Betty R. Lindner Chair of Evangelical Theology

Ph.D. Northwestern University (Theological Ethics, Church and Society)

M. A. Northern Baptist Seminary (NT, Theology)

B. A. Wheaton College (Philosophy)

Additional Study

University of Chicago Divinity School (Theological Ethics)

University of Miami (FLA) Graduate School of Economics (International Economics)

Background

David Fitch is the founding pastor of Life on the Vine Christian Community--an emerging church in the Northwest Suburbs of Chicago. He is the co-founder of Up/Rooted, an emergent cohort that gathers leaders and thinkers to engage issues of the emerging church and the post-modern context. Up/rooted now has chapters all over the Chicago area. He has been a speaker and presenter at "emerging church" gatherings, the Ekklesia Project, as well as academic and denominational gatherings on the issues of church, postmodernity and culture.

He is the author of numerous articles on church , culture and theological ethics in journals as diverse as the Journal of the Academy for Evangelism in Theological Education, Discernment, Pastoral Psychology and the Journal of Christian Education.

He is the author of The Great Giveaway: Reclaiming the Mission of the Church from American Business, Para-Church Organizations, Psychotherapy, Consumer Capitalism and Other Modern Maladies (Baker Books, 2005).

Specific Areas of Emphasis
--Character and Virtue Ethics

--Theological Ethics (History of)

--Church and Society (History of)

--Postmodern and Post Liberal Christian Thought

--Moral development (Moral Education)

--General History of Philosophy

--General History of Theology

--Christian Sexual Ethics

--Ethics and Education (esp. Philosophy of Education)

Dr. Fitch's Recommended Websites

www.Lifeonthevine.org

www.up-rooted.blogspot.com

http://blog.christianitytoday.com/outofur/

http://www.theooze.com/main.cfm

http://churchandpomo.typepad.com/

http://www.the-next-wave-ezine.info/issue102/