VITA
BRIAN LUGIOYO, PHD 
Seattle Pacific University, School of Theology / Seminary
e-mail: lugioyob@spu.edu 

PERSONAL INFORMATION
  • Church: Ordained Elder in The Free Methodist Church of USA  
  • Marital Status: Married with three children

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE (SELECTED)
  • 2021-present Dean & Professor of Theology & Ethics, Seattle Pacific University
  • 2016-2021 Professor of Theology & Ethics, Azusa Pacific University
  • 2013-2016 Associate Professor of Theology & Ethics, Azusa Pacific University 
  • 2011-2013 Assistant Professor of Theology & Ethics, Azusa Pacific University 
  • 2008-2011 Assistant Professor of Theology & Bible, Spring Arbor University 
  • 2006  Church History Lecturer, Temporary Teaching Post, University of Aberdeen 
  • 2004 - 2007 University Course Tutor, University of Aberdeen  

EDUCATION
  • PH.D. UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN, 2007 (Divinity)   
  • M.A.T. FULLER THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY, 2003 (Biblical and Theological Studies)  
  • B.A. WESTMONT COLLEGE, 1999 (Communication Studies)   

ADMINISTRATIVE / ACADEMIC SERVICE (SELECTED)
  • 2015-2016 ATS Education Models and Practices Forum (MDiv Duration Group)
  • 2013-2014 Chair, MDiv Curriculum Revision Committee, Azusa Pacific University 
  • 2012-2017 Kern Scholars Director, Azusa Pacific University 
  • 2010-2011 Director of the Master of Arts in Spiritual Formation & Leadership, Spring Arbor University 
  • 2007-2008 Assistant Registrar, Vanguard University 
  • 2000-2003 Assistant Program Administrator, School of Business, Pepperdine University  

GRANTS
  • 2020-present Co-Director, “Theologians and Scientists in Dialogue,” Science for Seminaries DoSER Grant, through AAAS and funded by Templeton Foundation
  • 2018- 2020 Team Member, “Lament as an Anti-Racist Practice,” Collaborative Inquiry Team, Louisville Grant

PUBLICATIONS
Books:
  • -- co-editor with Benjamin Reynolds, and Kevin Vanhoozer, Reconsidering the Relationship of Biblical and Systematic Theology in the New Testament: Essays by Theologians and New Testament Scholars. Tubingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2014.  
  • -- Martin Bucer’s Doctrine of Justification: Reformation Theology and Early Modern Irenicism (Oxford Studies in Historical Theology). New York: Oxford University Press, 2010.        

Chapters/Articles :
  • -- "Martin Luther's Eucharistic Christology," in The Oxford Handbook of Christology, eds. Francesca Murphy et al., Oxford University Press, 2015.
  •   -- “Whose Interpretation? Which Anthropology? … Indeed: Response to John Cooper,” in Body and Soul: The Current Debate, edited by Thomas Crisp, Steve Porter, & Gregg Ten Eishof, Eerdmans, 2016.
  •   -- “Martin Bucer’s Exegesis of Ephesians,” in Reformation Readings of Paul, eds. Jonathan Linebaugh and Michael Allen. Downers Grove, IL: IVP, 2015.  
  • -- “The Trinitarian Life of Faith,” in Strength to Be Holy, ed. Don Thorsen, 53-60. Lexington, KY: Emeth Press, 2014.  
  • -- “Ministering to Bodies: Anthropological views of Sōma in the NT, Theology, and Neuroscience,” in Reconsidering the Relationship of Biblical and Systematic Theology in the New Testament, eds. Brian Lugioyo, Benjamin Reynolds, and Kevin Vanhoozer, 213-237. Tubingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2014.  
  • -- “Introduction,” in Reconsidering the Relationship of Biblical and Systematic Theology in the New Testament, eds. Brian Lugioyo, Benjamin Reynolds, and Kevin Vanhoozer, 1-4. Tubingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2014.  
  • -- “Martin Bucer.” Oxford Bibliographies in Renaissance and Reformation. Ed. Margaret King. New York: Oxford University Press. 2014.    
Dictionary Articles/Book Reviews:
  • -- "Amos, N. Scott, Bucer, Ephesians and Biblical Humanism: The Exegete as Theologian (New York: Springer, 2015)", in Renaissance Quarterly 70/4 (Winter 2017), pp.
  • -- “Justification” in New Dictionary of Theology: Historical and Systematic (2nd Edition), eds. by M. Davie, T. Grass, S.R. Holmes, J. McDowell, and T.A. Noble, 653-656. Nottingham: Inter-Varsity Press Academic, 2016. 
  • -- “Penance” in New Dictionary of Theology: Historical and Systematic (2nd Edition), eds. by M. Davie, T. Grass, S.R. Holmes, J. McDowell, and T.A. Noble, 905. Nottingham: Inter-Varsity Press Academic, 2016.
  • -- "Hsia, R. Po-chia, ed., A Companion to The Reformation World (Oxford: Blackwell Publishing, 2004)", in Scottish Journal of Theology 61/2 (May 2008), pp.244-246.

