Faculty Expert Guide
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If you’re looking for an expert in the area of theology, we invite you to visit our Faculty and Auxiliary Faculty Directories to explore their areas of expertise.
Candace Kohli
- Luther and the sixteenth-century Reformations
- Lutheran theology
- Systematic and historical theology
- Socio-cultural impact and relevance of theology historically
- Medieval Scholastic and Nominalist theology
- Theological anthropology
- Pneumatology
- Political theology
- Distance learning initiatives
Esther Menn
- Biblical narratives of hope and courage through times of crisis
- Race, ethnicity and the Bible
- Jewish-Christian relations
- First-century Judaism as background for the New Testament
- World Christianity
Brooke Petersen
- Pastoral theology
- Religious trauma
- Clinical counseling
- Religion and psychology
- Faith, wellness and mental health
- Ritual studies
Barbara Rossing
- Apocalypse, Revelation, New Testament
- Archaeology
- Church and society
- Ecology
- Sexuality
- Peace and justice
Mark Swanson
- Christian faith and religious diversity
- The history of Christianity in Egypt; Middle Eastern Christianity; Christian Arabic studies
- Global Christianity (and the global Christian presence in North America)
- The history of Christian spirituality (early Egyptian asceticism: the so-called desert fathers and mothers.)
- Special expertise: “Cataloguing Arabic Manuscripts.” “Explaining Christian Faith in 13th-Century Egypt.” (see publication list)
- Buddhist diversity — in Southeast Asia, and in U.S. cities (Chicago, Austin; a sabbatical project led to Buddhist temples)
- The immigration history of Chicago neighborhoods as seen through their church buildings, especially on the South Side; places like Englewood or West Roseland,
Religious buildings of Chicago.
Linda Thomas
- Church and Society
- Sexuality and Theology
- Black Theology/Womanist Theology
- Theological Anthropology and the #BlackLivesMatter Movement
- Theologies of the Body
- Critical Race Theory
- The IDI Continuum
- Decolonial Methodologies
- Contemporary Constructive Theologies
Peter Vethanayagamony
- History of Christian Mission
- Missiology
- Christianity in Asia
- Modern Church History
- Immigrant congregations in the West
Marvin E. Wickware Jr.
- Black Liberation Theology
- Systematic Theology
- Christian Ethics
- Race and Christianity
- U.S. American Racial Reconciliation
- Affect Theory