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Dr. Rev. Joseph M. Muutuki PhD

Senior Lecturer, Old Testament Studies

Title and Responsibilities

  • Missionary
  • Teaching Biblical Studies for BA, MA Biblical Foundation classes and PhD Integration of Faith and Life and Scientific Inquiry
  • SASS, Theology and Pastoral Studiexs

Biography

Academic Qualifications

  • Diploma Christian Ministries 1981 Daystar International Christian Communications
  • Diplom, Freie Theologische Akademie (MDiv) German Theological Seminary 1986
  • Covenant Theological Seminary 1989 (Thesis:  “George A.F Knight’s Thesis Regarding Tsedek and Tsedekah in Isaiah 40-55”)
  • MA, Church History, St Louis University (Thesis: “In What Ways did English Calvinism Influence Pastoral Care in Elizabethan England”?) 1993
  • PhD, University of Stellenbosch (Old Testament). (Thesis: “Covenant in Relation to Justice and Righteousness in Isaiah 42:1-9”)  2013

Publications (3 Publications)

Journals

  • The African Church and COVID-19: Human Security, the Church and Society in Kenya 2022- contributor and CO-Editor.

  • Covenant in Relation to Justice and Righteousness in Isaiah 42:1-9. Scholars’ Press 2014

Book Chapters

  • Book Chapters: Chapter 3, “The Church and Food Security in the Post-COVID Era: A Call for Decolonializing the African Mind” and Chapter 7 co-authored., “The Church, Family and Gender Based Violence in he post-COVID Era.

Conference Paper Presentation

  • 2022-Theology from the Global South: Text, Context, and Mission. An e-conference hosted by the South African Theological Seminary, 9-10 March 2022.Tittle of my paper: The ‘Kamba Muma’ oath: The best redemptive analogy interpreting Old Testament ‘berith’ covenant.

  • 2016-IOSOT-(International Organization of the Study of the Old Testament) Presented at University of Stellenbosch, South Africa: Social Justice in Isaiah: The culpability of the Church in her Prophetic Mandate.

  • 2006- Speaker: Covenant Theological Seminary, USA at Student Mission Fellowship. Tittle- Seek the Peace of the City: Ministry in an Urban Context Feb 21-25.

  • 2001- Using Kamba Culture to Interpret Old Testament Covenants. Interpreting the Old Testament in Africa (Africa) 125-129

  • 2000- Attended and presented a paper at the Society of Biblical Literature (SBL) conference in Cape Town, SA in one of the plenary sessions on “Covenant from an Akamba Perspective”

  • 1999 Presented at International symposium a paper on How African Covenants interpret Old Testament- Using the Kamba muma in Nairobi, Kenya

Research Interests

  • Social Justice
  • Reconciliation
  • Calvinism
  • Donatism in Early church History North Africa
  • Covenants
  • Kamba oaths

Teaches

  • BA BIL 111 Old Testament Introduction, BIL432 Pentateuch
  • MA BIL 615 Biblical Foundations
  • PhD BIL801 Integration of Faith and Life and BIL802 Scientific Inquiry

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