Bethel Seminary
Faculty and Administration of Bethel Seminary
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- Administration and Staff
- St. Paul Faculty
- San Diego Faculty
- Seminary of the East Faculty
- Emeriti
- Trustees
The faculty of Bethel Seminary are dedicated to the task of educating men and women for church vocations. All teaching faculty hold earned doctorates and several have pursued postdoctoral studies at leading universities. Most have served as pastors, executive pastors, associate pastors, missionaries, or have held crucial positions in ministry agencies. Their background of ministerial experience is invaluable as they guide students in their theological studies. Faculty associates are carefully selected on the basis of their ministry expertise and teaching credentials.
Faculty continually avail themselves of opportunities for professional growth through sabbatical leaves for study, participation in professional societies, research, publication of significant scholarly books, and teaching in cross-cultural settings. These activities enrich and empower the professors’ chief task: teaching. The ethos of learning seeks to create a faculty-student relationship in which the professor and the student both share in the learning experience, challenging the learner to be a creative and resourceful thinker, and providing a foundational experience of learning that will become the basis of continued growth in Christian leadership. Different personalities, educational backgrounds, and methods combine to create a varied pattern of theological instruction. Moreover, classroom instruction is combined with frequent opportunities for counseling and informal fellowship.
Bethel professors are active church people who render many services in the local church and in the wider framework of the District and General Conferences. Their responsibilities take the form of elective office, board membership, teaching, consultative service, assistance in pastoral placement, editing of Christian education materials, archival responsibility, continuing education courses for ministers, and a variety of speaking appointments.