JOHN L. DRURY SYSTEMATIC THEOLOGY
DENOMINATION: The
EDUCATION: Ph.D.
student, Princeton Theological Seminary; M.Div., Princeton Theological
Seminary, 2004; B.A.,
DISSERTATION:
Resurrection as Transition: The Significance of Easter in Barth’s Church Dogmatics
HONORS AND AWARDS: Princeton Theological Seminary:
Doctoral Fellowship in Theology, 2005-2009, The Archibald Alexander Hodge Prize in Systematic Theology,
2003, Seminary Fellowship
2001-2004; Indiana Wesleyan University: The
Divisional Award, 2000, Correl
Scholarship, 2000, Gallimore
Memorial Scholarship, 2000, J.
Hanley Award, 1999, Academic
Award, 1997-2001
MEMBERSHIPS: Wesleyan
Theological Society,
TEACHING EXPERIENCE: Princeton Theological
Seminary: Teaching Assistant for “History and Theology of the Liturgical Year”
Fall 2005; Somerset Christian College: “Foundations of Christian Faith” Spring
2006; “Sin, Salvation, and the Savior” Fall 2005, “New Testament Survey,” Fall
2004, Spring 2005, “Interpreting the Book of Revelation” Spring 2005; Indiana
Wesleyan University: “Biblical Interpretation” (online master’s program) Fall
2005; “New Testament Survey” May Term 2005, Summer Session I 2005, Teaching
Assistant for Jim Lo “New Testament Survey,” Spring 1999; FLAME: “Advanced
Theology: The Doctrine of the Trinity” March 2006
OTHER PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE: Olivet Wesleyan Church,
Glassboro, NJ: Supply Pastor August 2005 – present; Nassau Presbyterian Church,
Princeton, NJ: Junior High Sponsor and Worship Leader, September 2003 - May
2004; Crosspointe Community Church, Monmouth Junction, NJ: Worship Team,
September - December 2003; Spring Lake Wesleyan Church, Spring Lake, MI:
Pastoral Intern, Summer 2003; Trenton First Church of the Nazarene, Trenton,
NJ: Pastoral Intern, 2002-2003; Keystone Wesleyan Church, Indianapolis, IN:
Worship Leader 1999-2000; College Wesleyan Church, Marion, IN: Youth Intern,
2000-2001, Celebration Service Leadership Team, Spring 1999, Collegiate
Ministry Sunday School Coordinator, Fall 1998, Small Group Leader, Fall 1997 -
Fall 1998; Indiana Wesleyan University: Cox Apartments, Resident Assistant,
2000-2001, Summer Honors, Resident Assistant, 1999, 2000, Starving Theologians,
Facilitator, 2000-2001, Hodson Hall, Resident Assistant, 1999-2000, Student
Government, Vice President for Academic Affairs, 1999-2000, Student Government,
Senator, 1998-1999
PUBLICATIONS AND
PRESENTATIONS: “Karl Barth’s Exegesis of Hebrews in CD IV/1” panel presentation
at the Center for Barth Studies conference May, 2006; “Hell and Hope in
Balthasar: The Substitutionary Character of Christ’s Decent into Hell” Koinonia Journal (2006); Forthcoming
Review of J. Warren Smith, Passion and Paradise: Divine and Human Emotion in
the Thought of Gregory of Nyssa Theology Today 63 (2006); “Toward an
Emergent Ecclesiology” Princeton
Theological Review (Dec 2005); “Gregory of Nyssa’s Dialogue with Macrina:
The Compatibility of Resurrection and Immortality” Theology Today 62:2 (2005); “Luther and Wesley on Union and
Impartation: Reopening the Dialogue in Light of Recent Finnish Luther Research”
Wesleyan Theological Journal 40:1
(2005); “Newman’s Challenge to a Holiness Ecclesiology” Wesleyan Theological
Society, Annual Meeting 2005; “Christus
totus and Testimonies” Wesleyan Theological Society, Annual Meeting 2004;
“The Tenses of Salvation and the Meaning of Faith” Fall Colloquium, Division of
Religion and Philosophy, Indiana Wesleyan University, 2000
TEACHING INTERESTS:
Basic Christian Doctrine, Systematic Theology, Classical and Contemporary
Theologians, History of Doctrine, Wesleyan History and Theology, Philosophy,
Ethics, Church History, New Testament, Old Testament
READING LANGUAGES:
Greek, Latin, Hebrew, German, French
REFERENCES: Ellen T.
Charry, George Hunsinger, Bruce L. McCormack, Daniel Migliore, Kenda Dean
(Princeton Theological Seminary); C. L. Bence, Judy Huffman, Steve Lennox,
Kenneth Schenck (Indiana Wesleyan University); David Stefan (Somerset Christian
College); Richard Eckley (Houghton College)