Education
Ph.D. (2010), Theology, University of St. Michael’s College, Wycliffe College
Thesis: “Encountering the Spirit: Pentecostal Mediated Experience of God in Theological Context”
M.T.S. (1998), Theology, Wycliffe College
Summative Exercise: “The Scope and Application of Salvation in the Pentecostal Assemblies of Canada – Doubts and Hopes: An Analysis of Articles Appearing in the Pentecostal Testimony”
B.A. (1994), Philosophy, York University
B.Th. (1992), Pastoral, Master’s College and Seminary
Courses
- Introduction to Reformed Worldview (CTS-110)
Research Interests
- Pentecostal Theology
- Worldview
Recent Publications
Book
Pentecostal Experience: An Ecumenical Encounter. Princeton Theological Monographs, 187. Eugene, OR: Pickwick, 2012.
Book Sections
“Experience: The Mediated Immediacy of Encounter with the Spirit.” Chap. 8 In The Routledge Handbook of Pentecostal Theology, edited by Wolfgang Vondey. Routledge Handbooks in Theology, 84-94. Abingdon, Oxon; New York: Routledge, 2020.
“Experience.” Brill’s Encyclopedia of Global Pentecostalism. Ed. Michael Wilkinson. Leiden: Brill, 2020.
“Spirit Baptism, Exclusion, and Emerging Adults: An Ecclesiological Approach to a Present Challenge.” In Pentecostal Preaching and Ministry in Multicultural and Post-Christian Canada, edited by Steven M. Studebaker. McMaster Ministry Studies Series, 149-85. Eugene: Pickwick, 2019.
“Spirituality.” In Handbook of Pentecostal Christianity, edited by Adam Stewart, 195-201. DeKalb, IL: Northern Illinois University Press, 2012.
Journals
“Whither Pentecostal Experience?: Mediated Experience of God in Pentecostal Theology.” Canadian Journal of Pentecostal-Charismatic Christianity 3 (2012): 1-40.
Reviews
“Lyman C. D. Kulathungam, God’s Quest: The DNA of the Judeo-Christian Community.” Pneuma 44 (2022): 151-53.
“Jacob Shatzer, Transhumanism and the Image of God: Today’s Technology and the Future of Christian Discipleship.” Pneuma 42 (2020): 581-83.
“Amos Yong, Spirit of Love: A Trinitarian Theology of Grace.” Pneuma 35 (2013): 38-39.
“Nimi Wariboko, The Pentecostal Principle: Ethical Methodology in New Spirit.” Toronto Journal of Theology 29.2 (2013): 441-442.
“Timothy J. Crutcher, The Crucible of Life: The Role of Experience in John Wesley’s Theological Method.” In Religious Studies Review 39.3 (2013): 155.
Conference Papers
“Pentecostal Mediated Immediacy: Overcoming Experience of God as Ecumenical Barrier.” Paper Presented at the Wesleyan-Pentecostal Symposium: The Role of Experience in Theology, Tyndale University College and Seminary, Toronto, ON, March 22, 2016
“Spirit Baptism, Exclusion, and Emerging Adults: An Ecclesiological Approach to a Present Challenge.” Paper Presented at Partners in the Spirit: Pentecostal Preaching and Ministry in Multicultural and Post-Christian Canada Conference, McMaster’s Divinity College, Hamilton, ON, January 29, 2016.
Member of response panel for L. William Oliviero, Jr.’s, Theological Hermeneutics in the Classical Pentecostal Tradition: A Typological Account. Presented at the 44th Annual Meeting of the Society for Pentecostal Studies, Lakeland, FL, March 12-14, 2015.
“Spirit Baptism in Communal Perspective: The Challenge of Traditioning Pentecostal Spirituality among Canadian Emerging Adults.” Paper Presented at the 43rd Annual Meeting of the Society for Pentecostal Studies, Springfield, MO, March 6-8, 2014.
“Whither Pentecostal Experience?: Mediated Experience of God in Pentecostal Theology.” Paper Presented at the 40th Annual Meeting of the Society for Pentecostal Studies, Memphis, TN, March 10-12, 2011.
