Moses Penumaka

Pacific Lutheran Theological Seminary
Director, Theological Education for Emerging Ministries [TEEM]
Assistant Professor of Contextual Theology

At GTU since 2008

 
Th.D., Graduate Theological Union, 2006
M.Th., United Theological College,  South India, 1993
B.D., Andhra University, Waltair, South India, 1985
B.Sc., Andhra University, Waltair, South India, 1979

Phone: 510/559-2728
E-mail: mpenumaka@plts.edu

Research and Teaching Interests

• Names of Allah
• Names of God in Understanding the Nature of God
• Asian and Oceania Faiths and Cultures
• Theology from the Margins

 Selected Publications

• “Luther and Shankara: Two Ways of Salvation in the India Context,” Dialog, A Journal of Theology, Volume 43, No.3, Fall 2006.
• “Confirmation Ministry in the Crossfire of Tolerance and Fascism,” Dialog: A Journal of Theology, Volume 41, No.3, Fall 2002.
• “Theological Implications of the Historical Reconstruction of Jesus Movement and Early Church from a Feminist Perspective”, in Prasanna Kumari, ed. Women in Church and Society: Essays in Honor of Florence Robinson (Department of Women Studies- Gurukul: Chennai, 1999), pp. 67-79.
• “Female Infanticide and Feoticide: Unwanted at Birth and Even After Birth” in Elizabeth Joy, ed. Lived Realities: Faith Reflections on Gender Justice. (CSIRS: Bangalore, 1999), pp. 101-112.
• “Dreams of Joseph and Pharaoh: A Brief Biblical Reflection on Globalization” in P. Jagdesh Gandhi & George Cherian, eds. Globalization: A Challenge to the Church (AIASCA: Chennai, 1998), pp. 103-105.
• “Tiger and Lamb graze together: Mission and Evangelism in the Context of Megatrends in Asia” in Soman Das, Ed. Mission and Evangelism (ISPCK: Delhi, 1998), pp. 164- 170.