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Timothy C. Tennent, Ph.D.
Professor of World Missions and Indian Studies, Director of Missions
Programs, 1998.
B.A. (Oral Roberts University); M.Div. (Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary);
Th.M. (Princeton Theological Seminary); Graduate work in linguistics (University
of Georgia); Ph.D. (University of Edinburgh)
Prof. Tennent is the Professor of World Missions and Director of Missions Programs at Gordon-Conwell. He received his MDiv in 1984 from Gordon-Conwell, the Th.M. in Islamics from Princeton Theological Seminary, and did graduate work in linguistics (TESL) at the University of Georgia. He completed his Ph.D. in non-western Christianity with a focus on Hinduism and Indian Christianity in 1998 at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland.
Prior to coming to the Seminary, Dr. Tennent taught missions at Toccoa Falls College in Georgia, where he was honored as teacher of the year in 1995. In addition to his work at Gordon-Conwell, he continues to teach annually at the Luther W. New, Jr. Theological College of Dehra Dun, India, where he has served as an Adjunct Professor since 1989. He has also ministered and taught in China, Nigeria and Eastern Europe. Ordained in the United Methodist Church, he has pastored churches in Georgia and continues to preach regularly in churches throughout New England and across the country. His publications include articles in various missions journals and Indian publications. Dr. Tennent is the author of several books, including Building Christianity on Indian Foundations (ISPCK, 2000) Christianity at the Religious Roundtable (Baker Academic, 2002), and his newest book, Theology in the Context of World Christianity: How the Global Church is Influencing the Way We Think About and Discuss Theology, (Zondervan, 2007). He also is the co-author of a forthcoming book about challanges to theological education in North America, to be published by E.J. Brill in 2008.
Dr. Tennent's wife, Julie (Myers), also graduated from Gordon-Conwell with the M.E.M. degree in 1984. They have two children, Jonathan and Bethany.
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