About

Dr. Terence C. Mournet is Associate Professor of New Testament and Greek and Interim Director of Information Technology at Ashland Theological Seminary, Ashland OH, USA.

He is married to Krista Mournet and together they have a young son named Lucas.

I was born and raised in Queens, NY and attended a North American Baptist Conference church for many years (Immanuel Baptist Church; Woodside, Queens) until I left to attend seminary. My wife and I have been married for over a decade and after many years being ‘on the road’, we are thankful to be able to live in Ashland, OH, where we have lived since June 2010.

I spent eighteen or so years in undergraduate and postgraduate education. I initially attended Polytechnic University (Farmingdale, NY) as an electrical engineering major for three years until I was called to Christian ministry at which point I left NYC and relocated to Sioux Falls to complete my my undergraduate degree at the University of Sioux Falls and to begin my theological education at Sioux Falls Seminary. I left Sioux Falls in 1994 and enrolled in Anderson School of Theology in Anderson, IN for one additional year of language study. After working full-time in the computer science field for several years as a software developer, computer consultant, and Manager of Information Systems, I felt called to return to seminary and complete my master’s degree. I enrolled in Palmer Seminary and completed my M.T.S. degree in 1999. During the final years of seminary I felt called to the teaching ministry and academia, and subsequently enrolled in the Ph.D. program at the University of Durham, England. My wife obtained her B.A. and her M.A.T.R. in Theology while I completed my Ph.D. under the supervision of the prominent New Testament scholar James D. G. Dunn. We returned to the U.S.A. following our four-year stay in England; I taught New Testament for five years at Sioux Falls Seminary in Sioux Falls, SD; and we are now excited to be able to live in Ashland, OH – the so-called ‘heartland’ of the USA.

Current research interests of mine include the relationship between orality and literacy in antiquity, methodological questions relating to the study of Early Christianity, and sociological approaches to New Testament interpretation including social-scientific criticism of the Pauline corpus. I have also developed some computer software for the academic community which I might market someday (if I have enough time!)

My recent work has been on the Synoptic Gospels – the results of which has been published by the German academic publisher Mohr Siebeck (Mournet, Terence. Oral Tradition and Literary Dependency: Variability and Stability in the Synoptic Tradition and Q. Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zum Neuen Testament II; vol. 195. Tubingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2005). I have published articles on orality and oral tradition including “The Jesus Tradition as Oral Tradition” to a Festschrift for the New Testament scholar Birger Gerhardsson. I have recently contracted with IVP Academic to write a book on the Origins of the Jesus Tradition.

Apart from my academic background, I have served in a wide variety of Christian ministries, including: youth pastoral work, church planting, traveling music ministry, worship leading/directing, guitarist in a Christian ‘rock band’ – among others! Although I am currently focused on research and writing, I still have a passion for music and love playing my guitar and/or leading worship with my wife who is a gifted vocalist (we actually met on a music ministry tour of the US and Canada!).

Thanks for your interest in my short biography!