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Douglas (Jake) Jacobsen Distinguished Professor of Church History and Theology It is good to be back at Messiah after a sabbatical in the spring of 2007 where I had the opportunity to visit, among other places, China, Australia, and Romania. Wow! What an amazing world this is. Here at Messiah, I mostly teach classes about Christian history and Christianity around the world, and I am presently spending a good deal of my time writing a new book about the global church called The World’s Christians: Who The Are, Where They Are, and How They Got There. I also dabble in theology, philosophy, social theory, and a range of other fields of study and those different interests all flowed into another book I just co-wrote with my wife (Rhonda Hustedt Jacobsen, who teaches psychology at Messiah). It’s called The American University in a Postsecular Age and it will be published in January 2008. During the past decade, I have devoted a lot of energy to the study of American Pentecostalism, a movement which I find fascinating and sometimes spiritually instructive, even though I am not a Pentecostal myself. Education: Contact Information: Ph.D., 1983 Messiah College The University of Chicago Box 3053 The University of Chicago Phone: (717) 796-1800 ext.3020 B.A., 1973 Fax: (717) 796-4790 Wheaton College |
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