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Ted A. Campbell

Associate Professor of Church History

tedc at smu dot edu
214.768.4885

Education

Southern Methodist University, PhD in Church History, 1984; Oxford University, B.A./M.A. in Christian Theology, 1979/1987; University of North Texas, B.A. in Latin, 1976; Lon Morris College, A.A., 1974

Teaching Specialties

Methodist history, doctrine, and polity; History of Christianity; History of Christian doctrine and theology; Ecumenical Christian doctrine.

Research Interests

Methodist history including Wesleyan studies; Pietism and movements for a “religion of the heart” in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries; Ecumenical Christian doctrine.

Selected Publications

Edited with Kenneth G. C. Newport, Charles Wesley: Life, Literature & Legacy (Peterborough: Epworth Press, 2007); Methodist Doctrine: The Essentials (Abingdon Press, 1999); Christian Confessions: A Historical Introduction (Westminster John Knox Press, 1996); John Wesley and Christian Antiquity: Religious Vision and Cultural Change (Kingswood Books imprint of the Abingdon Press, 1991); Edited: Albert C. Outler as Historian and Interpreter of the Christian Tradition (volume 8 in The Albert C. Outler Library; Anderson, Indiana: Bristol Books, 2003).

Professional Distinctions

Trustee, International Foundation for Ewha Woman's University; president of the Charles Wesley Society (1999-2003); delegate to the Faith and Order Commission of the National Council of Churches in the USA (1992-2002); an ordained elder of the Texas Annual Conference of the United Methodist Church.

 

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