School of Theology

Phone: (626) 815-6000, Ext. 5635
Fax: (626) 815-5469
Email: ckeen@apu.edu
Office Location: West Campus, Duke 242
Office Hours: By appointment

Craig Keen, Ph.D., comes to APU as an award-winning professor of theology and philosophy. He has held various offices in the Wesleyan Theological Society, including Promotional Secretary, Program Chair, and President. Keen has published several articles in the Wesleyan Theological Journal, has a chapter in the book, Embodied Holiness: Toward a Corporate Theology of Spiritual Growth, and is under contract with Scranton University Press to publish a book with the working title, Theology and the Shape of Faith. He served as Co-Chair of the Systematic Theology Working Group of the Twelfth Oxford Institute of Methodist Theological Studies. In 2002, he served on an eight-member committee that envisaged, planned, and implemented the first Global Theology Conference of the Church of the Nazarene in Guatemala City, Guatemala.

Ph.D. - Religion and Theology, Claremont Graduate University, Claremont, California
M.Div. - Nazarene Theological Seminary, Kansas City, Missouri
M.A. - Systematic Theology, Southern Nazarene University, Bethany, Oklahoma
B.A. - Philosophy and Religion, Southern Nazarene University, Bethany, Oklahoma

Publications
Keen, C. (Spring, 2005). The Resurrection of the Body: The Liturgy of Martyrdom and the Hallowing of the Flesh. Wesleyan Theological Journal, 40.

Keen, C. "The Holy Spirit." In Articles of Faith: What Nazarenes Believe and Why. Edited by Gay Leonard. Kansas City: Beacon Hill Press of Kansas City, 2005.

Keen, C. (Spring, 2001). The Transgression of the Integrity of God: The Trinity and the Hallowing of the Flesh. Wesleyan Theological Journal, 36(1), 73-102.

Keen, C. (1999). The Human Person as Intercessory Prayer. In S. M. Powell and M. E. Lodahl (Eds.), Embodied Holiness: Toward a Corporate Theology of Spiritual Growth (pp. 39-61). Downers Grove, Illinois: Intervarsity Press.

Keen, C. (Spring, 1998). Homo Precarious: Prayer in the Image and Likeness of God. Wesleyan Theological Journal, 33.

Honors, Awards, Recognition
President’s Award for Distinguished Service, Trevecca Nazarene University, Nashville, Tennessee
Faculty Member of the Year, Trevecca Nazarene University, Nashville, Tennessee
Conference Award for Excellence in Teaching, Trevecca Nazarene University, Nashville, Tennessee

Associations, Boards, Committees
Global Theology Conference of the Church of the Nazarene, April 2002, Guatemala City, Guatemala
Vice President, Promotional Secretary, Wesleyan Theological Society
Member, American Academy of Religion
Member, International Søren Kierkegaard Society
Member, North American Karl Barth Society
Member, Wesleyan Theological Society
Member, Theological Dialogue