Simo Frestadius, Ph.D. (University of Birmingham), SFHEA, Dean of Research at Regents Theological College (West Malvern, UK)
Simo Frestadius is the dean of research and executive director of the Institute for Pentecostal Theology (IPT) at Regents Theological College, West Malvern, UK. He is the chair of the European Pentecostal Theological Association (EPTA) and an ordained minister in the Elim Pentecostal Church. His teaching and research focus on Pentecostal theology, philosophical theology, ecumenical theology, and public theology. Simo is currently working on research projects on science engaged theology, Pentecostal public theology in Europe, and he is a member of the International Pentecostal-Anglican Commission (IPAC). Simo is originally from Finland, spent his childhood in Tanzania, and has lived most of his adult life in the UK. He is married to Caroline, and they have three children.
Select publications:
Books
(with David Hilborn), eds. Anglicans and Pentecostals in Dialogue (Eugene, OR: Pickwick Publications, 2023)
Pentecostal Rationality: Epistemology and Theological Hermeneutics in the Foursquare Tradition (London: Bloomsbury T&T Clark, 2020)
Articles/Chapters
“Pentecostals and Baptism in the Spirit.” In Anglicans and Pentecostals in Dialogue, edited by David Hilborn and Simo Frestadius, 186-199 (Eugene, OR. Pickwick Publications, 2023)
“Synnin ongelma” [“The Problem of Sin”]. In Pelastus – Jumalan suunnitelma. Suomen helluntailiikkeen opetuksia 4 [Salvation: God’s Plan. Teachings of the Finnish Pentecostal Movement, Vol. 4]. Edited by Heikki Salmela, 87-120 (Keuruu: Aikamedia, 2023)
“Pentecostal Theological Education: Mapping the Historical Landscape and Reflecting on a Theological Future.” PentecoStudies: An Interdisciplinary Journal for Research on the Pentecostal and Charismatic Movements 20.1 (2021): 56-77. http://dx.doi.org/10.1558/pent.18624
“Mitä yhteistä on Azusa-kadulla ja metafyysisella klubilla? Ajatuksia helluntailaisesta tietoteoriasta ja sen suhteesta amerikkalaiseen pragmatismiin” [“What has Azusa Street to do with the Metaphysical Club? Reflections on Pentecostal Theory of Knowledge and Its Relationship with American Pragmatism”]. Areiopagi.fi (2021). https://www.areiopagi.fi/2021/02/mita-yhteista-on-azusa-kadulla-ja-metafyysisella-klubilla-ajatuksia-helluntailaisesta-tietoteoriasta-ja-sen-suhteesta-amerikkalaiseen-pragmatismiin/
“European Pentecostalism: A European Past and a Pentecostal Future.” Pneuma: The Journal of the Society for Pentecostal Studies 42, no. 3-4 (2020): 415-429. https://doi.org/10.1163/15700747-bja10026
“‘Pentecost with Signs’: Historical and Theological Reflections on Spirit Baptism from a British and Wider European Perspective.” Journal of the European Pentecostal Theological Association 40.2 (2020): 104-119. https://doi.org/10.1080/18124461.2020.1795418
“In Search of a ‘Pentecostal’ Epistemology: Comparing the Contributions of Amos Yong and James K. A. Smith.” Pneuma: The Journal of the Society for Pentecostal Studies 38.1-2 (2016): 93-114. https://doi.org/10.1163/15700747-03801006
“The Elim Tradition: ‘An Argument Extended through Time’ (Alasdair MacIntyre).” Journal of the European Pentecostal Theological Association 36.1 (2016): 57-68. https://doi.org/10.1080/18124461.2015.1132573
Research supervision: William Kugbeadjor (co-supervisor)