Scott Kisker is a member of the First United Methodist Church in Hyattsville, MD and an elder in the Iowa Annual Conference. Prior to coming to Wesley Theological Seminary, he served as the director of the Charles Wesley Heritage Centre in Bristol, UK and as associate pastor for the American Protestant Church in Bonn, Germany. As James Cecil Logan Chair in Evangelism and Wesley Studies, he specilizes in Wesley studies and pietist studies. His current projects include books on the Religious Societies Movement and Wesleyan Theology and Evangelism.
Courses Taught:
- Covenant Discipleship
- Evangelism in the Church and Contemporary World
- Evangelism in the Wesleyan Tradition; Global Evangelism
- The Theology of John Wesley
- United Methodist History and Doctrine
Education:
- Swarthmore College, B.A.
- The Divinity School, Duke University, M.Div
- Drew University, Ph.D.
Publications:
- “Going Low and Going Deep” Covenant Discipleship Quarterly (Winter, 2004).
- “John Wesley’s Puritan and Pietist Heritage Reexamined.” Wesleyan Theological Journal 34 (Fall,1999).
- “Radical Pietism and Early German Methodism: John Seybert and the Evangelical Association.” Methodist History 37:3 (April,1999).
- “The Claude Thompson Controversy at Asbury Theological Seminary: Holiness Theology in Transition.” Wesleyan Theological Journal 33 (Fall, 1998).
- “Justified but Unregenerate? The Relationship of Assurance to Justification and Regeneration in the Thought of John Wesley.” Wesleyan Theological Journal 28 (Spring-Fall, 1993)
