Rev. Dr. Melvin H. Shoemaker (MDiv, MPhil, DMin) was professor of New Testament biblical literature and theology in the School of Theology at Azusa Pacific University, Azusa, California, from 1986 ...view moreRev. Dr. Melvin H. Shoemaker (MDiv, MPhil, DMin) was professor of New Testament biblical literature and theology in the School of Theology at Azusa Pacific University, Azusa, California, from 1986 to 2005. Previously, he was professor of religion at Oklahoma Wesleyan University, Bartlesville, Oklahoma, and Indiana Wesleyan University, Marion, Indiana. He is an ordained minister in the Wesleyan Church and served as a parish minister for twenty years. He is the author of The Theology of the Four Gospels (WestBow Press, 2011) and Good News for Today: A Lenten Devotional (WestBow Press, 2013) and is a contributor to numerous anthologies, dictionaries, and scholarly journals in biblical literature and theology. Dr. Shoemaker retired in 2005 and now resides in Portland, Oregon.view less