Douglas Koskela
Professor of Theology; Associate Dean, Undergraduate Studies
Email: kosked@spu.edu
Phone: 206-281-2261
Office: Alexander Hall
Education: BA, Seattle Pacific University, 1995; MDiv, Duke Divinity School, 1998; PhD, Southern Methodist University, 2003. At SPU since 2001.
Doug Koskela primarily teaches courses in systematic theology and the University Foundations sequence. His areas of research interest include Wesleyan theology, epistemology of theology, vocation, and ecclesiology.
Dr. Koskela currently serves as president of the Wesleyan Theological Society. He is also a member of the American Academy of Religion and the Committee on Free Methodist History and Archives.
Dr. Koskela has authored two books, including the recent Calling and Clarity: Discovering What God Wants for Your Life (Eerdmans, 2015). He has also published numerous articles and book chapters. He is an ordained elder in the Pacific Northwest Conference of the Free Methodist Church.
Books
Calling and Clarity: Discovering What God Wants for Your Life
Eerdmans Publishing, 2015
Ecclesiality and Ecumenism: Yves Congar and the Road to Unity
Marquette University Press, 2008
Immersed in the Life of God: The Healing Resources of the Christian Faith: Essays in Honor of William J. Abraham (with Gavrilyuk, Paul L., and Vickers, Jason E.)
Eerdmans, 2008
"Douglas M. Koskela reflects on ecclesial reconciliation as a healing practice. With attention to both ecumenical and intra-ecclesial relationships, he examines the impetus toward and patterns of reconciliatory practice ... He suggests that, by approaching reconciliation in a posture of humility and attentiveness to its own canonical riches, the church has genuine hope of restoration and revitalization." (x)
Selected Publications
- "Discipline and Polity,” in The Cambridge Companion to American Methodism, edited by Jason E. Vickers (Cambridge University Press, 2013)
- “A Wesleyan Understanding of the Authority of Scripture,” in Wesley, Wesleyans, and Reading the Bible as Scripture, edited by Joel B. Green and David F. Watson (Baylor University Press, 2012)
- “‘But Who Laid Hands on Him?’ Apostolicity and Methodist Ecclesiology,” in Pro Ecclesia, Winter 2011, Volume XX, Number 1
Please view Dr. Koskela’s CV (PDF) for additional publications.