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Curriculum Vitae Curriculum Vitae Christopher W. Mitchell Marion E. Wade Center Wheaton College Wheaton, Illinois 60187 (630) 752-5908 [email protected] ACADEMIC POSITION Director of the Marion E. Wade Center at Wheaton College, Wheaton, Illinois The Marion E. Wade Chair of Christian Thought PERSONAL Married: Julie (1975) Children: Nisha (1980), Joshua (1981), Lukas (1985), Jeremy (1992) Grandchildren: Erik (2004), Jackson (2004), Griffin (2008), Ruby (2010) EDUCATION AND PROFESSIONAL TRAINING University of Wisconsin-Madison: Telugu Language Study, 1980 Andhra University, Andhra Pradesh, India: Telugu, Indian History & Philosophy, 1980-81 ThB., Multnomah Bible College, Portland, Oregon, 1984 (Who's Who in American Universities and Colleges) M.A., Wheaton College, Wheaton, Illinois, 1986 (Church History Award) PhD, University of St. Andrews, Scotland, 1997 (Overseas Research Students Award) EMPLOYMENT Wheaton College 1985-86: Teaching Assistant, Wheaton College 1986-88, 91-92: Adjunct Instructor in Theology, Wheaton College 1993-94: Full-time Instructor in Theology, Wheaton College. 1994-2006 Assistant Professor of Theology 1994—: Director: Marion E. Wade Center, Wheaton College 2006—: Associate Professor of Theology, Wheaton College 2006—: Marion E. Wade Professor of Christian Thought RELATED PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE Missionary work, Haiti, 1978 Missionary work, India, 1980-81 Pastor, Bethany Chapel, Wheaton, Illinois, 1986-93 COURSES TAUGHT AT WHEATON COLLEGE BITH 111: Theology of Culture BITH 315, 316: Christian Thought BITH 471: Christology BITH 489, 558: Christology in the Early Church 1 BITH 489, 558: C.S. Lewis BITH 498, 558: J.R.R. Tolkien BITH 489, 558: Dorothy L. Sayers BITH 489, 558: Oxford Christians BITH 489, 558: Theology in the Literary Imagination BITH 521: Theology of Education BITH 653: Historical Theology: Ancient Church BITH 654: Historical Theology: Medieval Church BITH 655: Historical Theology: Reformation Independent Studies BITH 495: Theology of the Church BITH 495: C.S. Lewis: The Shape of His Thought BITH 495: Jonathan Edwards BITH 495: Theology and Global Development BITH 495: J.R.R. Tolkien: Literature and Theology BITH 695: Pietism and Puritanism BITH 695: Readings in Theology: Charles Williams BITH 695: Puritan Spirituality BITH 695: G.K. Chesterton BITH 695: The problem of Suffering BITH 695: Study in Christology BITH 695: Imagination and Apologetics COURSES TAUGHT OFF-CAMPUS Scott Theological College, Machakos, Kenya Gen. 413 Topics in History: “The Gospel Witness through the Centuries” January 7-21, 2009 Trinity Evangelical Divinity School CH 845/DCH 910: “C.S. Lewis in Historical and Theological Perspective”: Spring 2001; Fall 2005; Fall 2007; January Term 2011 RZIM US Summer Institute, Wheaton College “The Drama of Redemption,” June 16-19, 2008 “Inklings Apologetics,” June 26-29, 2006 Joshua Institute, Hume Lake, CA “The Inklings,” and Philippians 2:1-11 in Theological Perspective, March 2009-2012 Selections from Philippians, March, 2007 and March 2008 Inklings Apologetics, March 2006 Theology and the Biblical Narrative, March, 2005 Kazak-American Free University, Ust-Kamenogorsk, Kazakhstan May 2002, Theology and Modern English Literature; Development of Modern Western Intellectual Culture, May 2004; The Literary Legacy of J.R.R. Tolkien; West Meets the East: Alexander Solzhenitsyn’s Critique of Western Culture 2 SERVICE/ADMINISTRATION Theses Supervised 1997: Second Reader, M.A. Thesis, Bryan Holstrom 1998: Second Reader, M.A. Thesis, Shigeo Kudo 2001: Second Reader, M.A. Thesis, Elizabeth Pipes 2003: First Reader, M.A. Thesis, Scott Bradley 2004: Second Reader, M.A. Thesis, Tim Ryan 2004: First Reader, M.A. Thesis, Zachary Kincaid (Trinity Evangelical Divinity School) 2006: Second Reader, MA Thesis, Susanne Osborne (Trinity Evangelical Divinity School) Current: First Reader, MA Thesis, Katja Bluthart (Academy for World Mission, Korntal, Germany) Current: Second Reader, MA Thesis, Jeffrey Calhoun (Trinity Evangelical Divinity School) Treasures of Wheaton Lectures “Dorothy L. Sayers: A Mere Christian” “C.S. Lewis on The Four Loves,” May 2005 “The Cost of C.S. Lewis’s Witness,” May 2003 “To the Ends of the Earth,” May 2002 “Fantasy and Spiritual Formation,” May 2001 “A Vision Realized: Thirty-five Years of Wade Center History,” September 2000 “Toward the Recovery of Permanent Things: A View from the Wade Center Authors,” May 2000 “An Uncompromising Hospitality: G.K. Chesterton on the Gospel and the Unbeliever,” May 1999 “C.S. Lewis: A Centenary Appraisal,” May 1998 “A Divine Business: The Epistolary Ministry of George MacDonald,” May 1997 “C.S. Lewis and the Oxford University Socratic Club,” October 1996 “C.S. Lewis: University Battles,” May 1996 “War Work: Dorothy L. Sayers and C.S. Lewis,” May 1995 