Revd Professor Michael Goheen BA MA PhD
Associate Faculty
Mike Goheen is a Canadian living on the west coast of Canada in Vancouver, British Columbia. He currently holds the Geneva Chair of Worldview and Religious Studies at Trinity Western University, Langley, British Columbia. He is also Teaching Fellow in Mission Studies at Regent College, Vancouver, Fellow at the Paideia Centre for Public Theology, Ancaster, Ontario, and part-time minister of preaching at New West Christian Reformed Church, Burnaby, British Columbia.
Previously he taught for eleven years in the areas of worldview, mission, and biblical theology at Redeemer University College, Ancaster, Ontario. He received his doctorate at the University of Utecht, Netherlands with a dissertation on Lesslie Newbigin's missionary ecclesiology. He was ordained in the Presbyterian Church in America in 1985 and spent the first seven years of his professional life as a church planter and then pastor. He transferred his ministerial credentials to the Christian Reformed Church in 1999 and has worked as a minister of preaching in two churches since that time.
Mike is married to Marnie, has four married children, and four grandchildren. He enjoys most kinds of sport, playing with his grandchildren, and working out daily so that he has the stamina to do so.
Areas of research and interest
Mission studies
Worldview studies
Biblical studies and mission
Missional ecclesiology
Gospel and culture
Websites
www.missionworldview.com
www.genevasociety.org
www.biblicaltheology.ca
http://www.allofliferedeemed.co.uk/goheen.htm
Selected academic publications
Books
To the Ends of the Earth: An Introduction to Mission Studies Today (Downers Grove: Intervarsity Press; contracted - projected finish 2012).
A Light to the Nations: the Missional Church and the Biblical Story (Grand Rapids: Baker Academic Books, 2011) [translated into Korean]
'As the Father Has Sent Me, I Am Sending You': J.E. Lesslie Newbigin's Missionary Ecclesiology (Zoetermeer: Boekencentrum Publishing House, 2000).
Books co-authored
Liberating Christian Philosophy (Grand Rapids: Baker Academic Books; contracted - projected finish 2012), with Craig G. Bartholomew.
Living at the Crossroads: an Introduction to Christian Worldview (Grand Rapids: Baker Academic Books; London: SPCK, 2008), with Craig G. Bartholomew. [translated into Russian and Korean]
The Drama of Scripture: Finding Our Place in the Biblical Story (Grand Rapids: Baker Academic Books, 2004), with Craig G. Bartholomew. [translated into Russian, Korean, Bengali, Chinese]
---- First revised, abridged version (London, SPCK, 2006).
---- Second revised, abridged version (Grand Rapids, MI: Faith Alive, 2009; published under new title: The True Story of the Whole World: Finding Your Place in the Biblical Drama
Books co-edited
The Gospel and Globalization: Exploring the Religious Roots of Globalization (Vancouver: Regent College Press and Geneva Society, 2009), with Erin G. Glanville.
That the World May Believe: Essays on Mission and Unity in Honour of George Vandervelde (Lanham, MA: University Press of America, 2006), with Margaret O'Gara.
Book chapters
'The Finality of Christ and a Missionary Encounter with Religious Pluralism: Newbigin's Missiological Approach', in David Kettle, Paul Weston, Mark Laing (eds.), Lesslie Newbigin's Global Theological Legacy: A Centenary Collection (Eugene, OR: Wipf and Stock Publishers, forthcoming 2012).
'The Identity and Role of the Church in the Biblical Story: Missional By Its Very Nature', in Stanley E. Porter and Cynthia L. Westfall (eds.), The Church - Then and Now. McMaster New Testament Studies 3 (Eugene, OR: Wipf and Stock Publishers, Pickwick Publications; Hamilton, ON: McMaster Divinity College Press, forthcoming 2012).
'Nourishing Our Missional Identity: Worship and the Mission of God's People', in David J. Cohen and Michael Parsons (eds.), In Praise of Worship: An Exploration of Text and Practice (Eugene, OR: Wipf and Stock Publishers, Pickwick Publications, 2010), 32-53.
'Bible and Mission: Missiology and Biblical Scholarship in Dialogue', in Stanley E. Porter and Cynthia Long Westfall (eds.), Christian Mission: Old Testament Foundations and New Testament Developments. McMaster New Testament Studies 1 (Eugene, OR: Wipf and Stock Publishers, Pickwick Publications; Hamilton, ON: McMaster Divinity College Press, 2010), 208-235.
