Gregory Crofford, PhD (University of Manchester/Nazarene Theological College), ‘Streams of Mercy: Prevenient Grace in the Theology of John and Charles Wesley,’ 2008; Dr Herbert McGonigle, supervisor
Crofford, a veteran missionary in the Church of the Nazarene with service on the Caribbean and Africa Regions, resides in Nairobi, Kenya. He is Director of the Institut Théologique Nazaréen (Nazarene Theological Institute), a ministerial education program active in fifteen French and English speaking nations of Africa. Prior to missionary deployment, he served as pastor of the Church of the Nazarene in Sedalia, Missouri (1989-93). Crofford is an ordained elder in the Church of the Nazarene and a member of the Wesleyan Theological Society.
While in the United States, Dr Crofford served as an adjunct instructor at Mount Vernon Nazarene University (Bible, 2011), Southern Nazarene University (Bible and Missions, 2008-09), and Northwest Nazarene University (Theology and Missions, 2004). At Northwest, he delivered the Magnum Missionary Lecture Series, an investigation of religious pluralism, with emphasis upon prevenient grace as a helpful Wesleyan rubric for addressing the issue.
His publications include: ‘Accidental Christian,’ World Mission Magazine, 22 (No. 6), June ’96, 8; ‘A Greater Liberation,’ World Mission Magazine, 21 (No. 4), April ’95, 2; ‘Divine Healing: The Lost Estate?’, The Preacher’s Magazine, 67 (No. 3), Mar/Apr/May, 1992, 19-21, and a book review of Kenneth Collins’ The Theology of John Wesley: Holy Love and the Shape of Grace, appearing in the Wesleyan Theological Journal (Fall, 2008). He authored six short articles for the forthcoming Global Wesleyan Dictionary of Theology (Beacon Hill Press, 2011), including entries on sin, prevenient grace, and predestination/election, and wrote the foreword to the revised French translation of John Knight’s All Loves Excelling (L’Amour Par Excellence, Édition Foi et Sainteté, 2011). Crofford writes for EngageMagazine.com, the online missions magazine of the Church of the Nazarene, submitting academic book reviews and hosting a question and answer column, ‘Ask the Missionary.’ His doctoral thesis in monograph form (Streams of Mercy: Prevenient Grace in the Theology of John and Charles Wesley, Emeth Press, 2010) is available through Amazon.com and AbeBooks.com.
Dr Crofford contributes theological essays and devotional insights on FaceBook.com. He invites friend requests to <Gregory Crofford> and welcomes theological dialogue.
Email: gregcrofford@gmail.com
