Joel Houston P.O. Box 1986— Nipawin, , 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 – (, Vancouver, BC) B.A. (2004) English Literature – Magna Cum Laude (, , AB)

Professional Experience

• Faculty - , 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