The Centre hosts a Scholar in Residence, who utilizes the Centre’s research facilities in the course of their writing and research projects.
Daniela Augustine is a Senior Lecturer for the International Institute for Christian Studies and a missionary-educator with Church of God World Missions. She is the co-founder of the Bulgarian Theological College in Stara Zagora, Bulgaria, where she served as Academic Dean and, subsequently, as Vice-President for Academic Affaires. She has spent 11 years as a Church of God missionary to Bulgaria and 7 years as a missionary to the Czech Republic. While ministering in Prague, she lectured for the International Program of the Protestant Theological Faculty of Charles University – the oldest educational institution in Central Europe, established by emperor Charles IV in 1348 A.D. Augustine has served as a member of the Joint Consultative Group between WCC and Pentecostals and has participated in various ecumenical initiatives.
She is a member of the Center of Theological Inquiry in Princeton, NJ, where she spent the Fall semester of 2005 doing advanced post-doctoral research on the topic The Event of Pentecost as a Paradigm for Social Transformation. Daniela has been a guest lecturer at various educational institutions and has been a speaker and presenter at many theological forums and conferences. Daniela’s areas of interest and academic research include: Public Theology, Theological Ethics, Interdisciplinary Studies in Social Transformation, Postmodernity and Globalization. Among her current projects are: writing a section on the Bulgarian Pentecostal movement within the volume on Europentecostalism, edited by William Kay and Anne Dyer; continuing her research on Pentecost and Globalization, and developing a course on Orthodox Theology as a Resource for Pentecostal Spirituality. Daniela is married to Rev. Dr. Jonathan Augustine, who serves as Church of God Regional Superintendent for Central Europe. They have one son, Josiah Christopher Augustine.
Education
BS in Social Economics, University of International and Domestic Economics, Sofia, Bulgaria (1990)
MS in Social Economics, University of International and Domestic Economics, Sofia, Bulgaria (1991)
MDiv, Church of God School of Theology, Cleveland TN (1995)
DTh in Theological Ethics, University of South Africa, Pretoria (2002)
Advanced Post-doctoral research, Center of Theological Inquiry, Princeton, NJ (2005)
Awards
Pentecostal Ministry Award, Church of God School of Theology (1995)
Papers, Publications and Presentations
2008: Presentation: The Pentecostal Challenge to Theological Inquiry, April 10-11, 2008, Luce Hall Conversations, Center of Theological Inquiry, Princeton, NJ,
2006: Pentecost as the Church’s Cosmopolitan Vision of Civil Society (to be published by Eerdmans Pub. Co. in a volume entitled ‘Trinity, Church and Civil Society’)
2006: Paper: The Language of the Other and the Demand for Cosmopolitan Hospitality, October 2006, Conference on the Centennial Celebration of Azusa Street’s Revival, Krakow, Poland (to be published in a volume by the Jegelonian University, Krakow, Poland)
2005: Preaching the Good News for Today (Evangel, September 2005).
2004: Paper: Toward a Dialectic of Liberation: An Eastern-European Theological Perspective, presented at the International Pentecostal Theological Conference, Auckland Park Theological Seminary, Johannesburg, South Africa, September 13, 2004 (to be published in a volume with other conference papers)
2004: Paper: Seeing Beyond the Screen: Towards an Understanding of the Significance and Function of Cyberspace as Media, Social and Sacred Space, Forum on Public Theology in Central Europe, March 25 to 28, 2004, Reformed Theological College of Debrecen, Debrecen, Hungary, organized by Center of Theological Inquiry, Princeton, New Jersey
2003: Paper: Cyberspace as the GenXers construct of Open Society: A Response to William Schweiker, Forum on Public Theology in Central Europe, May 28-31, 2003, International Baptist Theological Seminary, Pague, Czech Republic, organized by Center of Theological Inquiry, Princeton, New Jersey
2003: Paper: GenXers, Holiness Heritage and Pentecostal Ethics, International Pentecostal Symposium of Educators, August 6-10, 2003, Stuttgart, Germany
2003: Paper: “The Other” as the Focal Point of Postmodern Ethics (to be published by BETI, Sofia Bulgaria)
2003: The Spiritual Revolution: A Dialogue with Nicolai Berdyaev in the midst of Post-Revolutionary Social Despair (to be published by BETI, Sofia, Bulgaria)
2002: Paper: Contemporary Pentecostalism in an Eastern European Context: A Brief Outline of Challenges and Perspectives, Symposium on Pentecostalism: Challenges and Perspectives, Theological Seminary, Cleveland TN.
2001: Paper: Facing Today’s Challenges of Being the Church and Fulfilling its Mission. COG Missions Conference, Cooper City, FL
1992: Statistical Analysis of the International Trade of Bulgaria with the Other Balkan Countries (1970-1990), University of National and International Economics, Sofia.