Daniela C. Augustine Associate Professor of Theological Ethics Lee University, School of Religion, Department of Theology Curriculum Vitae Education and Post-Doctoral Research Currently conducting Habilitation doctoral work (pursuing advanced post-doctoral doctorate) at the University of Heidelberg, Germany Thesis: The Spirit in Word and Sacrament: Toward a Pentecostal Sacramental Theology Advanced Post-doctoral Research, Center of Theological Inquiry, Princeton, NJ, 2005 Topic: The Event of Pentecost as a Paradigm for Social Transformation D. Th. in Theological Ethics University of South Africa, Pretoria, 2002 Doctoral Dissertation s Topic: At the Crossroads of Social Transformation: An Eastern European Theological Perspective Master of Divinity Church of God Theological Seminary, Cleveland TN, 1995 Master of Social Economics University of National and World Economy, Sofia, Bulgaria, 1991 Bachelor of Science in Social Economics University of National and World Economy, Sofia, Bulgaria, 1990 Professional Experience 2016- Associate Professor of Theological Ethics, School of Religion, Lee University 2010-2016 Assistant Professor of Theological Ethics, School of Religion, Lee University 2009 Part-time Faculty, Lee University, Cleveland, TN
2009 Adjunct Faculty, Pentecostal Theological Seminary, Cleveland, TN 2005- Faculty, European Theological Seminary, Kniebis, Germany 2004-2007 Lecturer for the International Program of the Protestant Theological Faculty of Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic 2002- Senior Lecturer for the International Institute for Christian Studies (Global Scholars) Prague, Czech Republic 2002- Church of God Missionary-Educator to Prague, Czech Republic 2001-2005 Vice-President of Academic Affairs and Professor of Systematic Theology and Theological Ethics Bulgarian Theological College, Stara Zagora, Bulgaria 1996-2000 Academic Dean Professor of Systematic Theology and Theological Ethics Bulgarian Theological College, Stara Zagora, Bulgaria 1995-1996 Missionary-Educator to Bulgaria Church of God World Missions, Cleveland, TN 1989-1991 Bulgarian Correspondent of Eastern European Christianity Civil Society Initiatives 1998- Co-founder of Daily Bread Ministries Stara Zagora, Bulgaria 1999- Co-founder of Samaritans Foundation 2003- Co-founder of Project Antioch Foundation
Prague, Czech Republic 2012- Co-founder of Bradley County Community Coalition Against Human Trafficking Other Academic Responsibilities and Ecumenical Engagements 2013 - Associate Editor, Journal of Pentecostal Theology 2012 - Chairperson of the Ethics Interest Group of the Society for Pentecostal Studies 2009 - Scholar in Residence, Centre of Pentecostal Theology, Cleveland, TN 2009 - Member of the Orthodox-Pentecostal Theological Preparatory Committee 2000-2006 Member of the Joint Consultative Group Between the World Council of Churches and Pentecostals 2003 Member of the Ecumenical Dialogue between the World Alliance of Reformed Churches and Pentecostals 1997- Church of God Ministerial Internship Program Facilitator and Lecturer in the International Extensions Memberships in Professional Societies Center of Theological Inquiry, Princeton, NJ Pentecostals and Charismatics for Peace and Justice Society for Pentecostal Studies American Academy of Religion The Society of Christian Ethics
Other Academic and Theological Involvement 2016 Princeton Theological Seminary, Princeton, NJ, June 19-22. Plenary Speaker at the Annual Karl Barth Conference: The Ever-coming Spirit: Eastern-European Pentecostal Reflections on Christoformation and Barth s Eschatological Pneumatology 2017 (forthcoming) University of Heidelberg, Germany. Lecture: Pentecost and Social Transformation 2016 Society for Pentecostal Studies, Life Pacific College, San Dimas, CA, March 2016. Presenter: From Forgiveness to the Common Good 2015 Wheaton Theology Conference, Wheaton College, April 9-10. Plenary Speaker: Image, Spirit, and Theosis 2014 American Academy of Religion, November 22-25, San Diego, CA. Presenter: Creation as Perichoretic Trinitarian Conversation: Reflections on Worldmaking with Robert W. Jenson 2014 Society for Pentecostal Studies, Springfield, MO, March, 2014. Presenter: Redemption and the Hermeneutics of Embodiment: Creation, Incarnation and Theosis 2014 Society for Pentecostal Studies, Springfield, MO, March, 2014. Presenter: The Liturgical Teleology of Human Creativity and the City of God as the Theosis of Culture 2013 Speaker at the Joint Plenary Session on Holiness and Economics at the 2013 Annual Meeting of the Society for Pentecostal Studies and the Wesleyan Theological Society, March 21-23, Seattle, WA. 2013 Conference on Holiness and the Empowerment of Women, PTS, Cleveland, TN, April 23-25. Presenter: The Living Memory of the Church and the Spirit s Empowerment of Women
