William Dyrness, professor of theology and culture, joined the Fuller faculty in 1990 and served as dean of the School of Theology from 1990 to 2000. He teaches courses in theology, culture, and the arts, and was a founding member of the Brehm Center for Worship, Theology and the Arts.

Dyrness has over 30 years of teaching experience in the U.S., the Philippines, Kenya, and South Korea. He has published work in a variety of fields, including theology and culture, apologetics, theology and art, and global missions. His recent works include Senses of the Soul: Art and the Visual in Christian Worship (2008), Reformed Theology and Visual Culture (2004), Visual Faith (2001), Changing the Mind of Missionswith James F. Engel (2000), and The Earth is God's: A Theology of American Culture (1997). His long-term research project on theology and the Protestant imagination, Reformed Theology and Visual Culture: The Protestant Imagination from Calvin to Edwards, was published in 2004. His most recent work is Senses of the Soul: Art and the Visual in Southern California Congregations (2008).  He has also served on the national boards of Christians in the Visual Arts (Wenham, MA), 1999 to 2005, and Development Associates International (Colorado Springs, CO), 2000 to the present, and is an ordained minister in the Presbyterian Church (USA).  He is currently at work on a major research project funded by the Luce foundation on the use of visual images in worship.

Theology and culture (especially theology and the visual arts), Protestant vision since the Reformation in relation to the visual arts, non-Western theology, Christian apologetics