Alan Kreider

Professor of Church History and Mission (retired)

• B.A., Goshen College, 1962
• Princeton University, 1962-63
• Heidelberg University, 1963-64
• M.A., Harvard University, 1965
• Ph.D., Harvard University, 1971

E-mail: akreider@ambs.edu
Phone: 574 296-6202
Curriculum Vitae

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From the United Kingdom and Europe to Korea, Alan Kreider has introduced people to Christ by teaching and living out the foundational beliefs of the Anabaptist faith. For 26 years, Alan and Eleanor, his wife, were mission workers in England, where they transformed the London Mennonite Centre into a teaching and resource center on Christian discipleship in the Anabaptist tradition, urban mission, and conflict mediation. While in England, Alan served as director of the Centre for the Study of Christianity and Culture at Regent's Park College, Oxford University; as an itinerant preacher and speaker; and as a teacher at Oxford University and the University of Manchester. Upon their return to the U.S. in 2000, Alan and Eleanor became mission educators for Mennonite Mission Network, an assignment that took them to England and Australia in 2005 as well as to churches and communities across North America. Alan served as an adjunct member of the AMBS faculty beginning in 1997, and became associate professor in 2004.

"One of the joys of my life is to meet Christians from different places and traditions and to learn from them. How do they understand Christ and the good news? How do they worship? How do they experience and share their faith? Studying the history of Christianity is like that-meeting sisters and brothers from other places and periods and having a trans-chronological conversation with them. They can't tell us what to think or do; but they broaden our horizons, offering us clues that are often astonishingly useful to us today."

Scholarship

• "Baptism and Catechesis as Spiritual Formation," in Andrew Walker and Luke Bretherton, eds., Remembering Our Future: Explorations in Deep Church. Milton Keynes: Paternoster Press, 2007, 170-206.
• "'They alone know the right way to live': The Early Church and Evangelism," in Mark Husbands and Jeffrey P. Greenman, eds., Ancient Faith for the Church's Future. Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, 2008, 169-186.
• "Beyond Bosch: The Early Church and the Christendom Shift," in International Bulletin for Missionary Research (April, 2005)
• A Culture of Peace: God's Vision for the Church (Good Books, 2005), co-author
• "Peacemaking in Worship in the Syrian Church Orders" in Studia Liturgica (forthcoming in 2004)
• Composing Music for Worship (Canterbury, 2003), co-editor
• "Military Service in the Church Orders" in Journal of Religious Ethics, 31/3 (2003)
• The Origins of Christendom in the West (T & T Clark, 2001), editor and contributor
• Coming Home: Stories of Anabaptists in Britain and Ireland (Pandora, 2000), co-editor
• The Change of Conversion and the Origin of Christendom: Christian Mission and Modern Culture (Trinity International, 1999)

Speakers Bureau Presentations

• Anabaptism for the 21st century
• The early church comes alive
• Mission and peace
• Missional church
• Peace church: what would our churches be like if we believe the "gospel of peace" and apply it to all areas of our life?
• Worship and mission