Registrar
Lecturer in Church History & Historical Theology

Email: laipw@bgst.edu.sg

Tel: 6227-6815 ext 207

B Bus (Hons) (Nanyang Technological University)
Cert in Teaching (University of Sheffield)
Grad Dip CS (Biblical Graduate School of Theology)
MCS, MTh (Regent College, Vancouver)
PhD (University of Durham)

Dr. Lai Pak Wah just completed his PhD with Durham University, where he specialized in Christianity in Late Antiquity, that is, the history, theology and spirituality of the 2nd - 5th century church fathers (also known as Patristic Studies). Apart from Patristic Studies, Pak Wah is also interested in the relationship between theology and other fields of studies, such as Science, Technology and Chinese Culture. These themes are being explored in a BGST Church Based Lay Training Course that he also offers, Evangelism in a Multi-Cultural Context. Prior to his studies at Durham, Pak Wah studied for the Dip CS at BGST, before completing his MCS and Th.M (Theology) at Regent College. Previously, Pak Wah was a full-time lecturer at the School of Business, Singapore Polytechnic, where he taught supply chain management and other business courses to both full and part time diploma students, and engaged in investment promotion work with the Singapore Economic Development Board.

Thesis

• ‘St John Chrysostom's Theology of Christian Transformation.’ (Th.M., Regent College, 2007. Supervisor: Prof. Hans Boersma).
• John Chrysostom and the Hermeneutics of Exemplar Portraits (Ph.D, Durham University, 2011.  Supervisors: Profs. Andrew Louth and Carol Harrison)

Publications

• "John Calvin's Use of the Church Fathers." CRUX 43 (2007): 14-22.
• “The Monk as Saint and Exemplar in John Chrysostom’s Writings.” In Studies in Church History.  Vol. 47.  To be published in 2011.

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| Chapel Message by Dr Lai on Wed, 29 Sep 2010 (Listen here) |
| Christian Spirituality In A Technological Age on Wed, 16 Dec 2010 (Listen here) |