MARK H. MANN 3530 Curtis St., San Diego, CA 92106 (619) 206-9552 markmann@pointloma.edu EDUCATION 2004 Boston University Graduate School, Boston, MA Ph.D. in Religious and Theological Studies, Summa Cum Laude. 1996 Boston University School of Theology, Boston, MA M.Div. in Theology, Summa Cum Laude. 1990 Eastern Nazarene College, Quincy, MA B.A. in English and History, Summa Cum Laude. ADMINISTRATIVE & MINISTERIAL EXPERIENCE 2014 Present Dean of Studies/Chaplain Episcopal School for Ministry, San Diego, CA 2008 Present Director, Wesleyan Center, Honors Program, First Year Experience Point Loma Nazarene University, San Diego, CA 2010 2013 Associate Pastor for Compassionate Ministries Peace River Christian Fellowship, Ocean Beach, CA 2005 2008 Associate University Chaplain & Protestant Campus Minister Colgate University, Hamilton, NY 2005 Director of Religious Studies State University of New York at Oneonta, Oneonta, NY 2001 2002 Residence Hall Director (Sleeper Hall) Boston University, Boston, MA 1996 2001 Resident Director Eastern Nazarene College, Quincy, MA 1993 1996 Assistant Pastor for Young Adults and College Students Wollaston Church of the Nazarene, Quincy, MA 1992 1993 Coordinator of Youth Ministries Church of the Nazarene, Moscow, Russia & Kiev, Ukraine 1990 1992 Youth Minister Overland Park Church of the Nazarene, Overland Park, KS TEACHING EXPERIENCE 2008 Present Associate Professor of Theology, Point Loma Nazarene University San Diego, CA 2004 2008 Lecturer in University Studies: Colgate University, Hamilton, NY
2002 2005 Lecturer: State University of New York at Oneonta 1998 2002 Part-time Faculty Member: Eastern Nazarene College, Quincy, MA 1997 2001 Teaching Fellow: Boston University School of Theology, Boston, MA 1997 1999 Teaching Assistant: Boston University, Boston, MA EDITORIAL EXPERIENCE 2008 2014 Director, Point Loma Press, San Diego, CA 2000 2001 Associate Editor: Research News & Opportunities in Science & Theology, Quincy, MA 1999 2000 Graduate Editorial Assistant, Comparative Religious Ideas Project, published in three volumes: Ultimate Realities, Religious Truth, The Human Condition, ed. Robert Cummings Neville (Albany: SUNY Press, 2001), Boston University, Boston, MA 1998 2000 Assistant Editor: The Paideia Project, Boston, MA PROFESSIONAL/SOCIETY MEMBERSHIPS Ordained Elder, Church of the Nazarene (since 1996). American Academy of Religion (since 1996). Wesleyan Theological Society (since 1997). Charles Wesley Society (since 2008). Editorial Advisory Board, Wesleyan Methodist Studies (since 2009). Executive Board Member, Charles Wesley Society (since 2010). AWARDS/HONORS Honorary Fellow, Manchester Wesleyan Research Society, Manchester, England (since 2009). Wesleyan Theological Society Outstanding Dissertation Award (2005). Outstanding Teaching Fellow Award, Boston University (1998 1999). Frank D. Howard Fellowship, Boston University (1998 2001). Edmund Beebe Fellowship, Boston University (1997 1998). Edgar Sheffield Brightman Fellowship, Boston University (1996 1997). Merit Scholar, Boston University (1993 1996). Outstanding Senior Award, Eastern Nazarene College (1990). BOOKS Reconsidering Arminius: Wesleyan and Reformed Theology for the Church Today, ed. with Keith Stanglin and Mark Bilby (Nashville: Abingdon Press, 2014). Nurturing the Prophetic Imagination, ed. with James Gates (Eugene, Oregon: PLP/Wipf & Stock, 2012). Perfecting Grace: Holiness and the Human Sciences (New York: Contiuum/T&T Clark, 2006).
