Dr. Ken Archer

Pastoral Ministry Experience

• Ordained Minister: May 10, 1990 by the Assemblies of God, USA.
• Ordained Bishop: Transferred ordination from AG to Church of God, Cleveland Tennessee, May 9th, 2003.
• Melissa and I were Co-Pastor of College and Carer, Woodward Avenue Church of God, Athens, Tennessee 2002 to 2011. 
• Pastor of Mohicanville Community Church (non-den), Loudonville, Ohio, 1997- 2001.
• Pastor of Cornerstone Christian Center (AG), Twinsburg, Ohio. March 1992 to June 1994.
• Pastor of New Life Assembly of God, Wellington, Ohio, April 1988 to August 199.
• Associate Pastor in charge of youth and Christian Education at New Life Assembly of God, Wellington, Ohio, May 1987 to March 1988

Professional Educational Experience/Full Time Ranked faculty 

• Professor of Theology and Pentecostal Studies, Southeastern University, Lakeland, Florida, 2011-present. Teaching at undergraduate, graduate, and doctoral levels.  
• Associate Professor of Theology, Pentecostal Theological Seminary, Cleveland, Tennessee, 2001-2011.

Professional Educational Experience: Invited lecturer

• Visiting faculty Member of the Center for Advanced Theological Studies at Fuller Theological Seminary, Pasadena, California, 2013-2018
• Seminario Biblico Pentecostal Centroamericano (SEBIPCA), Quetzaltenango, Guatemala. (August 8-12, 2022). PhD Seminar.
• Alphacrucis College University, Sydney Australia (June 20-21, 2019). 
• Seminario Biblico Pentecostal Centroamericano (SEBIPCA), Quetzaltenango, Guatemala (June 6-10, 2016).  
• Seminario Biblico Internocional Berea (Berea Seminary) Fusa, Colombia (June 10-15, 2013).  

• Seminario Biblico Ministerial Argentino (SEBIMA) Buenos Aires, Argentina (November 28-December 2, 2011).  
• Universidad Teológica del Caribe (Theological University of the Caribbean), San Juan, Puerto Rico (June 16-23, 2009).   
• Seminario Sudamericano (SEMISUD) Quito, Ecuador (October 27-31, 2008). I gave the annual “Holy Spirit Lecture Series.”  
• Asian Seminary of Christian Ministries (ASCM), Manila, Philippines (June 9-13, 2008). I launched their Doctor of Ministry program.  

Doctoral Supervisor and Examiner

• PhD supervision University of Birmingham, England, UK.  Honorary Lecturer and Recognized PhD Supervisor in Department of Theology and Religion for the University of Birmingham, UK, (August 2017- present_.
• PhD/DMin supervisor, Alphacrucis University College, Sydney Australia (2021-present)
• ThD committee member supervisor, Duke University, Divinity School (2020-2022). 
• PhD committee member supervisor, Saint Thomas University, Miami, Florida (2017-2020) and (2010-2015).
• PhD internal examiner, University of Birmingham (Spring 2023 and Spring of 2018).
• PhD external examiner, Regent University, Virigina, USA (2014-2015).
•  DMin external examiner, Acadia Divinity College, Acadia University, Nova Scotia (2014)

Volunteer Involvement

• Hospital Chaplin
  • Star Regional Hospital, Ashland, TN. August 2023-present
• Board Director for the Polk Ecumenical Action Council for Empowerment, P.E.A.C.E is an ecumenical group of Churches that addresses particular social concerns in Polk County, Florida. 2012 to 2017. 

• Foster Care Parents
  • We (Melissa and I) were certified as Foster Care Parents in Ashland County, Ohio from 2000-2001. In June of 2003, we were certified as Foster Care Parents in McMinn County, Tennessee. We continued offering foster care until January 19, 2007. During the 6 years we served as foster parents, our family cared for 14 children.   

