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Cletus L. Hull, III
clethul@mail.regent.edu
trinitychurchlb.net


                                                                      EDUCATION


Ph.D., Biblical Studies, 2017
Regent University

Advisor: Dr. Gräbe

Major Professors: Dr. Graham Twelftree and Dr. Mark Wilson

D. Min., Church Growth, 2003
Fuller Theological Seminary
Thesis Title: A Five Year Plan for Growth at Trinity United Christian Church
Theological Mentor: Dr. Peter Hintzoglou
Major Professors: Dr. Eddie Gibbs and Dr. Charles Van Engen

M.Div., 1989
Trinity Episcopal School for Ministry
Major Professors: Rev. Dr. Rod Whitacre and Rev. Dr. Patrick Reardon

B.A. New Testament, 1983
Oral Roberts University

Major Professors: Dr. James Shelton and Dr. Arden Autry


                                                                 MEMBERSHIPS

Society of Chaplains in Pennsylvania
Society of Biblical Literature
Stone-Campbell Journal


                                               TEACHING AND MINISTRY EXPERIENCE

1987                Campground Chaplain, Myrtle Beach Campground Ministry, Myrtle Beach, SC

1987-1992       Pastor, First Christian Church, Marianna PA             

1989-1996       Campus Minister, California University of PA, California PA                      

1989-2007       Protestant Chaplain, Mayview State Hospital, Bridgeville PA

1992-1995       Associate Minister, First Christian Church, Washington PA

1996-1998       Campus Minister, Indiana University of PA, Indiana PA  

1996-2003       Associate Minister, Trinity United Christian Church, New Kensington PA  

2003-present  Senior Pastor, Trinity United Christian Church, Lower Burrell PA

2007-present  Protestant Chaplain, Torrance State Hospital, Blairsville PA

2007-present  Professor of New Testament, Biblical Life Institute, Freeport PA

2014                Adjunct professor, St. Francis University, Loretto PA

​2016-present  Hospice Chaplain, Monarch Hospice, Lower Burrell PA

2017-present  Assistant Adjunct Biblical Studies professor, Oral Roberts University, Tulsa OK

2017-present  Adjunct professor, Trinity School for Ministry, Ambridge PA 

2020-present  Affiliate Faculty Sioux Falls Seminary, Sioux Falls, SD


                                                              LANGUAGES

Greek-level of reading proficiency

French-level of reading proficiency

Spanish-level of reading proficiency


                                                      CLASSES I HAVE TAUGHT

Old Testament Survey             New Testament Survey             Psalms                        

Life of Christ                           The book of James                    The Synoptic Gospels

The Gospel of John                 The Major Prophets                  The Minor Prophets   

Eschatology                            Acts of the Apostles                   Romans

1 & 2 Thessalonians                The Dead Sea Scrolls               1 & 2 Corinthians


Hermeneutics                       Franciscan Life and Goals           Introduction to Theology

Spirit-Empowered Ministry    Spirit-Empowered Living           New Testament Synthesis

Sermon Preparation & Preaching   Church Growth & Planting   Discipleship & Small Groups

New Testament Greek           Introduction to Pastoral Care         Senior Paper

​Urban Outreach Ministries              Team Ministry                       Capstone Projects

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                                                       OTHER AREAS I TEACH

Hospital chaplaincy and mental health ministry (week class or one day seminar)

Evangelism in the local church (week class or semester)

How to build and sustain a youth ministry (week class or one day seminar)

How to grow your church through the spiritual gifts (week long class)

The work of the Holy Spirit in the traditional church (week class or one day seminar)

The gift of healing in the local church (week long class)


                                                                 PUBLICATIONS
                                                                        BOOKS

The Wisdom of the Cross and the Power of the Spirit: Grounding Pneumatic Experiences in the Theology of              the Cross. Eugene, OR: Wipf and Stock, 2018.


The Call: My Mission and Our Ministry at Trinity United Christian Church, In Lower Burrell PA.
          Tarentum PA: Word Association, 2019.


                                                    ACADEMIC JOURNAL ARTICLES

"The Purpose of Suffering and Glory in 2 Thess. 1:5-10," Conversations with the Biblical World, (2017), 146-                165. A peer-reviewed SBL publication by the Eastern Great Lakes Biblical Society.


“The Power of the Cross and Healing in Ministry,” Leaven, Pepperdine University, Vol. 23,
          No. 3 (Third Quarter 2016).
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“The Holy Spirit, the Missing Finger: Comparing the Pneumatology of Alexander Campbell and Don                            Basham,” Pneuma Review, Spring 18:2 (April, 2015).

