Email: [email protected]
First Year at Gordon-Conwell: 2015
Expertise: Theology of Pastoral Ministry, Spiritual Formation, Biblical Exposition and Preaching, Evangelical Theology and History, Barth Interpretation
Biography:
A graduate of Denver Seminary and Cambridge University, Dr. Phil Thorne has taught courses in theology, spiritual formation, and church leadership at Biblical Seminary, LBC Graduate School, Phoenix Seminary, and Messiah College. Since 2015 he has served as adjunct faculty in the Doctor of Ministry program at Gordon-Conwell, mentoring several cohorts of Pastoral Theology in Practice, and recently, he has joined the Latino and Global Ministries program to teach Spiritual Formation for Ministry.
Dr. Thorne’s primary ministry passion is shepherding the local church. For twenty-one years he served as Senior Pastor of West Shore Free Church near Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, and until recently, he was the interim Senior Minister of Park Street Church in Boston. In semi-retirement he now focuses his energies on helping the next generation of pastors guide, nurture, and protect the flock under their care, and lead them in their mission to make disciples of all nations.
Phil and Cindi, his wife for more than four decades, live in central Pennsylvania near their children and grandchildren and just a stone’s throw from the Yellow Breeches, a wonderful trout stream in a beautiful part of the world.
Degrees
- BA (Haverford College)
- MA (Denver Seminary)
- PhD (University of Cambridge)
Select List of Publications
- Thursdays with Naomi: Stand Still and Look Until You Really See. Chicago: Moody Publishers, 2013.
- “Sabbath and Sacred Time.” In Welcoming God’s Presence. Mechanicsburg, PA: West Shore Free Press, 2013.
- Blessed Are You: Meditations on the Beatitudes (editor and contributor). Mechanicsburg, PA: West Shore Free Press, 2012.
- Evangelicalism and Karl Barth: His Reception and Influence in North American Evangelical Theology. Princeton Theological Monograph Series. Allison Park, PA: Pickwick Publications, 1995.