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F. Douglas Powe Jr.
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E. Stanley Jones Associate Professor of Evangelism and Associate Professor of Black Church Studies
Education
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PhD, Emory University
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MDiv, Candler School of Theology
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BA, Ohio Wesleyan University |
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My research in evangelistic theology and practices informs my teaching in these
areas by helping students reflect upon the theology in forming their evangelism.
My goal is to prepare students for various ecclesial contexts and the
importance of developing appropriate practices for that context.
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Denomination
United Methodist Church (UMC), Local Pastor
Discipline or Specialty
My research is focused in three areas: (1) Evangelistic theology and practices, (2) Pan-Methodism, and (3) The Black Church. My research in evangelism provides resources for students, pastors and congregations to develop better informed evangelistic theologies and practices. The term Pan-Methodist is used to designate The United Methodist Church and the traditional African American Methodist denominations (African Methodist Episcopal Church, African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church and Christian Methodist Church). My goal is to explore various theological doctrines and how the different Methodists denominations engage these doctrines. My work in the area of Black Church focuses on issues related to theology and culture. For example, one of the questions I am engaging is how religion and politics inform who we are as Americans.
Representative Courses Taught
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Advanced Praxis Seminar: Theology in Black and White (Recipient of the Faith as a Way of Life Award from Yale Divinity School, 2007)
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African American Church in Post Modernity
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Evangelism as Congregational Outreach and Growth
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Evangelism in a Pluralistic Society
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Evangelism in the Local Church
Recent Publications
Religio-Political Narratives in America From Martin Luther King, Jr. through Jeremiah Wright co-authored with Angela D. Sims and Johnny Bernard Hill (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, forthcoming October 2013).
New Wine, New Wineskins: How African American Congregations Can Reach New Generations (Nashville: Abingdon Press, 2012).
The 411 on Life and Love (Kansas City: youTheology, 2011).
Just-us or Justice: Moving Toward a Pan-Methodist Soteriology (Nashville: Abingdon Press, 2009).
"Hope," in Wesley Studies Bible, Joel B. Green and William H. Willimon, eds. (Nashville: Abingdon Press, 2009).
"Such a Great Cloud of Witnesses: Evangelistically Vital Churches," in Strengthening the Black Church for the 21st Century (Nashville: Abingdon Press, 2008).
"Hearing the Voice of Our Neighbor: A Voice from the Other Side," in Loving God, Loving Neighbor: Ministry with Searching Youth, Sondra Matthaei, editor (Philadelphia: XLibris Press, 2008).
"John Wesley's Call to Personal and Social Holiness," "John Wesley's Call to Be an 'Altogether Christian,'" and "John Wesley on Mutuality in Mission," in A Year with John Wesley and Our Methodist Values (Discipleship Resources, 2008).
Transforming Evangelism: The Wesleyan Way of Sharing Faith, co-authored with Henry H. Knight, III (Nashville: Discipleship Resources, 2006).
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