Kenneth L. Waters Sr., PhD

Professor Emeritus, Department of Biblical and Religious Studies

Kenneth L. Waters, Sr., PhD is Professor Emeritus of Personnel, Contracts, and Undergraduate Studies in the School of Theology of Azusa Pacific University. He currently focuses his expertise in the New Testament and early Christian literature, the book of Revelation and other apocalyptic literature, Second-Temple Judaism and the Greco-Roman world, biblical and Christian ethics, the personalities of Jesus and Paul, and African American religious history and thought.
Waters is a licensed and ordained minister in the Missionary Baptist Church. He has previously served for 28 years as senior pastor in the African Methodist and United Methodist Churches. He has also served as interim pastor in Lutheran and nondenominational churches. He is married to Deborah Tarver Waters, a licensed and ordained minister in Life Changing Ministries of San Bernardino and former teacher in the San Bernardino Unified School District.

Education

PhD, in Theology, Fuller Theological Seminary, 1999.
MTh, Southern Methodist University, 1979
BA in Social Work, Paul Quinn College, 1975

Academic Area

Azusa Pacific Seminary
School of Theology

Expertise

Biblical and Christian Ethics
Second Temple Judaism
New Testament
Homiletics
Greco-Roman World
African American Religious Thought and History

Courses Taught

BMGT 306 – The Bible and Business Ethics
BMGT 411 – A Christian Worldview and the Professions
GBBL 511 – Seminar in Biblical Interpretation
GBBL 512 – The Gospels’ Witness to Christ
GBBL 531 – Kingdom of God
GBBL 532 – Paul the Apostle and Theologian
GBBL 622 – The Church of the First Century
GDMN 730 – Church Renewal
GDMN 782 – Scripture: Its Spirituality and Proclamation
GINS 507 – The Bible and Preaching
GINS 542 – The Gospels and Christology
GMIN 628 – Seminar in Ministry
UBBL 230 – Luke/Acts
UBBL 330 – Life and Teachings of Jesus
UBBL 331 – Johannine Literature
UBBL 340 – Romans and Galatians
UBBL 341 – Thessalonian and Corinthian Epistles
UBBL 350 – Geographical and Historical Setting of the Bible
UBBL 442 – Prison and Pastoral Epistles
UBBL 461 – Theology of the New Testament
UBBL 496 – Senior Seminar: Biblical Theology and Ethics