Cultural Encounters

A Journal for the Theology of Culture

Brad Harper

Brad HarperAfter thirteen years as a pastor and church planter, Dr. Brad Harper has been Associate Professor of Theology at Multnomah Bible College in Portland, Oregon since 1999. Dr. Harper also serves as Book Review Editor for Cultural Encounters — A Journal for the Theology of Culture and is a member of the Editorial Board. He earned the B.A. from Biola University, the M.Div. from Talbot School of Theology, and the Ph.D. from Saint Louis University.

Dr. Harper's publications include "The Kingdom of God in George Eldon Ladd as a Theological Foundation for the Role of the Church in Society," in God and Caesar (Camp Hill, 1994); "Evangelicals and Catholics Together: A Chance to Talk," in The Ministerial Forum of the Evangelical Free Church, vol. 6 (1995); and "Larry Norman, Literature, and Listening for God in Pop Culture: A Response to Stanley Grenz: '(Pop) Culture: Playground of the Spirit or Diabolical Device?'" in Vol. 1, No. 1 of Cultural Encounters — A Journal for the Theology of Culture (2004). His current writing project is The Bride: An Ecumenical and Evangelical Ecclesiology (Brazos, forthcoming 2007), which he is co-authoring with Dr. Paul Louis Metzger.