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Faculty & Staff H.M.S. Richards Divinity School

Friedbert Ninow PhD, DEAN

  • PhD, Old Testament/Near Eastern Archaeology, Andrews University, 2000
  • MA, Religion, Andrews University, 1989
  • Certificate of Ministry, Seminar Marienhöhe, Darmstadt, Germany, 1988

Warren C. Trenchard PhD, Director, Graduate Programs

  • Professor Emeritus of New Testament and Early Christian Literature (1995)
  • PhD University of Chicago, 1981

Biblical Languages, New Testament Background and Interpretation, Early Christian Literature

Kent Bramlett PHD

  • Professor of Archaeology and History of Antiquity (2010)
  • PhD, University of Toronto, 2009

Biblical Languages, Near Eastern Archaeology, and History of Antiquity

Kendra Haloviak Valentine PhD

  • Professor of New Testament Studies (2001)
  • Ph.D., Graduate Theological Union, 2002

New Testament Studies, Hermeneutics

Marlene M. Ferreras PhD

  • Assistant Professor of Practical Theology 
  • Ph.D., Practical Theology: Spiritually Integrative Psychotherapy, Claremont School of Theology, Claremont. 2019

Maury D. Jackson DMin, Coordinator for Philosophical Studies

  • Associate Professor of Practical Theology (2009)
  • DMin, Claremont School of Theology, 2007

Pastoral Ministry, Ethics, Philosophy

Wonil Kim PHD

  • Associate Professor of Old Testament Studies (1994)
  • Ph.D., Claremont Graduate University, 1996
Exegesis, Theology, and Hermeneutics of the Old Testament

Igor Kokhan PhD

  • Ph.D., University of the West, 2020
  • Lecturer in Religious Studies, 2014

World Religions

John W. Webster PHD

  • Professor of Theology and History of Christianity (1999)
  • Ph.D., Princeton Theological Seminary, 1995
Systematic Theology, History of Christianity, Philosophy, Ethics

Ronald E. Osborn Ph.D.

  • Associate Professor of Ethics and Philosophy 
  • P.H.D. Politics and International Relations, University of Southern California 

 Ethics, Philosophy and Politics

Collaborating Faculty

John C. Brunt

New Testament, homiletics, pastoral ministry

  • PhD, Emory University, 1978

Gary Chartier

Theology, ethics

  • Distinguished Professor of Law and Business Ethics
  • LLD, University of Cambridge, 2015
  • JD, University of California, Los Angeles, 2001
  • PhD, University of Cambridge, 1991

Douglas R. Clark

Archaeology, Hebrew Bible, biblical studies

  • PhD, Vanderbilt University, 1984

Vadim Dementyev

Pastoral ministry

  • PhD, Fuller Theological Seminary, 2019

Timothy Gillespie

Innovation in ministry

  • DMin, George Fox Evangelical Seminary, 2013

Adam Hicks

Religious studies

  • MDiv, La Sierra University, 2013

    Gerard Kiemeney

    Pastoral Ministry

    • DMin, Fuller Theological Seminary, 1993

    Shelton Kilbey

    Religion and the arts

    • DMin Claremont School of Theology, 2017

    Katherine Koh

    History of Christianity, Adventist history

    • Assistant Professor of History
    • PhD, University of California, Riverside, 2016

    Theodore Levterov

    Adventist history

    • PhD, Andrews University, 2011

    Richard Rice

    Systematic and philosophical theology

    • PhD, University of Chicago, 1974

    Randall Skoretz

    Ethics, Christian education, theology

    • DMin, Claremont University, 1996

    Calvin Thomsen

    Pastoral counseling, pastoral ministry, church administration

    • PhD, Loma Linda University, 2008
    • DMin, Fuller Theological Seminary, 1985

    Contact and Location

    divinity@lasierra.edu
    951.785.2041
    La Sierra Hall, Room 205

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