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The Church of the Nazarene is a Christian denomination that emerged in North America from the 19th-century Wesleyan-Holiness movement within Methodism. It is headquartered in Lenexa within Johnson County,Kansas. With its members commonly referred to as Nazarenes,it is the largest denomination in the world aligned with the Wesleyan-Holiness movement and is a member of the World Methodist Council.
The Holiness movement is a Christian movement that emerged chiefly within 19th-century Methodism,and to a lesser extent other traditions such as Quakerism,Anabaptism,and Restorationism. The movement is historically distinguished by its emphasis on the doctrine of a second work of grace,generally called entire sanctification or Christian perfection and by the belief that the Christian life should be free of sin. For the Holiness movement,"the term 'perfection' signifies completeness of Christian character;its freedom from all sin,and possession of all the graces of the Spirit,complete in kind." A number of evangelical Christian denominations,parachurch organizations,and movements emphasize those beliefs as central doctrine.
The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to Christian theology:
Steven Jack Land,Ph.D.,a renewal theologian within the Pentecostal movement,began serving as the president of the Church of God Theological Seminary,now Pentecostal Theological Seminary,in 2002. He is the first president of the institution to have been selected from the seminary faculty. He began teaching full-time in 1979 and is currently Distinguished Professor of Pentecostal Theology.
J. Kenneth Grider was a Nazarene Christian theologian and former seminary professor primarily associated with the followers of John Wesley who are part of the Holiness movement.
The Wesleyan Quadrilateral,or Methodist Quadrilateral,is a methodology for theological reflection that is credited to John Wesley,leader of the Methodist movement in the late 18th century. The term itself was coined by 20th century American Methodist scholar Albert C. Outler.
The Nazarene Theological College (NTC),located in Didsbury,south Manchester,is an affiliated college of the University of Manchester. It offers theological degrees in various specialised disciplines across BA,MA,MPhil,and PhD. NTC has its roots in the Church of the Nazarene and belongs to the World Methodist Council.
Thomas Jay Oord is a theologian,philosopher,and multidisciplinary scholar who directs a doctoral program at Northwind Theological Seminary and the Center for Open and Relational Theology. He formerly taught for sixteen years as a tenured professor at Northwest Nazarene University in Nampa,Idaho and before that a philosophy professor at Eastern Nazarene College. Oord is the author or editor of more than thirty books and hundreds of articles. He is known for his contributions to research on love,open theism,process theism,open and relational theology,postmodernism,the relationship between religion and science,Wesleyan,holiness,Nazarene theology.
Gavin D'Costa is the Emeritus Professor of Catholic Theology at the University of Bristol. His academic career at Bristol began in 1993. D'Costa was appointed a visiting professor of Inter-religious Dialogue at the Pontifical University of Saint Thomas Aquinas,Rome.
Elaine L. Graham is the Grosvenor Research Professor at the University of Chester. She was until October 2009 the Samuel Ferguson Professor of Social and Pastoral Theology at the University of Manchester. In March 2014,she was installed as Canon Theologian of Chester Cathedral.
Jeremy Sutherland Begbie,BA,BD,PhD,LRAM,ARCM,is Thomas A. Langford Distinguished Research Professor of Theology at Duke Divinity School,Duke University,where he directs Duke Initiatives in Theology and the Arts. He is a systematic theologian whose primary research interest is the correlation between theology and the arts,in particular the interplay between music and theology. He is also an Affiliated Lecturer in the Faculty of Music at the University of Cambridge.
Dion Angus Forster is an academic and clergyman. He is an ordained Minister of the Methodist Church of Southern Africa,a theologian and author. He was formerly the Dean of the Seminary of the Methodist Church of Southern Africa,John Wesley College. Prof. Forster was the International Chairman of the 'EXPOSED –shining a light on corruption' campaign. He is Professor of Systematic Theology and Ethics,with a focus on Public Theology in the Faculty of Theology at Stellenbosch University. He serves as the Director of the Beyers NaudéCentre for Public Theology and the Chair of the Department or Systematic Theology and Ecclesiology at Stellenbosch University.
Paul Francis Knitter is an American theologian. He is currently an emeritus professor at Union Theological Seminary,where he has served as the Paul Tillich Professor of Theology,World Religions and Culture since 2007. He is also Emeritus Professor of Theology at Xavier University in Cincinnati,where he taught for 28 years before moving to Union. Knitter is known for his work on religious pluralism and multiple religious belonging,particularly regarding Buddhism and Christianity.
The Wesleyan Philosophical Society (WPS) is an academic society largely represented by academic institutions affiliated with Christian denominations in the Wesleyan tradition. Despite its primarily Wesleyan orientation,there has been increasing participation from scholars in Catholic,Orthodox,and other Protestant traditions. Likewise,there are no formal doctrinal or affiliational requirements for membership in the society or participation at its conferences. Anyone with an interest in philosophical subjects pertaining to conference themes is welcome to attend,regardless of his or her personal theological orientation or affiliation.
William James Abraham was a Northern Irish theologian,analytic philosopher,and Methodist pastor known for his contributions to the philosophy of religion,religious epistemology,evangelism,and church renewal. Abraham spent most of his career in the United States and was the Albert Cook Outler Professor of Wesley Studies at Perkins School of Theology at Southern Methodist University. He previously taught at Seattle Pacific University and was a visiting professor at Harvard Divinity School. Abraham was associated with the Confessing Movement in the United Methodist Church and was a proponent of canonical theism,a church renewal movement that looks to the canons of the ancient ecumenical church as a source for renewing mainline Protestant churches.
Paul David Loup Avis is an English Anglican priest,theologian,and ecumenist. He was General Secretary of the Church of England's Council for Christian Unity from 1998 to 2011,theological consultant to the Anglican Communion Office,London,from 2011 to 2012,and Canon Theologian of Exeter Cathedral from 2008 to 2013. He was honorary professor in the Department of Theology and Religion at Durham University 2017-2021 and Honorary Professor in the School of Divinity,University of Edinburgh 2022-. At the University of Exeter he was visiting professor of theology from 2009 to 2017 and is currently honorary research fellow. He is Director of the Centre for the Study of the Christian Church which organises occasional conferences and is linked to the journal Ecclesiology,published by Brill,of which he is Editor-in-Chief. He is the editor of the series Anglican-Episcopal Theology and History,also published by Brill. Avis was also a chaplain to Queen Elizabeth II,2008–2017.
David Oscar Moberg is an American Christian scholar,who is Emeritus Professor of Sociology at Marquette University. His areas of specialization included methodology in qualitative research,sociology of religion,sociology of American evangelicals,ageing and religion (gerontology).
Father Michael Himes was a priest of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Brooklyn,New York. Himes was a theologian at Boston College in Chestnut Hill,Massachusetts. He served as professor and academic dean of the Seminary of Immaculate Conception on Long Island,New York,and as associate professor of theology at the University of Notre Dame.
Practical theology is an academic discipline that examines and reflects on religious practices in order to understand the theology enacted in those practices and in order to consider how theological theory and theological practices can be more fully aligned,changed,or improved. Practical theology has often sought to address a perceived disconnection between dogmatics or theology as an academic discipline on the one hand,and the life and practice of the church on the other.
Digital theology or cybertheology is the study of the relationship between theology and the digital technology.
