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Patrick Oden, M.Div.Adjunct Professor |
Phone: (626) 815-5496 Email: poden@apu.edu |
Patrick Oden received his Ph.D. in Theology (with a minor in church history) from Fuller Theological Seminary in June 2013. His dissertation focused on the theology of Jürgen Moltmann as it relates to missional and emerging expressions of church, and will soon be published by Fortress Press—his third book. His other books utilize a fictional missional community as a framework to discuss a practical pneumatology (It’s a Dance: Moving with the Holy Spirit) and a constructive theodicy (How Long? The Trek Through the Wilderness). Both are published by Barclay Press.
He is a true Southern Californian, with family members arriving in Los Angeles beginning in the 1880s, working as farmers in the Venice, Imperial Valley, Covina, and Baldwin Park areas into the 1950s.
He and his wife, Amy, were blessed with their first baby—a girl, Vianne Rose Oden—on Easter Sunday 2012. In his spare time he loves creative writing, hiking, camping on islands, staring at trees, and watching ravens.
He is a true Southern Californian, with family members arriving in Los Angeles beginning in the 1880s, working as farmers in the Venice, Imperial Valley, Covina, and Baldwin Park areas into the 1950s.
He and his wife, Amy, were blessed with their first baby—a girl, Vianne Rose Oden—on Easter Sunday 2012. In his spare time he loves creative writing, hiking, camping on islands, staring at trees, and watching ravens.
Education
Ph.D., Fuller Theological Seminary, 2013 (anticipated), Theology; Church History (minor)M.Div., Fuller Theological Seminary, 2002
B.A., Wheaton College, 1997, History, and Biblical and Theological Studies (double major)
Department
- School of Theology
- Undergraduate: Department of Theology & Philosophy
Expertise
- Ecclesiology and Pneumatology
- Emerging/Missional church movements
- Liberation Theology
- Theology of History, Anglo-American Church History 1600-1800, and 20th-Century American Church History
- Theology of Jurgen Moltmann and Wolfhart Pannenberg
- Wesleyan Studies, and Early Monasticism
