Paul Chilcote

Paul W. Chilcote is Professor of Historical Theology & Wesleyan Studies and Director of the Center for Applied Wesleyan Studies at Ashland Theological Seminary in Ohio. He has been involved in theological education on three Continents, serving as a missionary, with his wife, Janet, in Kenya and as a charter faculty member of Africa University in Zimbabwe. Dr. Chilcote previously served as Nippert Professor of Church History & Wesleyan Studies at the Methodist Theological School in Ohio and helped to launch the Dunnam Campus of Asbury Theological Seminary in Orlando, Florida. He has also taught as a visiting professor at Duke University Divinity School. Chilcote is the author of seventeen books, the most recent of which include John and Charles Wesley (SkyLight Paths), Making Disciples in a World Parish (Pickwick Pub.), The Song Forever New (Morehouse Pub.), Praying in the Wesleyan Spirit (Upper Room Books), Her Own Story (Kingswood Books), Recapturing the Wesleys’ Vision (InterVarsity Press), Early Methodist Spirituality (Kingswood Books), and The Study of Evangelism (Eerdmans). He serves as a unit editor in The Works of John Wesley project, is President of the Academy for Evangelism in Theological Education and immediate former President of The Charles Wesley Society, and enjoys a special relationship with Mt. Angel Abbey in Oregon as a Benedictine Oblate. He recently launched a new D.Min. track at Ashland Theological Seminary in Wesleyan Practices. Dr. Chilcote is a frequent speaker and workshop leader in applied Wesleyan studies, particularly in the areas of spirituality, worship, discipleship, and mission/evangelism. His wife, Janet, is a clergy member of the Florida Conference of The United Methodist Church, serves Paradise Hill United Methodist Church as pastor in Ashland, Ohio, and speaks regularly as an advocate of children orphaned by AIDS in Africa. They have five daughters and one grand-daughter.