Lisa P. Stephenson is an Associate Professor of Systematic Theology in the Department of Theology.

Lisa P. Stephenson is an Associate Professor of Systematic Theology in the Department of Theology. Since coming to Lee in the fall of 2007, Stephenson has taught introductory classes in Christian theology and ethics, upper level theology classes for department majors, and graduate seminars. She has also been involved in Lee’s foundational benevolence course for every student’s 80 service hr. requirement as both a lecturer and lab instructor, and is currently the Coordinator of this program.

Her professional accomplishments include winning the Pneuma Book Award and Lee University’s Excellence in Scholarship Award in 2013, serving as a guest editor for Pneuma’s volume on feminist theology, functioning as the co-chair of SECSOR’s Women, Gender, and Religion group, and leading a semester-long study abroad trip to Cambridge with her husband.

Stephenson’s scholarly interests include theological anthropology, ecclesiology, and feminist theology. Her publications include a monograph with Brill entitled Dismantling the Dualisms for American Pentecostal Women in Ministry: A Feminist-Pneumatological Approach, various essays in other edited volumes, and articles in peer-reviewed journals such as Pneuma, Scottish Journal of Theology, Journal of Church and State, Journal of Pentecostal Theology, Religions, and Pax Pneuma.

Stephenson is originally from Georgia. She is married to Christopher Stephenson and they live in Cleveland, TN with their daughters. She is an ordained minister in the Church of God (Cleveland, TN).