Dennis P. Hollinger

Fellow

Dennis Hollinger is President and Professor of Christian Ethics at Evangelical School of Theology in Myerstown, PA. Prior to assuming his present role in 2004, he served as Vice Provost & College Pastor and Professor of Christian Ethics at Messiah College in Grantham, PA.

Over the years, Dennis has served in both pastoral and seminary teaching ministries, including Pastor of the Washington Community Fellowship on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, and Associate professor of Church & Society at Alliance Theological Seminary in Nyack, New York. He has served as an adjunct or visiting professor at several seminaries internationally, including Moscow Theological Seminary in Russia, Union Biblical Seminary in India, and the Alliance Theological Seminary extension program in Ukraine. He is currently an adjunct professor of Christian Ethics at Trinity International University, in the graduate program in bioethics.

Dennis is a frequent speaker in churches, pastors’ conferences, seminaries, colleges, and academic forums. He is the author of three books, including his most recent, Head, Heart, Hands: Bringing Together Christian Thought, Passion and Action (InterVarsity Press) and Choosing the Good: Christian Ethics in a Complex World (Baker Books). He has authored over fifty articles, mostly in ethics (including bioethics); church and society; and preaching; and serves as the co-editor for the Eerdmans book series, Critical Issues in Bioethics. He is a board member for the C. S. Lewis Institute in Washington, DC; sits on the Health Care Ethics Committee at Holy Spirit Hospital in Camp Hill, PA; and is a Fellow with The Center for Bioethics and Human Dignity in Bannockburn, IL.

Dennis received the B.A. from Elizabethtown College, the M.Div. from Trinity Evangelical Divinity School, the M.Phil. and Ph.D. from Drew University, and did post-doctoral studies at Oxford University. He and his wife Mary Ann live in Camp Hill, PA and have two daughters, Daphne and Naphtali. Mary Ann is Dean for External Programs and Assistant Professor of Family Studies at Messiah College.