Tutor in Theology
BA (Hons) French and Russian
PGCE
MTh, University of Manchester
PhD Theology, University of Birmingham
Dave served with the pentecostal church in Congo for ten years throughout the 1980s. Upon his return to the UK, he was in church leadership in a non-denominational church for 28 years. Dave highly values local church and currently serves as SSM Curate and part-time as the Pastoral Coordinator for St John’s in Burscough. He loves to see people equipped for service in the church and runs Emmanuel’s Pop-Up Theology course which aims to make studying theology accessible to the many not the few.
Areas of expertise
- Pentecostal/Charismatic History
- Pentecostalism
- Pneumatology
- Soteriology
Publications
- W.F.P. Burton (1886-1971): A Pentecostal Pioneer’s Missional Vision for Congo (Leiden: Brill 2020)
- ‘Burton, William Frederick’ in Brill’s Encyclopedia of Global Pentecostalism (Leiden: Brill 2019)
- Emmett, D. (2024). MAXWELL, David. Religious Entanglements: Central African Pentecostalism, The Creation of Cultural Knowledge, and the Making of the Luba Katanga. PentecoStudies, 22(1), 118-120. https://doi.org/10.1558/pent.28313