Membership in Academic organization: 

• Society for Pentecostal Studies (SPS)
• American Academy of Religion (AAR)
• European Pentecostal Theological Association (EPTA), 
• Pentecostal and Charismatics for Peace and Justice (PCPJ)
• Society of Biblical Literature (SBL)

Professional Service

• Editorial Borad for Pneuma:The Journal of the Society for Pentecostal Studies (September 2023-present)
• Journal Peer Reviewer: 
  • Pneuma: The Journal of the Society for Pentecostal Studies
  • HTS: Theological Studies

• • Journal of Pentecostal Theology

• • International Journal of Systematic Theology

• • Canadian Journal of Pentecostal Theology

• • Aldersgate Papers: Journal of the Australasian Centre for Wesleyan Research

• • PentecoStudies.
• Book Peer Reviewer:
  • Brill, Pentecostal Monograph Series and Global Pentecostalism Series
  • Lexham Press
  • Penn State University Press, Wesleyan Holiness Series  
• Steering Committee Member, American Academy of Religion (AAR) for Pentecostal and Charismatic Movements, 2018-present.
• Executive Committee: 2012-2016, Society for Pentecostal Studies (SPS), 2012-2016 
• USA Trustee for the European Pentecostal Theological Association (EPTA): 2002-2013.

Monographs

• The Gospel Revisited: Towards a Pentecostal Theology of Worship and Witness (Eugene, OR: Pickwick Publications, 2011).
• A Pentecostal Hermeneutic: Spirit, Scripture, and Community (Cleveland, TN: CPT Press, 2009). This publication is a reformatted paperback edition of A Pentecostal Hermeneutic for the Twenty-First Century: Spirit, Scripture and Community (London and New York: T&T Clark International, JPTSup 28, 2004)
•  A Pentecostal Hermeneutic for the Twenty-First Century: Spirit, Scripture, and Community (London and New York: T&T Clark International, JPTSup 28, 2004).

Edited Volumes

• Kenneth J. Archer and Zachary M. Tackett, eds. Celebrating life in Community: Reflections in Social Ethics and the Church, Essays in Honor of Murray Dempster (Oxford, UK: Regnum, Summer 2023).
• Kenneth J. Archer and Louis Oliverio Jr., eds, Constructive Pneumatological Hermeneutics in Pentecostal Christianity (New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016).

Chapters in Edited Compilations

• “Desire Redirected: Hermeneutical Shifts Regarding War and Peacemaking” in Kenneth J. Archer and Zachary M. Tackett, eds. Celebrating life in Community: Reflections in Social Ethics and the Church, Essays in Honor of Murray Dempster (Oxford, UK: Regnum, 2023).

• “The Spirit in the Pastoral Epistles: Inspiring, Gifting, Sanctifying Presence” in The Spirit throughout the Canon: Pentecostal Pneumatology, co-edited by Craig S. Keener and L. William Oliverio Jr. (Leiden and Boston: Brill, JPTSup 48, 2022), pp. 190-194.

• “Hermeneutica Penetcostal: Questoes e Desafios” in Authoridade Biblic and Experiencia No Espirito edited by Gutierres Siqeira and Kenner Terra (Brasil:  Thomas Nelson, 2020), pp. 315-347.

