Riku Tuppurainen (DTh)
Riku Tuppurainen has been the Dean of Graduate Studies at Summit since 2015 and the Senior Pastor at Finnish Bethel Church in Vancouver, since 2012. He has also served as the Dean of Graduate Studies and a Professor of New Testament at Continental Theological Seminary in Belgium. He has taught in various countries in Europe, South-East Asia, and West Africa, and has pastoral experience from his native country of Finland, as well as from several cities in Canada.
Dr. Tuppurainen has published academic articles and book reviews in various academic journals. He has edited two books, Pentecostal Issues, Ecclesiology & Ecumenism: Papers Presented in Theological Positions Colloquiums 2010 & 2011, Continental Theological Seminary, 2011 (co-edited); and Reading St. Luke’s Text and Theology: Pentecostal Voices, Pickwick, 2019. He has also authored a book entitled, A Prologue to Studies in the Fourth Gospel: Its Independency, Issues, and Interpretations, Wipf and Stock, 2021.
Course: Gospel of John and Interpretation/Hermeneutics