John L. Drury
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Jonathan Leonard Drury (born November 16, 1978) is an ordained minister in The Wesleyan Church of North America and an American theologian known for his contribution to Christology, Wesleyan Theology, Barthianism, Holiness Theology, and Protestant Theology. He is currently the Professor of New Testament and Spiritual Formation at Indiana Wesleyan University following his time as the Discipleship Pastor in their Spiritual Formation Office. He was also an Associate Professor of Theology and Christian Ministry at Wesley Seminary.
John L. Drury | |
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| Born | November 16, 1978 |
| Spouse | Amanda Hontz Drury |
| Academic background | |
| Alma mater | Indiana Wesleyan University
Princeton Theological Seminary |
| Academic work | |
| Institutions | Indiana Wesleyan University Indiana Wesleyan University |
| Notable works | The Resurrected God: Karl Barth's Trinitarian Theology of Easter |
Early life
John was born to Keith Drury and Sharon Bailey Drury, both pastors in the Pilgrim Holiness Church and later the Wesleyan Church after its merger with The Wesleyan Methodist Church in 1968. John is the youngest of two sons.
Life and career
Drury earned his B.A. at Indiana Wesleyan University, majoring in Religion, Philosophy, and Biblical Literature, and graduated summa cum laude in 2001. While at Indiana Wesleyan, he met and later married Amanda Hontz of Holland, MI.
He went on to earn both his M.Div. in 2004 and his Ph.D. in Systematic Theology at Princeton Theological Seminary in Princeton, NJ. He was awarded the A. A. Hodge Prize in Systematic Theology at Princeton Theological Seminary[1] and earned the rank of magna cum laude for his doctoral dissertation titled, "The Resurrected God: Karl Barth's Trinitarian Theology of Easter.[2]" in 2011.
Drury went on to become the inaugural Professor of Theology and Spiritual Formation at Wesley Seminary in Marion, IN where he served from 2010 to 2021. In 2021 he accepted the position of Spiritual Formation Coordinator in the chapel office at Indiana Wesleyan University. Since then, in Fall of 2023 he began his first semester in the position of New Testament Professor in the School of Theology and Ministry at Indiana Wesleyan University.
Honors and awards
A. A. Hodge Prize in Systematic Theology
At the 57th Annual meeting of The Wesleyan Theological Society at Duke Divinity School in March of 2022, Drury was called "one of the two greatest young minds in the Wesleyan tradition" (along with Jason Vickers) by Dr. Cheryl Bridges Johns, during informal comments after her plenary address.