Jack Jackson
E. Stanley Jones Assistant Professor of Evangelism, Mission, and Global Methodism
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- Craig 102
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- (909) 447-2543
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Rev. Dr. Thomas Glenn “Jack” Jackson III is a Wesleyan scholar and Ordained Elder in The United Methodist Church. Dr. Jackson brings extensive experience in global Methodism to Claremont, having studied, taught, or made presentations in England, South Africa, South Korea, Israel, China, Costa Rica, Honduras, Brazil, and Colombia. He has received numerous fellowships and grants for his research in Wesley’s theology of evangelism as proclamation, including the Harry Denman Fellow Scholarship from 2006 to 2009.
Prior to his current position, Dr. Jackson was senior pastor for Christ United Methodist Church in Lakeland, Florida, and taught “The Practice of Preaching” at Candler School of Theology’s Florida Course of Study program. Jackson’s teaching and research focus on evangelism, foundations of Christian mission, Methodism in global perspectives, urban and multicultural church planting, church growth, preaching, and United Methodist history and polity.
Education
B.A. - University of Virginia
M.Div. - Asbury Theological Seminary
D.Min. - Asbury Theological Seminary
Ph.D. - University of Manchester, England
Recent Publications / Achievements
"Early Methodism’s Four Doors of Evangelism" (Circuit Rider, Nov. 2010).
"Collecting and Preserving Disciples: Verbal Proclamation in Early Methodist Evangelism" (Wesley and Methodist Studies, 2010).
"St. Francis: Patron Saint of Evangelism through Social Ministry?" (Witness: The Journal of the Academy for Evangelism in Theological Education, 2009).
"Word and Deed: Evangelism and Social Witness for United Methodism’s Next 40 Years," The United Methodist Church at 40: Considering Our History, Teaching Our Traditions, Anticipating Our Future (Candler School of Theology, August 2008).
“Speaking the Word: Proclamation as Declaration in an X-Files World,” Cliff College Research Symposium (Calver, U.K., March 2008).
“Laying the Foundation: Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century Influences of British Religious Traditions on Early Methodism,” The Christmas Conference (Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas, December 2007).
“Evangelism in the Wesleyan Tradition,” Cliff College Research Symposium (Calver, U.K., June 2007).
“The Four-Fold Pattern of Proclamation in Early Methodism,” Cliff College Research Symposium (Calver, U.K., November 2006).
