Dr. Najib Awad

Systematic & Intercultural Theology

n.awad(at)missionsseminar.de         

Dr. Najib Awad, geboren am 06.04.1972,

 in Latakia.

 

 

Education 

1997   BA in Theology, Near East School of Theology, Beirut, 

            Lebanon 

2001   MA in Systematic Theology, King’s College, London, England 

2006   PhD in Systematic Theology, King’s College, London, England

Research Areas:

Systematic Theology, Pneumatology, the doctrine of the Trinity, Wolfhart Pannenberg’s theology and the interdisciplinary relation between theology and other intellectual forms of inquiry.

Historical Theology, Gregory Nzianzen, Arabic Christianity and comparing and contrasting the philosophical and philological presumptions of Greek, Syriac and Arab fathers’ trinitarian theology and terminology.

Theology of Religions and Intercultural Theology, the contextual nature of Theology, inter-religious dialogue, Gospel & Culture, Christian doctrines in relation to contextuality.

Previous Positions and Academic Activties

2009-    Moderator and Editor in Chief, Alnashra Arabic theological

2010      Magazine, the National Reformed Synod of Syria and

               Lebanon,  Beirut Lebanon.

                     

2008-    Visiting-Fellow, Yale Divinity School, The Centre for Faith and 

2009      Culture, University of Yale, USA.

 

2006-     Part-time Lecturer in Systematic Theology & Christian

2007      Doctrines, Near East School of Theology, Beirut, Lebanon.

 

2005-    Moderator and Editor in Chief, Alnashra Arabic theological

2008      Magazine, the National Reformed Synod of Syria and

               Lebanon, Beirut Lebanon

 

Academic Publications

Forthcoming

2010    “Thomas Aquinas’ Metaphysics of ‘Relation’ and

              ‘Participation’ and Contemporary Trinitarian Theology”,

              in New Blackfriars Review

             “The Influence of John Chrysostom’s Hermeneutics on

             John Calvin’s Exegetical Approach to Paul’s Epistle to

             the Romans” in Scottish Journal of Theology

 

Theological Books 

2004   God, Man and Evil: a Theologico-Existential Study,

            Damascus: Codmus Publishers (Arabic)

2003   The Passion Narrative in the Gospel of Matthew:

            A Historico-Narrative Criticism,

            Cairo: Al-Thaquafa Publishing House (Arabic)

Academic Essays 

2010    “Personhood as Particularity: John Zizioulas, Colin

             Gunton and the Trinitarian Theology of Personhood,”

              in The Reformed Journal of Theology, 4(1), pp.1-22

2009    “Where is the Gospel, What Happened to Culture?

             The Reformed Church in Syria and Lebanon,” in

             The Reformed Theology Journal, 3(3), pp. 288-306. 

2008    “Futural Ousia or Eschatological Disclosure? A Systematic

             Analysis of Pannenberg’s Trinitarian Theology", in Kerygma

             Und Dogma, 1(54), pp.37-52. 

             “How the Church Fathers Read the Gospel of Mark

             as a Reliable Text? A Comparison between Early

             and Modern Scholarship,” in Theological Review,

             XXXIX, pp. 83-114, 

            “Does God Save the Non-Christians? On the Universality

            of the Divine Salvation”, In Toward a Contemporary Arabic

            Theology, George Sabra (ed.),

            Cairo: Dar-Althakafa, pp. 341-445 (Arabic)            

2007   “Between Subordination and Koinonia: toward a New Reading

            of the Cappadocian Theology”, in Modern Theology, 2(32),

            pp.181-204

           “The Holy Spirit will Come upon You: The Doctrine of the

            Incarnation and the Holy Spirit,” in The Theological Review,

            1(28), pp.23-45. 

2005   “Revelation, History and Idealism: Re-examining the

            Conceptual Roots of Wolfhart Pannenberg’s Theology”,

            in The Theological Review, XXVI/2, pp. 91-110.