Joseph D. Driskill

Joseph D. Driskill

Professor of Spirituality; Ronald D. Soucey Lecturer; Dean of the Disciples Seminary Foundation, Berkeley Campus

Academic Credentials: 
BA, Culver-Stockton College, 1968; MDiv, Vanderbilt University Divinity School, 1971; MA, University of Regina, 1976; PhD, Graduate Theological Union, 1996.
Quote: 
“By training faith leaders to truly understand their spiritual traditions and experience the spiritual practices which inform them, I hope to help mainline Protestant churches in their search for an integrated and transforming spirituality which informs and is informed by faith, justice, and compassion.”
Profile: 

Dr. Driskill leads students in exploring Protestant spiritualities, contemplative prayer, Disciples history and the role of spirituality in pastoral care. He holds ministerial standing with the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) in the USA and Canada and with the United Church of Canada. He has pastored churches in Missouri, Kentucky and Saskatchewan and served for 12 years as a campus minister in London, Ontario. Dr. Driskill’s publications include Protestant Spiritual Exercises: Theology, History and Practice (1999), Spiritually Informed Pastoral Care (2002) and Ethics and Spiritual Care: A Guide for Pastors, Chaplains, and Spiritual Directors with PSR Professor Emerita Karen Lebacqz (2000). He has published numerous articles and chapters in books, including “Exploring ‘White’ Identity Formation in Pastoral Care and Counseling Training” in American Journal of Pastoral Counseling (2003) and “Spirituality and the Formation of Pastoral Counselors” in The Formation of Pastoral Counselors: Challenges and Opportunities (2006).

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