Kristine A. Culp, Dean
Kris Culp has been Dean of the Disciples Divinity House since 1991. She is also Associate Professor of Theology in the Divinity School. She is the seventh dean of Disciples House and was the first woman to become chief executive of one of the theological education institutions of the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ). She led the Disciples Divinity House through its centennial anniversary in 1994 and in marking the seventy-fifth anniversary of its Chapel of the Holy Grail in 2005.
An alumna of the Disciples Divinity House and a Ph.D. graduate of the Divinity School, she previously earned the Master of Divinity degree from Princeton Theological Seminary and a Bachelor of General Studies degree from the University of Iowa. From 1985-91, she was a member of the faculty of Saint Paul School of Theology in Kansas City, Missouri.
She is editor of "The Responsibility of the Church for Society" and Other Essays by H. Richard Niebuhr (Westminster John Knox Press, 2008) and is working on a book for WJK entitled Vulnerability and Glory: A Theological Account. She has written on theology and experience, ecclesiology, feminist and womanist theologies, the use of fiction in theological thinking, and issues facing the Disciples of Christ. An avid traveler, she has also written about pilgrimage and tourism.
She has served on numerous boards, including the General Board and the Administrative Committee of the Christian Church (Disciples of Church), the former Commission on Theology, and as chair of the Council on Theological Education. She is the immediate past chair of the Board of Directors of DisciplesWorld, Inc., and a member of its executive committee. She is a former president of the Association of Disciples for Theological Discussion and was a founding member of the Forrest Moss Institute, an association of Disciples women scholars. She was a founding member of Saint Andrew Christian Church in Olathe, Kansas.
Email Dean Kris Culp or telephone her office at 773.643.4411.
