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Ryan K. Bolger, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Church in Contemporary Culture
Ryan Bolger, assistant professor of Church in contemporary culture, teaches classes on emerging churches and postmodern/global culture. As part of his research, he traveled throughout the U.S. and U.K., interviewing leaders and looking at congregations in which postmodern culture thrived in the lives of their respective communities. For his research work, he received a dissertation fellowship award from Duke Divinity School’s Pastoral Leadership Project.
Ryan is coauthor (with Eddie Gibbs) of Emerging Churches: Creating Christian Communities in Postmodern Cultures (Baker Book House, Fall 2005). He delivered a paper, “Donald McGavran and the Emerging Church,” at the American Society of Church Growth in 2004. In the recent past he has also written “The Evangelical Strategy of MTV,” presented a paper entitled “Making the Transition: The English Church in Postmodernity,” and defended his dissertation, “Jesus For and Against Modernity.” |
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