Dr. Eunice L. Irwin
Associate Professor of Mission and Contextual Theology
Expertise:
- Primal Religions
- Cults/New Religious Movements
- The Occult
- Missiology
- New Age Spirituality
Education:
- B.A., Seattle Pacific College, 1972; M.R.E., Western Conservative Baptist Seminary, 1977; M.A., Western Conservative Baptist Seminary, 1978; Ph.D., University of Birmingham, 1994.
Dr. Irwin joined the Asbury Seminary ESJ School faculty in January 1994. She has been a career missionary, serving with the Christian and Missionary Alliance in the Philippines since 1979. While in the Philippines, she worked at schools and seminaries as a faculty member, registrar and academic dean. Dr. Irwin completed her doctoral studies at the University of Birmingham with Prof. Harold W. Turner of the Centre for New Religious Movements as her mentor, specializing in primal religion. Her field research was done among the Lapuyan Subanen tribe in the southern Philippines. Prof. Irwin has taught at Asian Theological Seminary and Alliance Biblical Seminary, both in Manila, and in 1993 was a visiting professor at Seattle Pacific University. She has taught such subjects as Christ and culture, cultural anthropology and cross-cultural communication. Dr. Irwin has also worked as a consultant for Capital City Alliance Church in Manila, at the Summer Institute of Linguistics in the Philippines, and served on the organizing committee of the Asia Graduate School of Theology which serves schools and seminaries throughout the Asian region.