Kenneth J. Collins
American theologian and ordained minister (born 1952)
Kenneth J. Collins (born 1952) is an American Wesleyan theologian and ordained minister in the Global Methodist Church. He is a professor of Historical Theology and Wesley Studies at Asbury Theological Seminary. He is a leader in Wesley Studies, and his work The Theology of John Wesley: Holy Love and the Shape of Grace has been translated into Portuguese, Korean and Mandarin Chinese. He is the Director of the Wesleyan Studies Summer Seminar.
He received the Smith/Wynkoop Book Award in March 2024 for his book, edited with Ryan Danker, The Next Methodism: Theological, Social, and Missional Foundations for Global Methodism, and the same award in March 2016 for his earlier book, The Works of John Wesley: Doctrinal and Controversial Treatises II. Vol. 13 (co-edited with Paul W. Chilcote). Both awards were bestowed by the Wesleyan Theological Society. Collins has lectured in England, Russia, South Korea, Japan, Australia, Estonia, Brazil and Costa Rica.
Education
Collins attended the State University of New York at Buffalo, receiving a Bachelor of Arts in 1974. He went on to earn a Master of Divinity (M.Div.) degree from Asbury Theological Seminary in 1979, and a Master of Theology from Princeton Seminary in 1980.
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