POSTGRADUATE PROSPECTUS - London School of Theology

LST 22WendySomervilleVisiting LecturerBA MSc MB ChB FRCPPrior to training in theologyand counselling Wendy wasa consultant physician involved in training doctorsand other professionals in New Zealand and theUK. She is also a BACP accredited counsellor/psychotherapist, currently running a private practicewith adult individual and couple clients, andproviding counselling supervision for individuals andgroups. Research interests include the experience ofcounsellors and therapists in training.On our MA in Integrative Psychotherapy Wendyis involved in the vital task of accompanyingour students as they integrate their faith andtheology with their experience and understandingas therapists.Max TurnerProfessor EmeritusMA PhD (Cantab) FRSAMax studied medicine andtheology at Cambridge andthen went on to completehis NT doctorate on Luke-Acts there. With theexception of a five-year secondment as lecturer inthe University of Aberdeen, he has been with LSTsince 1974. He returned from Aberdeen (1991)to become the Director of Research, then Vice-Principal (1996), and in 1998 became the School’sfirst lecturer to be recognised as Professor.His major books are on the Holy Spirit (Power fromon High and The Holy Spirit and Spiritual Gifts). Hehas also written Linguistics and Biblical Interpretation(with Peter Cotterell). He has supervised tocompletion and publication some 15 doctoral theses,and greatly enjoys the relationships such projectsinvolve.Max, a Baptist minister, has been a regular speakerat church training/conference venues and amember of EA’s Committee for Unity and Truthamongst Evangelicals.Kate VineVisiting LecturerBA (Brunel) MA (Brunel) PgD(Hertfordshire)Kate is a State Registered ArtTherapist with the HealthProfessions Council and is currently working inmainstream educational settings with children andyoung people. After initial studies in the visual artsshe gained postgraduate qualifications in theologybefore completing her professional training in ArtTherapy. She has experience of working in the fieldof adult mental health and learning disability.On our MA in Integrative Psychotherapy Kateparticularly relishes the opportunity to bring thetwo sides of her career and interests together,coming in as a Visiting Lecturer to run the modulein the Use of Art in Therapy.Steve WaltonSenior Lecturer in Greekand New TestamentStudiesBSc (Birmingham) MA(Cantab) PhD (Sheffield)Steve served on a church staff, in student ministrywith UCCF, advised people on God’s call with theChurch Pastoral Aid Society, was a househusband,a bishop’s chaplain, and lectured at Bedford Collegeand St John’s College, Nottingham. He came to LSTin 1999.Steve’s passion is to help others engage with theNT for themselves. He is therefore an enthusiasticteacher of Greek. Steve is interested in supervisingresearch students in New Testament, particularlyin the theology and critical study of Luke andActs, Mark, Jesus, and Paul (particularly, but notexclusively, Philippians and 1 and 2 Thessalonians).He also has interests in textual criticism,NT understandings of God, Christology andpneumatology, theological readings of Scripture(including biblical theology and hermeneutics),narrative criticism, the appropriation of the OT inthe NT, Greek grammar and syntax, and has alsojoint-supervised theses in Christian Muslim issues.Chris WigramAssociate Research FellowBA MA (CNAA)PhD (The Netherlands)Chris has taught both Englishand Religious Educationat secondary level, and worked for OperationMobilisation with OM ships. He then servedwith OMF in the Philippines. Up until 2008, Chriswas OMF International’s UK Director. He is nowthe International Director for European ChristianMission International (ECMI). Chris is interestedin Mission Studies especially the interfacebetween the use of the Bible and mission, howinfluential the Bible has actually been in thepractice of mission. The hermeneutics of mission,how different parts of the world read the Bible,how these challenge western theology and theimplications of this for Christianity worldwide.John WilksDirector of Open LearningBA MA (Keele) BA (CNAA)PhD (OU)John’s call to Christianservice took the form of ashift in subjects rather than careers. Initially trainedin music, taking prizes in International competitionsfor orchestral composition, he subsequentlystudied theology at LST and St John’s College,Nottingham. Now an Old Testament specialist, hisresearch focused on the structure of Isaiah 40-55.He prefers to maintain a diverse range of interests,however, and is as preoccupied with subjects suchas contemporary opera and minimalism as withthe evolution/creation debate, male (hetero-)sexuality and the development of monotheismin Ancient Israel. He is the author of the ‘DeeperEncounter’ series, a six-volume set of small groupstudy notes published by Scripture Union, and oneof the Editors for Evangelical Quarterly.RobertWilloughbyLecturer in New TestamentBA PGCE (Nottingham) BAMA (CNAA)Robert did his first degreein modern languages at Nottingham and went onto teach them at a large comprehensive school inDerby for four years. During this time he workedamongst Asian immigrants, which eventually ledhim to short-term service in India with OperationMobilization. He has served on several missionboards.A graduate of LST, Robert began teaching NewTestament here in 1984 and spent two yearsresearching John’s Gospel in Cambridge.Robert teaches the Bible and Social Transformationand Theology and Social Transformation on theMA course. He takes a keen interest in currentaffairs locally, nationally and internationally and isinvolved as much as time permits.Robert will consider supervising research into theNew Testament, especially into all aspects ofthe Gospels to MTh level. He is also interestedin supervising students in the field of social andpolitical theology, the theology of children and theinteraction of theology and the arts.LST5642 - Postgraduate Prospectus revise v8REPRO.indd 22 12/08/2011 12:33