Dr. Chuck Pitts, Houston Graduate School of Theology
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Work Information
Job Title
Associate Professor of Old Testament
Key responsibilities
My primary responsibility is to prepare & teach classes
in the fields of Old Testament and Biblical Backgrounds. The latter includes
the history, archeology, customs, and religion of Palestine and the Ancient
Near East.
Department or workgroup
Biblical Studies, Houston
Graduate School of Theology
Favorite Links
Ancient Near East,
Chicago University
Contact Information
E-mail address
Web address
Office phone
713-942-9505
fax 713-942-9506
Current & Recent Projects
OT
612 Old Testament Historical Books
OT 663
Minor Prophets of the Old Testament
OT 622 Old Testament Wisdom
Literature
OT 501 Old
Testament Introduction
Biographical Information
My hometown is Pasadena, Texas, where I grew up, graduated from Sam Rayburn High School, and was married to Beth McDonald in 1982. We made our home in west Houston until I finished college.
My education includes a BA from Houston Baptist University and MDiv and ThD degrees from New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary, the latter completed in 1989. My major areas of study were Old Testament and Biblical Archaeology/Backgrounds. During ThD studies, I also served as Academic Fellow for Dr. R. Dennis Cole, Professor of Biblical Archaeology. My dissertation was entitled A Critical Analysis and Evaluation of Gerhard von Rad’s “Short Historical Creed.” Both of my children were born in New Orleans.
In August 1989, we moved to Warroad, Minnesota, to start a church. Warroad is 6 miles from Canada in northwest Minnesota. We worked there for 6 years, finding the church planting work challenging and stimulating. In 1995 we moved to Duluth, where we worked with Superior Baptist Chapel in a bi-vocational assistant role. Beth received her teaching degree from University of Wisconsin-Superior in 1998.
After nine years in Minnesota, working with church planting
in Minnesota and Wisconsin, I returned to my
hometown of Houston with Beth and our two children (family
pictures). I began teaching at Houston Graduate School of Theology in
Summer, 1999. I began as full-time faculty in Fall, 1999. My current local
church ministry role is as the leader of the worship team at Ranch Community Fellowship. Our church is a
growing contemporary church in the Northwest Harris County area. Beth teaches
at a Cy-Fair ISD school in NW Houston.
Personal Interests
Playing guitar
Study and teaching
Last revised: August 14, 2001