Timothy Tennent will join the faculty of Beeson Divinity School in January 2025 after serving for 15 years as the president of Asbury Theological Seminary. He previously directed the missions programs at Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary from 1998-2009. He teaches courses in missiology, with degrees in Islam and Hinduism, with a focus on the Christian response in those contexts. He also has served for more than three decades as a regular adjunct professor of missions at the Luther W. New Jr. College in Dehra Dun, India. He has published many books, including Building Christianity on Indian Foundations, Christianity at the Religious Roundtable, Theology in the Context of World Christianity, Invitation to World Missions and For the Body: Recovering a Theology of Gender, Sexuality and the Human Body and Foundations of the Christian Faith. He also has a long interest in the Psalms, publishing with his wife Jule, a metrical psalter and a theological journey through the Psalms. He is ordained in the Global Methodist Church, served as a pastor in his early career and is married to Julie with two children, Jonathan, a CPA in Lexington, Kentucky and Bethany, a Bible translator and missionary in Tanzania.
Education
- PhD, University of Edinburgh
- ThM, Princeton University
- MDiv, Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary
- BA, Oral Roberts University
Books
- Foundations of the Christian Faith (Seedbed, 2021)
- For the Body (Zondervan, 2020)
- Invitation to World Missions (Kregel, 2010)
- Theology in the Context of World Christianity (Zondervan, 2007)
- Christianity at the Religious Roundtable (Baker Academic, 2002)
- A Metrical Psalter (Seedbed, 2017; revised, 2021)
Tennent blogs regularly at timothytennent.com
Involvement
- Board member, biblicaltraining.org
- Board member, Good News for India
