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John Drane

John Drane

Affiliate Professor of Theological Studies

Ph.D. (University of Manchester, England)
M.A. (University of Aberdeen, Scotland)

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Bio

John Drane has spent much of his adult life wrestling with the challenge of being a Christian in a rapidly changing culture, and has written many books and articles on missional topics as well as two best-selling books on the Bible which have been translated into more than ninety languages. He is also co-chair of the Mission Theology Advisory Group of the Archbishops’ Council of the Church of England and of Churches Together in Britain and Ireland, and a Fellow of St John’s College, Durham, England. He is married to Olive Fleming Drane and they regularly work together in theological education.

Publications

“Resisting McDonaldization: will Fresh Expressions of church inevitably go stale?”, in Viggo Mortensen & Andreas Osterlund Nielsen (eds), Walk Humbly with the Lord: Church and Mission engaging Plurality (Eerdmans 2011), 150-166; Introducing the Old Testament, 3rd ed (Fortress Press 2011); Introducing the Bible 2nd ed (Fortress Press 2011); Introducing the New Testament, 3rd ed (Fortress Press 2010);The World of the Bible (Lion 2009); After McDonaldization: Ministry, Mission & Christian discipleship in an age of uncertainty (Baker Academic 2008); Celebrity Culture (Rutherford House 2006); Do Christians know how to be Spiritual? (DLT 2006); The McDonaldization of the Church (Smyth & Helwys, 2002); Cultural Change and Biblical Faith (Paternoster, 2000); What is the New Age Still Saying to the Church? (Harper Collins, 2000); Faith in a Changing Culture (London: HarperCollins, 1997); Editor, The New Lion Encyclopaedia of the Bible (Lion, 1998); Looking at Evangelism from the Inside Out (Administry, 1997); Paul: Libertine or Legalist? (SPCK, 1975).