PhD/ICS Participants

Participants in the program enjoy mentoring relationships with faculty and peers.  Participants and faculty have regular fellowship and play games such as volleyball together.  Some are training together for the Chicago Marathon.  During the past ten years, the PhD program in Intercultural Studies at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School, Trinity International University has experienced an "astonishing rate of expansion" (International Bulletin of Missionary Research 27 (2003):99).  There are currently over 60 participants matriculated into the program.  A list of current TEDS PhD/ICS participants follows.

Participants Directory

Stages include: 1 - 1st year of coursework; 2 - 2nd year of coursework; 3 - proposal and comps writing stage; 4 - dissertation research/writing

 

 

Name /  E-Mail
Stage / Region of Interest

 

Dissertation Topic or Research Interests

   Olugbenga Akinbola
2 Nigeria

 

 

 

 

Andrew Anane-Asane
3  Ghana
Spirit reality in Contextual Theologizing in Ghanian Pentecostalism
  Ron Barber   rbarber@yhb.att.ne.jp
3   Japan
Effectiveness of Short-Term missions from the perspective of the receivers
  Cristian Barbosu
 

Azariah Bhupanipad Sunk   
3  India
 
  Jinsuk Byun   Felipebyun@hotmail.com
4   Latin America, Korea
Latin America area studies, Missionary training, Self-theologizing, Lesslie Newbigin's Missiology

Rochelle Cathcart   zrcathca@tiu.edu 
2    Southeast Asia

 

Education, contextualization, preaching

 

  Eunhye Chang
2    Ethiopia

 

 

 

Clive Chin   zcchin@tiu.edu 
3    East Asia, China
Contextual theologies, theology of religions, and interreligious dialogue
  Ethan Christofferson
4   Taiwan
 Hakka Chinese; Worldview change;  Ancestor veneration
  Terry Dischinger  terry@efcaim.org
4   Ukraine

The competencies of an effective cross-cultural church planter

 

  Mark Dominey
3   Northeast Asia (China, Japan, Koreas, Russian Far East)
 Linguistics, ethnography, area studies, and languages (Japanese, Mandarin, Russian, Korean). Leadership development process in church planting. Cell churches. North Korean culture. Current research: Zainichi Koreans (in Japan)
  Joo-Yun Eum   andreweum@yahoo.com 
4    Philippines
Correlation between long and short term missions; Quranic Studies; Islamic Theology
 

Nguchie Gathogo  
2  Kenya

 

 

 

 

Valentine Hayibor 
2  Ghana

 

Transforming Leadership

 

  Richard Hibbert   richard@ideateam.org
4   Turkic peoples of eastern Europe and Central Asia

The missionary role in catalyzing and nurturing movements of multiplying indigenous churches

 

  Sokpyo Hong   sokpyo@hotmail.com 
3    Asia; Asian minorities in the USA

Cultural engagement

 

  Ju-Hun Kim   kabraham@nate.com 
3   China
 Korean Diaspora in China

Ron Landers   ronlanders@aol.com
3   Europe
 Preparation and training for missionary effectiveness with a focus on cross-cultural internships
  Myunghee Lee   myungheel@hotmail.com
4    Korea, India
 

Migrant workers' churches in Korea
Stranger, hospitality and evangelism in a globalizing world
Theology of Mission
The goal of mission: maturity of believer and glory of God
Migration and evangelism

 

Thomas McElroy 
1    Spain

 

 

 

J. Rupert Morgan
3  Togo, West Africa 

 

The Anthropology of Conversion

 

Michael Nichols   
2   West Africa, Congo

 

 Youth in Congo

 

 

Timothy  Nyasulu   
3  Malawi

 

 

 

  Roy Oksnevad
3
 
  Solveig Omland
3
 
  Chiou-Lang Pan   zcpan1@tiu.edu
4    Taiwan, China
Theologizing the gospel into Taiwanese contexts
  Robert Paye
2   Liberia
 Building biblical bridges to West African tribal beliefs

Andrew Pflederer  zapflede@tiu.edu 
3   Albania

 

Suffering, Martyrdom

 

 

John Prasad
4  

 

 

 

 

Jonathan Ro   
2

 

 Globalization

 

  Jürgen Schuster   jschuster.js@web.de
4   Japan
The significance of the Kingdom of God in the theology of mission of Lesslie Newbigin
 

Dan Seeland   daseeland@msn.com 
3    Melanesia

 

Reciprocity and obligation; Melanesian worldview; Melanesian contextualized theologies

 

 

Kwang Sup Shin 
2  

 

 

 

 

Taesuk Song
4  

 

 

 

Young-Sub Song
1   Korea

 

 

 

 

Terrance Steele

 

 

 

 

Jason Tan 
2   Philippines, Korea

 

"A critical study of bribery and corruption in the Philippines

 

 

Richard Trull 
4  
 

 

Chin-Tzu Wang
3
 

  

David Wesley
3

 

 

 

Mark Westlind   mwestlind@northpark.edu
3   Latin America
Liberation theology; Church and culture; Mission strategies and methodology; Cultural dimensions of mission

 

Charles M. Woehr    Woehrchilefive@msn.com
4   Geographic region is Latin America, with emphasis in Chile
General Latin American themes, and Historical research. Dissertation research topic is the Evangelical church in authoritarian regimes (a historical look at Chile in 1973 and following)

 

Michael Lane Yoder   yoder@gbim.org
3   Europe

Religious pluralism in the urbanized, post-Christian West

 

 

Jung Yoon 
2   Korea

 

 

 

 

Alexander Zell   ajzell@sbcglobal.net 
4   Brazil
Multi-cultural teams; Syncretism; Contextual theologizing; Missions & money; Spiritual warfare; Linguistics & Bible translation; Mentoring & discipleship

 

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