

Principal and Helliwell Professor of World Mission

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B.A. (Harvard), M.Div., Ph.D. (Yale).

George Sumner, as Principal of Wycliffe College, assumes administrative duties, travelling and preaching on behalf of the institution, George also teaches missiology. He is currently working on an introduction to theology. George’s academic background is in systematic theology. He has served in various pastoral roles – as a missionary teacher in an evangelical Anglican theological college in Tanzania, as pastor on a native reserve, and as parish priest in a small town. He is an honorary assistant at St. Paul’s Anglican Church, Toronto. George and his wife Stephanie, a psychotherapist, have two children. He also enjoys playing squash and following the Boston Red Sox. Principal Sumner is a Canon to the Dioceses of Toronto and Saskatchewan.

Major Publications
The First and the Last: the Claim of Jesus Christ and the Claims of Other Religious Traditions (2004)

Unwearied Praises (2005) (co-author)

Being Salt: A Theology of an Ordered Church

Daniel, a Commentary in the Brazos Series (2012)

Phone:	416-946-3521
Email:	george.sumner@utoronto.ca

Taylor, The Reverend J. Glen

Professor of Scripture and Global Christianity; Basic Degree Director

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B.A. (Calgary), Th.M. (Dallas), M.Phil., Ph.D. (Yale).

Glen comes from Calgary where he acquired an early mentoring in preaching and a passion for a career in Old Testament studies. He is Wycliffe’s Associate Professor of Old Testament and Biblical Proclamation, as well as being cross-appointed to the Centre for the Study of Religion and in the Department of Near and Middle Eastern Languages and Civilizations at the University of Toronto. His research and teaching interests include ancient northwest Semitic languages (especially Hebrew and Ugaritic), Genesis, Psalms and Hosea, the worship of pagan gods in ancient Israel, and homosexuality and same-gender unions. Currently his research interests focus on biblical inspiration and the Christology of the Hebrew Psalter. Articles by Glen have appeared in The Journal for the Study of the Old Testament, Ugarit-Forschungen, and Biblical Archaeology Review. He was formerly a Barton Fellow at the Albright Institute of Archaeological Research in Jerusalem. He serves as an Anglican priest in a country parish north of the Muskokas in the summer. He is married to Marion Taylor, Wycliffe’s other Old Testament professor. They have three children.

Major Publications:
Ascribe to the Lord: Biblical & other studies in memory of Peter C. Craigie (1988) (co-editor)

Yahweh and the Sun: biblical and archaeological evidence for sun worship in ancient Israel (1993)

Commentary on the Book of Hosea in the Zondervan Illustrated Bible Background Commentary Volume 5 (2009)

Phone:	416-946-3541
Email:	glen.taylor@utoronto.ca

Taylor, Marion

Professor of Old Testament, Program Coordinator - MTS Urban and International Development

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B.A., M.A. (Toronto); M.Div. (Knox/Toronto), S.T.M., M.A., M.Phil., Ph.D. (Yale).

Marion Taylor was raised in Toronto and returned in 1986 to teach Old Testament at Wycliffe College following graduate studies at Yale University. Her doctoral thesis on the history of Old Testament studies at Princeton Seminary from 1820-1929 was supervised by Brevard Childs. Her interests in the history of the interpretation of the Bible continue, centering more recently on women interpreters of the Bible. In 2006 she published a collection of the writings of fifty forgotten women interpreters of the stories of women in Genesis, Let her Speak for Herself: Nineteenth-century Women Writing on Women in Genesis with Heather Weir. She co-edited Recovering Nineteenth-Century Women Interpreters, a volume of essays on nineteenth-century women interpreters with Christiana de Groot of Calvin College, published in the SBL's symposium series. Her Handbook of Women Biblical Interpreters: a historical and biographical guide (2012) provides an exciting new resource for those interested in the history of the reception of the biblical texts and theology. She is currently preparing anthologies of nineteenth-century women's writings on the women in the gospels and the women in Joshua and Judges. She has received several research grants to support her projects related to women interpreters of Scripture. She is married to Glen Taylor who also teaches Old Testament at Wycliffe College. They have three adult children. Marion loves to spend time reading, writing and walking their dog at their cottage in northern Ontario.

Major Publications:

The Old Testament in the Old Princeton School (1992)
Ezekiel (2002)

Let her Speak for Herself: Nineteenth-century Women Writing on Women in Genesis (2006 ) (with Heather Weir).
Recovering Nineteenth-Century Women Interpreters of the Bible (2007) (with Christina de Groot).

Handbook of Women Biblical Interpreters: a historical and biographical guide (2012) (with Agnes Choi).

Phone:	416-946-3542
Email:	m.taylor@utoronto.ca


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