Maury Damon Jackson DMin

Maury Jackson

Maury D. Jackson, DMin
Chair, Pastoral Studies Department
Associate Professor
Practical Theology
HMS Richards Divinity School
Email:  mjackson@lasierra.edu
Phone: (951) 785-2097

Education: 

  • Doctor of Ministry: DMin, at Claremont School of Theology (2007)
  • Master of Arts in Philosophy: M.A., at California State University, Los Angeles (2002)
  • Master of Divinity: M.Div., at Andrews University Theological Seminary (1997)
  • Bachelor of Arts in Religion: B.A., at La Sierra University (1993)

PRINCIPAL RESEARCH INTERESTS

An ordained minister in the Adventist Christian communion, Dr. Jackson served as pastor for congregations on both the Atlantic and Pacific coasts. He researches, writes, and teaches in the area of practical theology. He studies the practical arts of preaching and the church’s pastoral vocation to the larger community, i.e., reconciliation of communities that struggle with racism, sexism, classism…etc. The tools of theological reflection, moral evaluation, and cultural investigation inform his study of ministry practice.

PRACTICAL/PASTORAL THEOLOGY RESEARCH AREA

  • Ethics
  • Homiletics
  • Poimenics

Representative PUBLICATIONS/AWARDS

  • 2006 Silver Angel Award
  • 2017 Anness Haddad Award

PEER REVIEWED ARTICLES

  1. “Shepherding Public Discourse Practices: Homiletic Form Aligned to the Logic Operative in Racial Rhetoric and Public Theological Discourse for Secular Liberal Democracies” Cultural and Religious Studies (September 2016, Volume 4 Number 9), 576-588.

  2. “Causality Principle as the Framework to Contextualize Time in Modern Physics” International Journal of Humanities and Social Science Invention (Volume 5 Issue 6 June 2016), 1-22
  3. “The Heresy Tertullian Overlooked: On Prescription against the Apologist’s Use of Rhetoric” Spes Christiana 22-23 (2011-2012), 15-30.

ONLINE SCHOLARLY JOURNALS

  1. “Ecclesiology and Theodicy: Bonhoeffer’s Sanctorum Communio as Response to Human Suffering” Testamentum Imperium: An International Theological Journal (2016, Volume 5), 1-25

POPULAR JOURNAL ARTICLES

  1. “Moral Education and the Adventist Print Media” Adventist Today 22:4 (Fall 2014), 12-17.

  2. “WHEN ANGER HEALS: A Christian Response to the Global Healthcare Debate” Adventist Today 21:1 (Winter, 2013), 04-09.
  3. “Class in Session” La Sierra University Magazine (Winter 2011), 12-13
  4. “Delivering Salvation: Pregnancy and Childbirth” Spectrum Magazine 40:2 (Spring, 2012), 19-21.
  5. “Sketching an Adventist Vision for Global Mission” Adventist Today 20:2 (March-April, 2012), 16-19.
  6. “Answering the Call for a Sacred Conversation on Race” Spectrum Magazine 36:3 (Summer, 2008), 42-50.

ONLINE JOURNAL ARTICLES

  1. “Adventist History, Herstory, and Ourstory: Towards a Peoples’ History of the Origin of Black Adventism” Web Article, 21, October 2018, https://atoday.org/adventist-history-herstory-and-ourstory-towards-a-peoples-history-of-the-origin-of-black-adventism/

  2. “Discipleship—8: The Community of Sinners and Saints” Web Article, 29 August 2014, https://spectrummagazine.org/article/maury-jackson/2014/08/29/discipleship%25E2%2580%25948-community-sinners-and-saints
  3. “Who Calls Creation Good” Web Article, 4 August 2014, https://spectrummagazine.org/article/maury-jackson/2014/08/04/who-calls-creation-good

FILMOGRAPHY

1. Enough Room at the Table (2016)…dialogue cast member