Ted A. Campbell, Ph.D. (Southern Methodist University), Albert C. Outler Professor of Church History, Perkins School of Theology, Southern Methodist University
Ted A. Campbell is a historian, an author, and an ordained elder in The United Methodist Church. He was born in Beaumont, Texas, in 1953, and was educated at Lon Morris College, the University of North Texas, Oxford University, and Southern Methodist University. He has served as pastor of United Methodist congregations, and has taught at the Methodist Theological School in Ohio, Duke Divinity School, and Wesley Theological Seminary. He served as president of Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary from 2001 through 2005, before coming to Perkins School of Theology at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas.
Dr. Campbell was a co-recipient of the 2016 Timothy L. Smith—Mildred Bangs Wynkoop Book Award of the Wesleyan Theological Society for his work in editing volume 3 of the letters of John Wesley. He received the 2016 Distinguished Service Award of the United Methodist Church’s General Commission on Archives and History. In 2018 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society of the United Kingdom.
He is also a member of the International Society opposed to Dangling and Otherwise Distracting Microphones in Worship Sanctuaries (Iso2DoDMnWS). Actually, the only member.
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His published works include John Wesley and Christian Antiquity (1991), The Religion of the Heart (1991), Christian Confessions (1996), Methodist Doctrine (Abingdon Press, 1999), Christian Mysteries (2005), Charles Wesley: Life, Literature and Legacy (2007) co-edited with Kenneth G. C. Newport, The Gospel in Christian Traditions (2009), and Wesleyan Beliefs: Formal and Popular Expressions of the Core Beliefs of Wesleyan Communities (2010). His edition of the letters of John Wesley between 1756 and 1765 was published in 2015 as was another work entitled The Sky Is Falling, The Church Is Dying, and Other False Alarms. His book Encoding Methodism: Telling and Retelling Narratives of Wesleyan Origins (2017), won the 2018 Saddlebag Award from the United Methodist Historical Society for the best new book on Methodist history in the year 2017.
Email Address: tedc@smu.edu
Website: http://www.tedcampbell.com