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Sider Institute
Current Vita

J.E. McDermond                                 

Hostetter Chair of Religious Studies

Professor of Christian Ministry and Spirituality

Director of the Sider Institute for Anabaptist, Pietist and Wesleyan Studies

I have taught at Messiah College for twenty years, but I have also taught in England and Kenya.  I honestly believe I was created to teach, and I am grateful that I pursue this vocation at Messiah.  Every year I teach Christian Spirituality, Christian Theology II: Nature and Mission of Church, and Practicum.  Currently I am working on a commentary on 1-3 John. 

I would describe myself as a keen reader.  Professionally, my focus this year is on biographies of Christians, such as Mr. Rogers, Mother Teresa, and William Wilberforce.  And every one of N.T. Wright’s book have stimulated my thinking.  I highly recommend his works to you.  For pleasure reading I gravitate toward British writers, such as Ian McEwan and Joanna Trollope, and Ian Rankin’s crime fiction is first rate, in my opinion. 

I am an ordained minister in the Brethren in Christ Church, and I would describe my core theological orientation as “Pietist” with a strong overlay of “Anabaptism”.

 

Education:                                                                                                   Contact Information:

D.Min., 1998                                                                                                Messiah College

    Pittsburgh Theological Seminary                                                       Box 3053                                                      

M.Litt., 1987                                                                                                 E-mail: JMcDermo@messiah.edu

   University of Durham                                                                              Phone: (717) 796-1800 ext.3110

M.Div., 1979                                                                                                 Fax: (717) 796-4790   

   Associated Mennonite Biblical Seminaries                          

B.A., 1976                                                                                                                                

   Messiah College

 

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