Deirdre Brower Latz, Ph.D., Principal and Senior Lecturer in Pastoral and Social Theology, Nazarene Theological College.
Dr Brower Latz has been principal of Nazarene Theological College since 2012. An ordained elder in the Church of the Nazarene, she has pastored churches in Bristol and Manchester. Recently, she has served as Researcher for the Church on the Margins project, Church Action on Poverty. Her University of Manchester Ph.D. thesis titled: ‘A Contextual Reading of John Wesley’s Theology and the Emergent Church: Critical Reflections on the Emergent Church Movement in Respect to Aspects of Wesley’s Theology, Ecclesiology and Urban Poverty’ was completed in 2010. She has academic expertise in the areas of urban mission and ministry (including issues of social justice and poverty), contextual and practical theology, and Wesleyan theology. Her publishing has been both at the popular level in relation to preaching and the life of holiness alongside chapters published a number of books.
Select Publications
‘Steward of the Christian Year’, in The Pastor as Theological Steward (Foundry, 2022).
Chapter in A Prophet Among Us: The Legacy of Tom Nees (2022).
Sermon published in The Present Preacher: Discerning God in the Now, ed. Liz Shercliffe and Matthew Allen (Canterbury Press, 2021).
‘Themes for Christian Education and Formation in a British, Postmodern, Secular Context’, Christian Education Journal: Research on Educational Ministry, 15/3 (2018).
‘Entire Sanctification’ in Holiness Today (January 2016).
‘Dear Church: speaking to people in love.’ In Holiness Today (August/September 2015).
‘The Globalization of Holiness?’ in Renovating Holiness (SacraSage Press, 2015).
'The Dynamic of Holiness', in Conversations on Holiness ed. Keith Davenport (Beacon Hill Press, 2014).
'Cultural Correlation: The "Postmodern" Marks of the Church', in Essential Church: A Wesleyan Ecclesiology, ed. Mark A. Maddix and Diane Leclerc (Nazarene Publishing House, 2014).
Associate Editor, Global Wesleyan Dictionary of Biblical Theology.
'Gender, Ethnicity, and Economics' in Postmodern and Wesleyan: Exploring the Boundaries and Possibilities, ed. Jay Akkerman, Thomas Oord, and Brent Peterson (Beacon Hill Press, 2009).
Research Supervision
Current Supervision: Charlotte Johnson, Karla Sanchez-Renfro
Past supervision: Tammie Grimm (co-supervisor), Paul Hoffman, Graham Meiklejohn, Quinn Gervel
Email: dbrowerlatz@nazarene.ac.uk