Michael Gehring, 'C.S. Lewis as Evangelist: Motivations, Practices and Legacy' (Cliff College), 2014.

Michael is the Visiting Professor of History of Christianity at Hood Theological Seminary in Salisbury, North Carolina. He was a Fellow and then Senior Fellow of the Polycarp Community, Center for Evangelism and Missional Church Studies, Perkins School of Theology, Southern Methodist University (2001-2021).

He conducted his research under the supervision of Professor William J. Abraham of Southern Methodist University and Professor Phil Meadows of Asbury Theological Seminary and received a Ph.D. from the University of Manchester (2014). He received his B.A. from Evangel University (1983), M.Div. from Princeton Theological Seminary, Th. M. from Duke University (1992), and a D.Min. from Southern Methodist University (2002).

Michael, along with Andy Kinsey, is an editor and contributor to William J. Abraham: A Theological Profile, which was published by Baylor University Press in November of 2024. The book is a collection of essays by scholars and writers attempting to assess Abraham’s contribution to the academy and to the church. Along with Andy Kinsey and Vaughn Baker, Michael also edited and contributed to The Logic of Evangelism Revisited (Pickwick Publications, Wipf & Stock, 2019), which examined William J. Abraham’s seminal contribution to the field of evangelization studies evaluating its continued relevance.

In 2017, Cascade Press (Wipf & Stock) published his book The Oxbridge Evangelist: Motivations, Practices, and Legacy of C.S. Lewis. It was also published by Lutterworth Press in Cambridge, England.

Michael is also the author of two memoirs: As the Broken White Lines Become One (2018), a spiritual autobiography, and Losing Church: The Decline, the Pandemic, and Social and Political Storms (2022), a pastoral memoir reflecting on the challenges of leading a church in the current age. Both memoirs were published by Resource Publications (Wipf & Stock).

Email: mgehring@hoodseminary.edu