Riku Tuppurainen (DTh)
Riku Tuppurainen has long experience both from the church and academic ministry. Riku is serving as the Dean of Graduate Studies at Summit Pacific College (since 2015) as the Global Theological Training Specialist at GlobalEd (PAOC, since 2023), as adjunct faculty at Continental Theological Seminary (CTS), Belgium. He has also served as the Dean of Graduate Studies and a Professor of New Testament at CTS. He has taught in several 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, the most recently in Vancouver.
Dr. Tuppurainen has published 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.
Courses: Gospel of John and Interpretation/Hermeneutics