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Biblical Studies Department
David W. Baker, Professor of Old Testament and Semitic Languages
John Byron, Professor of New Testament and Greek
David A. deSilva, Trustees’ Distinguished Professor of New Testament and Greek
L. Daniel Hawk, Professor of Old Testament and Hebrew
Terence Mournet, Associate Professor of New Testament and Greek
William H. Myers, Professor of New Testament and Black Church Studies; Director of
Black Church Studies Program
Paul Overland, Professor of Old Testament and Semitic Languages
Mitzi J. Smith, Associate Professor of New Testament and Early Christianity
O. Kenneth Walther, Professor Emeritus of New Testament and Greek
Christian History, Theology and Philosophy Department
Paul W. Chilcote, Professor of Historical Theology and Wesleyan Studies; Director of
United Methodist Studies
Brenda B. Colijn, Professor of Biblical Interpretation and Theology
Jerry R. Flora, Professor Emeritus of Theology and Spiritual Formation
Wyndy Corbin Reuschling, Professor of Ethics and Theology
Dale R. Stoffer, Professor of Historical Theology
JoAnn Ford Watson, Professor of Christian Theology and Spiritual Formation
Eric Williams, Instructor of Constructive Theology
Practical Theology Department
Richard E. Allison, Professor Emeritus of Christian Education
J. Robert Douglass, Associate Professor of Worship and Music
Kevin Dudley, Associate Professor of Practical Theology
Walter J. Kime, Associate Professor Emeritus of Field Education
Matthew A. Lewis, Assistant Professor of Practical Theology; Director for Excellence in
Leadership
Marvin A. McMickle, Professor Emeritus of Homiletics
Dawn Morton, Instructor of Christian Formation
William P. Payne, The Harlan and Wilma Hollewell Professor of Evangelism and World
Missions
Ronald L. Sprunger, Professor Emeritus of Music
Michael B. Thompson, Associate Professor of Practical Theology
Terry Wardle, Professor of Practical Theology
Counseling Department
Tony Donofrio, Associate Professor of Counseling
Jerrolynn Johnson, Director of Detroit Counseling Program
Douglas M. Little, Professor Emeritus of Counseling
David P. Mann, Professor of Counseling ; Director of Counseling
Michael Reuschling, Professor of Counseling
Claudia J. Sadler-Gerhardt, Associate Professor of Counseling
Lee Wetherbee, Professor of Counseling
ADMINISTRATION, FACULTY (alphabetical listing)
Richard E. Allison
Professor of Christian Education, Emeritus
Education: A.B. Ashland University; M.Div. Ashland Theological Seminary; M.R.E.
Associate Mennonite Biblical Seminary; D.Min. Consortium for Higher Education
Religion Studies.
Denomination: Brethren Church.
Service: Pastor in Ohio, Pennsylvania, Indiana; Chaired the Denominational
Board of Christian Education; General Conference Moderator.
Research Interests: Discipleship, Adult Education, Brethren History, Spiritual
Formation, Architecture.
David W. Baker
Professor of Old Testament and Semitic Languages
Education: A.B., Temple University; M.C.S., Regent College; M.Phil., Ph.D.,
University of London.
Denomination: The Christian (Plymouth) Brethren; Brethren in Christ.
Service: Associate Professor, University of Durban-Westville, South Africa;
Senior Lecturer, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg; Assistant
Professor, Bethel College; Lecturer, Regent College; Pastor in British Columbia,
South Africa, and Ohio.
Research Interests: Semitic languages and linguistics; Exegesis of the
Pentateuch and the Minor Prophets; Ancient Near Eastern backgrounds of the
Old Testament; Pedagogical methodology; Leadership.
Elaine Bednar
Seminary Chaplain
Education: B.A., The Ohio State University; M.A., Ashland Theological Seminary
(Clinical Pastoral Counseling); D.Min., Ashland Theological Seminary.
Licenses: State of Ohio: Professional Clinical Counselor; Independent Chemical
Dependency Counselor III.
Denomination: Interdenominational.
Service: Formational prayer, basketball coach, mentoring of youth, mentoring
of seminary students.
Research Interests: Christians for Biblical Equality, Women in ministry and leadership,
spiritual formation, prayer as a vehicle of healing, addiction, Ohio rescue and restore, and
authentic Christian community. .
Matthew Bevere
Associate Dean, Doctor of Ministry Program
Education: B.A., Malone College; M.A./M.Div., Ashland Theological Seminary;
D.Min, Ashland Theological Seminary; Th.M., Duke Divinity School; Ph.D. coursework
in Systematic Theology, Duquesne University.
Denomination: United Methodist
Service: Adjunct Faculty, Pastoring Ohio and North Carolina, Director of Admissions
in Proprietary Education.
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