Ryan K. Bolger
Associate Professor of Church in Contemporary Culture
BA, UC Davis
MACCS, MAT, PhD, 国产主播
Courses Taught
IS503: Missiology
MC500: Church and Mission
MC509: Church in a Technological Age
MC520: Church Planting
MC532: Evangelizing Nominal Christians (Church Renewal)
Campus Affiliations
Areas of Expertise
Faith and technology, emerging church, missional church, church growth, contemporary culture, contextualization, local theology, Jesus and mission
鈥淭he global church is not bound by time or space or location鈥攊t is ever present and available. As in all cultures, Christian faithfulness is a live option in a world mediated by technology. After the fear of the new subsides, it is hoped that more Christians will follow Jesus in the network society.鈥
Ryan Bolger, reflecting along with other voices from the 国产主播community on the topic of online community.
Bio
Ryan Bolger joined the 国产主播faculty in 2002 and is associate professor of church in contemporary culture in the School of Mission and Theology. In addition to conducting research focusing on the church and contemporary culture, he teaches classes on missiology, technological culture, church and mission, church planting, and church renewal.
Most recently, he coauthored Techno-Sapiens in a Networked Era: Becoming Digital Neighbors (2020) with Fuller鈥檚 Associate Professor of Theology and Culture Kutter Callaway. Dr. Bolger is the editor of Gospel after Christendom: New Voices, New Cultures, New Expressions聽(2012), convening 28 authors throughout Western culture who initiated new churches within post-Christendom. With Fuller鈥檚 Senior Professor of Church Growth Eddie Gibbs, Bolger coauthored聽Emerging Churches: Creating Christian Communities in Postmodern Cultures (2005), based on research and interviews with church leaders throughout the United States and the United Kingdom. His publications also include chapters in Phyllis聽Tickle: Evangelist of the Future听(2013),听Mass Culture听(2008),听Worship That Changes Lives听(2008),听An Emergent Manifesto of Hope (2008), and聽Evangelical, Ecumenical, and Anabaptist Missiologies in Conversation: Essays in Honor of Wilbert R. Shenk聽(2006). In addition, he has published articles in聽Missiology聽and the聽ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science聽and is a frequent conference speaker on church and culture.
For his research on pastoral leadership in the emerging church, Bolger received an award from Duke Divinity School in 1999, and in 2005 he received an award from Yale for his teaching on American culture and the gospel.
Bolger mentors PhD, DMin, and DMiss doctoral students in the areas of contemporary culture and the church.
Download Bolger鈥檚 CV, which includes a list of his current publications, here.