DAVID H. NIKKEL **** N. Pearl St., Fayetteville, NC 28303-4341 910-***-****(O)

abqe2w@r.postjobfree.com 910-***-****(H)

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EDUCATION

Ph. D. 1981 Duke University, Durham, North Carolina

M. Div. 1977 Methodist Theological School in Ohio, Delaware, Ohio

B. A. 1974 Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut

Honors and Fellowships: Gurney Harris Kearns Fellowship (Duke, 1977-1980);

Charles A. Dice Fellowship (Methodist Theological School in Ohio, 1977);

National Merit Scholar (1970).

EXPERIENCE

8/08- present Associate Professor of Religion, University of North Carolina

at Pembroke, Pembroke, North Carolina

10/07- present Chair, Department of Philosophy and Religion, University of

North Carolina at Pembroke

8/02 -7/08 Assistant Professor of Religion, University of North Carolina

at Pembroke

7/98 - 6/02 Pastor, First United Methodist Church, Lisbon, Ohio

8/92 - 5/98 Assistant Professor of Religion & Philosophy (tenure-track) and College Chaplain, Hastings College, Hastings, Nebraska

(position eliminated)

7/87 - 6/92 Pastor, Smith Corners United Methodist Church, Austintown,

Ohio

1/83 - 6/87 Pastor, Atwater United Methodist Church, Atwater, Ohio

7/81 - 1/83 Associate Pastor, Church of the Good Shepherd (United

Methodist)

Adjunct teaching Youngstown State University, Hiram College, Mt. Union College,

Methodist Theological School in Ohio

AREAS OF TEACHING COMPETENCE

Systematic theology Religion and culture

Philosophical theology World religions

Historical theology History of Christianity

Philosophy of religion Biblical studies

Religious ethics Ministry studies

COURSES TAUGHT

Introduction to Religious Studies Religion and Science

Introduction to Religious Thought Religion and Literature

Contemporary Religious Thought Life and Thought of Reformation Churches

History of Western Religious Thought Christianity in the Modern World

Doctrine of God Introduction to World Religions

Philosophy of Religion Eastern Religions and Philosophies

Religious Ethics Religion in America

Religion & Culture; Philosophy of Culture Introduction to the New Testament

Religion, Art, and Culture Theories and Methods in Religion

Introduction to Philosophy

PUBLICATIONS

The Varieties of Mystical Experience: William James and Paul Tillich. Contract from Mercer University Press is in preparation.

Radical Embodiment, Princeton Theological Monograph Series (Eugene, OR: Wipf & Stock, 2010; Cambridge, UK: James Clarke & Co., 2011).

Updating Tillich on Religion and Art. Bulletin of the North American Paul Tillich Society 37/3 (Summer, 2011).

A Response to David Rutledge. (David Rutledge, The Crucial Concept of

Embodiment: David Nikkel’s Account.) Tradition and Discovery: The Polanyi

Society Periodical, Vol. 37/Issue 2 (February, 2011).

Negotiating the Nature of Mystical Experience, Guided by James and Tillich. Sophia:

International Journal for Philosophy of Religion, Metaphysical Theology and

Ethics 49/3 (Fall, 2010) [electronic access at www.springerlink.com/openurl.asp?genre=article&id=doi:10.1007/s11841-010-0191-7].

Tillich’s ‘God above God’ after Mark Taylor’s After God, Bulletin of the North American Paul Tillich Society 36/2 (Spring, 2010).

The Mystical Formation of Paul Tillich, Global Spiral 6/11 (December 5, 2006).

Humanity and Divinity as Radically Embodied, Global Spiral 6 (October 31, 2006).

Discerning the Spirits of Modernity and Postmodernity, Tradition and Discovery: The

Polanyi Society Periodical, Vol. 33/Issue 1 (October, 2006).

The Varieties of Mystical Experience: Paul Tillich and William James, Global Spiral

6 (January 19, 2006).

Panentheism, Entry in The Encyclopedia of Science and Religion (New York:

Macmillan Reference USA, 2003).

Polarities in Tillich’s Thought on Revelation in the World Religions.

Bulletin of the North American Paul Tillich Society 26/4 (Fall, 2000).

Dealing with Religious Relativism in the Classroom, Journal of Theta Alpha Kappa–

National Honor Society for Religious Studies/Theology (Spring, 1998).

Panentheism in Hartshorne and Tillich: A Creative Synthesis (New York: Peter Lang Publishing, 1995).

The Postmodern Spirit and the Status of God, Sophia: International Journal for

Philosophy of Religion, Metaphysical Theology and Ethics 33 (November, 1994).

St. Augustine and the Goodness of Creaturely Existence, Duke Divinity School Review

43 (Fall, 1978).

SPECIAL PRESENTATIONS

Postmodernism, Tradition, and the Church-Related College: Negotiating Absolutism and Relativism, Advocacy and Diversity, for The Church-Related College’s Postmodern Opportunity: A National Interdisciplinary Conference, funded by the Lilly Endowment, May, 1997.

Ministry in a Post-Age, Cotner College Commission on Continuing Education, Lincoln /Grand Island, Nebraska, September, 1997.

Minding God and the Body: An Embodied versus a Functionalist Model of Mind. Paper presented to the Religion and Science Group of the American Academy of Religion Annual Meeting, 2003.

Consciousness: The Final Frontier–The Religious Implications of Cognitive Science and Neuroscience. Presentation to the Metanexus Science and Religion Roundtable at St. Andrew’s Presbyterian College, Laurinburg, North Carolina, March, 2005.

ORDINATION

East Ohio Conference of the United Methodist Church, Elder’s Orders, 1983.

AFFILIATIONS AND AWARDS

University of North Carolina Board of Governors’ Award for Teaching Excellence for

UNC Pembroke, 2012.

American Academy of Religion.

Theta Alpha Kappa: National Honor Society for Religious Studies and Theology.

At-Large Representative, National Executive Board, 2011- .

Presidential Cycle, North American Paul Tillich Society, 2007-2011.

Polanyi Society.

Religion and Science Roundtable, partially sponsored by the Metanexus Institute, St.

Andrew’s Presbyterian College, Laurinburg, North Carolina, 2004-present.

Faculty advisor, UNCP’s Tomorrow’s Religious Leaders, 2002- present.

UNCP Faculty Senate, 2011- .

American Association of University Professors.

Van Bogard Dunn Ecumenical Award, East Ohio Conference, United Methodist Church,

2000.

East Ohio Conference Commission on the Status and Role of Women, 1984-1992; Vice

Chairperson, 1988-1992.

Ohio Academy for Spiritual Formation, 1988-1992.

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