Gregg A. Okesson

Gregg A. Okesson is Dean of the E. Stanley Jones School of World Mission and Evangelism. He received a BA from Wheaton College (Psychology and Bible), a MA from Wheaton Graduate School (Biblical Studies), a MA from Wheaton Graduate School (Intercultural Studies), and a PhD in Theology and Religious Studies from University of Leeds, UK (African Christianity). Before coming to Asbury in July 2011, Dr. Okesson was a faculty member at Scott Theological College/Scott Christian University, Kenya, East Africa for ten years where he served as Deputy Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs. Prior to this, he was a pastor in upstate New York, worked in Student Development at Wheaton College, and was a church-planter among a Muslim people-group in north-central Tanzania. He and his family lived in East Africa for thirteen years. Dr. Okesson has authored numerous articles and serves on the editorial committee for the Africa Journal of Evangelical Theology. He is the author of Re-Imaging Modernity (Wipf & Stock, 2012) and is currently working on projects that deal with ecclesiastical theologies emergent within African Christianity, doxology and development, along with a co-authored book on the subject of evangelical advocacy. More broadly, Dr. Okesson is interested in attending to linkages between theology and global realities, particularly those dealing with poverty, development, power, and multiple modernities.