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ROLLIN G. GRAMS, Ph.D.,
Associate Professor of New Testament, 2006.
B.A. (University of Michigan), M.T.S. (Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary,
Hamilton), Ph.D. (Duke University)
Rollin Grams serves on the Charlotte campus of Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary as the Associate Professor of New Testament.
Rollin came to America at the age of sixteen from South Africa, where his parents were missionaries with the Assemblies of God. He studied philosophy and psychology at the University of Michigan and New Testament Studies at both Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary and Duke University. His research interests are in Biblical ethics, hermeneutics, Paul, Matthew, and mission studies. In addition to articles published in these areas, Dr. Grams has written Rival Versions of Theological Enquiry and co-edited Church and Context Survey, Part 1: Baptists in Armenia, Bulgaria, Central Asia, Moldova, North Caucasus, Omsk and Poland. (both published by the International Baptist Theological Seminary in Prague).
Dr. Grams began his academic teaching career as a part-time instructor in Singapore (Asia Theological Centre for Evangelism and Mission) and North Carolina (Duke University and Elon College) in the mid-1980s. He has taught full-time at the Nairobi Evangelical Graduate School of Theology in Kenya, the Evangelical Theological College in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, and the Evangelical Theological Seminary in Osijek, Croatia. Since 1999 he has lectured and tutored students at the Oxford Centre for Mission Studies in the United Kingdom and the International Baptist Theological Seminary, Czech Republic. He helped establish the Charlotte campus of Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary by serving as the Assistant Professor of New Testament and Greek and as the Registrar in 1992-1997.
He has also worked as an editor for Transformation (an academic mission and ethics journal published in the UK), programme director for the M.A. in Biblical Studies (ETS, Croatia), and missionary (1989-1992, 1997-present). He is currently the SIM-USA Theological Education Co-ordinator.
Dr. Grams is a member of Tyndale Fellowship in the UK, SIM, and Westminster Presbyterian Church in Charlotte, NC. Rollin and Wendy live with their three children (David, James, and Rachel) in Charlotte, NC.