Dr. Henry Spaulding
University President
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Spaulding re-elected as MVNU president
MOUNT VERNON, Ohio — We are delighted to announce that the Mount Vernon Nazarene University Board of Trustees has unanimously re-elected Dr. Henry W. Spaulding II to a third four-year term as university president during a Board of Trustees meeting on Nov. 6.
Professional Experience:
- President, Mount Vernon Nazarene University, 2012-Present
- VPAA, Provost, Interim President, Mount Vernon Nazarene University, 2009-2012
- Professor, Philosophical Theology and Christian Ethics, Nazarene Theological Seminary, 2007 to 2009
- Professor, Theology and Philosophy, Trevecca Nazarene University, 1995-2007
- Adjunct Professor, Washington Nazarene Bible College Extension, 1992-1995
- Adjunct Professor, Richmond School of Ministry, 1992-1995
- Professor, Eastern Nazarene College: Assistant Professor, 1982-1985; Associate Professor, 1985-1990; Professor, 1990-1992.
- Teaching Assistant, The Florida State University, 1980-1982
- Senior Pastor, First Church of the Nazarene, Woodbridge, VA 1992-1995
- Senior Pastor, First Church of the Nazarene, Thomasville, GA 1979-1982
- Associate Pastor, Antioch Church of the Nazarene, Overland Park, KS 1975-1977
- Senior Pastor, Madison Southern Methodist Church, Madison, TN 1972-1974
- Director, M.Div. Program (NTS) 2007-2009
- Dean, School of Arts and Sciences (TNU) 2000-2007
- Director, Graduate Program in Religion (TNU) 2000- 2007
- Chair, Academic Council (TNU) 1999-2000; 2002-2005
- Associate Academic Dean: Graduate and Professional Studies (ENC) 1990-1992
- Chair, Division of Religion and Philosophy (ENC) 1983-1992
- Coordinator, MA in Religion (ENC) 1983-1991
- Wesleyan Theological Society
- American Academy of Religion
- Teacher of the Year in the Division of Religion and Philosophy at Eastern Nazarene College, 1992
- Faculty Member of the Year at Trevecca Nazarene University, 1999
- Management of Human Resources Teacher of the Year at Trevecca Nazarene University, 2007
- "The End of Modernity and Outwitting Nihilism: Preliminary Thoughts on the Appropriateness and Importance of a Tillichian Engagement with Radical Orthodoxy" Tillich Studies, Spring 2006
- "Practicing Holiness: Consideration of Action in the Thought of John Wesley" Wesleyan Theological Journal (Spring 2005), Vol. 40, no 1
- "The Path of Peaceful Flight: Milbank's Trinitarian Ontology and a Re-Narration of Wesleyan-Holiness Theology," Wesleyan Theological Journal (Spring, 2001), Vol 36, no 1
- "Good Conscience or Good Confidence: A Postmodern Re-Thinking of Ethical Reflection in the Wesleyan-Holiness Tradition", Wesleyan Theological Journal (Spring, 2000), Vol 35, No 1
- "To Shew the Fly the Way out of the Fly-Bottle: A Reconstruction of the Wesleyan Understanding of Christian Perfection" Wesleyan Theological Journal (Fall,1998) Volume 33, No 2
Education:
- Ph.D. Dissertation "The Christian Humanism of Paul Tillich", The Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida (1982)
- M.Div. Honors Program in Systematic Theology, Nazarene Theological Seminary, Kansas City, Misouri (1977)
- B. A. in Religion and History, Trevecca Nazarene College, Nashville, Tennessee (1974)