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Michael J. Gehring
Visiting Professor of History of Christianity
Expertise
- Practical Theology
- Evangelism
- C.S. Lewis Studies
- Wesley
and United Methodist Studies
Education
- Ph.D., University of Manchester (UK), 2014.
- D.Min., Southern Methodist University, 2002.
- Th.M., Duke University, 1992.
- M.Div., Princeton Theological Seminary, 1988.
- B.A., Evangel University, 1983.
Michael Gehring is an Elder in the Western North Carolina Conference of the United Methodist Church. He was a Fellow and then Senior Fellow of the Polycarp Community of the Center for Evangelism and Missional Church Studies at Perkins School of Theology, Southern Methodist University from 2001–2021. He is also an Associate Fellow of the Manchester Wesley Research Centre (Manchester, UK).
Professor Gehring, along with Andy Kinsey, is an editor and contributor to William J. Abraham: A Theological Profile, which was published by Baylor University Press in November of 2024. The book is a collection of essays by scholars and writers attempting to assess William Abraham’s contribution to the academy and to the church. Dr. Gehring coedited and contributed to, along with Andy Kinsey and Vaughn Baker, The Logic of Evangelism Revisited (Pickwick Publications, Wipf & Stock, 2019), which examined William J. Abraham’s seminal contribution to the field of evangelization studies evaluating its continued relevance.
In 2017, Cascade Press (Wipf & Stock) published his book The Oxbridge Evangelist: Motivations, Practices, and Legacy of C.S. Lewis. It was also published by Lutterworth Press in Cambridge, England.
Dr. Gehring is also the author of two memoirs: As the Broken White Lines Become One (2018), a spiritual autobiography, and Losing Church: The Decline, the Pandemic, and Social and Political Storms (2022), a pastoral memoir reflecting on the challenges of leading a church in the current age. Both memoirs were published by Resource Publications (Wipf & Stock).
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