DR. CHUN TSE

ACADEMIC QUALIFICATIONS: PH.D.
TEACHING AREA: BIBLICAL STUDIES (NEW TESTAMENT), CHURCH HISTORY

BIOGRAPHY

Chun Tse grew up in Hong Kong and came to the United States for college study. He received Jesus as Savior and Lord during sophomore through listening to a Christian radio station. After earning his Ph.D. in electrical engineering from the University of Maryland in 2003, he continued his university research on magnetic storage and created a startup to recover hard disk data.

In 2001, Chun and his wife received a call to full-time ministry at a theological conference in New York. From 2008 to 2013, he studied for a Master of Divinity at Bethel Seminary in Minnesota while working as an electrical design engineer at Seagate Technology. After graduation, he moved to New Jersey to serve as a pastor at Monmouth Community Christian Church and later at Rutgers Community Christian Church while studying for the Master of Theology at Westminster Theological Seminary in Pennsylvania.

In Fall 2019, Chun moved to Scotland with his family to study for a doctorate in systematic theology at the University of Edinburgh, earned the degree in 2022. In 2020, he published a book, Assurance of Adoption: A New Paradigm for Assurance of Salvation (Wipf & Stock). He preaches at different churches and conferences and teaches biblical and theological courses. Chun and his wife have three daughters. They like animals and desserts.

DEGREE AND QUALIFICATIONS
  • Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) in Systematic Theology, 2022
    School of Divinity, University of Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
  • Master of Theology (Th.M.) in Systematic Theology, 2019
    Westminster Theological Seminary, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
  • Master of Divinity (M.Div.) (Summa Cum Laude), 2013
    Bethel Seminary, St. Paul, Minnesota, USA
  • Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) in Electrical Engineering, 2003
    University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, USA
  • Master of Science (M.S.) in Electrical Engineering, 2002
    University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, USA
  • Bachelor of Science (B.S.) (Cum Laude) in Electrical Engineering, 1997
    University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, USA
CHRISTIAN PUBLICATIONS
  • Tse, Chun. “Christ’s Holiness of Nature in Thomas Boston’s Notion of the Imago Dei and the Imago Christi.” Evangelical Theological Society (ETS) Annual Meeting, San Antonio, Texas, 2023.
  • Tse, Chun. The Marrow of Certainty: Thomas Boston’s Theology of Assurance. Göttingen, Germany: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2023.
  • Tse, Chun. “Herman Bavinck on Preaching and Preachers — A Review and Response Article”. Latreia Press, Edinburgh, UK, 2021.
  • Tse, Chun. “How Can an Adoption-Centric Understanding of Assurance Foster Sanctification?”. Evangelical Theological Society (ETS) Annual Meeting, Providence, Rhode Island, 2020.
  • Tse, Chun. “Assurance of Adoption: A New Paradigm for Assurance of Salvation”. Wipf & Stock, Oregon, USA, 2020.