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CATS Faculty

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David W. Augsburger
Professor of Pastoral Counseling
Pastoral counseling, cross-cultural counseling, conflict studies, pastoral care, reconciliation, forgiveness, anger, prejudice, and hatred
 
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James E. Bradley 
Geoffrey W. Bromiley Professor of Church History
Church and state in the modern era, the English enlightenment, American evangelicals, and spirituality in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries
 
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Mark Lau Branson
Homer L. Goddard Associate Professor of Ministry of the Laity
Intercultural life and congregations, urban church redevelopment, practical theology
 
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Grayson L. Carter 
Associate Professor of Church HistoryModern European church history, modern English history, history of evangelicalism, C.S. Lewis, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, and history of Christian spirituality 
 
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Chapman R. Clark 
Professor of Youth, Family, and Culture
Youth culture, youth and family ministry, parenting, leadership and teamwork, spiritual formation
 
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Scott Cormode 
Hugh De Pree Associate Professor of Leadership Development
Leadership and leadership development, organizational administration, the use of technology
 
Oliver Crisp 
Professor of Systematic Theology
Systematic theology, analytic theology, philosophical theology, historical theology, hamartiology, Christology, soteriology, the theology of Jonathan Edwards, the theology of William Shedd, Reformed theology.
 
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John Andrew Dearman
Director and Associate Dean for Fuller Texas and Professor of Old Testament
Old Testament, biblical studies, history and archaeology of the Ancient Near East
 
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David J. Downs 
Assistant Professor of New Testament Studies
Pauline epistles, Gospels, Biblical theology, New Testament Greek exegesis, Greek epigraphy, voluntary associations, wealth and benefaction in the Greco-Roman world
 
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William A. Dyrness 
Dean emeritus and Professor of Theology and Culture
Cross-cultural theology, theology of culture and the visual arts
 
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John Goldingay 
David Allan Hubbard Professor of Old Testament
Old Testament theology and ethics, Old Testament hermeneutics, Pentateuch, Isaiah
 
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Joel B. Green 
Professor of New Testament Interpretation
Biblical hermeneutics, theological interpretation, Luke-Acts, 1 Peter, James, the significance of Jesus’ death, the interface of science and theology.
 
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Christopher B. Hays 
D. Wilson Moore Assistant Professor of Ancient Near Eastern Studies
The Old Testament in its ancient Near Eastern context; ancient Near Eastern languages and history; new critical perspectives such as literary theory and postcolonialism; ways in which comparative and theological approaches to Scripture are compatible
 
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Mignon R. Jacobs 
Associate Professor of Old TestamentOld Testament theology of hope, Old Testament ethics, minor prophets, Pentateuch 
 
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Todd E. Johnson 
William K. and Dolores S. Brehm Associate Professor of Worship, Theology, and the Arts
Liturgical and sacramental theology, liturgical history, ritual studies, and spirituality
 
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Robert K. Johnston 
Professor of Theology and Culture
Theology and film/literature, contemporary evangelicalism
 
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Veli-Matti Kärkkäinen 
Professor of Systematic Theology
Pneumatology, ecclesiology, ecumenical theology, W. Pannenberg's Theology, theology of mission
 
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Seyoon Kim 
Associate Dean for the Korean Doctor of Ministry Program and Professor of New Testament
Paul, synoptic Gospels, Jesus, New Testament Christology
 
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J. R. Daniel Kirk 
Assistant Professor of New Testament
Paul, Jesus in the Synoptic Gospels, New Testament’s use of the Old Testament, Mark, New Testament ethics, narrative theology, intertestamental history and literature
 
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Mark A. Labberton 
Lloyd John Ogilvie Associate Professor of Preaching and Director of the Lloyd John Ogilvie Institute of Preaching
Preaching, hermeneutics, leadership, worship, social justice
 
Hak Joon Lee 
Professor of Theology and Ethics
Christian ethics, Martin Luther King Jr., public theology, Reformed theological ethics, globalization, Asian American theology and ethics
 
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Howard J. Loewen 
Dean of the School of Theology and Professor of Theology and EthicsSpiritual and ecumenical formation, Anabaptist-Mennonite theology, Karl Barth Studies
 
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Juan F. Martinez 
Associate Dean for the Center for the Study of Hispanic Church and Community and Associate Professor of Hispanic Studies and Pastoral LeadershipLatino Protestantism, Anabaptism in Latin America, pastoral ministry in multicultural settings, and leadership development
 
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Richard J. Mouw 
President of Fuller seminary and Professor of Christian Philosophy
Social ethics, the philosophy of culture, and theological higher education
 
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Nancey Murphy 
Professor of Christian Philosophy
Modern and contemporary philosophy, integration of theology and science, theological methodology, and the philosophy of religion
 
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Richard V. Peace 
Robert Boyd Munger Professor of Evangelism and Spiritual Formation
Evangelism, spiritual formation
 
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Cecil M. Robeck Jr.
Director of the David du Plessis Center for Christian Spirituality and Professor of Church History and Ecumenics
Ecumenics, origins and development of global Pente-costalism
 
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Charles J. Scalise  
Professor of Church HistoryEarly church history, theological hermeneutics, history of doctrine, pastoral theology
 
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Pamela J. Scalise  
Associate Professor of Old TestamentProphets, Old Testament theology
 
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Clayton J. Schmit 
Arthur DeKruyter/Christ Church Oak Brook Associate Professor of Preaching
Preaching, worship, liturgy, composing, conducting liturgical music
 
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Love L. Sechrest 
Assistant Professor of New Testament
Pauline theology, second temple Judaism, theological ethics, racial and ethnic studies, cultural hermeneutics, Christian and Jewish interfaith dialogue
 
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Glen H. Stassen 
Lewis B. Smedes Professor of Christian Ethics
Method for concreteness in Christian ethics, theological ethics, biblical ethics, justice, peacemaking
 
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John L. Thompson 
Professor of Historical Theology and Gaylen and Susan Byker Professor of Reformed Theology
History of exegesis, Calvin, early modern gender studies
 
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Marianne Meye Thompson 
George Eldon Ladd Professor of New Testament
Jesus and the Gospels, Johannine literature and theology
 

Senior CATS Faculty 

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Leslie C. Allen
Senior Professor of Old Testament
Prophets and writings, especially from the perspectives of textual criticism, redaction criticism, and rhetorical criticism
 
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Colin Brown 
Professor of Systematic Theology
Christology and the quest of the historical Jesus, theological method
 
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Donald A. Hagner 
George Eldon Ladd Professor Emeritus of New Testament and Senior Professor of New Testament
Matthew, Hebrews, first-century Judaism, Pauline theology, the Apostolic Fathers
 
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Ralph P. Martin 
Distinguished Scholar in Residence
Liturgical interests in the New Testament and beyond
 
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Russell P. Spittler 
Provost Emeritus and Senior Professor of New Testament
Anatomy of sectarian piety, particularly in the charismatic Corinthian church