A complete copy of my Curriculum Vitae (CV) can be found below. Here are some highlights.
CHRIS GIBSON, Ph.D.
Current Employment
- Director of Recovery, Ministries of Jesus
- Associate Pastor, Ethnè Global Services
Chris Gibson is a Pastor Theologian and Counselor, specializing in the Doctrine of God (Trinity, Pneumatology, Attributes), Theological Anthropology, and Integration of Theology and Counseling (especially recovery and EFT). He teaches and speaks on Church History and related topics, Christian Counseling, New Testament, Spiritual Formation, Patristics, and Theological Integration.
Education
- Ph.D. in Christian Theology (minor New Testament) ─ Gateway Seminary, 2024.
- Dissertation: “Divine Impassibility, the Holy Spirit, and Human Suffering”
- Supervisors: John Shouse, Ph.D. & Fred Sanders, Ph.D.
- M.Div. (Concentration: Christian Counseling) ─ Gateway Seminary, 2016.
- B.S. Psychology ─ University of Utah, 1992
Academic Appointments
- Adjunct Professor ─ Gateway Seminary, 2022–Present.
- Adjunct Professor ─ Jos Reformed Theological College (Nigeria), 2025–Present.
- D.Min. & Diploma Supervisor ─ PTS–College of Advanced Studies, 2024–Present.
- Professor ─ Henderson Training Institute (Nicaragua), 2018–Present
Publications
Books
Divine Impassibility and the Holy Spirit: Nicene Retrieval, Divine–Human Interaction, and the Healing Work of God (monograph substantially revised from dissertation) – under submission, 2026.
Peer–Reviewed Journal Articles
Published:
“Divine Jealousy as Covenantal Concern: Kevin Vanhoozer’s Theodramatic Impassibility, actus purus, and the Middle East Conflict,” The London Lyceum (The Ledger), 2026.
“Memory for Temporal Order of New and Familiar Spatial Location Sequences: Role of the Medial Prefrontal Cortex.” Learn Mem. 1997 Nov-Dec;4(4):311-7. PMID: 10706368 [PubMed – indexed for MEDLINE], Chiba A. A., Kesner R. P., Gibson C. J.
Under Review:
“Hegel’s Diremptive Legacy: How a Mutation of Seventeenth-Century Lutheran Christological Debates Fueled the Development of Twentieth-Century Divine Passibility.” Under review, Evangelical Quarterly.
“The Impassible Holy Spirit: Divine Impassibility as Essential to the Spirit’s Perfecting Work in Sanctification and Healing.” Under review, The Reformed Theological Journal.
In Progress:
“Retrieving Divine Impassibility: Cyrillian and Chalcedonian Christology for Contemporary Theology and Counseling”
“Christ as Mercy Seat: Ἱλαστήριον in Paul’s Christology, Divine Impassibility, and Pastoral Hope.” In progress.
Selected Book Reviews
The Pastoral Epistles: An Introduction and Commentary, Tyndale New Testament Commentaries (TNTC), by Osvaldo Padilla, Bulletin for Biblical Research, forthcoming 2026.
Covenant Theology: Biblical, Theological, and Historical, edited by Guy Prentiss Waters, J. Nicholas Reid, and John R. Muether, Three Part Review in The London Lyceum, The Ledger, 2026.
Being and Becoming in Paul: Human Transformation in the Letters of Paul, by Frederick David Carr, Bulletin for Biblical Research, 35, no. 1, (2025): 141-143.
The Sermon to the Seven Churches in Revelation: A Commentary and Guide, by Jeffrey A. D. Weima, Bulletin for Biblical Research, 22, no. 4, (2022): 483-85.
Fountain of Salvation: Trinity and Soteriology, by Fred Sanders, Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society 65, no. 2 (2022): 394-98.
Human Anguish and God’s Power: Current Issues in Theology, Book 16, by David Kelsey, Journal of Spiritual Formation and Soul Care 15, no. 2, (2022): 295-96.
Simply Trinity: The Unmanipulated Father. Son, and Spirit, by Matthew Barrett, Southeastern Theological Review 13, no. 2 (2022): 99-101.
The Paradox of Sonship: Christology in the Epistle to the Hebrews, by R. B. Jamieson, Bulletin for Biblical Research 32, no. 1 (2022): 109-11.
The Same God Who Works All Things: Inseparable Operations in Trinitarian Theology, by Adonis Vidu, Midwestern Journal of Theology 21, no. 1 (2022): 124-27.
God of all comfort: A Trinitarian Response to the Horrors of This World, by Scott Harrower, Journal of Spiritual Formation and Soul Care 13, no. 1 (2020): 134-36, with Fred Sanders.
Selected Academic Presentations
2026 (forthcoming) – “Christ as Mercy Seat: Ἱλαστήριον, Divine Impassibility, and Pastoral Hope,” Evangelical Theological Society, Denver, CO. (Nov. 17–19).
2026 (forthcoming) – “Divine Impassibility and the Mercy Seat (Part 2): Christology, Hypostatic Union, and Pastoral Hope,” Evangelical Theological Society, Denver, CO. (Nov. 17–19).
2022 – “Impassibility and Divine Emotion: actus purus and concern-based construal as Resources for Affirming and Strengthening Impassibility in Christian Theology.” Evangelical Theological Society, Denver, CO. (Nov. 16).
2021 – “A Spectrum of Impassibility and Passibility in Christian Theology.” Evangelical Theological Society, Fort Worth, TX. (Nov. 15).
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