The Full-Time Religion Faculty
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| The Revd. Dr. Terence
J. Kleven, associate professor of religion, history, and Biblical Hebrew,
earned his B.A. degree at the University of Calgary in Alberta, Canada,
and his M.A. and Ph.D. at McMaster University in Ontario. He was ordained as an
Anglican priest
in 1996. He has also studied or held fellowships at the University of Toronto,
Boston College/Harvard University, and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and
most recently has spent a year doing research in Cairo, Egypt.
His teaching specialties are Old Testament, Biblical archaeology, Christian
worship, Islam, and Biblical Hebrew. |
| Thomas A. Kopecek,
professor of religion and history, holds the B.A. degree from
Hamilton College in Clinton, New York, and the Ph.D. from Brown University
in Providence, Rhode Island. He has also studied at Yale Divinity School
and has done post-doctoral research at Harvard Divinity School and the
Episcopal Divinity School in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He has held research
fellowships from the Woodrow Wilson Foundation, the American Council of Learned Societies, and the National
Endowment for the Humanities and teaches in the areas of New Testament
and early Christianity, modern Christian theology and Christology, and Asian
religions.. |
| David E. Timmer, professor
of religion and history, received his B.A. at Calvin College and his Ph.D. from
the University of Notre Dame in South Bend, Indiana. He was a junior fellow at
the Ecumenical Institute for Theological Research in Jerusalem, has twice been
visiting professor at Central College in Yucatan, Mexico, and is a co-editor of
Perspectives: A Journal of Reformed Thought. His teaching areas are the history of Christianity, Christian personal
and social ethics, and Judaism. |
Adjunct Faculty in the Christian Ministries
Concentration
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| The Revd. Joel Brummel,
Chaplain of Central College, graduated from William Penn College in Oskaloosa,
Iowa, and received his Master of Divinity Degree from New Brunswick Theological
Seminary in New Jersey. After many years of service in the parish ministry
he was appointed the Chaplain of Central College in 1999. He coordinates
a required 'Pre-Ministerial Seminar' in the Christian Ministries option
within the Religion Major at Central. |
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The Revd. Dr. Norman Kolenbrander holds a B.A. from
Central College, a M.Div. from Western Theological Seminary in Holland,
Michigan, and a DMin. (Doctor of Ministry) from Drew Theological Seminary in New
Jersey. He is an ordained minister in the Reformed Church in America (RCA), has
served parishes in New York, New Jersey and Illinois, and has served as
chairperson of the RCA Worship Commission. Dr. Kolenbrander has participated extensively in the
Princeton Summer Institute of Theology sponsored by Princeton Theological
Seminary in New Jersey and frequently in
the International School that New
Brunswick Seminary, an RCA school, sponsors in the Netherlands with Theological
Faculty from the Universities of Utrecht, Leiden, and Amsterdam.
Dr. Kolenbrander specializes in Old Testament
studies.
Email Dr. Kolenbrander |
| The Revd. Dr. Steve Mathonnet-Vanderwell |
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The Revd. Robert DeYoung. Revd. DeYoung teaches New Testament
Greek.
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