Clifton R. Clarke

Education

• Ph.D., University of Birmingham, UK
• M.A., University of Derby, UK
• B.Th., University of Nottingham, UK

Courses Taught

• Missiology
• Islam
• World Religions
• Missionary Principles and Practice

Research Interests

I would welcome working with doctoral students in these and related areas.

• African Christianity and historiography
• African Theologies/Christologies
• Postmodern and Renewal ecclesiology
• Missiology
• African Pentecostalism and Indigenous churches
• Religious Pluralism and Inter-faith Dialogue

Published Chapters and Journal Articles

• 'Ogbu Kalu and Africa's Christianity: A Tribute Essay' in Pneuma: The Journal of the Society for Pentecostal Studies Vol. 32, Number 1 (2010), 107-120.
• 'Old Wine and New wine Skins: west Indian and the New West African Pentecostal Churches in Britain and the Challenge of Renewal' in the Journal of Pentecostal Theology Vol. 19, Number 1 (2010), 143-154.
• Trans-denominational Mission, Black and White Christian Partnership Publication (1997), pp. 10-14
• Christ in Africa, Journal of Theology and Religion. Vol. 1:No.1 (2000), pp. 2-12.
• Towards an Oral Christology among African Indigenous Church in Ghana, Journal of Asian Missions, Vol. 6:2, (2004), pp. 245-264.
• Post-missionary African Indigenous Christology in Journal of African Christian Thought. Vol. 8, No. 1, (June 2005), pp. 321
• Towards a Functional Christology Among African Indigenous Churches in Ghana. Mission Studies: Journal of the International Association for Mission Studies, Vol. 22, No. 2 (2005), pp. 287- 318. Also published in Missionalia, Vol. 33, no.1, (April 2005), pp. 138-165.
• Christological Construction Among Ghanaian AICs, in Africa. Theological Journal. Vol. 28, No. 2 (2005), pp. 23-41.
• African Indigenous Churches in Ghana: Past, Present and Future. Journal of African Indigenous Church Theology. Vol.2:1 (2005), pp. 5-16.
• In Our Mother Tongue: Vernacular Hermeneutics within African Initiated Christianity in Ghana. Trinity Journal of Church and Theology, Vol. XV, no. 2 (July 2005), pp. 52-68.
• African Epistemology and the Christian Faith: Towards the Epistemic Use of Orality and Symbolism in African Christian Scholarship. Journal of African Christian Thought. Vol. 9. No. 1 (June 2006), pp.56-64.
• Christology in African Indigenous Churches in Ghana. Missionalia. Vol. 34 No. 2/3 (August /November 2006), pp. 285-309
• Jesus of the Deep Forest: Ghanaian view of Jesus Christ as the Fearless One, the Earth-keeper, the Healer and Redeemer. Published on CMS website on Tuesday, September 18, 2007

Published Books

• African Christology: Jesus in Post Missionary African Christianity (Eugene, Oregon: Wipf and Stock Publishers, 2010).
• Editor with Amos Yong, Global Renewal, Religious Pluralism, and the Great Commission: Towards a Renewal Theology of Mission and Interreligious Encounter (Lexington, KY: Emeth Press, 2010).
• The Reason Why we Sing: Introducing Black Pentecostal Spirituality (Grove Books Series: Cambridge, 1997).
• Called to Serve (Step Publishers: Accra, 2007)

Published Reviews

• A Review of Towards a Pneumatological Theology: Pentecostal and Ecumenical Perspectives on Ecclesiology, Soteriology and Theology of Mission by Veli-Matti Kärkkäinen. Journal of Pentecostal Theology. Vol.14, No. 1 (October 2005), pp 123-137
• A Review of Graham Twelftree, In the Name of Jesus:
  Exorcism among Early Christians. Journal of Pentecostal Theology 17 (2008) 137–144

Work in Progress

• African Pentecostal Theology (2011)
• Non-Western Mission Movements (2011)
• Renewal Missiology (2012)

Current Research

• Renewal Missiology
• African and African Caribbean Pentecostalism in Europe
• Pentecostalism and Development in Africa

Professional Memberships

• Ordained Bishop in the Church of God (Cleveland, TN)
• Society of Pentecostal Studies
• West Africa Association of Theological Institutions
• Association of Professors of Mission
• American Society of Missiology
• American Academy of Religion