Timothy C. Tennent

Dr. Tennent currently serves as President of Asbury Theological Seminary.
He was formerly the Professor of World Missions and Director of Missions Programs at Gordon-Conwell.
He has also taught missions at Toccoa Falls College in Georgia, where he was honored as teacher of the year in 1995.
Dr. Tennent has ministered and taught in China, Nigeria, India and Eastern Europe.
Ordained in the United Methodist Church, he has pastored churches in Georgia and continues to preach regularly in churches throughout New England and across the country.
Dr. Tennent is the author of several books, including Building Christianity on Indian Foundations (ISPCK, 2000), Christianity at the Religious Roundtable (Baker Academic, 2002), and his most recent book, Theology in the Context of World Christianity: How the Global Church is Influencing the Way We Think About and Discuss Theology (Zondervan, 2007).
He received his M.Div.
in 1984 from Gordon-Conwell, the Th.M.
in Islamic studies from Princeton Theological Seminary, and did graduate work in linguistics (TESL) at the University of Georgia.
He completed his Ph.D.
in non-western Christianity with a focus on Hinduism and Indian Christianity in 1998 at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland.