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Dr. David Courey

Dr. David Courey

Guest Assistant Professor of Systematic Theology

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Education, degrees
  • 2011: Ph.D. in Christian Theology, McMaster Divinity College, Hamilton, Ontario
  • 2004-2016: Graduate Work in Theology, Conrad Grebel College, University of Waterloo
  • 1997: M.A. in History, Laurentian University, Sudbury, Ontario
  • 1984: Diploma in Theology, Eastern Pentecostal Bible College (Master’s College), Peterborough, Ontario
  • 1979: B.Sc. Honors in Biochemistry, Bishop’s University, Lennoxville, Quebec
Academic positions and teaching experience
  • 2017-present: Guest Assistant Professor of Systematic Theology, ETF Leuven
  • 2017-present: Lecturer in Systematic Theology, Continental Theological Seminary, Brussels
  • 2015-2017: Post-Doctoral Research Assistant in Systematic Theology (Pentecostalism), ETF Leuven
  • 2014-2017: Dean of Graduate Studies, Continental Theological Seminary, Brussels
  • 2012-2014: Adjunct Faculty, McMaster Divinity College, Hamilton, ON
  • 1999-2007: Adjunct Faculty, Master’s College and Seminary
Academic memberships
  • European Pentecostal Theological Association
  • American Academy of Religion
  • American Society of Church History
  • Society for Pentecostal Studies
Selected Bibliography

Books

  • What Has Wittenberg to Do with Azusa? Luther’s Theology of the Cross and Pentecostal Triumphalism. London: Bloomsbury T&T Clark, 2015.

Journal Articles and Book Chapters

  • “Subjects and Predicates: A Barthian Grammar for Pentecostal Soteriology.” In Karl Barth and Pentecostal Theology: A Convergence of the Word and the Spirit, edited by Frank D. Macchia, Terry L. Cross, and Andrew K. Gabriel, 143–59. T&T Clark Systematic Pentecostal and Charismatic Theology. London: T&T Clark Bloomsbury, 2023.
  • “Discerning the Signs of the Spirit: Pentecostal Experience Engages Edwardsean Religious Affections.” In Pentecostal Theology and Jonathan Edwards, edited by Steven M. Studebaker and Amos Yong, 68–82. Systematic Pentecostal and Charismatic Theology. London; New York: T&T Clark, 2020.
  • “The Charismatic Ecclesiology of St. Luke: Biblical and Systematic Theology in Tandem.” In Reading St. Luke’s Text and Theology: Pentecostal Voices: Essays in Honor of Professor Roger Stronstad, edited by Riku P. Tupparainen, 101–13. Eugene, OR: Pickwick, 2019.
  • “What Does Brussels Have to Do with Toronto? Insights from the European Edge of the Post-Christian Frontier.” In Pentecostal Preaching and Ministry in Multicultural and Post-Christian Canada, edited by Steven M. Studebaker, 78–102. McMaster Ministry Studies 4. Eugene, OR: Pickwick, 2019.
  • “The Ozymandias Factor: Persistence, Memory, and European Secularism.” Journal of the European Pentecostal Theological Association 37, no. 1 (2017): 13–27.
  • “Franck, Sebastian.” Encyclopedia of Martin Luther and the Reformation, edited by Mark A. Lamport. Washington, DC: Rowman & Littlefield, 2017.
  • “Hoffman, Melchior.” Encyclopedia of Martin Luther and the Reformation, edited by Mark A. Lamport. Washington, DC: Rowman & Littlefield, 2017.
  • “Rothmann, Bernhard.” Encyclopedia of Martin Luther and the Reformation, edited by Mark A. Lamport. Washington, DC: Rowman & Littlefield, 2017.
  • “Schwenkfeld, Kaspar.” Encyclopedia of Martin Luther and the Reformation, edited by Mark A. Lamport. Washington, DC: Rowman & Littlefield, 2017.
  • “Why the Reformation Matters … to Pentecostals and Charismatics.” Encyclopedia of Martin Luther and the Reformation, edited by Mark A. Lamport. Washington, DC: Rowman & Littlefield, 2017.
  • “Biblical Theology Movement.” Encyclopedia of Christianity in the United States, edited by George Thomas Kurian and Mark A. Lamport. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2016.
  • “Bosworth, Fred Francis.” Encyclopedia of Christianity in the United States, edited by George Thomas Kurian and Mark A. Lamport. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2016.
  • “Branham, William.” Encyclopedia of Christianity in the United States, edited by George Thomas Kurian and Mark A. Lamport. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2016.
  • “Humbard, Rex Alpha Emmanuel.” Encyclopedia of Christianity in the United States, edited by George Thomas Kurian and Mark A. Lamport. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2016.
  • “Pearlman, Myer.” Encyclopedia of Christianity in the United States, edited by George Thomas Kurian and Mark A. Lamport. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2016.
  • “Victory in Jesus: Perfectionism, Pentecostal Sanctification, and Luther’s Theology of the Cross.” Journal of Pentecostal Theology 22 (2013): 257–74.
  • “The Distance Between Hope and Certainty: Volf, Moltmann and the Theology of the Cross.” Canadian Evangelical Review 37-38 (2010): 25–35.

Paper Presentations

  • “Pandemic, Apocalyptic and the Hope of the World.” Theological Colloquium at Continental Theological Seminary, Sint-Pieters- Leeuw, Belgium, February 2022.
  • “What to Make of ‘Secular Europe’: Canadian Reflections on the Church at the Crossroads of Post-Christendom.” Theological Colloquium at Continental Theological Seminary, Sint Pieters Leeuw, Belgium, 2020.
  • “Spirit-Baptism and Ecclesiology: A Pentecostal Proposal.” Theological Colloquium at Continental Theological Seminary, Sint-Pieters-Leeuw, Belgium, 2019.
  • “‘How Odd of God’: Zionism, Dispensationalism, and the Curious Case of Pentecostalism.” Israel as Hermeneutical Problem Conference at TU Kampen, Netherlands, March 2018.
  • “The Just Community: The Eschatological and Pneumatological Ecclesiology of Luke.” European Pentecostal Theological Association Conference, Sint-Pieters-Leeuw, Belgium, July 2018.
  • “This Burning in My Soul: Mystical and Pentecostal Fire and the Mediacy of Experience.” Ruusbroec Colloquium, Sint-Pieters-Leeuw, Belgium, February 2018.