“The Compulsion of the Spirit in the Farewell Speech of Paul in Acts 20:17-38 to the Ephesian Leaders: An               Exegetical Study Grounded in the Apostle’s Pneumatology and Christology,” American Journal of                      Biblical Theology, Vol. 16, No. 33 (July, 2015).    


"The Bible’s Undertaker: Cessationism in Contrast to a Living, Miraculous Christianity," Pneuma                
         Review,
​Fall, 140 (September 24, 2015).                                                      

                                                        MAGAZINE ARTICLES

“My Church is a Mental Hospital,” published in The Advocate (The Christian Church (Disciples of Christ),      
         March 2015 and Chaplains Chatter, March 2015, (The Society of Chaplains in Pennsylvania), Healing   
         Line,
summer 2015 (ministry of Dr. Francis MacNutt), and Fuller Studio, Fuller Theological Seminary,
         July


“Investing in Others,” published in The Upper Room, Vol. 86, Issue 3, (July-August 2020).

“Investing in Others,” published in The Upper Room, Vol. 88, Issue 2, (May-June 2022). 

                                                             BOOK REVIEWS
 
Bob Burns, Tasha D. Chapman and Donald C. Guthrie, Resilient Ministry: What Pastors Told Us About                       Surviving and Thriving (IVP Praxis, 2013), in Pneuma Review 138 (September 2015). 

Ann Christie, Ordinary Christology. (Farnham, England: Ashgate: 2012), in Pneuma Review 156 (January                    2016). 

Basil the Great, trans. Stephen Hildebrand, On the Holy Spirit, Popular Patristics (Yonkers, NY: St. Vladimir’s          Seminary Press, 2011), in Pneuma Review 181 (July 2016). 

Gary Wilkerson, with R.S.B. Sawyer, David Wilkerson: The Cross, the Switchblade, and the Man Who                        Believed (Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 2014), in Pneuma Review (August 2016).

Frank Matera, God’s Saving Grace (Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 2012), Farnham, England: in Pneuma                    Review (November 2016).

David J. Courey, What Has Wittenberg to do with Azusa?: Luther’s Theology of the Cross and Pentecostal
       Triumphalism
(London: Bloomsbury T&T Clark, 2015), in Pneuma Review, (August 2017).
 
Peter Stuhlmacher, Biblical Theology of the New Testament (Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans,
       2018), in Stone-Campbell Journal Vol. 2, No. 2 (Fall 2019).
 
William Blaine-Wallace, When Tears Sing: The Art of Lament in Christian Community
       (Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books), in Spiritus, ORU Journal of Theology, Vol. 6, No. 1 (Spring 2021). 


Robert D. McBain, Depression, Where is Your Sting? (Eugene, OR: Wipf and Stock, 2021),
       in Spiritus, Oral Roberts University Journal of Theology, Vol. 6. No. 2 (Fall 2021).


Edward Watson and Martin Culy. Quoting Corinthians (Eugene, OR: Pickwick Publications), in Spiritus, Oral           Roberts University Journal of Theology, Vol. 7. No. 1 (Spring 2022). 

                                                              CONFERENCES

July 2015        Paper: "The Pneumatology of Paul in 1 Corinthians 2:9-16 Grounded by his Christology in 1                                Corinthians 1:18-31." Presented at the International Society of Biblical Literature, in the                                        category of Pauline Literature, Buenos Aires, Argentina. 

March 2016    Paper: "The Purpose of Suffering and Glory in the Pauline Eschatology of Christ's Parousia in 
                        2 Thessalonians 1:5-10." Presented at the Eastern Great lakes Biblical Society, in the category                           of Pauline Eschatology and Ethics, Mohican Lodge, Perrysville, Ohio. 

​April 2016      Paper: "The Eschatology of Qumran and the Dead Sea Scrolls."
​                       Paper: "The Christology and Pneumatology of the Cappadocian Fathers."
​                       Presented both papers at the Stone-Campbell Journal Conference, under the categories 
​                       of The Second Temple Period and Patristics, Johnson University, Knoxville, Tennessee.

October 2016  Lecture: "Diversity in the Arena of Mental Illness"
                      Presented at the Pennsylvania Society of Chaplains, Carlisle PA


March 2017   Paper: “The Compulsion of the Spirit in the Farewell Speech of Paul in Acts
                       20:17-38 to the Ephesian Leaders: An Exegetical Study Grounded in the Apostle’s                                                 Pneumatology and Christology.”
                       Presented at the Eastern Great Lakes Biblical Society, in the category of Luke/Acts, Akron,                                 Ohio. 


April 2017      Paper: “The Compulsion of the Spirit in the Farewell Speech of Paul in Acts 20:17-38 to the                                 Ephesian  Leaders: An Exegetical Study Grounded in the Apostle’s Pneumatology and                                         Christology."
                       Presented at  the Stone-Campbell  Journal Conference under in the category of  Acts,
​                       Johnson University, Knoxville, Tennessee. 


