Christ Church Conversations: A Methodist Heart
November 22nd • 4:30 - 5:45 pm
Sanctuary
Dr. Ted A. Campbell joins us for the third lecture in the series of Christ Church Conversations. The topic is A Methodist Heart: Exploring the Heart of What it has Historically Meant to be a Methodist and a Follower of John Wesley's Vision of Christian Life. There will be a short question and answer period with Dr. Campbell, and everyone is invited to enjoy refreshments in the Gathering Hall afterwards.
Ted A. Campbell was born in Beaumont, Texas, in 1953. He was educated at Lon Morris College, the University of North Texas, Oxford University, and Southern Methodist University. He has served as pastor of United Methodist congregations, and has taught at the Methodist Theological School in Ohio, Duke Divinity School, Wesley Theological Seminary. He served as president of Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary from 2001 through 2005, and now serves as Associate Professor of Church History at Perkins School of Theology at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas.
His published works include John Wesley and Christian Antiquity (1991), The Religion of the Heart (1991), Christian Confessions (Westminster John Knox Press, 1996), Methodist Doctrine (Abingdon Press, 1999) and Christian Mysteries (2005). In the last year he co-edited a book of essays on Charles Wesley: Life, Literature and Legacy (2007) with Kenneth G. C. Newport, designed to commemorate the three hundredth birthday of Charles Wesley. A work on The Gospel in Christian Traditions will be published by Oxford University Press in late 2008.
He is a charter member of the International Society Opposed to Organist Improvisation in Hymn Singing (ISoOIHS) and the International Society Opposed to Dangling Microphones (ISoDM). Actually, he is the only member of these illustrious societies.
Ted Campbell and his wife, Dale Marie Campbell, reside in Dallas, Texas, and they have two daughters in their 20s, Elizabeth and Lydia.