2012 Conference on Hospitality and Neighborliness, PTS, Cleveland, TN, April 17-19, 2012. Presenter: The Cosmopolitanism of Divine Welcome: The Hospitality of God, Justice and the Other 2012 Society for Pentecostal Studies Annual Meeting, Regent University, Virginia Beach, VA, February 29 March 3, 2012. Presenter: Pentecost, Justice and the Other 2011 Livets Ord Theological Seminary, Symposium on the Spirit and the Church, Ribbingebäck, Sweden, November 25-26. Presenter: The Event of Pentecost and the Establishing of the Church as the Icon of the Trinity on Earth 2011 Princeton Theological Seminary, Fifth Annual ACTS Symposium, Woman-tology and the Future Face of Pentecostalism: History Ministry and Vocation, Princeton, New Jersey, March 31- April 1, 2011 Panelist 2011 Regent University, Symposium on Pentecostalism and Prosperity, Virginia Beach, February 21-22, 2011. Presenter: "Pentecost and Prosperity: Between Sharing of Possessions and Accumulating Personal Wealth." 2011 Society for Pentecostal Studies, Annual Meeting, Memphis, Tennessee, March 10-12, 2011. Respondent 2010 Conference on Pentecostal Ecclesiology, University of Bangor, Wales, UK, June 28-30, 2010. Presenter: The Empowered Church: Ecclesiological Dimensions of the Event of Pentecost 2008 Luce Hall Theological Conversations, Center of Theological Inquiry, Princeton, NJ Presenter and Conversation Leader: The Next 30 Years of Theological Inquiry Presenter: The Pentecostal Challenge to Theological Inquiry 2006 Educators Conference
Church of God General Assembly, Indianapolis, Indiana Panelist 2006 Conference on the Centennial Celebration of Azusa Street s Revival, Krakow, Poland Presenter: The Language of the Other and the Demand for Cosmopolitan Hospitality 2005 Harvard Divinity School, Harvard University Guest Speaker: Central Europe and its Cultural, Religious and Socio-political Distinctives 2004 International Pentecostal Theological Conference associated with the World Pentecostal Conference, Auckland Park Theological Seminary, Johannesburg, South Africa Presenter 2004 Forum on Public Theology in Central Europe Organized by The Center of Theological Inquiry, Princeton, NJ Presenter: Seeing Beyond the Screen: Towards an Understanding of the Significance and Function of Cyberspace as Media, Social and Sacred Space 2003 Forum on Public Theology in Central Europe Organized by The Center of Theological Inquiry, Princeton, NJ Prague, Czech Republic Respondent to a Paper by William Schweiker 2003 Pentecostal Symposium of Educators, Stuttgart, Germany Respondent 2002 Symposium on Pentecostalism: Challenges and Perspectives, Theological Seminary, Cleveland TN Presenter: Bulgarian Pentecostalism: Challenges and Perspectives Special Awards, Grants, Honors Post-Doctoral Faculty Fellowship by the Appalachian College Association (2016-2017 academic year) The 2016 Sabbatical Grant for Researchers by the Louisville Institute
The 2011 National Samaritan Award, Stara Zagora, Bulgaria The 1995 Pentecostal Ministry Award, Theological Seminary, Cleveland TN Courses Taught Undergraduate Courses Christian Ethics Introduction to Christian Ethics - Honors Christian Doctrine I Christian Doctrine II Introduction to Theology Contemporary Theology New Testament Greek I New Testament Greek II Feminist Theology Religion and Culture History and Thought of Eastern Christianity Postmodernism and Christianity Forgiveness and Reconciliation The Ethics of Judaism, Christianity and Islam Graduate Courses Theology of Economics and Globalization Introduction to Eastern Orthodox Theology Pentecostalism and Postmodernity Faith and Relevance: Shaping a Relevant Theological Response in the Postmodern Setting Theological Ethics of War and Peace Theology and Ethics of Social Transformation Readings in Theological Ethics Pentecostal Foundations for Christian Ministry Recent Publications 2016: Creation as Perichoretic Trinitarian Conversation: Reflections on World-making with Robert W. Jenson in Stephen Wright, ed. The Promise of Robert Jenson's Theology (Fortress Press, forthcoming, 2016). 2016: Image, Spirit and Theosis: Imaging God in an Image-distorting World, in Beth Jones and Jeff Barbeau, eds. The Image of God in an Image Driven Age: Explorations in Christian Anthropology (InterVarsity Press, 2016).
