Dale T. Irvin

President and Professor of World Christianity at New York Theological Seminary, in New York City.  He previously served the school as Vice President for Academic Affairs and Academic Dean.  A graduate of Princeton Theological Seminary (M. Div., 1981) and Union Theological Seminary in New York (Ph.D., 1989), he has been a member of the Seminary’s faculty since 1989.  He is the co-author with Scott W. Sunquist of History of the World Christian Movement, a two-volume project that has been written with a consulting team of more than 50 scholars from around the world and published by Orbis Books of Maryknoll, NY.  Volume 1, Earliest Christianity to 1453, is now in its fifth printing.  Dr. Irvin’s previous books include Christian Histories, Christian Traditioning:  Rendering Accounts (Orbis Books, 1998), and The Agitated Mind of God:  The Theology of Kosuke Koyama (Orbis Books, 1996), which he edited with Akintunde E. Akinade.  His articles have appeared in a number of journals, including Christianity Today, The Ecumenical Review and The Journal of Pentecostal Studies.

Dr. Irvin has held visiting or adjunct appointments at the University of Uppsala, Sweden; Drew University Theological School; Union Theological Seminary, New York; Wake Forest University Divinity School; New Brunswick Theological Seminary; and Regent University School of Divinity.  He is currently the Executive Vice President and member of the Editorial Board of The Living Pulpit, a highly acclaimed journal for preaching.  An ordained minister in the American Baptist Churches USA, he is a member of The Riverside Church in New York.