Curriculum Vitae - Dale Little


DEGREES and Study Programs
A.A., Trinity Western University, Langley BC Canada, 1973
B.A., Simon Fraser University, Vancouver BC Canada, 1977 (analytic philosophy and anthropology)
Diploma in Christian Studies, Regent College, Vancouver BC Canada, 1978
Gordon Conwell Theological Seminary, Boston, 1980
M.Div., Trinity Evangelical Divinity School, Chicago, 1982 (missions emphasis)
Ph.D., Trinity Evangelical Divinity School, Chicago, 2000 (systematic theology)

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
Japan Harvest is 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 this website under Church Planting Theology.
  • “When Church Planters ‘Fail.’” Japan Harvest, Vol. 53, No. 4 (Spring 2002), 5.
  • “Why Bother Thinking Theologically About Church Planting?” Japan Harvest, Vol. 54, No. 1 (Summer 2002), 15.
  • “Barth as a Possible Source for Thinking Theologically About Church Planting.” Japan Harvest, Vol. 54, No. 2 (Fall 2002), 12.
  • “The Church as God's Missional Instrument.” Japan Harvest, Vol. 54, No. 3 (Winter 2003), 35.
  • “Creating Communities of Faith.” Japan Harvest, Vol. 54, No. 4 (Spring 2003), 31.
  • “Nurturing New Communities of Faith.” Japan Harvest, Vol. 55, No. 1 (Summer 2003), 23.
  • “When Little is Big.” Japan Harvest, Vol. 55, No. 2 (Fall 2003), 28.
  • “Priority of the Word of God in Church Planting.” Japan Harvest, Vol. 55, No. 3 (Winter 2004), 21.
  • “Where is the Church?” Japan Harvest, Vol. 55, No. 4 (Spring 2004), 15.
  • “Motivational Energy for Church Planting.” Japan Harvest, Vol. 56, No. 1 (Summer 2004), 15.
  • “Church Planting as God's Missional Re-Creation.” Japan Harvest, Vol. 57, No. 2 (Fall 2005), 21.
  • “Making Salvation Accessible by Clothing the Gospel with Community.” Japan Harvest, Vol. 57, No. 3 (Winter 2006), 24.
  • “Church Planting Located Between Gospel and Culture.” Japan Harvest, Vol. 57, No. 4 (Spring 2006), 20.
  • “Keeping the Main Thing the Main Thing.” Japan Harvest, Vol. 58, No. 1 (Summer 2006), 21.
  • “How Should We Report About Our Church Planting?” Japan Harvest, Vol. 58, No. 2 (Fall 2006), 24.
Other Publications
“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 in English here.

“Missionary Primer on Contemporary Evangelical Theological Methodology.” Japan Harvest, Vol. 58, No. 3 (Winter 2007), 16-20. View and download "Missionary Primer..." 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.

“Mission Confusion.” Japan Harvest, Vol. 60, No. 4 (Spring 2009), 14-17. Read it here.

“Church and Mission.” Japan Harvest, Vol. 62, No. 1 (Summer 2010), 14-16. Read it here.

Papers presented at the annual meetings of the Evangelical Theological Society (ETS) in the United States and Canada—

  • “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).

Papers presented in other 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.
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