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David Fitch (born April 19, 1956) is an American theologian and pastor in the Christian and Missionary Alliance (C&MA). Fitch is the Betty R Lindner Chair of Evangelical Theology at Northern Seminary in Lisle, IL,. [1]
Fitch was born in Elmhurst, Illinois to Rev. Elmer Brown Fitch and Ruth G Fitch. His father and grandfather were pastors in the Christian and Missionary Alliance. His grandfather, Elmer B Fitch Sr., was the last assistant pastor to A.B. Simpson, founder of the Christian and Missionary Alliance at Gospel Tabernacle New York City. Fitch Sr. went on to found the Alliance Gospel Tabernacle of Ottawa in Ontario, Canada. David Fitch spent many of his growing up years in Hamilton, Ontario, where his father pastored Delta Tabernacle of Christian and Missionary Alliance.
Fitch attained a Bachelor of Arts degree from Wheaton College (1977) and a Master of Divinity from Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary (1980). In 1982, he graduated with a Master of Arts in New Testament from Northern Baptist Theological Seminary and a Ph.D. in Religion and Society from Northwestern University (1997).
Fitch's theological and philosophical influences include Stanley Hauerwas, Charles Taylor, Karl Barth, Donald Dayton, Willie Jennings, Slavoj Zizek, NT Wright, Sarah Coakley, Greg Boyd, Judith Butler, James Cone, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Gordon Fee, George Lindbeck, and Leslie New.
In 2001, he was ordained to a pastor in the Christian and Missionary Alliance (C&MA) and has been one of the leaders of the Missional Church Movement in North America. [2] In 2001, he planted Life on the Vine Community of the C&MA, as a bi-vocational pastor and actively served in ministry as a pastor at Renew Church in Westmont, IL. In 2007, Fitch became the Betty R Lindner Chair of Evangelical Theology at Northern Seminary in Lisle, IL,. [3]
Fitch has in the past delivered lectures in universities such as Seminary, Rochester, NY, Bethany College Saskatoon CA, [4] Ambrose University College, 2011, Calgary, AB, Canada, Regent College, 2015, Vancouver, Canada, [5] McMaster Divinity School, 2017, Hamilton, ON,Taccoa Falls College, 2018, Taccoa Falls, GA and Azusa Pacific University, 2020, Azusa, CA. [6]