About Dale Little: partial curriculum vitae

Degrees and Study Programs—

  • A.A., Trinity Western University, Langley BC Canada, 1973
  • B.A., Simon Fraser University, Vancouver BC Canada, 1977 (analytic philosophy and anthropology)
  • Diploma in Christian Studies, Regent College, Vancouver BC Canada, 1978
  • Gordon Conwell Theological Seminary, Boston, 1980
  • M.Div., Trinity Evangelical Divinity School, Chicago, 1982 (missions emphasis)
  • Ph.D., Trinity Evangelical Divinity School, Chicago, 2000 (systematic theology)

Ph.D. dissertation—

  • The Significance of Theology of the Holy Spirit for Theology of Religion and for Theology of Mission in the Writings of Lesslie Newbigin and Clark Pinnock, 2000.

Publications—

  • Regular column in Japan Harvest, the quarterly magazine of the Japan Evangelical Missionary Association. Column title: “Thinking Theologically about Church Planting.” These articles, each of less than 1000 words, can be found at http://www.itheology.net.
    • “When Church Planters ‘Fail.’” Japan Harvest, Vol. 53, No. 4 (Spring 2002), 5.
    • “Why Bother Thinking Theologically About Church Planting?” Japan Harvest, Vol. 54, No. 1 (Summer 2002), 15.
    • “Barth as a Possible Source for Thinking Theologically About Church Planting.” Japan Harvest, Vol. 54, No. 2 (Fall 2002), 12.
    • “The Church as God's Missional Instrument.” Japan Harvest, Vol. 54, No. 3 (Winter 2003), 35.
    • “Creating Communities of Faith.” Japan Harvest, Vol. 54, No. 4 (Spring 2003), 31.
    • “Nurturing New Communities of Faith.” Japan Harvest, Vol. 55, No. 1 (Summer 2003), 23.
    • “When Little is Big.” Japan Harvest, Vol. 55, No. 2 (Fall 2003), 28.
    • “Priority of the Word of God in Church Planting.” Japan Harvest, Vol. 55, No. 3 (Winter 2004), 21.
    • “Where is the Church?” Japan Harvest, Vol. 55, No. 4 (Spring 2004), 15.
    • “Motivational Energy for Church Planting.” Japan Harvest, Vol. 56, No. 1 (Summer 2004), 15.
    • “Church Planting as God's Missional Re-Creation.” Japan Harvest, Vol. 57, No. 2 (Fall 2005), 21.
    • “Making Salvation Accessible by Clothing the Gospel with Community.” Japan Harvest, Vol. 57, No. 3 (Winter 2006), 24.
    • “Church Planting Located Between Gospel and Culture.” Japan Harvest, Vol. 57, No. 4 (Spring 2006), 20.
    • “Keeping the Main Thing the Main Thing.” Japan Harvest, Vol. 58, No. 1 (Summer 2006), 21.
    • “How Should We Report About Our Church Planting?” Japan Harvest, Vol. 58, No. 2 (Fall 2006), 24.
  • “Overview of Contemporary Theology.” Shimpo (Progress), No. 25 (June 2004), 13-28. (This is an article in both Japanese and English, published in parallel columns.)
  • “Missionary Primer on Contemporary Evangelical Theological Methodology.” Japan Harvest, Vol. 58, No. 3 (Winter 2007), 16-20.
  • “Mission Confusion.” Japan Harvest, Vol. 60, No. 4 (Spring 2009), 14-17.
  • “Church and Mission.” Japan Harvest, Vol. __, No. _ (Spring 2010), __-__.

Papers presented at the annual meetings of the Evangelical Theological Society (ETS)—

  • “General Revelation and Conscience as Seen in Romans 2:12-16, with Implications for Evangelical Theology of Religions and Theology of Mission” (ETS 1997).
  • “Evangelical Theology Under Reconstruction: Lesslie Newbigin’s Pneumacentric Theology of Mission” (ETS 2000)
  • “Evangelical Theology Under Reconstruction: Clark Pinnock’s Pneumacentric Theology of Religions” (ETS 2001).
  • “Clark Pinnock’s Pneumacentric Hermeneutic” (ETS Japan 2001)
  • “Evangelical Theology Under Reconstruction: Lesslie Newbigin’s Pneumacentric Theology of Religion” (ETS 2002).
  • “Evangelical Theology Under Reconstruction: Clark Pinnock’s Pneumacentric Theology of Mission” (ETS 2003).
  • “Doing Cross-Cultural Evangelical Theology in Japan: Theological and Phenomenological Observations” (ETS 2007).

Papers presented in other academic contexts—

  • “Anthropological Themes in the Writings of Irenaeus Relevant to an Evangelical Theology of Religions” (1995).
  • “Doing Evangelical Theology in a Postmodern Environment: Systematic Theology in Conflict with Culture” (1995).
  • “Many Lamps, One Light: The Concept of Revelation in the Writings of John Hick” (1995).
  • “The Ecclesiology of Karl Barth in Relation to his Doctrine of God and his Doctrine of the Word of God” (1996).
  • “From Disciples of Jesus to Christians in the Church: Ecclesial Themes in Luke-Acts with Implications for a Theology of Mission” (1996).
  • “From Garden to City: The Mission of the People of God in View of God’s Mission to Consecrate Creation” (1996).
  • “Missional Themes in Adolf Schlatter, Including Points of Contact with Karl Barth.” (1996)
  • “The Significance of the Filioque for Theology of Religions, with Special Reference to Clark Pinnock, John Sanders, and Lesslie Newbigin” (1996).
  • “Justification and Judgment in Paul” (1997).
  • “The Missio Dei in the Context of Continuity/Discontinuity” (1997).
  • “Thinking Theologically about Church Planting: The Church as God’s Instrumental Community” (2000).
  • “Thinking Theologically about Church Planting: Trinitarian Sources” (2000).
  • “Theology and Church Planting” (2003).
  • “Japan Evangelical Missionary Association ad hoc Theological Commission Response to the Japan Evangelical Association Theological Commission’s Pamphlet No.6, ‘Fundamentalism’: AFFIRMATIONS AND QUESTIONS FOR DISCUSSION.” (2007).

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