Associate Professor David McEwan has pastored Nazarene churches in Scotland, England, and Australia before becoming Academic Dean and Lecturer in Theology at Nazarene Theological College, Brisbane, in 1997. He has taught at a number of theological colleges in Australia and at other Nazarene colleges in the USA and the Asia-Pacific region. His PhD thesis was published by Paternoster Press under the title Wesley as a Pastoral Theologian, and it focused on John Wesley’s theological methodology in pastoral practice. David’s research interests are: Wesleyan ecclesiology and its implications for worship and mission; articulating the doctrine of Christian Perfection for today; Wesleyan theological method and its implications/application for pastoral ministry and spiritual formation.

David is an Associate Professor at the College of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences, Flinders University; an Honorary Associate Professor at the School of Historical and Philosophical Inquiry, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Queensland; and a Research Supervisor at the University of Manchester, UK. David currently pastors the Logan Community Church of the Nazarene.