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Charles M. Wood

Lehman Professor of Christian Doctrine
Director, Graduate Program in Religious Studies


Member of the Perkins faculty since 1976
cwood@smu.edu
214.768.3608

Education
Ph.D., Yale University, 1972; M.Phil., Yale University, 1971; Th.M., Boston University School of Theology, 1969; B.A., University of Denver, 1966

Teaching Specialties
Christian doctrine, constructive theology

Research Interests
The doctrine of the Trinity; H. Richard Niebuhr; theology and ministry; theological education

Selected Publications
Attentive to God: Thinking Theologically in Ministry (Abingdon Press, forthcoming 2008); "Providence," Oxford Handbook of Systematic Theology, ed. John Webster, Kathryn Tanner, and Iain Torrance (Oxford University Press, 2007); An Invitation to Theological Study (Valley Forge PA: Trinity Press International, 1994); The Formation of Christian Understanding: Theological Hermeneutics (second edition, Valley Forge, PA: Trinity Press International, 1993); Vision and Discernment: An Orientation in Theological Study (Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1985)

Professional Distinctions
Ordained elder, Rocky Mountain Annual Conference, United Methodist Church; Chair, systematic theology working group for the 11th Oxford Institute for Methodist Theological Studies; editorial board, International Journal of Systematic Theology; member, American Theological Society