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name: Elmer J. Thiessen
about: Elmer Thiessen (B.Th., B.A., M.A., Ph.D.) is semi-retired, and moved to Waterloo, Ontario in 2007 after having taught philosophy at Medicine Hat College (Alberta, Canada) for over 35 years. His official position now is that of a “roving philosopher,” open to short-term teaching and research positions anywhere in the world. Most recently, he taught at Meserete Kristos College in Ethiopia (summer of 2011).He has published numerous articles and book reviews, both in professional journals and religious magazines. His research specialty has been the philosophy of education – here he has published two books, "Teaching for Commitment," and "In Defence of Religious Schools and Colleges" (McGill-Queen’s University Press, 1993; 2001). His most recent Elmer Thiessen (B.Th., B.A., M.A., Ph.D.) is semi-retired, and moved to Waterloo, Ontario in 2007 after having taught philosophy at Medicine Hat College (Alberta, Canada) for over 35 years. His official position now is that of a “roving philosopher,” open to short-term teaching and research positions anywhere in the world. Most recently, he taught at Meserete Kristos College in Ethiopia (summer of 2011).He has published numerous articles and book reviews, both in professional journals and religious magazines. His research specialty has been the philosophy of education – here he has published two books, "Teaching for Commitment," and "In Defence of Religious Schools and Colleges" (McGill-Queen’s University Press, 1993; 2001). His most recent work is entitled, "The Ethics of Evangelism: A Philosophical Defense of Proselytizing and Persuasion," published by Paternoster Press and by IVP Academic (2011). Work has begun on a new book that will deal with the ethics of evangelism from a specifically Christian theological perspective. ...more