Speakers

Confirmed Speakers

	Estrelda Alexander William Seymour College Estrelda Alexander is President of William Seymour College and Visiting Professor of Theology in the School of Divinity at Regent University in Virginia. She has written numerous books and articles on Pentecostalism, including Black Fire: One Hundred Years of African American Pentecostalism (IVP, 2011), The Women of Azusa Street (Seymour, 2005), and Limited Liberty: The Ministry and Legacy of Four Pentecostal Women Pioneers (Pilgrim, 2008).
	Allan Anderson University of Birmingham Allan Anderson is Professor of Global Pentecostal Studies at the University of Birmingham. He is a founding member of the European Research Network on Global Pentecostalism as well as the author of An Introduction to Pentecostalism: Global Charismatic Christianity (Cambridge, 2004) and Spreading Fires: The Missionary Nature of Early Pentecostalism (SCM & Orbis, 2007).
	Jeffrey W. Barbeau Wheaton College Jeffrey W. Barbeau is Associate Professor of Theology at Wheaton College. His writing and research focus on the intersection of Christianity, history, and literature during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Recent publications include articles on Methodism, as well as a monograph Coleridge, the Bible, and Religion (Palgrave Macmillan, 2008) and a forthcoming primary-source anthology on Christianity in Britain in the Baylor University Press “Documents of Anglophone Christianity.”
	Oliver D. Crisp Fuller University Oliver D. Crisp is Professor of Systematic Theology at Fuller University. Previously he held an academic appointment at the University of Bristol, UK. He has edited multiple books and has authored several other volumes, including Divinity and Humanity: The Incarnation Reconsidered (Cambridge University Press, 2007), Revisioning Christology: Theology in the Reformed Tradition (Ashgate, 2011), and Jonathan Edwards on God and Creation (Oxford University Press, 2012).
	Timothy George Beeson Divinity School, Samford University Timothy George is Dean and Professor of Divinity and History and Doctrine at Beeson Divinity School, Samford University. He serves on several advisory boards, including with Christianity Today, First Things, Harvard Theological Review, and Books & Culture. He has written more than twenty books, including his widely used Theology of the Reformers (Broadman, 1988), Reading Scripture with the Reformers (IVP, 2011), and Amazing Grace: God’s Pursuit, Our Response (Crossway, 2011).
	Gregory Lee  Wheaton College Gregory Lee is Assistant Professor of Theology at Wheaton College. He is an expert on Augustine and early Christianity. Recent publications include an article on Augustine’s City of God in Modern Theology.
	Matthew Levering University of Dayton Matthew Levering is Professor of Theology at the University of Dayton. He currently serves as the Director of the Center for Scriptural Exegesis, Philosophy, and Doctrine and co-editor of the International Journal of Systematic Theology. Recent publications include Jesus and the Demise of Death (Baylor University Press, 2012) and Christ and the Catholic Priesthood (Hillenbrand, 2010).
	Cherith Fee Nordling Northern Seminary Cherith Fee Nordling is Associate Professor of Theology at Northern Seminary. Her research and teaching emerge from expertise on Trinitarian theology. In addition to current work on a commentary on the book of Acts, she has recently published a monograph, Knowing God by Name (Peter Lang, 2010).
	Douglas Petersen  Vanguard University Douglas Petersen is the Margaret S. Smith Distinguished Professor of World Mission and Intercultural Studies and Director of the Judkins Institute for Leadership at Vanguard University. He is widely known for his work with faith-based community programs. Among his numerous publications is Not by Might, Nor by Power: A Pentecostal Theology of Social Concern (Hendrickson, 1991), which was named among the Outstanding Books of the Decade 1990–2000 by the International Bulletin of Mission Research.
	Geoffrey Wainwright Duke Divinity School Geoffrey Wainwright is Robert Earl Cushman Professor Emeritus of Christian Theology at Duke Divinity School. An ordained minister in the British Methodist Church, he has contributed to fostering global understanding of Christianity through his work with the World Council of Churches and other organizations. His publications include the noted systematic theology Doxology: The Praise of God in Worship, Doctrine, and Life (Oxford University Press, 1984) as well as the co-edited Oxford History of Christian Worship (Oxford University Press, 2005).
	Michael Welker University of Heidelberg, Germany Michael Welker is Professor of Systematic Theology at the University of Heidelberg, Germany. He is a widely sought after lecturer on a wide range of theological topics, including theology and the sciences. Recent publications include an edited volume The Spirit in Creation and New Creation: Science and Theology in Western and Orthodox Realms (Eerdmans, 2012) and What Happens in Holy Communion? (Eerdmans, 2000).
	Kevin J. Vanhoozer Trinity Evangelical Divinity School Kevin J. Vanhoozer is Research Professor of Systematic Theology at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School. A previous Senior Lecturer in Theology at the University of Edinburgh and Blanchard Professor of Theology at Wheaton College, his numerous publications include The Drama of Doctrine (Westminster John Knox, 2005) and Remythologizing Theology: Divine Action, Passion, and Authorship (Cambridge, 2012).
	Amos Yong Regent University Amos Yong is Dean of the School of Divinity and J. Rodman Williams Professor of Theology at Regent University, Virginia. A leading voice in Pentecostal theology, Yong has worked extensively on interfaith dialogue and the relationship between Christianity and the sciences. His recent publications include The Spirit of Creation: Modern Science and Divine Action in the Pentecostal-Charismatic Imagination (Eerdmans, 2011) and The Bible, Disability, and the Church (Eerdmans, 2011).