Rev Dr Steven Emery-Wright
Lecturer in Missiology
MA Programme Leader
A British Methodist minister, Steve joined the Cliff College Postgraduate Department in 2009. His previous experience includes pastoral ministry in the USA, New Zealand, the UK, and service as a Youth Enabler for the Cornwall District of the Methodist Church. Immediately before coming to Cliff Steve served as a missionary, lecturing at Trinity Theological College, Singapore. His research and publishing interests are primarily in the area of youth, focusing particularly on worship and sexuality. Steve is on the governing board of the International Association for the Study of Youth Ministry.
| 1974-1977 | Olivet Nazarene University BA with a major in Biblical Literature |
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| 1978-1981 | Asbury Theological College (Wilmore Kentucky – MDiv) |
| 1998-2003 | Oxford Brookes University (PhD in how young people understand worship) |
Books
Emery-Wright, S (2012) Now That Was Worship, Calver: Cliff College Publishing.
Emery-Wright, S (2010), Thinking Biblically about Sex, Cambridge: Grove Books.
Emery-Wright, S (2009), Passionate Worship, YTC press in Great Britain
Emery-Wright, S (2008), Empowering Young People in the Church, Cambridge: Grove Books.
Emery-Wright, S (2008), Understanding Teenage Sexuality, Armour publishing in Singapore
Journals
Emery-Wright, S (2013) 'Empowered to Worship: A comparison of youth understandings of worship between England and Singapore', The Journal of Youth Ministry, 10, 1, 85-106.
Emery-Wright, S (2008) ‘The Young Person as Theologian, Hermeneutist, and Liturgist’, Trinity Theological Journal, 15, 1
Emery-Wright, S. (2003), ‘A Qualitative Study Construction of How 14-16 Year Olds Understand Worship', Journal of Youth and Theology 2, 2, 64-77.
