Monday, April 2, 2012"Training Believers in the Faith: the Early Christian Catechumenate, Then and Now"Gerald L. Sittser, Ph.D.
Professor of Theology, Whitworth University (WA) Gerald Sittser has taught in the Theology Department at Whitworth University since 1989. He serves on many committees and boards, including chair of the Theology Department, the Certification for Ministry program, and the M.A. in Theology program, which he helped to establish in 2008. Sittser has won numerous awards and honors. He received the prestigious Javitts National Fellowship while attending the University of Chicago. He has been voted by senior students as the Most Influential Professor on eight occasions. An award-winning writer, he has authored seven books, including Water from a Deep Well and the bestseller A Grace Disguised: How the Soul Grows Through Loss, which was translated into nearly 20 languages. In 2012, Zondervan will publish his eighth book, A Grace Revealed: How God Redeems Our Lives. Sittser grew up in Grand Rapids, Michigan, attended Hope College and Fuller Theological Seminary, where he earned his M.Div. He served as an associate pastor at Emmanuel Reformed Church in Paramount, California, and as chaplain at Northwestern College (IA), before earning his Ph.D. in the History of Christianity under Martin E. Marty at the University of Chicago. Sittser has three children and two step-children. | 
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