Dennis P. Hollinger
DENNIS P. HOLLINGER, Ph.D.
President, Colman M. Mockler Professor of Christian Ethics, 2008
Dip. (Moody Bible Institute); B.A. (Elizabethtown College), M.Div. (Trinity Evangelical Divinity School); M.Phil., Ph.D. (Drew University); postdoctoral studies (Oxford University)
Dr. Hollinger joined Gordon-Conwell from Evangelical Theological Seminary (ETS) in PA, where he had served as President and Professor of Christian Ethics since 2004. He brings to his post at Gordon-Conwell extensive academic and administrative experience. Prior to assuming the presidency of ETS, he served for seven years as Vice Provost, College Pastor and Professor of Christian Ethics at Messiah College, Grantham, PA. He also served as Associate Professor of Church & Society and Preaching at Associated Mennonite Biblical Seminary, Elkhart, IN, and as Assistant and Associate Professor of Church & Society at Alliance Theological Seminary, Nyack, NY. In addition, he has served as a visiting and adjunct professor at seminaries in the U.S. and in Ukraine, Russia and India.
Dr. Hollinger has also served as a full-time pastor at several churches. He was pastor of Washington Community Fellowship, an urban church in the nation’s capital; pastor of the Evangelical Free Church of Blairstown, NJ; and youth pastor of the Congregational Bible Church, Marietta, PA. He held interim pastoral and preaching positions in Indiana and New York.
Dr. Hollinger presently serves on the Board of Directors of the C.S. Lewis Institute, Washington, D.C., and on the Medical Ethics Committee of Holy Spirit Hospital, Camp Hill, PA. He is also a Fellow of the Center for Bioethics and Human Dignity. In the past, he served on the Board of Reference for Trinity International University, and the Board of Trustees for Eastern Mennonite University & Seminary, Harrisonburg, VA.
He speaks extensively in the U.S. and internationally, particularly on social ethics and bioethical issues and has done consultation in the U.S. and Ukraine. He is the author of four books and has written more than 65 articles in books, scholarly journals and popular venues. He has also co-edited four books in the Critical Issues in Bioethics series for Eerdmans Press.
Dr. Hollinger is married to Dr. Mary Ann Hollinger, who most recently served as Dean of External Programs and Assistant Professor of Family Studies at Messiah College. They have two adult daughters, Daphne and Naphtali.
Dr. Dennis P. Hollinger’s Publications
Books
• The Meaning of Sex: A Framework for the Moral Life (Baker Books, 2009)
• Head, Heart, and Hands: Bringing Together Christian Thought, Passion and Action (InterVarsity Press, 2005)
Being translated into Korean
• Choosing the Good: Christian Ethics in a Complex World (Baker Books, 2002)
• Individualism and Social Ethics: An Evangelical Syncretism (University Press of America, 1983)
Articles
Dr. Hollinger has written dozens of popular and scholarly articles. These articles have appeared in publications such as the Journal of the Evangelical Homiletics Society, Christian Education Journal, Christian Scholar’s Review, Trinity Journal, AMBS Bulletin, Reformed Journal, Voices, Chrysalis, the Lancaster Sunday News, Knowing and Doing, The Christian Ministry, Psychology for Living, the C.S. Lewis Institute Report, and Gospel Herald. His most recent articles have been “Pleasure: Good or Bad?” Sunday News, Lancaster, PA. March 30, 2008, Section P, 5 and “The World in Which We Preach: The Shifting Context of Homiletics.” The Journal of the Evangelical Homiletics Society, March 2007, 7-(1), 38-53.