Andrew Russell
Email: andrew-russell@bethel.edu
Job Titles
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Teaching Partner
Master of Divinity, Bethel Seminary -
Adjunct Assistant Professor of General Education
General Education College of Arts and Sciences
Highlight
Andrew Russell teaches church history courses at Bethel Seminary. He also teaches a variety of theology and humanities courses in the College of Arts and Sciences. Some of his research interests include the Keswick movement, the East African Revival, the Christian and Missionary Alliance, and John Wesley.
Started at Bethel
2013
Education
- Northwestern College - B.S. in Mathematics Education, 2001
- Bethel Seminary - M.A. in Theological Studies, 2005
- Saint Louis University - Ph.D. in Historical Theology, 2013
Biography
Andrew grew up in Indiana and Minnesota. After several years of teaching high school mathematics, he pursued theological studies at Bethel Seminary. In 2013 he completed a Ph.D. in Historical Theology at Saint Louis University. His dissertation examined the Keswick movement and missions. Andrew participates in several professional associations, including the American Academy of Religion, the American Society of Church History, and the Wesleyan Theological Society. He has published several articles about evangelical history and theology. Andrew and his family are avid Indiana basketball fans.
Courses Taught
Bethel Seminary:
American Christianity
Church History Survey
Early Church to the Reformation
Church in the Modern World
History of World Missions
College of Arts and Sciences:
Greek and Roman Antiquity Through the Middle Ages
Renaissance and Reformation
European Enlightenment and American Culture to 1877
Modern and Contemporary Western Culture
Christianity and Western Culture
Christian Theology
Early Church to Reformation Theology in Global Perspective
Post-Reformation and Contemporary Theology in Transatlantic Perspective
Publications
Counteracting Classifications: Keswick Holiness Reconsidered, Wesleyan Theological Journal 49, no. 2 (2014): 86-121.
Polemical Solidarity: John Wesley and Jonathan Edwards Confront John Taylor on Original Sin, Wesleyan Theological Journal 47, no. 2 (2012): 72-88.
Edinburgh Forgotten: The Christian and Missionary Alliance and the Disappearance of an Epoch-Making Conference, Missiology: An International Review 39, no. 4 (2011): 473-484.
Presentations
The East African Revival: African, Keswickian, or Both? Spring Meeting, American Society of Church History, April 2015.
The Higher Life Theology in the High Imperial Age: Defeatism or Triumphalism Annual Meeting, Wesleyan Theological Society, March 2015.
Polemical Solidarity: John Wesley and Jonathan Edwards Confront John Taylor on Original Sin, Annual Meeting, American Academy of Religion, November 2012.
John Wesley on Original Sin: The Common Denominator of All Religious Traditions, Annual Meeting, Wesleyan Theological Society, March 2012.
A Tale of Two Brethren: Edmund Gosse and Garrison Keillor Portrayal of the Plymouth Brethren, Annual Meeting, Mideast Conference on Christianity and Literature, October 2011.
Edinburgh Forgotten: The Christian and Missionary Alliance and the Disappearance of an Epoch-Making Conference, Annual Meeting, American Academy of Religion, October 2010.
Professional Organizations, Committees, and Boards
American Academy of Religion
American Society of Church History
Wesleyan Theological Society
Yale-Edinburgh Group on the History of the Missionary Movement and World Christianity
Hobbies and Interests
Running, Hiking, Classical Music, Welsh Terriers