PUBLICATIONS/PRESENTATIONS The University as a Means of Grace, with Ron Benefiel, in Didache: Faithful Teaching,, forthcoming (Fall 2015). Putting Christ in His Place: Ecclesiology and Christology in the Nazarene Tradition, in Essential Church: A Wesleyan Ecclesiology, ed. Mark Maddix and Diane Leclerc (Beacon Hill Press of Kansas City, 2014). Voluntary Association or the Body of Christ? A Wesleyan Ecclesiology for the Church of the Nazarene Today, with Brent Peterson, in Didache: Faithful Teaching 13:2 (Winter 2014). Pentecostalism and the Future of Evangelical Theology, in Passion for the Spirit: an Introduction to Amos Yong and the New Face of Pentecostal Scholarship ed. Wolfgang Vondey and Martin Mittelstadt, Global Pentecostal and Charismatic Studies (Leiden/Boston: Brill, 2013). A Eucharistic People, in Nurturing the Prophetic Imagination, ed. Mark Mann and Jamie Gates (Eugene Oregon: PLP/Wipf & Stock, 2012). Open our Eyes, Open our Ears, in Nurturing the Prophetic Imagination, ed. Mark Mann and James Gates (Eugene Oregon: PLP/Wipf & Stock, 2012). Our Wesleyan Tradition: Wesleyan Faith and Practice and the PLNU Mission, with Ron Benefiel, in Didache: Faithful Teaching 12:2 (Winter 2013). The Science and Faith Dialogue in Historical Perspective, The BioLogos Forum: Science and Faith in Dialogue (an in-depth, multi-part blog series, 2012): http://biologos.org/blog/series/. Foreword for the Spanish-language edition of Mildred Bang s Wynkoop, Theology of Love: The Dynamic of Wesleyanism (Kansas City, MO: Nazarene Publications International, 2012). The God of Love and the Multiplicity of Religious Traditions, in Relational Theology: A Contemporary Introduction, ed. Tom Oord, Karen Winslow, Brent Montgomery (Point Loma Press/Wipf & Stock, 2012). Is Henrietta Lacks Really Immortal? Religious Perspectives on Life, Death, and Immortality, an Interfaith Conversation for which I was organizer and moderator, The Center for Ethics in Science and Technology (Reuben H. Fleet Science Center, San Diego, CA), April 4, 2012. An 57- minute excerpt of this can be viewed on UC-TV at http://www.ucsd.tv/searchdetails.aspx?showid=23214. Church and State and Human Sexuality in Nazarene World Theological Dictionary, ed. Albert Truesdale, The Global Wesleyan Dictionary of Theology (Kansas City: Beacon Hill Press, 2012). Don t Surrender Science to the Secular World, The BioLogos Forum: Science and Faith in Dialogue (a six-part blog series posted 10/2011 through 2/2012): http://biologos.org/blog/series/lets-not-surrender-science. Called Unto Holiness: Christian Holiness in the Wesleyan-Holiness Tradition and the Vocation of Nazarene Colleges and Universities, in Telos: The Destination for Nazarene Higher Education, ed. Gregg Chenoweth and Barbara M. Ragan (Kansas City, Nazarene Publishing House, 2011).
Rationalism, in The Cambridge Dictionary of Christian Theology, ed. Ian McFarland, David Fergusson, Karen Kilby, Iain Torrance (Cambridge University Press, 2011). The Impact of Darwinism on Theology, delivered at the Bi-Centennial Celebration of the Birth of Charles Darwin at the San Diego Natural History Museum, Nov. 2010/Jan. 2011. Science and Faith in the Postmodern World, in Postmodern and Wesleyan, ed. Tom Oord, Jay Akkerman, Brent Peterson, Leonard Sweet (Kansas City, NPH: 2009). Sanctification through the Life Cycle: Erik Erikson s Stage Theory and Wesleyan Models of Growth in Holiness, presented at the 2005 Meeting of the Society for the Study of Psychology and Wesleyan Theology (Seattle, Wash.: March 2005). The Underground Church: The Twelve Step Movement as a Holiness Movement, presented at the 2005 Meeting of the Wesleyan Theological Society (Seattle, Wash.: March, 2005). Religion and the Challenge of Religious Pluralism, in Philosophy of Religion: An Introduction to Issues, ed. Thomas Oord (Kansas City, MO: Beacon Hill Press, 2003). A Pragmatic Wesleyanism: C.S. Peirce, John Wesley, and the Postmodern Critique of Epistemic Foundationalism, delivered at the 1999 Meeting of the Wesleyan Theological Society (March 1999); published in The Wesleyan Philosophical Society Online Journal, 2002: <http://david.snu.edu/%7ebrint.fs/wpsjnl/mann01.htm>. Holiness and Hope: Christian Perfection and the Problem of Historical Consciousness, delivered to the 2000 meeting of The Society for the Study of Psychology and Wesleyan Theology; published in the meeting proceedings (Point Loma, Cal.: Point Loma University, 2000). Daniel in the Lion s Den, in A Season of Teaching: A Casebook for College and University Instructors of Religion (Boston University Division of Religious and Theological Studies, 2001). Religious Pluralism and the Being of the Between, delivered at the Twentieth World Congress of Philosophy (August 1998); published online in the Congress Proceedings: <http://www.bu.edu/wcp/papers/meta/metamann.htm>. EDITORIALS AND ARTICLES What is the Relationship Between Henrietta Lacks and the HeLa Cells? (with Tate Hurvitz), Voice of San Diego (San Diego, CA), April 2, 2012. John Wesley on Homelessness and Poverty, PLNU ViewPoint (San Diego, CA), Summer 2011. What Would Jesus Drive? Religion Editorial in The Daily Star (Oneonta, NY), October 6, 2007. Cultivating an Attitude of Gratitude, Religion Editorial in The Daily Star (Oneonta, NY), November 25, 2006. Finding God at Ground Zero, Religion Editorial in The Daily Star (Oneonta, NY), September 11, 2005. REFERENCES Rev. Mark Shiner University Chaplain and Catholic Campus Minister Colgate University 13 Oak Dr. Hamilton, NY 13346 mshiner@colgate.edu
Rev. Dr. Robert Neville Professor of Philosophy, Religion and Theology Boston University School of Theology 745 Commonwealth Ave. Boston, MA 02215 rneville@bu.edu Rev. Dr. Ron Benefiel Dean, School of Theology and Christian Ministry Professor of Sociology and Theology Point Loma Nazarene University 3900 Lomaland Dr. San Diego, CA 92106 ronbenefiel@pointloma.edu M. Andrea Popa, MA Associate Director for Student Services Boston University International Students and Scholars Office 888 Commonwealth Ave. Boston, MA 02215 apopa@bu.edu