Faculty

Resident Faculty

Susan Church, Director of Field Education

B.A. in Art History, University of Oregon, 1977
M.Div., Church Divinity School of the Pacific, 1985
Hispanic Culture and Language Study, Cemnahuac, Cuernavaca, Mexico, 1992 & 2001
Sabbatical study leave at CDSP, 2001

Susan Church has served as the Field Education Seminar instructor since 2003 and was appointed Director of Field Education in the Fall of 2005. She is the rector of two Oregon coastal Episcopal congregations, St. Luke’s by the Sea in Waldport and St. Stephen’s in Newport.

A visitor to her office in Newport is immediately struck by the series of shrines that adorn her office wall. She created them the year she turned older than her mother was the year she died. The process was, she says, both grief work and art work—indicative of her interest in art and spirituality. A show of her works was presented by the Newport Visual Arts Center.

Susan has been a pioneer in the establishment of Spanish language ministry. A major change in the fishing industry in Newport in 1992 led to an influx of workers, many of whom were Spanish speaking. Realizing that the community was ill-prepared to engage these changes constructively, she brought together persons from many segments of the town. In that process some began to recognize the need for a Spanish language worshipping community. All of this is a wonderful example of “reading” a community, identifying its needs, and mobilizing the resources of that community in response.

Dr. Steven Lewis, Associate Professor of Historical Theology, Director of Spiritual Formation and Church Relations

B.A., Oakland City University, 1984
M.Div., Midwestern Theological Seminary, 1987
M.A. in Religion, Central Theological Seminary, 1988
Ph.D., Saint Louis University [Historical Theology], 1998

Steve is the author of Landscape as Sacred Place: Metaphors for the Spiritual Journey. His research interests and publications are focused on theology and spirituality in American culture including Body Art as Spiritual Expression, and Postmodern Spirituality.

He is an ordained elder in the Missouri Annual Conference of the United Methodist Church and serves as Theologian in Residence at Vancouver (Washington) First United Methodist Church. He received his Ph.D. in Historical Theology from Saint Louis University. Steve represents a growing teaching tradition at NHTS: competent scholars who are equally at home in pastoral roles and thereby closely tuned to ministerial service in real-life congregations

Frederick C. Tiffany, Professor of Biblical Studies

B.A. University of Kansas, 1963
M.Div., Garrett Theological Seminary, 1971
Ph.D., Claremont Graduate School, 1978
Certificates of Studies from the Ecole d’Administration, Brussels, Belgium and Universidad Autonoma Benito Juarez de Oaxaca, Oaxaca, Mexico

Fred has taught Biblical studies at Earlham College and School of Religion and at Methodist Theological School in Ohio, also serving as Academic Dean at both seminaries. His research interests have focused on wilderness imagery in the Old Testament and on the literary patterns and theological interests that gave rise to the priestly trajectory in the Pentateuch. A special interest is creation theology and the conversation between science and religion.

Fred has also been actively involved in cross-cultural programs, especially in Mexico and Central America. He is the co-author with Sharon Ringe of Biblical Interpretation: A Roadmap.

Affiliated Faculty

John Beck (Pastoral Care)

B.A., Pacific Lutheran University, 1972
M.A., University of Minnesota, 1981
M.Div., Wartburg Theological Seminary, 1984
Ph.D., University of Iowa, 1997

Mark Brocker (Christian Ethics)

B.A., Pacific Lutheran University, 1979
M.Div., Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago, 1985
Ph.D., University of Chicago Divinity School, 1996

Kempton Hewitt (New Testament; CPE Liaison, NHTS)

B.A., Cascade College, 1959
B.D., Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary, 1964
S.T.M., Yale Divinity School, 1965
Ph.D., University of Durham, 1969
Spanish Language Certificate, Centro de Idioma y Cultura Latino Americana, Cuernavaca, Mexico, 1978
Certificates of study from Universidad Autonoma Benito Juarez de Oaxaca, Oaxaca, Mexico

Ortwin Knorr (Greek)

University of Göttingen, 1989
University of Heidelberg, 1998
University of Göttingen, 1993
University of California, 1994
Ph.D., University of Göttingen, 1999

Caroline Litzenberger (Church History)

B.S., University of Washington, 1964
M.A., Portland State University, 1989
Ph.D., University of Cambridge, 1993
Fellow, Royal Historical Society of Great Britain, 2000

Lane McGaughy (New Testament)

B.A., Ohio Wesleyan University, 1962
B.D., Drew Theological Seminary, 1965
University of Tübingen, Germany, 19656-1966
M.A., Vanderbilt University, 1969
Ph.D., Vanderbilt University, 1970

James Nestingen (Church History and Lutheran Studies)

B.A., Concordia College, 1967
M.Div., Luther Theological Seminary, 1971
M.Th., Luther Theological Seminary, 1976
Th.D., St. Michael’s College, 1984

Richard Rohrbaugh (New Testament)

B.A., Sterling College, 1958
M.Div., Pittsburgh Theological Seminary, 1961
S.T.D., San Francisco Theological Seminary, 1977

Charles Wallace (United Methodist Studies)

B.A., Bowdoin College, 1965
B.D., Yale Divinity School, 1968
Ph.D., Duke University, 1975

Visiting Faculty

Delwin Brown (Theology)

B.A., Anderson College, 1957
B.D., Union Theological Seminary, 1960
Ph.D., Claremont Graduate School, 1965

Loren Crow (Old Testament)

B.A., Northwest Christian College, 1985
M.A., Vanderbilt University, 1989
Ph.D., Vanderbilt University, 1994

Karen McClintock (Pastoral Care)

B.A.,The College of Wooster, 1975
M.Div., Pacific School of Religion, 1978
Ph.D., Union Institute and University, 2001

Patricia (Patty) Meyers (Christian Education)

B. M. in Music, Coe College, 1974
M.C.E., Garret-Evangelical Theological Seminary, 1981
D. Min., Graduate Theological Foundation, 1996
Ed.D., Seattle University, 1999

Robert Potter (Medical Ethics)

B.A., Kansas University, 1960
M.D., Kansas University School of Medicine, 1964
Residency Internal Medicine, 1965 - 1968 General Hospital, Kansas City, MO
Ph.D., University of Chicago Divinity School, 1991

Sylvia Sweeney (Worship)

B.S., Florida State University, 1975
M.S., Florida State University, 1980
M.Div., Seabury-Western Theological Seminary, 1985
Ph.D., Graduate Theological Union, 2007

Mark Wilson (Leadership)

B.A., Howard University, 1982
M.Div., Harvard Divinity School, 1985
Ph.D., University of Michigan, 2000