Our professors are distinguished scholars, active researchers, published writers, and faithful Christians who demonstrate what it means to be both Christ-followers and leaders in their academic fields. As mentors and role models, they play a huge role in the integration of faith and learning at Bethel.
Paul Ferris
Professor | pferris@bethel.edu | Started at Bethel: 1998
Teaching Specialty
Content and exegesis of the First Testament and biblical languages
David Howard
Professor | dhoward@bethel.edu | Started at Bethel: 1982-1990, 2000-present.
Teaching Specialty
Old Testament, Hebrew, and Hermeneutics
Justin Irving
Professor | j-irving@bethel.edu | Started at Bethel: 2000
Research interests
Leadership Studies; Servant Leadership; Team Effectiveness; Cross-Cultural Leadership; Organizational Change; Ministry Leadership; Purpose in Leadership; Leadership Assessment; Research Methodology and Design; Spiritual and Personal Formation for Leaders
Joel Jueckstock
Professor | juejoe@bethel.edu | Started at Bethel: 2009
Areas of expertise
practical theology; pastoral care and counseling; personal and spiritual formation; grief, loss and transition; chaplaincy; leadership; bioethics.
Mark McCloskey
Professor | m-mccloskey@bethel.edu | Started at Bethel: 1998
Areas of expertise
Biblical theology of leadership, leadership formation, organizational leadership development, team building, virtue-based leadership, strategic planning
David Nah
Associate Professor | d-nah@bethel.edu | Started at Bethel: 2006
Teaching Specialty
Systematic Theology, Christian Social Ethics, Theology in Global Context, Theology of Religions, World Religions
Sandra Oslund
Library Director, Bethel Seminary St. Paul | s-oslund@bethel.edu | Started at Bethel: 2003
Areas of expertise
As director of the St. Paul seminary library, I collaborate with teaching faculty and lead the library staff in fulfilling the seminary’s educational mission.
Andrew Rowell
Professor | a-rowell@bethel.edu | Started at Bethel: 2013
Research interests
Karl Barth, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Lesslie Newbigin, Eugene Peterson, church planting, church consulting, megachurches, trends in theological education, business management, the quantitative study of congregations in sociology, models of practical theology, the history of pastoral ministry, pasto. . . read more.
Glen Scorgie
Professor of Theology | g-scorgie@bethel.edu | Started at Bethel: 1996
Areas of expertise
Systematic theology, historical theology, spiritual theology and ethics.
Timothy Senapatiratne
Faculty | t-senapatiratne@bethel.edu | Started at Bethel: 2001
Research interests
Currently, I have focused my research on three separate, but interrelated areas. First, I have focused my research on the Hebrew Bible with a special emphasis on Wisdom Literature. I am particularly interested in how Biblical Wisdom Literature borrows from other wisdom traditions within the A. . . read more.