Dr. Ralph R. Covell
Dr. Ralph Covell serves as senior professor
of world Christianity. He joined the faculty in 1966 as professor of missions
and assumed the role of dean in 1979. He retired from Denver Seminary in 1990.
Dr. Covell received a Ph.D. from the
He served as a missionary with CBFMS (now World Venture) in China and Taiwan for twenty years. He translated the New Testament into the language of the Sediq, a Malayo-Polynesian people living in the mountains of Taiwan, and continues to be an advisor on the nearly completed translation of the Old Testament. He also acted as translation consultant for the Bible Societies of Taiwan. He is the coauthor of An Extension Seminary Primer with Peter Wagner and has written W.A.P. Martin, Pioneer of Progress in China; Confucius, the Buddha, and Christ; A History of the Gospel in China; Mission Impossible: The Unreached Nosu on China’s Frontier; The Liberating Gospel in China: The Christian Faith Among China’s Minority Peoples; and Pentecost of the Hills in Taiwan: The Christian Faith among the Original Inhabitants.
Books Currently in Print
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Confucius, the Buddha, and Christ: A History of the Gospel in Chinese, WIPF & Stock, 2004. |
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Mission Impossible: The Unreached Nosu on China's Frontier, Hope, 1993.
ISBN: 0932727352 |
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Pentecost of the Hills in Taiwan: The Christian Faith among the Original Inhabitants, Hope, 1997. |
