New Creation Conversations Episode 023 - Dr. Al Truesdale on Holiness, Evangelism, and a Theology of Suffering

Welcome to episode twenty-three of New Creation Conversations. In this conversation I’m joined by Dr. Al Truesdale. Al is emeritus professor of Philosophy of Religion and Christian Ethics at Nazarene Theological Seminary. He is an alumnus of Trevecca Nazarene University, NTS and Emory University. Dr. Truesdale has published and edited numerous books, including: Wesleyan Foundations for Evangelism; All Things Need for Godliness; With Cords of Love; The Global Wesleyan Dictionary of Theology; A Dictionary of the Bible and Christian Doctrine in Everyday English; Five Volumes of The Book of Saints; Square Peg: Why Wesleyans Aren’t Fundamentalists; (and the soon to be released) Sin (in the Wesleyan Theology Series); and Confessing Christ as Lord of All in a Pluralistic World.

Al is curious, courageous, gracious, and prolific. Frankly, he’s a bit of a legend in Nazarene scholarly circles. Personally, 20+ years ago when I was asked by Fuller Seminary if there was a Nazarene that I would want to invite to be part of my dissertation committee, Al was my first choice, and he was gracious enough to serve as a reader. If there is an important and relevant theological question, Al has probably written on it, and we discuss many of those issues in our conversation. Al has graciously included me in a number of his projects across the years and it is an honor to get a chance to include him in one of mine. Here is my conversation with Dr. Al Truesdale.