Dr. Pardue’s interest in Christian theology began in thriving Filipino churches where he was baptized and discipled as a child. There he witnessed firsthand the transformative and liberating power of the Christian faith and wanted to understand it better. Motivated by a love for Scripture as words of life, he studied ancient languages and biblical exegesis in college, then pursued graduate work in systematic theology. After a decade of study in the United States, he returned to the Philippines in 2012 to serve the Filipino and wider Asian church through theological education. Alongside his academic work, Dr. Pardue loves working with the local church to help Christians deepen their faith and widen their vision for cross-cultural partnership and ministry.

Dr. Pardue envisions evangelical theology as a discipline that equips the church for faithful witness and missional service through studious attention to what God has said and done in Scripture and in Christ. His teaching and scholarship wager that theologians do their best work when they stand among the great multitude of Revelation 7:9. This means learning to converse with Christian communities around the globe and engaging the Christian tradition as we seek to discover and declare the riches of God’s work in Christ (Eph 4:12–13). Dr. Pardue is the author or editor of a dozen books, including Why Evangelical Theology Needs the Global Church (Baker Academic, 2023; Christianity Today Award of Merit, Missions/Global Church), Majority World Theology (IVP Academic, 2020), Asian Christian Theology (Langham, 2019), and The Mind of Christ: Humility and the Intellect in Early Christian Theology (T&T Clark, 2013). He is also the series editor for the Foundations in Asian Christian Thought series (Langham). His next major project is a theological commentary on the Acts of the Apostles for T&T Clark’s International Theological Commentary series.

Dr. Pardue will join the faculty of Litfin Divinity School in July 2027 after 15 years of service at the Asia Graduate School of Theology and International Graduate School of Leadership in the Philippines, where he most recently served as Professor of Theology and Director of the ThM/PhD in Theological Studies. He is accepting applications for PhD students in the area of Systematic Theology.

Wheaton College

Ph.D., Systematic Theology, 2012

M.A., Historical and Systematic Theology, 2007

B.A., Ancient Languages, 2006

• Theological Method
• Theological Interpretation of Scripture
• Contextual Theologies
• Ecclesiology
• Virtue and Theological Formation

• Member, Evangelical Theological Society
• Member, American Academy of Religion
• Associate Publications Secretary, Asia Theological Association
• Fellow, Every Voice Kingdom Diversity
• Member, Doctoral Impact Team, International Council for Evangelical Theological Education (ICETE)
• Member, Lausanne Theology Working Group
• Ambassador, Center for Theological Inquiry in Asia

Center for Theological Inquiry in Asia

BOOKS

Acts of the Apostles in the International Theological Commentary series (T&T Clark, under contract, due 2030).

Retrieving Humility: Ancient Christian Wisdom for Modern Discipleship (Cascade, 2026).

Why Evangelical Theology Needs the Global Church (Baker Academic, 2023), winner of Christianity Today “Award of Merit” in “Missions/Global Church” category for 2024.

Editor, with Gene L. Green and K. K. Yeo, Majority World Theology (IVP Academic, 2020).

Editor, with Timoteo D. Gener, Asian Christian Theology: Evangelical Perspectives (Langham, 2019).

Editor, with Gene L. Green and K. K. Yeo, All Things New: Eschatology in the Majority World (Langham, 2019).

Editor, with Gene L. Green and K. K. Yeo, The Church from Every Tribe and Tongue: Ecclesiology in the Majority World (Langham, 2018).

Editor, with Rico Villanueva, Jesus Among the Nations: Christology in Asian Perspective (ATA Publications, 2017).

Editor, with Gene L. Green and K. K. Yeo, So Great a Salvation: Soteriology in the Majority World (Eerdmans, 2017).

Editor, with Gene L. Green and K. K. Yeo, The Spirit over the Earth: Pneumatology in the Majority World (Eerdmans, 2016).

Editor, with Gene L. Green and K. K. Yeo, The Trinity among the Nations: God in the Majority World (Eerdmans, 2015).

Editor, with Gene L. Green and K. K. Yeo, Jesus without Borders: Christology in the Majority World (Eerdmans, 2014).

The Mind of Christ: Humility and the Intellect in Early Christian Theology (T&T Clark, 2013).

Series Editor, Foundations in Asian Christian Thought (Langham Global Library, 2019-present)

ESSAYS AND JOURNAL ARTICLES

“Pride: Greek and Latin Patristics,” in Encyclopedia of the Bible and Its Reception, ed. Breed et al. (Berlin: De Gruyter, 2026).

“Humility,” in Brill Encyclopedia of Early Christianity, ed. Tarmo Toom et al. (Leiden: Brill, 2018).

With Steve Porter et al., “Religious Perspectives on Humility” in Handbook of Humility: Theory, Research, and Applications, ed. Everett L. Worthington, Don E. Davis, and Joshua N. Hook (New York: Routledge, 2016), 47–61.

“What Hath Wheaton to Do with Nairobi? Toward Catholic and Evangelical Theology,” Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society 58.4 (2015), 757–70.

With Timoteo D. Gener, “Global Theology: Where to From Here?” in God at the Borders: Globalization, Migration, and Diaspora (Manila, Philippines: OMF Literature, 2015).

“Kenosis and Its Discontents: Toward an Augustinian Account of Divine Humility,” Scottish Journal of Theology 65.3 (2012), 271-88.

“On Faithfully Knowing an Infinite God: Intellectual Humility in Gregory of Nyssa’s Contra Eunomium II,” International Journal of Systematic Theology 13 (2011), 62–76.

“Athens and Jerusalem Once More: What the Turn to Virtue Means for Theological Exegesis,” Journal of Theological Interpretation, 4 (2010), 295–308.

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