Jan.  2018     Lecture: “The Unity of the Bible in a World of Questions.”
                      Presented at the Western Pennsylvania Apologetics Conference under the                                                              category Discovering a Biblical Worldview, Biblical Life Institute, Freeport, PA.

March 2018   Paper: “The Pneumatology of Paul in 1 Corinthians 2:9-16 Grounded by his
                       Christology in 1 Corinthians 1:18-31. Presented at the Eastern Great Lakes Biblical Society, in                             the category of the Corinthian Correspondence, Akron, Ohio.
 
April   2018   Lecture: “A History of the Church and Chaplaincy with Hospitals and Mental Illness.” Presented                        at the Pennsylvania Society of Chaplains, Carlisle PA.

March 2019    Paper: “The Eschatology of the Dead Sea Scrolls and the Qumran
                       Community.” Presented at the Eastern Great Lakes Biblical Society, in the category of the                                   Intertestamental Period, Akron, Ohio.
 
March 2021    Paper: “The Misery of American Politics Discovered with the Preacher in
                        Ecclesiastes 1:1-11.” Presented at the Eastern Great Lakes Biblical Society, in the category of                            Hebrew Bible, Akron, Ohio. In conjunction with John Carroll University.

 
March 2022     Paper: “The Work of the Spirit in Judges and 1 Samuel Similarities and
                        Contrasts.” Presented at the Eastern Great lakes Biblical Society, in the category of Hebrew                                Bible, Akron, Ohio. In conjunction with John Carrol University. 



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                BOOKS THAT FORMED MY ACADEMIC STUDIES, PASTORAL MINISTRY, AND LIFE


The Bible.

The Greek New Testament.

The Book of Common Prayer.

Basil the Great of Caesarea. On the Holy Spirit. 

Bennett, Dennis and Rita. The Holy Spirit and You.

Bonhoeffer, Dietrich. The Cost of Discipleship.

Bridges, Jerry. The Pursuit of Holiness.

Campbell, Alexander. The Christian System.


Carothers, Merlin. Prison to Praise.

Carter, Jimmy. The Blood of Abraham.

Cartwright, Colbert S. People of the Chalice: Disciples of Christ in Faith and Practice. 

Chrysostom, John. On the Priesthood.

Clinton, Robert. The Making of a Leader. 


Cummins, D. Duane. A Handbook for Today's Disciples. 

Dostoevsky, Fyodor. Crime and Punishment.

Dunn, James. Jesus and the Spirit.


Edersheim, Alfred. The Life and Times of Jesus the Messiah. 

Craddock, Fred. Preaching.

Farah, Charles. From the Pinnacle of the Temple.

Fee, Gordon and Douglas Stuart. How to Read the Bible for All It’s Worth

Fowler, James. Stages of Faith.

Fuller, Millard. Love in the Mortar Joints.

Gadamer, Hans-Georg. Truth and Method.

González, Justo. Mañana: Christian Theology from a Hispanic Perspective.

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Greene-McCreight, Kathryn. Darkness Is My Only Companion: A Christian Response to Mental Illness.

Hoekema, Anthony. The Bible and the Future.

Jordan, Clarence. Cotton Patch Gospel.


Kaiser, Walter. Toward an Exegetical Theology: Biblical Exegesis for Teaching and Preaching.

Kasper, Walter. Jesus the Christ.
​
Ladd, George. The New Testament and Criticism.


Lewis, C.S. Screwtape Letters.

Little, Paul. How to Give Away Your Faith.

Luther, Martin. Table Talk.

Matera, Frank. God's Saving Grace: A Pauline Theology.


MacNutt, Francis. Healing.
 
McGavran, Donald. The Bridges of God.

Murray, Andrew. With Christ in the School of Prayer.

Neuhaus, Richard John. The Naked Public Square.

Niebuhr. H. Richard. Christ and Culture.

Nouwen, Henri. The Wounded Healer.


Packer, J.I. Knowing God.

Pippert, Rebecca Manley. Out of the Saltshaker and Into the World.


Sanders, J. Oswald. Spiritual Leadership. 

Schnelle, Udo. Theology of the New Testament.

Sertillanges, Antonin. The Intellectual Life: Its Spirit, Conditions, Methods.
 
Stearns, Richard. The Hole in Our Gospel.

Stott, John. Between Two Worlds.


Teegarden, Kenneth L. We Call Ourselves Disciples. 

Torrey, R.A. The Power of Prayer.

Wagner, Peter. Your Spiritual Gifts Can Help Your Church Grow.

Wesley, John. The Journal of John Wesley.

Wilkerson, David. The Cross and the Switchblade.