• “The Cleveland School: The Making of an Academic Pentecostal Theological Tradition” edited by Blaine Charette and Robby Waddell (UK: Phoenix Press, 2020).
•  “The Bible in Pentecostal Tradition” in Your Word is Truth: The Bible in Ten Traditions, co-authored with Aaron Ross, edited by J. Michael West and Gunar Mägi (WCC Publications and United Bible Society, 2018).
• “Nourishment for Our Journey: The Pentecostal Via Salutis and Sacramental Ordinances” was republished in Pentecostal Ecclesiology: A Reader, Chris Green, ed. (Leiden and Boston: Brill Academic Publication, 2016).
• “Afterword: On the Future of Pentecostal Hermeneutics” in Constructive Pneumatological Hermeneutics in Pentecostal Christianity, Kenneth J. Archer and Louis Oliverio Jr., eds. (New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016).
• “Listening to the South:  Quichua-Ecuador contribution to an Affective Pentecostal Hermeneutic” co-authored with Bobby L. Lynch Jr. in Vinson Synan, Amos Yong, and Miguel Alvarez, eds. Global Renewal Christianity: Spirit-Empowered Movements Past, Present, and Future, vol. II: Latin America (Lake Mary, FL: Charisma House Publishers, 2016) 
• “The Holy Spirit and The Early Church in The Book of Acts: The Global Mission of the Messianic Community” in The Holy Spirit: An Unfinished Agenda, Johnson T. K. Lim, ed. (Word N Works: Singapore, 2014).
• “Pentecostal Hermeneutics” in The Modern Theologians Reader, David F. Ford and Mike Higton eds. (USA and UK: Wiley-Blackwell, 2012).
•  “I Have Come to Give You Life and More Abundantly” in Pentecostals in the Academy: Testimonies of Call, Steven M. Fettke and Robby Waddell, ed. (Cleveland, TN: CPT Press, 2012).
• “Scandalous Partners in Protest: a Continuing Dialogue” co-authored with Andrew S. Hamilton in Pentecostals and Peacemaking: Heritage, Theology, and the 21st Century (Eugene, OR; Pickwick Publications, 2012).

• “The Fivefold Gospel and the Mission of the Church: Ecclesiastical Implications and Opportunities” in Toward a Pentecostal Ecclesiology: The Fivefold Gospel, John Christopher Thomas, ed. (Cleveland, TN: CPT Press, 2010).

• “A Theology of the Word… and that’s the Point!” in Passover, Pentecost and Parousia:  Studies in Celebration of the Life and Ministry of R. Hollis Gause, edited by S.J. Land, R.D. Moore, J.C. Thomas, (Blandford Forum: Deo, 2010).

