CURRICULUM VITAE – DALE
See a longer CV on Dale’s theological site.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,” Trinity Evangelical Divinity School, 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 on the church planting theology pages of Dale’s theological site: https://theology.dalelittle.net“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.) Read it here.
“Missionary Primer on Contemporary Evangelical Theological Methodology.” Japan Harvest, Vol. 58, No. 3 (Winter 2007), 16-20. Read it here.
“Mission Confusion.” Japan Harvest, Vol. 60, No. 4 (Spring 2009), 14-17. Read it here.
“Church and Mission.” Japan Harvest, Vol. 61, No. 4 (Spring 2010). Read it here.
Book in process (proposed title, tentatively with Zondervan): God’s Ecclesial Mission: Theological Perspectives on Cross-Cultural Church Planting.
Papers presented in 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). English version of lecture given in Japanese at Tokyo Christian University on October 7, 2003. Read it here.
“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). Read it here.
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).