David N. Field

Coordinator | Methodist e-Academy

David N. Field is the academic coordinator of the Methodist e-Academy, a project of Methodist Churches in Europe providing supplementary and continuing education for Methodist pastors from across Europe based in Basel, Switzerland. He is a South African with Ph.D. from the University of Cape Town focusing on eco-theology. He is the author of two books Bid Our Jarring Conflicts Cease: A Wesleyan Theology and Praxis of Church Unity and Our Purpose is Love: The Wesleyan Way of Being the Church, and the co-author with Ernst Conradie of Rainbow over the Land: Equipping Christians to be Earthkeepers, as well as articles dealing with eco-theology, political and public theologies, the theology and ethics of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, theology and migration, and the ethics in the Methodist tradition. His present research focuses on political and public theology in dialogue with decolonial and postcolonial thought, theological ethics in the Methodist tradition, and theologies of migration.