School of Theology Faculty

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Douglas KoskelaDouglas Koskela

Assistant Professor in Theology
B.A., Seattle Pacific University, 1995; M.Div., Duke Divinity School, 1998; Ph.D., Southern Methodist University, 2003. At SPU since 2001.

Email: kosked@spu.edu
Phone: 206-281-2261
Office: Alexander 207

Doug Koskela primarily teaches in systematic theology and in the University Foundations sequence. His areas of research interest include ecclesiology, theology of divine revelation, Wesleyan theology, and American Methodism.

Dr. Koskela is a member of the American Academy of Religion and the Wesleyan Theological Society, and he was a full member in the Twelfth Oxford Institute of Methodist Theological Studies (Oxford, U.K., August 2007). He is also active in the Canonical Theism project, a collaboration of scholars across the theological disciplines aimed at recovering the full riches of the Christian tradition to revitalize theology and the life of the church.

Dr. Koskela is the author of one book and a number of articles and book chapters; an ordained elder in the Pacific Northwest Conference of the Free Methodist Church; and an active member at First Free Methodist Church of Seattle. He and his wife live in Seattle.

Selected Publications:
  • Ecclesiality and Ecumenism: Yves Congar and the Road to Unity, Milwaukee, WI: Marquette University Press, 2008.
  • “The Authority of Scripture in Its Ecclesial Context,” in Canonical Theism: A Proposal for Theology and the Church, edited by William J. Abraham, Jason E. Vickers, and Natalie B. Van Kirk, Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans Publishing, 210-223.
  • “‘Crucified to the World’: Suffering, Itinerancy, and Transitions in American Methodist Ecclesiology,” Wesleyan Theological Journal 43:1 (2008), 22-34.
  • “The Divine-Human Tension in the Ecclesiology of Yves Congar,” Ecclesiology: The Journal for Ministry, Mission, and Unity 4:1 (2007), 88-106.
Please view Dr. Koskela’s C.V. for additional publications.

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