Bradley Nassif is the person perhaps most responsible for pioneering the
Orthodox-Evangelical dialogue in the 20th and 21st centuries. He has been a
courageous and enthusiastic pioneer of Orthodox-Evangelical dialogue around the
world. Brad holds the Ph.D. from Fordham University where he was one of the last
students of the late Fr. John Meyendorff. He also holds an M.Div. from
St.Vladimir's Orthodox Seminary; an M.A. in New Testament, Denver Seminary; an
M.A. in European History, Wichita State University; and B.A. in Religion and
Philosophy, Friends University (Wichita, KS). Dr. Nassif is currently
Professor of Biblical and Theological Studies at North Park University (Chicago).
A consultant for Time and Christianity Today magazines, he has been a television
commentator for the documentary series "Christianity: The First Thousand
Years" and "The Jesus Experience: Jesus Among the Slavs."
Much of his work over the past 30 years has been devoted to introducing
evangelical students and faculty to the riches of the Orthodox tradition.
He served as the Director of Academic Programs at Fuller Seminary and was a
Visiting Professor at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School, Regent College and the Southern Baptist
Seminary.
Among his numerous publications, his most recent scholarship on Orthodox-Evangelical
dialogue has been the chapters titled "The Evangelical Theology of the
Eastern Orthodox Church" (in Three Views on Eastern Orthodoxy and
Evangelicalism, Zondervan), and "Eastern Orthodoxy and Evangelicalism: The
Status of an Emerging Global Dialogue" in Daniel Clendenin's Eastern
Orthodox Theology: A Contemporary Reader, 2nd ed. (Baker, 2003). He is
also the general editor of New Perspectives on Historical Theology: Essays in
Memory of John Meyendorff (Eerdmans). The current focus of his scholarship is
on a forthcoming book titled The Westminster Handbook to Eastern Orthodox
Theology (Westminster John Knox Press, 2008). This will be a comprehensive
reference volume for laymen and scholars to use for understanding the major
theologians and doctrines of the Eastern Orthodox Church in the ancient and
modern worlds.
