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Nairobi Evangelical Graduate School of Theology

Chester E. Wood

Nationality: USA

Education:
Wheaton College, 1959 - 60
 Columbia Bible College/Columbia International University, 1963 B.A. with honors
Trinity Evangelical Divinity School, 1966
 B.D. with honors
Trinity Evangelical Divinity School, 1968
 ThM with honors in Systematic Theology, Thesis: “Theological Methodology in the Area of Sanctification.”
Harvard Divinity School, 1968
 Theological German
St. Mary’s College, University of St. Andrews, Scotland, 1976
 PhD in New Testament, Thesis: “The Use of the Second Psalm in Jewish and Christian Tradition of Exegesis: A Study in Christological Origins.”

Professional Experience:
1967 - 1970 Assistant Professor of Biblical Studies, John Brown University
1969 Visiting Professor, Campus Crusade Institute of Biblical  Studies, Arrowhead Springs, CA
1970 – 1971 Visiting Professor in New Testament, Columbia Graduate School of Bible and Missions
1975 – 1981 Missionary, Overseas Missionary Fellowship, Philippines, Singapore
1977 – 1981 Associate Professor of New Testament, Asian Theological Seminary, Manila
1978 – 1979 Dean of Academic Affairs, Asian Theological Seminary, Manila
1979 – 1981 Director of ThM Program, Asian Theological Seminary, Manila
1981 – 1982 Staff Missionary Elder, Faith Missionary Church, Indianapolis, Indiana
1982 – 1993 Associate Professor of Bible (Tenured, Bethel College, St. Paul, Minnesota
1986 – present Executive Director, Light of the World Ministries, Inc.
1984 – 1993 Professor, NEGST
1993 – present Professor of New Testament, NEGST
1993 – 1994 Dean of Faculty, NEGST
1993 – 1998 Biblical Studies Department Chair, NEGST
2000 – 2001 Provost, NEGST
2000 – present Dean of Doctoral Studies, NEGST

Publications:
1983
 Review article on Evangelical Theological Education Today: Vol. I An International Perspective on Evangelical Theological Education Today. Paul Bowers (ed.) and Vol. II Agenda for Renewal. Paul Bowers (ed.) Published in Trinity Journal  Vol. 4, N.S. 1.
1985
 Above article reprinted in Evangelical Review of Theology. Vol. 9, No. 1, 78-85.
1985
 Review of Hugo Echegary, The Practice of Jesus in Christian Scholar’s Review. Vol. XIV, No. 4, 371-374.
1983
 “Interpretation and Culture” in Bethel Faculty Journal. 9/3.
1989
 “Status, Students and Social Justice” Bethel Faculty Journal 16/1 (Fall, 1989), 1-15. Also in an edited form in NEGST’s tenth anniversary volume Perspectives.