SMU #50173 Assistant or Associate Professor in Worship and Preaching
SMU #50173 Assistant or Associate Professor in Worship and Preaching
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Perkins School of Theology at SMU seeks a faculty appointment at the level of assistant or associate professor to fill the LeVan Chair in Preaching and Worship to begin August 2026. The successful applicant will join those full- and part-time faculty members who provide instruction in worship and preaching for the . M.A.M. M.S.M. and continuing education programs. This is a tenure-track or tenured appointment.
Responsibilities
A. Full-time teaching and scholarship in worship with ability to teach preaching.
1. Teaching courses in the various degree programs and formats of Perkins School of Theology and if appropriate in the Ph.D. curricula of the Graduate Program in Religious Studies of Southern Methodist University.
2. Scholarship including publications in the field of Worship.
B. Participation in the life and work of Perkins School of Theology the Graduate Program in Religious Studies and other parts of Southern Methodist University including the structures of governance exercising the responsibilities normally assumed by faculty members.
Minimum qualifications
A. Ph.D. or equivalent degree.
B. Demonstrated achievement or promise as a scholar and teacher in the field of Worship.
C. Demonstrated achievement or promise as a teacher in the field of Preaching.
D. Commitment to the primary objectives both of Perkins School of Theology to prepare persons for leadership in the church and in various forms of Christian ministry and of the Graduate Program in Religious Studies to prepare persons for leadership in the academy.
E. Commitment to teaching in all the degree programs of Perkins School of Theology and in all approved modes of instruction (including in-person online and hybrid).
F. Commitment to working in a religiously and theologically varied community.
Preferred qualifications
A. Knowledge of and appreciation for the worship tradition and practice of the United Methodist Church and other Christian denominations.
B. Experience in pastoral leadership.
C. Ability to lead chapel ministry programs.
D. Demonstrated achievement or promise as a scholar in the field of Preaching.
E. Ability to teach in church music.
F. Background interests perspectives and abilities that complement those of other members of the faculty with an openness to creative pedagogical and academic collaboration across disciplines.
G.Ordination in a Christian denomination.
Required Experience:
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Employment Type
Full Time
