Join us November 5, 7:00-9:00pm, for the next In the Chair theology symposium.
Dr. Marty Folsom will be presenting on the legacy of 20th Century Theologian Karl Barth, and how his theology offers unique, bold, and illuminating gifts to churches.
Drs. Archie Spencer and Michael Morelli will provide a response, and Katie Austring will be moderating.
We will be meeting in the Northwest Media Classroom in the Fosmark Centre on Trinity Western Campus and online. Free registration is below.
PhD (Otago, NZ) is a Relational Theologian, specializing in the theology of Karl Barth and T. F. Torrance. He has been lecturing for 36 years in theology and Biblical Studies in the Seattle Area, New Zealand and online. He has worked in education in five churches, trains leaders for Young Life, and has been doing therapy for 26 years. HE is the author of the Face to Face trilogy (Wipf & Stock), the Karl Barth's Church Dogmatics for Everyone 5 volume series (Zondervan), is publishing The Psalms: A Sanctuary for the Soul 5 volume series (Morehouse). He lives on Camano Island with his wife, Cindy, five children, and 4 granddaughters.
Archie Spencer has been teaching at ACTS, NBS and TWU for over two decades and occupies the John H. Pickford Chair of Theology. He has published two books, including his substantial treatment of theological method in The Analogy of Faith, (IVP 2015). He has developed an international reputation as a theologian specializing in the theology of Karl Barth, Modern Theology and has expertise in 3rd and 4th century Alexandrian Theology. He was born and raised in the Pentecostal context and has recently published a co-authored review article of Frank Macchia’s magisterial systematic theology set to appear in Pneuma, as well as numerous other articles and reviews.
Michael Morelli is the Associate Professor of Theology & Ethics at Northwest College & Seminary and ACTS Seminaries. Both are affiliates of Trinity Western University. He’s also an adjunct professor of theology of at Trinity’s Religious Studies and Nursing Schools.
He has a PhD in Theological Ethics from the University of Aberdeen, Scotland and is the author of Theology, Ethics, and Technology in the Work of Jacques Ellul and Paul Virilio: A Nascent Theological Tradition (Lexington Books) and editor of Desert, Wilderness, Wasteland, and Word: A New Essay By Jacques Ellul and Five Critical Engagements (Pickwick).
Katherine J. Austring is a PhD candidate in the Divinity Research program at the University of Aberdeen. She co-authored a review article on Dr. Frank D. Macchia’s recent systematic theology for Pneuma: The Journal of the Society for Pentecostal Studies. With a background in Pentecostalism, she earned her BA in Religion from Vanguard University of Southern California and her MA in Biblical Studies and Christian Thought from Trinity Western University. Her research focuses on the intersection of German Idealist philosophy and pneumatology with special interest in Karl Barth.