Faculty & Staff in the Faculty of Theology
Faculty of Theology Office
Dean of Theology:
The Rev. William J. Danaher, AB, M.Div., MA, M.Phil., Ph.D.
wdanaher@uwo.ca
(519) 438-7224, ext. 289, Rm. A225
Assistant to the Dean of Theology:
Sandra Rice, BA, B.Ed.
srice@uwo.ca
(519) 438-7224, ext. 289, Rm. A227
Teaching Faculty & Staff:
William, Acres, BA (UWO), Ph.D. (Cambridge)
Comparative Religions & Church History
Office & phone extension: V134, ext. 608
Email: wacres@uwo.ca
Dr. Bill Acres has completed The Burghley Letters for the Transactions of the Royal Historical Society, and is working on the completion of a monograph "Officers and Stations: The Creation of Military Culture in Late-Elizabethan England, 1579-1603; and has begun work on Images and Ideology: Religious and Secular Nationalism in Europe, 1600-1870. He has also been working with others on the creation of a computational database program for the mapping of knowledge networks in historical communities, for which the group has received a New Research and Scholarly Initiatives Major Award fr om UWO and SSHRC. He is giving papers this year in Paris, Granada, Chicago, and at UWO (Law and Governance in England, 1350-1800). Among other recent work, he has authored several articles and a forthcoming book on Sir Robert Cecil, Sir Robert Cecil and "Britain," 1588-1603. A member of several Diocesan committees, he is organizing a conference for 2008 associated with the Diocese of Huron's 150th anniversary.
Adjunct, Field Education
Office & phone extension: A216, ext. 292
Email: kander82@uwo.ca
Gary D. Badcock, BA, MA (Memorial), BD, Ph.D. (Edinburgh)
Systematic Theology, Philosophy, Ethics, Chair of Graduate Program
Office & phone extension: A219, ext. 288
Email: gbadcock@uwo.ca
Gary studied philosophy at Memorial University and theology at the University of Edinburgh. He has taught at the Universities of Aberdeen (1991-92) and Edinburgh (1993-99), and at Huron since 1999. His teaching spans the areas of Christine doctrine, philosophical theology, and ethics. In addition to a series of shorter essays in these fields, Gary has written Light of Truth and Fire of Love: A Theology of the Holy Spirit, and The Way of Life: A Theology of Christian Vocation. He has also recently completed an ecclenology under the title, "The House Where God Lives." He lives in London with his wife, Susan and two daughters, Hannah and Mairi.
The Rev. William J. Danaher, AB (Brown), M.Div. (Virginia Theological Seminary), MA, M.Phil., Ph.D. (Yale)
Dean of Theology, ethics
Office & phone extension: A225, ext. 289
Email: wdanaher@uwo.ca
William Danaher is an ordained priest in the Anglican Church in Canada. He received the A.B. fr om Brown University (1988), the M.Div. from Virginia Theological Seminary (1994), and the M.A., M.Phil., and Ph.D. from Yale University, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (2001, 2002). Prior to coming to Huron, he served as Associate Professor of Christian Ethics at The General Theological Seminary (New York City, NY) and Associate Professor of Theology and Ethics at the University of the South (Sewanee, TN) from 2000-2006.
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on J. Hamilton, BA (Brown), MTS, MA, Ph.D. (Harvard)
Professor Emeritus
The Rev. Chris Kelly, M.Div. (Huron)
Director of Liturgical Formation
Office & phone extension: A216, ext. 292
Email: mailto:ckelly64@uwo.ca
Mona Tokarek LaFosse, BRE (Columbia Bible College), BA (Waterloo), MA (Laurier), Ph.D. (Toronto)
Sessional Instructor, New Testament Language & Literature
Office & phone extension: A223, ext. 287
Email: mlafosse@uwo.ca
Tracy Lemos, BA (Brown), Ph.D. (Yale)
Hebrew Bible and Ancient Near-Eastern Language and Literature
Office and phone extension: A218, ext. 258
Email: tlemos@uwo.ca
A scholar of the Hebrew Bible, Tracy Lemos is a social and cultural historian specializing in ancient Israel and early Judaism. Her first book is entitled Marriage Gifts and Social Change Ancient Palestine: 1200 BCE to 200 CE (Cambridge University Press). She is working on a second book on masculinity in ancient Israel and has written articles on such topics as shame and mutilation, Israelite purity, eunuchs in the ancient Near East, and gender and migration. These have appeared in the Journal of Biblical Literature, The Journal of Religion, and in various edited volumes. She was previously an Assistant Professor at Rhodes College in Memphis, Tennessee.
William Lupton, FGCM, FNCM, FGMS, FASC, LTCL, LRSM, ACertCM
Chapel Organist & Director of Music
Office & phone extension: A2b, ext. 335
Email: blupton@uwo.ca
William Lupton is organist and director of chapel music at Huron and organist and director of music at St Martin in the Fields, London. He is National President of the Royal School of Church Music Canada and Administrator for the RSCM Singing Awards.
Darren Marks, B.Sc., MA (Toronto), D.Phil. (Oxford)
Lecturer and Graduate Faculty
Office & phone extension: A319b, ext. 279
Email: dmarks@uwo.ca
Dr. Darren C. Marks holds degrees in science and theology from the University of Toronto and advanced degrees in theology from the University of Oxford. He has also studied at the Friedrich Wilhelms Universitat (Bonn) under Prof. Dr. G. Sauter. He is the author of over a dozen articles in systematic theology and the author/editor of several texts in theology. His primary research area is contemporary systematic theology, although his doctoral work dealt with nineteenth-century German Protestant theology. Dr. Marks is currently the North American Review Editor for the Journal of Anglican Studies and has forthcoming works on Global Theology and his Justifying God: A Theology of Sin.