ACADEMIC PAPERS/CHURCH LECTURES (SELECTED)
  • Nov. 2020 (forthcoming) “Natalie Carnes’s Iconographic Christology” book pane for Christ among the Disciplines Conference
  • Oct. 2020 (forthcoming) “State of the Latinx Church and Science” for SACNAS Conference
  • Oct. 2020 (forthcoming) “Coronavirus Unmasked: Scientists and Theologians in Dialogue” panel discussion, Azusa Pacific Seminary
  • Jun. 2020 “Deep calls to Deep: Learning Lament” chapel for Asbury Theological Seminary Florida Campus
  • Jun. 2020 “Learning to Lament” presentation for The Justice Network of the Free Methodist Church
  • Apr. 2020 “Apocalypse, Martyrs, & the Plague” online lecture for Azusa Pacific Seminary
  • Apr. 2020 “Theological Reflections and COVID-19: A Symposium for Holy Week” at Azusa Pacific Seminary
  • Feb. 2020 “Lament as an Antiracist Practice” Collaborative Inquiry Team Panel at Azusa Pacific University
  • Oct. 2019 “Learning Lament” given at Azusa Pacific University’s Senior Chapel.
  • Oct. 2017 “Protestantism: Motherless Christianity” given at Azusa Pacific University’s Reformation Celebration Chapel.
  • Oct. 2017 "Martin Bucer, Marriage, and the Reformation" paper given at Reformation & Reverberations: Consequences and Challenges of Change conference at APU.
  • Sept. 2017 "Theology & Prayer" presentation for Faith Integration Tool Talks for Faculty.
  • Oct. 2016 “Song of Songs: A Sexuality for Our Time” Four lectures for Flipside Community Church Adult Sunday School. 
  • Sept. 2016 “Job and the Sufferer’s Wisdom” Four lectures for Flipside Community Church Adult Sunday School. 
  • Mar. 2015 “Exploring Exile and Yom Kippur: Why the ‘Fall’ Might Mislead Us” presented at “Re-Imagining the Intersection of Evolution and the Fall” at Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary. 
  • Sept. 2013 “Sex in Church,” for Faith Matters Lecture Series at Azusa Pacific University. 
  • Aug. 2013 “Biblical Wisdom on Sex: A Study in Song of Songs,” Four lectures for PazNaz Sunday School Group. 
  • April 2013 “Trinitarian Prayer,” Four lectures for PazNaz Sunday School Group. 
  • Nov. 2012 “Silent Word—Preaching in Death: 1 Peter 3:18-4:6,” in Open and Relational Theologies Group, AAR. 
  • Aug. 2012 “Worship and Ethics: A Study in Amos” Two lectures for PazNaz Sunday School Group. 
  • Feb. 2006 “Martin Bucer’s Theology of Sin in his Romans Commentary (1536)” presented at the Scottish Universities’ Staff/Student Church History Conference. 
  • Feb. 2005 “Justification in Johannes Gropper's Enchiridion (1538)” presented at the Scottish Universities’ Staff/Student Church History Conference. 
  • Sept. 2004 “Martin Bucer and Article V of the Regensburg Colloquy (1541)” presented at the European Reformation Research Group Conference. 
  • Feb. 2004 “Martin Bucer and the Heidelberg Disputation, 1518” presented at the Scottish Universities’ Staff/Student Church History Conference.

ACADEMIC MEMBERSHIPS
  • Member, Society of Christian Ethics 
  • Member, American Academy of Religion  

HONORS AND AWARDS
  • 2015 Dean’s Scholar/Teacher Award (APU)  
  • 2003 – 2006 Overseas Reward Student Award Scheme (ORSAS)   
  • 2002 – 2003 Southern California Chosen for Ministry Scholarship 
  • 1999 – 2000 Fuller School of Theology Grant 
  • 1999 Certificate in Leadership Studies from Westmont College, Santa Barbara  

MISCELLANEOUS 
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