San Francisco Theological Seminary
Professor of Speech-Communication and Homiletics, Dean of the Seminary and Vice-President of Academic Affairs
Core Doctoral Faculty Member

At GTU since 1985

Ph.D., Graduate Theological Union, 1992
M.Div. Princeton Theological Seminary
B.A. Wheaton College

Phone: 415/451-2859
E-mail: jchilders@sfts.edu

Current Research and Teaching Interests

• Theatre, Worship, and Preaching
• Performance Theory and Preaching
• Aesthetic Theology and Communication

Selected Publications

• Purposes of Preaching, editor (Chalice Press, 2004).
• Birthing the Sermon: Women Preachers on Creative Process (Chalice Press, 2001).
• Performing the Word: Preaching as Theatre (Nashville: Abingdon Press, 1998).
• Abingdon Women's Preaching Annual: Series I, Year A, co-editor with Lucy Rose, (Nashville: Abingdon Press, 1998).
• Abingdon Women's Preaching Annual: Series I, Year C, co-editor with Lucy Rose (Nashville: Abingdon Press, 1997).
• Abingdon Women's Preaching Annual: Series I, Year B, co-editor with Lucy Rose (Nashville: Abingdon Press, 1996).