Bio

Dr. Arthur “Art” Thomas has taught spirituality and church history at Wesley since 1992 and at St. Mary’s Ecumenical Institute of Theology in Baltimore. This ordained United Methodist elder has degrees from College of William and Mary, Gordon-Conwell Seminary, Wesley Seminary, and his Ph.D. from Union Presbyterian Seminary. He is writing two books The Second Great Awakening in Virginia: Spirituality and Slavery Reform and also Spiritual Theology. His classes include Foundations of Christian Spirituality, Spiritual Gifts, Saints and Spiritual Traditions, Prayer, American Evangelicalism, Pentecostalism and Social Reform. He includes art history in his teaching.