Articles in Academic Journals and Dictionaries

• “Prophecy and Witness forthcoming in the pneumatology volume in the T&T Clark Encyclopedia of Christian Theology. Co-authored with Chris E. W. Green.
• “Anabaptismo-Pietismo Y pentecostalismo: Socios Escandalolos En La Protesta” coauthored with Andrew S. Hamilton in HECHOS – Una Perspectiva Pneumatológico 4.2( Junio, 2022), pp. 61-81. 
• “The Spirit in the Pastoral Epistles: Inspiring, Gifting, Sanctifying Presence” in Pneuma 43:3-4 (2021), pp. 532-537.
• “El Espíritu, la comunidad y la Escritura: Una hermenéutica pentecostal estratégica” in HECHOS – Una Perspectiva Pneumatológica 3.1 (Enero 2021), pp. 25-50.  
• “Pentecostal Theology as Story: Participating in God’s Mission” in The Routledge Handbook of Pentecostal Theology, Wolfgang Vondey, ed. (Routledge, 2020), pp. 40-50.  
• “Hermeneutics” co-authored with Aaron Ross in Brill’s Encyclopedia of Global Pentecostalism, edited by Michael Wilkinson, Jörg Haustein, Todd Johnson (Leiden, Brill, 2019).
•  “Complementarianism and Egalitarianism—whose side are you leaning on? A Pentecostal reading/hearing of Ephesians 5:21-33,” co-authored with Melissa L. Archer in Pneuma 41:1 (April 2019).
• “Spirited Conversation about Hermeneutics: A Pentecostal Hermeneut’s Response to Craig Keener’s Spirit Hermeneutics” in Pneuma 39 (2017).
• “Listen Carefully! You Might Learn Something” in JEPTA: Journal of the European Pentecostal Theological Association 36:2 (2016).
• “Presidential Address: Pentecostal Hermeneutics and the Society for Pentecostal Studies: Reading and Hearing in One Accord” in Pneuma: 37:3 (2015).
• “Getting Lost in the Wilderness: Looking for Peace in All the Wrong Places” co-authored with Andrew S. Hamilton in Brethren Life and Thought 57:1 (2012).
• “Full Gospel” in Handbook of Pentecostal Christianity, Adam Stewart, ed. (Illinois: Northern Illinois University Press, 2012).
• “Hermeneutics” in Handbook of Pentecostal Christianity, Adam Stewart, ed. (Illinois: Northern Illinois University Press, 2012).
• “Salvation” in Handbook of Pentecostal Christianity, Adam Stewart, ed. (Illinois: Northern Illinois University Press, 2012).
• “Liberating Hermeneutics: Toward a Holistic Pentecostal Mission of Peace and Justice” co-authored with Richard E. Waldrop in The Journal of the European Pentecostal Theological Association 31.1 (2011).
• “Biblical Imagery: The Metaphorical Symbols of the Holy Spirit” in The Pneuma Review 3 (2011). 
•  “God—Creation’s Hope, Creation—God’s Home: A Pentecostal Theological Response to Terence E. Fretheim’s God and World in the Old Testament: A Relational Theology of Creation” in Journal of Pentecostal Theology 19:2 (2010).
• “Anabaptism-Pietism and Pentecostalism: Scandalous Partners in Protest” in Scottish Journal of Theology 63:2 (2010), pp. 185-202, co-authored with Andrew S. Hamilton.
• “Horizons and Hermeneutics of Doctrine: A Review Essay” in Journal of Pentecostal Theology 18 (2009).
• ” A Pentecostal Way of Doing Theology: Method and Manner” in International Journal of Systematic Theology 9:3 (July 2007).
• “The Spirit and Theological Interpretation: A Pentecostal Strategy” in Cyberjournal for Pentecostal/Charismatic Research 16 (2007). http://www.pctii.org/cyberj/table.html 
• “Pentecostal Story: The Hermeneutical Filter for the Making of Meaning” in Pneuma: The Journal of the Society for Pentecostal Studies 26:1 (Fall 2004).
•  “Closing Statement: Open Theism” in The Pneuma Review 7:3 (Summer 2004).
• “Nourishment for our Journey: The Pentecostal Via Salutis and Sacramental Ordinances” in Journal of Pentecostal Theology 13:1 (October 2004).
• “Open View Response to Arminian View” in The Pneuma Review 7:1 (Winter 2004), pp. 60-64.
• “Response to Readers: Openness Theism Panelist” in The Pneuma Review 6:1 (Winter 2003).
• “Open View Response to Charismatic Calvinism” in The Pneuma Review 6:3 (Summer 2003), pp. 47-57.
• “John Goldingay and Biblical Hermeneutics” in Catalyst: Contemporary Evangelical Perspectives for United Methodist Seminarians 30:1 (November 2003) and in Catalyst: Contemporary Evangelical and Reformed Perspectives for Presbyterian Seminarians 30:1 (November 2003).
• “Open View Theism: Prayer Changes Things” in The Pneuma Review 5:2 (Spring 2002). 
• “Early Pentecostal Biblical Interpretation” in Journal of Pentecostal Theology 18 (Fall 2001).
• “Books of Adam” and “Discourse of John the Divine,” and “Woe” in David Noel Freedman (editor-in-chief) Eerdmans Dictionary of the Bible (William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 2000).
• “Pentecostal Hermeneutics: Retrospect and Prospect” in Journal of Pentecostal Theology 8 (April 1996).
• Numerous Book Reviews in Pneuma. 

Articles and Chapters written for Denominational Publications

• “Pentecostal Biblical Interpretation” in Issues in Contemporary Pentecostalism, R. Keith Whitt and French L. Arrington eds. (Cleveland TN: Pathway Press, 2012).
• “Symbols of the Holy Spirit” in Church of God Evangel (August 2011). 
• “La dottrina della Trinitâ” in Risveglio VIII:1 (Marzo 2008), 5-7, co-authored with Melissa L. Archer. This is an Italian translation of the essay “Doctrine of Trinity” first published in Church of God Evangel 96:11.
• “Doctrine of the Trinity” in Church of God Evangel 96:11 (November 2006), 6-8, co-authored with Melissa L. Archer.

Blogs

• “3 Things You Didn’t Know about Patriarchy,” in Ecclesiam, March 20th, 2018