2016: Liturgy, Theosis and the Renewal of the World in Lee Roy Martin, ed. Toward a Pentecostal Theology of Worship (Cleveland, TN: CPT Press, 2016). 2015: The Liturgical Teleology of Human Creativity and the City of God as Theosis of Culture, Cultural Encounters: A Journal for the Theology of Culture, vol. 10, No. 2 (April, 2015). 2015: From Proclamation to Embodiment: The Sacrament of the Word for the Life of the World and its Destiny in Theosis in Lee Roy Martin, ed. Toward a Pentecostal Theology of Preaching (Cleveland, TN: CPT Press, 2015). 2015: The Cosmopolitanism of Divine Welcome: The Hospitality of God, Justice and the Other, in Sang-Ehil Han, ed. Christian Hospitality and Neighborliness (forthcoming, Cleveland, TN: CPT Press, 2015). 2014: Book review on Nimi Wariboko s The Pentecostal Principle: Ethical Methodology in New Spirit, Journal of Religion (University of Chicago Press, July 2014). 2014: Book Review on Miranda Klaver s This is My Desire: A Semiotic Perspective on Conversion in and Evangelical Seeker Church and a Pentecostal Church in the Netherlands, Pneuma, 36.2. 2013: Holiness and Economics: Towards Recovery of Eucharistic Being in a Marketshaped World, in Lee Roy Martin, ed. A Future for Holiness: Pentecostal Explorations (Cleveland, TN: CPT Press, 2013). 2012: Pentecost, Hospitality, and Transfiguration: Toward a Spirit-inspired Vision of Social Transformation (Cleveland, TN: CPT Press, 2012). 2012: Pentecost and Prosperity in Eastern Europe: Between Sharing of Possessions and Accumulating Personal Wealth," in Amos Yong and Katy Attanasi, eds. Pentecostalism and Prosperity: The Socio-economics of Global Renewal (Palgrave Macmillan, 2012). 2012: Pentecost, Justice and the Other, 17-26, Brethren Life and Thought, special issue, Pentecostals and Brethren, Unlikely Partners for Peace, vol. 57, No.1, Spring 2012. 2012: Pingsten Och Kyrkans Tillblivelse Som en Treenighetens Ikon på Jorden, pp. 20-41, Keryx: En Tidskrift för Theologi och Andligt Liv, no.1, Årgång 10, 2012. 2012: Book review, In the Days of Creaser: Pentecostalism and Political Theology, by Amos Yong, pp. 490-492 in Theology Today, January 2012, 68.
2011: Pentecost, Empowerment and Glossolalia, 288-304, International Journal for the Study of the Christian Church, Vol.11, No. 4, November 2011. 2011: Pentecost as the Church s Cosmopolitan Vision of Global Civil Society: A Post- Communist Eastern European Theological Perspective, 197-220, in William F. Sorrar, Peter J. Cassarella, and Paul Louis Metzger, eds., A World for All? Global Civil Society in Political Theory and Trinitarian Theology (Grand Rapids, Michigan: Eerdmans, 2011). 2011: Bulgarian Pentecostalism, 232-238, in William K. Kay and Anne E. Dyer, eds. European Pentecostalism (Brill, 2011). 2011: Pingstens Gemenskapsekonomi och Guds Hustål, 16-39, Keryx: En Tidskrift för Theologi och Andligt Liv, No.3, Årgång 2011. 2011: Book review: Beyond Salvation: Eastern Orthodoxy and Classical Pentecostalism on Becoming Like Christ, 331-333, International Journal for the Study of the Christian Church, Vol.11, No. 4, November 2011. 2010: At the Crossroads of Social Transformation: An Eastern-European Theological Reflection (Germany: Lambert Publishing, 2010) 2010: Pentecost Communal Economics and the Household of God, 219-242, Journal of Pentecostal Theology, vol. 9, No. 2 (2010). 2010: The Empowered Church: Ecclesiological Dimensions of the Event of Pentecost, 157-180 in John Christopher Thomas, ed., Toward a Pentecostal Ecclesiology: The Church and the Fivefold Gospel (Cleveland, TN: CPT Press, 2010). Examples of Papers Presented at Conferences 2016: The Ever-coming Spirit: Eastern-European Pentecostal Reflections on Christoformation and Barth s Eschatological Pneumatology, Plenary address at the Annual Karl Barth Conference, Princeton Theological Seminary, Princeton, NJ, June 19-22. 2016: From Forgiveness to the Common Good, presented at the 45 th Annual Conference of the Society for Pentecostal Studies, Life Pacific College, San Dimas, CA, March 2016. 2015: Image, Spirit, and Theosis, Plenary address at the annual Wheaton Theology Conference, Wheaton College, April 9-10.
