School of Theology Faculty
Faculty Profiles
David Nienhuis
Assistant Professor of TheologyB.A., Seattle Pacific University, 1990; M.Div., Duke University Divinity School, 1996; Ph.D., University of Aberdeen, Scotland. At SPU 1999-2001, and since 2004.
Email: nienhuis@spu.edu
Phone: 206-281-2156
Office: Alexander 105
David Nienhuis has been connected with SPU in a variety of ways throughout the years. He received his undergraduate degree in 1990, after which he worked as an SPU staff member until 1993. Following the completion of his master of divinity studies at Duke University Divinity School, Professor Nienhuis returned to SPU as an adjunct faculty member (1998–2001). And after earning his doctorate at the University of Aberdeen, he assumed a full-time teaching post in 2004.
Dr. Nienhuis’ research interests lie at the intersection of several theological sub-disciplines – biblical studies, church history, doctrine, and Christian formation – that meet in a set of questions under the broad rubric of “canon” studies: What is the purpose of the Christian biblical canon? What factors occasioned its ancient emergence and construction? Does its final literary shape bear any hermeneutical significance?
Dr. Nienhuis’ primary teaching responsibility involves the three University Foundations courses of SPU’s Common cCurriculum (Christian Formation, Christian Scriptures, and Christian Doctrine). He is the author of Not by Paul Alone: The Formation of the Catholic Epistle Collection and the Christian Canon (Baylor University Press, 2007). He is married to a 1993 SPU alumna, and they have two children.
Please view Dr. Nienhuis’ C.V. for a list of publications.
What’s New
Looking Ahead
M.A./M.Div. applications for Spring Admissions are due Feb. 15.
Dr. Kenda Creasy Dean will be speaking at the Palmer Lecture, May 6-7.
She will also be speaking at the Church Leaders Forum, May 6.
Lilly Fellows Program Summer Seminar
Annual Events
Paul T. Walls Lecture in Wesleyan Theology
Alfred S. Palmer Lectureship
Ministry in the Wesleyan Spirit Conference