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Sarah Sumner, Ph.D.

Professor of Theology and Ministry
Special Assistant to the Dean for Strategic Development
Phone: (626) 815-5647
Email: ssumner@apu.edu
Sarah Sumner, Ph.D., serves as professor of theology and ministry, and as special assistant to the dean for strategic development in C.P. Haggard Graduate School of Theology. She is the first woman to earn a Ph.D. in Systematic Theology from Trinity Evangelical Divinity School in Deerfield, Illinois. Her published books include Men and Women in the Church: Building Consensus on Christian Leadership (2003), Leadership Above the Line (2006), and Just How Married Do You Want to Be? Practicing Oneness in Marriage (slated for release in July 2008). Dr. Sumner also serves as a regular teaching pastor at New Song Church in San Dimas California, and as an aerobics instructor at Bally Total Fitness. In 2007, she founded www.sumnerconsulting.com and now travels internationally to do speaking and consulting. She has appeared on shows such as The Early Show for CBS News, and Lee Strobel’s Faith Under Fire. Sarah and her husband, Jim, have been married for eleven years and are in the process of adopting an older child.

Education

Ph.D. – Systematic Theology, Trinity Evangelical Divinity School, 1996
MBA - Azusa Pacific University, 2003
M.Div. equivalent- Trinity Evangelical Divinity School, 1991
M.A. – Theology, Wheaton College, 1986
B.A. – Elementary Education, Baylor University, 1985

Expertise

  • Intellectual Power of Christianity
  • Leadership
  • Marriage
  • Men and Women in the Church
  • Righteous Anger
  • Theology in Everyday Life

Courses Taught

CMIN 108 – Christian Life, Faith, and Ministry
GDMN 720 – Theology for Spiritual Formation
GMIN 528 – Contemporary Issues in Ministry
GMIN 558 – Women and Men in Ministry
GMIN 618 – Philosophy of Ministry
GMIN 628 – Seminar in Ministry
GTHE 504 – God, Creation, and Humanity
GTHE 505 – Christian Ethics
GTHE 514 – Jesus Christ, the Holy Spirit, and the Church
GTHE 534 – Interdisciplinary Seminar in Theology
GTHE 615 – Church and Society
HDEV 404 – Humans and Ethical Behavior
LDRS 529 – Ethics in a Changing Organizational Environment
LDRS 597 – Current Issues in Leadership
PE 117 – Fitness for Life: Aerobics (F, S)
PHIL 496 – Senior Seminar

Office Hours

By appointment

Office Location

John and Marilyn Duke Academic Complex, Room 237, West Campus

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