2015: Pentecost and Social Transformation, (forthcoming) Lecture at the University of Heidelberg, Germany, June, 2015. 2014: Creation as Perichoretic Trinitarian Conversation: Reflections on World-making with Robert W. Jenson, presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Religion, November 22-25, San Diego, CA. 2014: Redemption and the Hermeneutics of Embodiment: Creation, Incarnation and Theosis, presented at the 43rd Annual Meeting of the Society for Pentecostal Studies, Springfield, MO, March, 2014. 2014: The Liturgical Teleology of Human Creativity and the City of God as the Theosis of Culture, presented at the 43rd Annual Meeting of the Society for Pentecostal Studies, Springfield, MO, March, 2014. 2013: Holiness and Economics: Towards Recovery of Eucharistic Being in a Marketshaped World, the Joint Plenary Session on Holiness and Economics at the 2013 Annual Meeting of the Society for Pentecostal Studies and the Wesleyan Theological Society, March 21-23, Seattle, WA. 2013: The Living Memory of the Church and the Spirit s Empowerment of Women, Conference on Holiness and the Empowerment of Women, PTS, Cleveland, TN, April 23-25. 2012: The Cosmopolitanism of Divine Welcome: The Hospitality of God, Justice and the Other, Conference on Christian Hospitality and Neighborliness, PTS, Cleveland, TN, April 17-19, 2012. 2012: Pentecost, Justice and the Other, Society for Pentecostal Studies Annual Meeting, Regent University, Virginia Beach, VA, February 29 March 3, 2012. 2011: The Event of Pentecost and the Establishing of the Church as the Icon of the Trinity on Earth, Livets Ord Theological Seminary, Symposium on the Spirit and the Church, Ribbingebäck, Sweden, November 25-26. 2011: "Pentecost and Prosperity: Between Sharing of Possessions and Accumulating Personal Wealth," Regent University, Symposium on Pentecostalism and Prosperity, Virginia Beach, February 21-22, 2011. 2010: The Empowered Church: Ecclesiological Dimensions of the Event of Pentecost, Conference on Pentecostal Ecclesiology, University of Bangor, Wales, UK, June 28-30, 2010. 2008: The Pentecostal Challenge to Theological Inquiry, April 10-11, 2008, Luce Hall Conversations, Center of Theological Inquiry, Princeton, NJ,
2006: The Language of the Other and the Demand for Cosmopolitan Hospitality, October 2006, Conference on the Centennial Celebration of Azusa Street s Revival, Krakow, Poland (to be published in a volume by the Jegelonian University, Krakow, Poland). 2004: Toward a Dialectic of Liberation: An Eastern-European Theological Perspective, presented at the International Pentecostal Theological Conference, Auckland Park Theological Seminary, Johannesburg, South Africa, September 13, 2004 (to be published in a volume with other conference papers). 2004: Seeing Beyond the Screen: Towards an Understanding of the Significance and Function of Cyberspace as Media, Social and Sacred Space, Forum on Public Theology in Central Europe, March 25 to 28, 2004, Reformed Theological College of Debrecen, Debrecen, Hungary, organized by Center of Theological Inquiry, Princeton, New Jersey. 2003: Cyberspace as the GenXers construct of Open Society: A Response to William Schweiker, Forum on Public Theology in Central Europe, May 28-31, 2003, International Baptist Theological Seminary, Prague, Czech Republic, organized by Center of Theological Inquiry, Princeton, New Jersey 2003: Gen Xers, Holiness Heritage and Pentecostal Ethics, International Pentecostal Symposium of Educators, August 6-10, 2003, Stuttgart, Germany 2002: Contemporary Pentecostalism in an Eastern European Context: A Brief Outline of Challenges and Perspectives, Symposium on Pentecostalism: Challenges and Perspectives, Theological Seminary, Cleveland TN. 2001: Facing Today s Challenges of Being the Church and Fulfilling its Mission. COG Missions Conference, Cooper City, FL