Elizabeth (Lisa) Sung, Ph.D.
Theologian in Residence
Elizabeth (Lisa) Sung, Ph.D., is a systematic theologian and spiritual director. As Theologian-in-Residence at the InterVarsity Institute, she ministers at-large, offering resources to strengthen and equip theological schools, ministry organizations, and churches far and near.
In both academic and ministry contexts, Elizabeth teaches theology to foster the lived reality of personal integrity and flourishing in Christ as the catalyst for missional living in a framework explicitly reconnecting systematic theology to spiritual formation, moral transformation, and world service.
Her specializations are theological anthropology (especially personhood and identity; and race, ethnicity and culture) and soteriology (sanctification and spiritual formation as related to character development). Currently, she is writing two books, Race, Racism, and Christian Moral Identity and a book on the Christian doctrine of humanity, addressing contemporary issues as well as traditional ones.
She teaches classes, speaks, and serves as a consultant on a variety of topics for churches, conferences, and professional development workshops. She has served as Scholar-in-Residence at Regent College (Vancouver); the first Protestant scholar to hold the Chester & Mary Paluch Chair of Theology at Mundelein Seminary, commemorating the 500th anniversary of the Reformation at the largest Catholic seminary in the US; and Associate Professor of Biblical and Systematic Theology at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School, where she taught for nine years, received the “Faculty of the Year” award, and pioneered student covenant groups singularly focused on spiritual formation. Her dissertation (2011) is titled “Race” and Ethnicity Discourse and the Christian Doctrine of Humanity: A Systematic Sociological and Theological Appraisal.
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