Charles E. Van Engen

Charles (Chuck) E. Van Engen is the Arthur F. Glasser Professor of BiblicalTheology of Mission in the School of Intercultural Studies at Fuller TheologicalSeminary in Pasadena, California. As the son of Reformed Church inAmerica (RCA) missionaries, he was born and grew up in Mexico. He andhis wife Jean later returned to Chiapas as RCA missionaries to administer atheological education program in cooperation with the National PresbyterianChurch of Mexico. Chuck and Jean founded a seminary and were involvedin extension theological education, leadership formation, and training evangelistsfor the National Presbyterian Church of Mexico from 1973 to 1985.Both Chuck and Jean are graduates of Hope College in Holland, Michigan.Chuck holds a master of divinity degree from Fuller Theological Seminary anda doctoral degree from the Free University of Amsterdam.He is the founding President and CEO of Latin American Christian Ministriesthat seeks to form a new generation of scholars, writers, and seminaryprofessors for the churches and mission agencies of Latin America throughthe Latin American Doctoral Program in Theology, known in Latin Americaas PRODOLA. Among his publications are The Growth of the True Church,1981; God's Missionary People,1991; Mission on the Way,1996; God So Loves theCity with Jude Tiersma, 1994; Evangelical Dictionary of World Missions, editedwith A. Scott Moreau and Harold Netland, 2000; Announcing the Kingdom:The Story of God's Mission in the Bible with Arthur Glasser, Dean Gilliland, andShawn Redford, 2003; Paradigm Shifts in Christian Witness edited with DarrellWhiteman and Dudley Woodberry, 2008; and You are My Witnesses, 2009.He has offered lectures and taught at seminaries in many countries aroundthe world.