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Rev.
Paul de Vries, Ph.D.
 Paul
de Vries, PhD, is the founder and president of
New York Divinity School, the evangelical
seminary based in New York City.
The NYDS motto is to be “Christ-centered,
Bible-based, Spirit-led,” and it offers
leadership and ministry training for pastors and
lay people.
Dr. de Vries is also on the governing
Board of the National Association of
Evangelicals, representing more than 40 million
evangelical Americans.
Dr.
de Vries earned the Ph.D. (in philosophy, 1978)
from the University of Virginia and has served
25 years in higher education administration, designing
and leading innovative programs to weave
enduring Biblical truth into people’s
learning, living, loving and leading.
Dr.
de Vries founded the Center for Applied
Christian Ethics at Wheaton College (Illinois)
where he was also an associate dean and tenured
professor.
He also founded the Office of Volunteer
Community Service at the University of Virginia
and an affordable housing network in
Illinois—all of which remain thriving
programs.
For
six years, he held the endowed Chair in
Marketplace Ethics at the King’s College (New
York), and after 9/11 he was appointed director
of the Counseling and Training Taskforce for
NetworkNYC, a cluster of over 100 evangelical
Churches and ministries.
In February 2006 he was one of the
original signers of
Climate Change: An Evangelical Call to Action,
and for this he was featured on NBC, Fox News,
Reuters, Yahoo, and Air America.
Dr. de Vries is listed and honored in Madison
Who’s Who and in Swarthmore
Who’s Who.
Dr.
de Vries is the lead author of three books, The
Taming of the Shrewd (1992, Thomas Nelson) Ethics
Applied (1999, Simon and Schuster) and Business
Ethics Applied (2000, Pierson Education),
and the author of dozens of published articles.
A
motto of NYDS:
“We
offer the Master’s leadership and ministry
training.”
Bible-based,
Christ-centered and Spirit-led
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