Joel Houston P.O. Box 1986 Nipawin, Saskatchewan, S0E 1E0 Phone: 1.306.812.9943 [email protected] Websites: http://www.mwrc.ac.uk/joel-houston/ and http://nipawin.org/about/faculty/
Education
Ph.D. (2017) Theology – Thesis Topic: A Decade of Difference: Predestination and Early Methodist Identity in the ‘Free Grace’ Controversy, 1739-1749 (University of Manchester, Manchester, UK) M.A. (2011) Theological Studies – (Regent College, Vancouver, BC) B.A. (2004) English Literature – Magna Cum Laude (Ambrose University, Calgary, AB)
Professional Experience
• Faculty - Nipawin Bible College, Nipawin, SK 2014 - Present • Family and Community Coordinator – Autism and 2013 – 2014 Aspergers Friendship Society • Social Recreational Companion – Autism and Aspergers 2012 – 2013 Friendship Society • Employment Coach – The Mustard Seed Society, 2012 – 2013 Calgary, AB • Outreach Worker – Union Gospel Mission, Mission, BC 2011 – 2012 • Program Coordinator – The Between Friends Club of 2008 – 2009 Calgary, Recreation for People with Disabilities, Calgary, AB • External Relations Assistant – Alliance University 2004 – 2005 College, Calgary, AB
Teaching Experience (Instructor of Record)
• BT123 – Approaching the Bible (Nipawin Bible College, Fall Term 2014, 2015 Nipawin, SK) • BT215 – Israel: Conquest to Crisis (The Former Fall Term 2014, 2015 Prophets) (Nipawin Bible College, Nipawin, SK) • BT412 – The Pastoral Epistles (Nipawin Bible College, Fall 2014, Winter 2016 Nipawin, SK) Joel Houston P.O. Box 1986 Nipawin, Saskatchewan, S0E 1E0 Phone: 1.306.812.9943 [email protected] Websites: http://www.mwrc.ac.uk/joel-houston/ and http://nipawin.org/about/faculty/ Page 2
• MI322 – Missiology in Luke-Acts (Nipawin Bible Winter Term 2015, 2016 College, Nipawin, SK) • BT223 – The Christian Worldview (Nipawin Bible Winter Term 2015 College, Nipawin, SK) • BT257 – Spiritual Formation (Nipawin Bible College, Winter Term 2015 Nipawin, SK) • BT252 – The Epistle to the Hebrews (Nipawin Bible Winter Term 2016 College, Nipawin, SK)
Publications
Book Chapter:
• Joel Houston, “Beginning a Society of Their Own: Forthcoming Fall John Wesley, George Whitefield, and the Bristol 2017 Division” in Ian Maddock, Ed. Wesley and Whitefield? Wesley vs. Whitefield? (Wipf & Stock: Oregon).
Articles: • Joel Houston, “The Cavity in the Covenant: George Summer 2017 Whitefield’s Use of the Pactum Salutis”, Churchman, vol. 131, no. 2 (Church Society, Watford).
• Joel Houston, “A Change of Heart in Bristol? John Fall 2016 Wesley’s Doctrine of Election in Perspective, 1739 – 1768”, Wesleyan Theological Journal, vol. 51, no. 2 (Old Paths Tract Society: Indiana), 68-78.
Book Reviews:
• Joel Houston, “Review of George Whitefield: His Spring 2017 Life, Context and Legacy. Geordan Hammond and David Ceri Jones, Eds. (Oxford: OUP, 2016)” in
Churchman, vol. 131, no. 1.
Joel Houston P.O. Box 1986 Nipawin, Saskatchewan, S0E 1E0 Phone: 1.306.812.9943 [email protected] Websites: http://www.mwrc.ac.uk/joel-houston/ and http://nipawin.org/about/faculty/ Page 3
Teaching Competencies and Interests
• Primary competency in Wesleyan Theology, 18th Century English Theology and Ecclesiology, Reformed Soteriology and Constructive Theologies of the Continental Reformation.
• Doctrinal Criticism
• Contextual Theology
• Theological Ethics
• 19th Century British and American Literature and the Intersections of Theology and Literature
Affiliations/Memberships
• Evangelical Theological Society 2016 – Present • Churchman Journal Canadian Consultant 2016 – Present • Wesleyan Theological Society 2014 – Present • Manchester Wesley Research Centre Junior Fellow 2013 – Present