Alumni Service Alumni Faculty Lecture, Homecoming, October 2005 Alumni and Wade Center Study Tour, England, June/July 2005 Alumni and Wade Center Study Tour, England, October 1997 Alumni Meetings in Buffalo, Rochester, New York, March 1996 Misc. Campus Presentations George MacDonald’s The Wise Woman Book Discussion, February 2011 Chapel Address: “G.K. Chesterton and ‘Lazy with the Love of Good,’” October 24, 2008 Retiree Luncheon Talk, April 2000 Eastern European Summer Student Program, Wade Presentation, July 1999 Christian Service Council, “The Aim of Evangelism,” October 1998 Writer’s Conference, “Hidden Treasures: Researching C.S. Lewis at the Wade Center,” September 1998 Ministerial Luncheon sponsored by Public Relations: “G.K. Chesterton and Dorothy L. Sayers: The Drama of Orthodoxy,” January 1998 Brown Bag Lunch, BGC: “C.S. Lewis and the Shadowlands,” October 1994 3 Other Wheaton College Services Co-sponsor with the Billy Graham Association, “The Gospel and Imagination Roundtable,” April 23-26, 2008 HNGR Program Faculty and Project Advisor, Josiah Lamp, Burkina Faso, Africa September 2004 Faculty Visitation, Jay Mehta, Hyderabad, India, August, 2005 Planned and Organized the Annual Wheaton Theology Conference (1998) Member of the Wade Center Steering Committee (1994—present) Member of the Editorial Board and Book Review Editor for the Wade Center’s journal Seven: An Anglo-American Literary Review PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS AND ASSOCIATIONS Conference on Christianity and Literature The Dorothy L. Sayers Society The G.K. Chesterton Society Adjunct Faculty: Trinity Evangelical Divinity School Honorary Fellow of The College of Saint Thomas More, Fort Worth, TX Senior Fellow: C.S. Lewis Institute, Washington, D.C. Advisory Board Member: Petoskey C.S. Lewis Festival,” 2003— PUBLICATIONS Book The Abolition of Man: A Critical Edition with new material, by C.S. Lewis (forthcoming, HarperCollins (2013) Chapters or Contributions to Books “C.S. Lewis as a Lay Minister,” Persona and Paradox: Issues of Identity for C.S. Lewis, his Friends and Associates, eds. Suzanne Bray and William Gray (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2012) “C.S. Lewis and Historic Evangelicalism,” C.S. Lewis and the Church: Essays in Honour of Walter Hooper, Judith Wolfe and Brenden N. Wolfe, eds. (T&T Clarke, January, 2011). New Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford University Press, 2004): John Gillies (1712- 1796); William McCulloch (1691-1771); James Robe (1688-1753) “Jonathan Edwards’s Scottish Connection,” Jonathan Edwards in Historical Memory, David Kline and Douglas Sweeney, eds. (South Carolina University Press, 2003) “Peter and Catherine Marshall,” “A.W. Tozer” in Biographical Dictionary of Evangelicals, ed., Timothy Larsen (Inter-Varsity Press, 2003) “Ralph Cudworth,” “John MacQuarrie,” “Henry More,” “Alan Richardson,” “Communicato Operationum,” Evangelical Dictionary of Theology, revised edition, ed. Walter A. Elwell (Baker Book House, 2001) “Bearing the Weight of Glory: The Cost of C.S. Lewis’ Witness,” The Pilgrim’s Guide: C.S. Lewis and the Art of Witness, ed. David P. Mills (Eerdmans, 1998). 4 “Stella Aldwinckle,” “Bodleian Library,” “Marion E. Wade Center,” “Oxford University Socratic Club,” in CSL: A Readers Encyclopedia, eds. Jeffrey Schultz and John G. West Jr. (Zondervan, 1998) “University Battles: C.S. Lewis and the Oxford University Socratic Club,” C.S. Lewis: Lightbearer in the Shadowlands, ed. Angus Menuge (Crossway Books, Fall 1997) “John Gillies,” “James Robe,” “William McCulloch,” in Dictionary of Scottish Church History and Theology (HarperCollins, 1993) “Plymouth Brethren,” Topical Encyclopedia of Worship, vol. 3, Robert Webber, ed. (Abbot Martin Press, 1993) “Jonathan Edwards,” “Gilbert Tennent,” “George Whitefield,” “John Witherspoon,” in Who’s Who in Christian History, J.D. Douglas and Philip Comfort, eds. (Tyndale, 1992) Forewords to Books Foreword to Jack’s Life, by Douglas Gresham, Broadman & Holman, 2005 Foreword to CSL: A Readers Encyclopedia, eds. Jeffrey Schultz and John G. West Jr., Zondervan, 1998 Articles “C.S. Lewis and Authentic Discipleship,” Knowing and Doing: C.S. Lewis Institute, A Teaching Quarterly for Discipleship of Heart and Mind, Spring, 2011, Washington, DC. Introduction to, Owen Barfield, “Death,” Seven: An Anglo-American Literary Review, volume 25, Fall 2008. “Dorothy L. Sayers: A Mere Christian,” Proceedings of the 2007 Dorothy L. Sayers Convention, Wheaton College, June 13, 2007. “Oxford’s Twentieth-Century Athenian,” Journal of the Korea Institute for Advanced Theological Studies, Vol. II. 1, Spring 2006. “George Sayer, 1914-2005,” Seven: An Anglo-American Literary Review, vol. 22, 2005 “Making Doctrine Dance,” Christian History & Biography, Issue 88, Fall 2005, pp. 23-26
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