Steven O'Malley, Ph.D., John T. Seamands Professor of Methodist Holiness History, Asbury Theological Seminary
Dr O’Malley has taught church history and historical theology for more than thirty five years. An ordained minister in the United Methodist Church, Dr O’Malley has preached and lectured throughout the United States and Europe. He has earned recognition for his research and publications in post-Reformation and modern Church history, with special emphasis upon Pietism, German-American evangelicalism and the Holiness movement. He is the author of the definitive study of the Otterbeins’ theology, Pilgrimage of Faith: The Legacy of the Otterbeins, and a study entitled Theology and German-American Evangelicalism: Sources in Discipleship and Sanctification. He has edited more than twenty volumes in the Pietist and Wesleyan Studies series for Scarecrow Press and is the author of one volume in the four-volume series on the History of United Methodist Missions. He currently serves as director of the Center for the Study of World Christian Revitaization Movements at Asbury Seminary, and is general editor of the Revitatlization Studies Series, published by the Center.
