Faculty

Dr. Tim Laniak, Old Testament Survey

Dr. Laniak served as a missionary in 15 countries in Europe, Asia and the Middle East, as the director of the International Fellowship House in Boston, and as a welfare housing manager for elderly immigrants in Brookline, MA. He launched the Urban Ministry Program at the Charlotte campus and directed it for eight years. Read more...

Dr. Rollin Grams, New Testament Survey

Born in South Africa to missionary parents, Dr. Grams has spent much of the past 20 years overseas as a missionary in theological education. Read more...

Dr. Catherine McDowell, Interpreting the Bible

Dr. McDowell comes to Gordon-Conwell from Wheaton College in Illinois, where she also taught Old Testament. Her teaching experience includes former positions at Gordon-Conwell and Harvard. As a graduate teaching fellow at Harvard, she taught classical Hebrew, Ancient Near Eastern history and archaeology. Read more...

 

Dr. Donald Fairbairn, Theology I

Dr. Fairbairn is the Robert E. Cooley Professor of Early Christianity. His responsibilities include further developing the Robert C. Cooley Center for the Study of Early Christianity at the Charlotte campus, which explores the historical foundations of the Christian faith. Read more...

 

Dr. Adonis Vidu, Theology II

Dr. Vidu came to Gordon-Conwell from his home country of Romania, where he had spent the past 10 years teaching, first at Emmanuel University and then at the University of Bucharest. Read more...

Dr. Frank James, Church History I

Dr. James is Professor of Historical Theology at Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary. Most recently he served as the third President of Reformed Theological Seminary/Orlando (2004-2009). He has two doctorates, a D.Phil. in History from Oxford University and a Ph.D. in Theology from Westminster Theological Seminary/Pennsylvania. Read more...

Dr. Garth Rosell, Church History II

Dr. Rosell taught church history at Bethel Theological Seminary for eight years before coming to Gordon-Conwell as Professor of Church History, Dean of the Seminary and Vice-President for Academic Affairs. Read more...

Dr. Xiyi (Kevin) Yao, World Mission of the Church

Dr. Yao came to Gordon Conwell with 10 years experience ministering in Hong Kong and mainland China. His career as a theological educator officially started in 2003, when he became an assistant (most recently associate) professor at the Department of Theological Studies, China Graduate School of Theology (CGST), located in Hong Kong. Read more...