J. Daniel Mattern

Biography

Daniel and his wife live in Dallas, TX but their passion is for the global church. Daniel has over a decade of cross-cultural ministry experience, including six years where he was able to train church leaders from all over East Africa. He received his PhD from Dallas Theological Seminary. His dissertation was on how suffering was used to shape the identity of churches within the Pauline Epistles. His research interests are the theology of suffering in the New Testament, Pauline Studies, and the use of social identity theory in New Testament studies.