The Rev. Bradley Morrison, B.A. (UWO), M.Div. (Toronto-Emmanuel), M.T.S., M.Th., D.Min. (Laurier--Waterloo Lutheran), R.M.F.T.
Adjunct, 2010-11, Pastoral Theology
Office & phone extension: A319a, ext. c/o 289
Email: bmorri49@uwo.ca
Brad Morrison is an ordained minister serving Grace United Church in Sarnia. A registered marriage and family therapist (AAMFT clinical member), he studied pastoral care and counselling, congregational dynamics, and marriage and family therapy at Waterloo Lutheran Seminary. Brad chairs the Institute for Specialized Ministries.
Jennifer Pfenniger, B.Th. (Canadian Mennonite University), BA (Manitoba), M.Div. (Winnipeg), Ph.D. (St. Michael's College, Toronto)
Adjunct, Biblical Hebrew
Office and phone ext.: A319c, ext. 198
Email: jpfennig@uwo.ca
Jennifer Pfenniger is a scholar of Hebrew Bible and Biblical Hebrew and teaches courses at Huron in Introductory and Intermediate levels of Biblical Hebrew, calling attention to literary and linguistic nuances of texts.
Her research has focused on reading the Hebrew Text of the Song of Songs using the hermeneutic of the Song’s lexical recurrences, especially in the form of epithets. This interpretive strategy, unique within the Song’s interpretive history, clarifies significantly the particular characters and discourses between them within the Song, and consequently, identifies two main women characters, and one man. Dr. Pfenniger’s manuscript, The Art of Beholding: Lexical Recurrence in the Song of Songs, is currently under review for publication.
Domenic Ruso
Adjunct 2010-11, Church History
Office and phone extension: A319a, ext. 609
Email: druso@uwo.ca
Lecturer, Field Education
Email: c/o srice@uwo.ca
A practising psychiatrist for some 40 years, Jo Ann's passion lies in seeing the whole of the human story--spiritual, psychological, social and physical--behind both patient presentations and the literary works which comprise the Hebrew and Christian Testaments in their original languages and cultures. Jo Ann has also taught Biblical Studies in the Lay Certificate Program. Jo Ann is an active member of the United Church of Canada.
Daniel A. Smith, BA (Waterloo), M.Rel. (Wycliffe), Ph.D. (U. of St. Michael's College)
Associate Professor and Clark and Mary Wright Chair of New Testament Theology
Office & phone extension: 2011-12, Sabbatical
Email: dsmith89@uwo.ca
Dan Smith teaches in the areas of biblical Greek, biblical exegesis, the Synoptic Gospels, the letters of Paul, and apocalyptic literature. Areas of research interest include the Sayings Gospel Q, Life of Jesus Research, and Christian Origins. Dan is the author of several articles published in scholarly journals (including Theological Studies, Studies in Religion/Sciences Religieuses, and Novum Testamentum), and also of the monograph The Post-Mortem Vindication of Jesus in the Sayings Gospel Q, (London; New York: T & T Clark International, 2007). He is currently working on a book entitled Revisiting the Empty Tomb: Narrative and Theological Developments in the Empty Tomb Stories. Dan and his family live in London and are members of the Anglican Church of Canada.
Judy Steers
Director of Ask & Imagine
Ask & Imagine Program website
Email: steers@interlog.com
Judy has been the director of Ask & Imagine since it began in 1999. She is a professional Anglican lay worker in youth ministry, educational ministries, consulting, and leadership formation. She also works as the Coordinator for Youth Initiatives for the Anglican Church of Canada and has been an adjunct professor of Christian Education in the Faculty of Theology at Huron.
John Thorp, BA (Trent), B.Phil., D.Phil. (Oxford)
Graduate Faculty
Office & phone extension: TC437 (at UWO), (519) 661-2111, ext. 85767
Email: jthorp@uwo.ca
John Thorp studied at Upper Canada College, at Trent University, and at Oxford. His first academic appointment was at the University of Ottawa, wh ere he was chair of the Classics department. In 1992, he moved to UWO, wh ere he has been chair of the Philosophy department. His research bears mostly on ancient and late antique thought, chiefly on Aristotle and on his neoplatonic interpreters, though he has also written on the free will problem and its intersection with neurophysiology. In 2003, he was awarded UWO's Pleva Award for excellence in teaching. The Government of France has made him Chevalier dans l'ordre des palmes academiques. He is President of the Canadian Philosophical Association. John is an active member of the Anglican Church of Canada.
The Rev. Canon Todd Townshend, B.Sc. (Waterloo), M.Div. (UWO-Huron); Th.D. (Toronto-Wycliffe)
Field Education & Contextual Theology
Office & phone extension: A219, ext. 251
Email: ttownshe@uwo.ca
Todd is Canon Theologian for the Diocese of Huron. His current research is focused on "the sacramentality of preaching"--the relationship between liturgical preaching and sacramental grace. Related interests include: the theological interpretation of Scripture, preaching and doctrine, contemporary homiletical theory, and theologies of grace.
The Rev. G. Alistair Weir, MA, BD, Ph.D. (Edinburgh)
Professor Emeritus, New Testament Language & Literature
Office:
Email: gweir@uwo.ca
Ordained to the ministry of the Church of Scotland, Alistair has taught Greek and New Testament studies in universities in Scotland, Africa, and America as well as at Huron. He is a member of the Society for New Testament Studies and has collaborated in the International Greek New Testament Project.
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