Dr. Mark Chapman
Dr. Mark Chapman
Director of DMin Program | Professor of Research Methods
Biography
Dr. Chapman is Director of the Doctor of Ministry Program and Professor of Research Methods. Dr. Chapman also serves as Lead researcher for the Tyndale Intercultural Ministry Centre. He has wide experience in social science research and teaching at the undergraduate and graduate levels. His most recent research is focused on flourishing congregations and multivocational ministry. He has also conducted research on religion and immigration including projects related to Canadians who are starting new churches, the relationship between faith communities and the settlement sector, and an exploration of the role of churches in immigrant settlement and integration. Other research projects have included studies of megachurches in Canada, an exploration of Canadian church attitudes to the visual arts, and networks among churches.
Dr. Chapman has worked as Director of Extension Education and Assistant Professor of Christianity & Culture at Ambrose University and as a sessional lecturer at Wilfrid Laurier University, McMaster University, and the University of Toronto. He has also served as a consultant for the Christian and Missionary Alliance in Canada (2009-2011). He is or has been a member of the Canadian Society for the Study of Religion, the Religious Research Association, the Society for the Scientific Study of Religion, the Association for the Sociology of Religion, and the Association of Doctor of Ministry Educators.
Dr. Chapman is married with three adult sons.
Faculty Publications
- Congregations as Storytelling Organizations (2024) (Chapter)
- Congregations That Tell Meaningful Stories (2024) (Chapter)
- Pursuing Social Goods and Responding to Buffered & Disenchanted Learners: The Role of Community-Based Approaches in Christian Higher Education (2024) (Article)
- Resonant Relationships: Spiritual Formation as a Congregational Focus (2024) (Chapter)
- The Stories Congregations Tell: Flourishing in the Face of Transition and Change (2024) (Book)
- Calling in Multivocational Ministry (2022) (Chapter)
- Sabbath Rest in Multivocational Ministry (2022) (Chapter)
- The Tentmaking Home as Sanctuary (2022) (Chapter)
- Changing the World without Doing Harm: Critical Pedagogy, Participatory Action Research and the Insider Student Researcher (2019) (Article)
- Faith and Settlement Partnerships: Perspectives of Community Stakeholders (2019) (Article)
- Action Research Ethics for DMin Students (2018) (Article)
- Action Research for the Doctor of Ministry Project: A Practical Definition (2017) (Article)
- Common Actions: Participatory Action Research as a Practice for Promoting Positive Social Action among and between New Canadian Church Planters and Denominational Leaders (2017) (Article)
- Community-Based Research and the Faith-Based Campus (2017) (Article)
- Faith and Settlement Partnerships: Setting Immigrants & Canada up for Success (2017) (Article)
- Listening to the Diaspora Church (2017) (Article)
- Canadian Christian Churches as Partners in Immigrant Settlement and Integration (2016) (Article)
- Christian Churches and Immigrant Support in Canada: An Organizational Ecology Perspective (2016) (Article)
- Creating a World of Welcome: On Mission at Home (2016) (Article)
- Caring for the Stranger in our Midst (2014) (Article)
- The Role of Churches in Immigrant Settlement and Integration: Toronto Site Report (2014) (Article)
- Bonhoeffer: Pastor, martyr, prophet, spy: A righteous gentile vs. the third reich (2012) (Review)
- Integrating Immigrants into the Life of Canadian Urban Christian Congregations: Findings from a National Survey (2012) (Article)
- A republic of mind and spirit: a cultural history of American metaphysical religion by Catherine Albanese (2011) (Review)
- God's Continent: Christianity, Islam and Europe's Religious Crisis by Philip Jenkins (2010) (Review)
- Religion, Globalization and Culture edited by Peter Beyer and Lori Beaman (2010) (Review)
- Envisioning the Arts: Changing Attitudes Towards the Visual Arts in Canadian Conservative Protestant Christianity (2008) (Article)
- Metamorpha: Jesus as a Way of Life by Kyle Strobel (2008) (Review)
- Revivalists: Marketing the gospel in English Canada, 1884-1957 by Kevin B. Kee (2008) (Review)
- The American Evangelical Story: A History of the Movement by Douglas A. Sweeney (2007) (Review)
- Social Origins of Religion By Roger Bastide (2004) (Review)
- Identifying Evangelical Organizations: A New Look at an Old Problem (1999) (Article)
- The Crisis of Philosophy (1993) (Article)
Academic Credentials
PhD, University of Toronto, 2004
MA, Wilfrid Laurier University, 1994
BA, University of Waterloo, 1991
BRS, Tyndale University College & Seminary, 1989
Areas of Specialization
Research Methods, Religion in North America, Sociology of Religion, and Canadian Evangelicalism.
Teaching at Tyndale since: 2010