'Probing the Historical and Religious Roots of Economic Globalization', in Michael W. Goheen and Erin G. Glanville (eds.), The Gospel and Globalization: Exploring the Religious Roots of Globalization (Vancouver: Regent College Press and Geneva Society; Milton Keynes, UK: Paternoster, 2009), 69-90.
'Liberating the Gospel in Western Culture: Lesslie Newbigin's Contribution', Introduction to Korean translation of Lesslie Newbigin, Gospel in a Pluralist Society (Seoul: Korea Intervarsity Press, 2007), 461-470.
'Mission and Unity: The Theological Dynamic of Comity', in Michael W. Goheen and Margaret O'Gara (eds.), That the World May Believe: Essays on Mission and Unity in Honour of George Vandervelde (Lanham, MA: University Press of America, 2006), 83-91.
'Delighting in God's Good Gift of Competition and Sport', in Richard Edlin and Jill Ireland (eds.), Engaging the Culture: Christians at Work in Education (Sydney: National Institute for Christian Education, 2006), 173-186.
'A Critical Examination of David Bosch's Missional Reading of Luke', in Craig G. Bartholomew, Joel B. Green, Anthony C. Thiselton (eds.), Reading Luke: Interpretation, Reflection, Formation (Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 2005), 229-264.
'The Gospel and the Idolatrous Power of Secular Science', in Jill Ireland, Richard Edlin, and Ken Dickens (eds.), Pointing the Way: Directions for Christian Schooling in a New Millennium (Sydney: National Institute for Christian Education, 2004), 33-54.
'The Gospel and the Idolatrous Spirit of the Western Academy', in John B. Hulst and Peter Balla (eds.), The Word of God and the Academy in Contemporary Culture (Sioux Center: Dordt Press; Budapest, Hungary: Karoli Gaspar Press, 2003), 21-38.
'Agogyan engem küldött az Atya, én is úgy küldelek el titeket-Lesslie Newbigin missziói ekkléziológiája' ['As the Father Has Sent Me, I Am Sending You: Lesslie Newbigin's Missionary Ecclesiology'], in Anna Marie Kool (ed.), Egyház és misszió a szekularizált magyar társadalomban [Church and Mission in Secularized Hungarian Culture], [Hungarian] (Hungary: Protestáns Missziói Tanulmányi Intézet, 2002), 13-27.
'A misszionáló gyülekezet: ekkléziológiai vita az Evangélium ès a Kultúránk Hálózat fórumán, Észak-Amerikában' ['The Missional Church: Ecclesiological Discussion in the Gospel and Our Culture Network in North America'], in Anna Marie Kool (ed.), Egyház és misszió a szekularizált magyar társadalomban [Church and Mission in Secularized Hungarian Culture], [Hungarian] (Budapest, Hungary: Protestáns Missziói Tanulmányi Intézet, 2002), 51-64.
'The Missional Calling of Believers in the World: The Contribution of Lesslie Newbigin', in Thomas F. Foust, George R. Hunsberger, J. Andrew Kirk, and Werner Ustorf (eds.), A Scandalous Prophet: The Way of Mission After Newbigin (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2001), 37-54.
'Charting a Faithful Path Amidst Postmodern Winds', in Hans Boersma (ed.), In the LambLight: Christianity and Contemporary Challenges to the Gospel (Vancouver: Regent College Publishing, 2001), 17-31.
'Building for the Future: Worldview Foundations of Sand and Rock', in George Carillet and Sergei Golovin (eds.), Man and the Christian Worldview. Volume 5. Worldview and Lifestyle: What Are We Bequeathing to Our Children? [Translated into Russian] (Simferopol, Ukraine: Crimean-American College Press, 2000), 27-37. Personal worldview statement also appended to article.
'Creational Revelation, Scriptural Revelation, and Science', in Jitse van der Meer (ed.), Facets of Faith and Science. Volume 4: Interpreting God's Action in the World (Lanham: The Pascal Centre for Advanced Studies in Faith and Science/University Press of America, 1996), 313-330.
'Organism of Revelation', in Jitse van der Meer (ed.), Facets of Faith and Science. Volume 4: Interpreting God's Action in the World (Lanham: The Pascal Centre for Advanced Studies in Faith and Science/University Press of America, 1996), 331-345.
'Understanding Revelation in an Age Dominated by Science',in Timothy Phillips and Dennis Okholm (eds.), The Relationship of Theology and Science (Wheaton: Wheaton College Press, 1994), 214-238.