Leonard Allen 

College of Bible and Ministry, Admin

Dean of the College of Bible

Biography

C. Leonard Allen serves as dean of the College of Bible and Ministry at Lipscomb University. He taught Bible, theology, ethics, and philosophy at the graduate and undergraduate level for over twenty years, serving as visiting professor at Biola University, adjunct professor at John Brown University and Fuller Theological Seminary, and professor at Abilene Christian University. He has lectured widely on college campuses and in churches over the past thirty-five years on biblical, historical, and theological themes. He directed a university press for almost a decade, where he oversaw the editing and publication of many books on Scripture, theology, church history, Christian living, and Christian higher education. He holds a PhD in History of Christian Thought from the School of Religion at the University of Iowa and is the author or co-author of 15 books. These include The Cruciform Church: Becoming a Cross-Shaped People in a Secular World; Distant Voices: Discovering a Forgotten Past for a Changing Church; In the Great Stream: Imagining Churches of Christ in the Christian Tradition, and a recent memoir, The Bookroom: Remembrance and Forgiveness (2024).