Dr. Jimmy Chan Wai-ming

Dr. Jimmy Chan Wai-ming

Assistant Professor of Theology (Overseas)

Executive Director, The Alliance Bible Seminary Centre of Canada

 

  • B.A.Sc. (Chemical Engineering-Chemistry Honours), University of British Columbia, Canada, 1995
  • B.Sc. (Computer Science, Minor in Commerce), University of British Columbia, Canada, 1999
  • B.A. (Psychology), University of British Columbia, Canada, 1999
  • M.Sc. (Physical Chemistry), University of Toronto, Canada, 1997
  • M.Div. (Theological Studies), Alliance Bible Seminary, Hong Kong, 2011
  • Th.M., Alliance Bible Seminary, Hong Kong, 2014
  • M.Ed. (Field: Online Teaching and Learning), University of Toronto, Canada, 2025
  • Ph.D. (Theological Studies), University of Toronto, Canada, 2023
  • Minister, C&MA Hebron Church, Hong Kong, 2011-2016
  • Pastor, Richmond Hill Christian Community Church, Toronto, Canada, 2016-2021
  • Assistant Professor of Theology, Carey Theological College, 2021-2024
  • Alliance Bible Seminary, 2024-present


 

Called to full-time ministry during his university and career years, Dr. Jimmy Chan studied in Alliance Bible Seminary for preparation as a pastor. He has been ministered young and career adults for many years.  He was the recipient of the 2021 Congress Graduate Merit Award granted by The Canadian Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences and has presented papers at various international conferences. As a pastor-theologian, Dr. Chan is interested in exploring how patristics (or early Christianity), especially Augustinian theology, relate to contemporary biblical hermeneutics and theological applications. 

Research areas:
Theology of Emotions and Happiness, Theological Anthropology, Trinitarian theology, Ecclesiology, Biblical Theology, Historical Theology, Apologetics, and Chrisitan Ethics.


email: jimmywmc@abs.edu

 

Books

  1. Chan, Jimmy. Living a Happy Life in a Troubled World? A Critical Exploration of Augustine’s Christian Reception of Stoic Ethics in De civitate Dei . Studia Patristica Supplements. Vol. 14(?). Leuven: Peeters, 2024. (Forthcoming, 2026)

 

Book Chapters 

  1. Chan, Jimmy. “Seeing God Face to Face: Augustine’s Vision of the Spiritual Body in De Civitate Dei 22, 29..” In  I Volti Di Dio Nel Cristianesimo Antico. SECC. I-IX. XLIX Incontro di Studiosi dell’Antichità Cristiana (Roma, 11-13 maggio 2023), edited by Massimiliano Ghilardi, 367-376. Rome: Pontificium Instituttum Patristicum Augustinianum, 2024.     
  2. Chan, Jimmy. “Living with Happiness in a Troubled World? A Critical Exploration of Augustine’s Reception of Stoic Emotions in De civitate Dei.” In Studia Patristica Vol. CXVIII: Papers presented at the Eighteenth International Conference on Patristic Studies held in Oxford 2019. Vol. 15: Augustine and His Writings, ed. Markus Vinzent, 181–202. Leuven: Peeters, 2021. 
  3. Chan, Jimmy. “The Restoration Word Group in De civitate Dei, Books XI-XXII: A Study of an Important Backbone of Augustine’s Theology of History.” In Studia Patristica XCVIII: Papers presented at the Seventeenth International Conference on Patristic Studies held in Oxford 2015. Vol. 24: St Augustine and his Opponents, ed. Markius Vinzent, 561–568. Leuven: Peeters, 2017. 

 

Journal Articles

  1. Chan, Jimmy. “‘Dust As We Are’: Augustine’s Ethopoetic Call through Creation in the Confessions.” Special Issue in Studia Patristica . Papers presented at the IV International Patristic Conference held in Lublin 2022. Christians of the Patristic Period in Relation to Nature, ed. Markus Vinzent, October 18–20, 2022. Leuven: Peeters, 2024. 
  2. Chan, Jimmy. “The Therapeutic Gospel for the Traumatic World. Stigmata Domini Iesu Christi in Corpore as the Crown of Victory.” Vox Patrum 90 (2024), 107-120. https://doi.org/10.31743/vp.16899. 
  3. Chan, Jimmy. “Bienestar emocional en Agustín y el estoicismo.” Augustinus: revista trimestral publicada por los Padres Agustinos Recoletos 63, no. 250-251 (2018): 299–315. 
  4. Chan, Jimmy; Dupont, Anthony. “Restauratio in De ciuitate Dei. The Role of the Restoration Motif in Understanding Augustine’s Theology of History.” La Ciudad de Dios. Revista Agustiniana 229/1 (2016): 55–78. 
  5. Routkevitch, Dmitri; Chan, Jimmy; Xu, J. M., Moskovits Martin, “Electrochem. Porous Anodic Alumina Templates for Advanced Nanofabrication”, Electrochem. Soc. Proc. Ser. 1997, PV 97-7, 350. 
  6. Routkevitch, Dmitri; Chan, Jimmy; Davydov, Dmitri, Avrutsky, Ivan, Xu, J. M., Yacaman, M. J., Moskovits, Martin. “Electrochemical Fabrication of the Nano-Wire Arrays: Template, Materials and Applications.” MRS Proceedings. 1996, 451.

 

Academic Conference Presentations

  1. “Christ the Humble Teacher: Augustine’s Exegesis of Matthew 11:28–30 and the Subversion of Roman Paideia in North Africa,” Annual Meeting of Society of Biblical Literature (SBL), Boston, MA, November 22, 2025.
  2. “Augustine’s Reception of Nicene Christology: The Exegesis of John 5:19–30 in Anti-Arian Polemics,” Annual Meeting of Society of Biblical Literature (SBL), Boston, MA, November 22, 2025.
  3. “Interior Intimo Meo: The Crisis of the Self in the Confessions X and the Healing of the Imago Dei through Augustine’s Trinitarian Mysticism in Book X of De Trinitate,” The 50th Patristic, Medieval, and Renaissance (PMR) Conference, Villanova University, PA, October 24, 2025.
  4. “’The Father and I Are One (Jn 10:30)’ One What? A Critical Evaluation of Augustine’s Defense of Homoousion in His Correspondence with Pascentius,” Nicaea at 1700: The First Council and the "Way Together", Sacred Heart Major Seminary, Detroit, October 3, 2025.
  5. “Prompting Augustine: Exploring the Benefits and Limits of Digital Patristics through Chat GPT in Understanding the Confessions”, Annual Meeting of the Canadian Society of Patristic Studies (CSPS), Jun 3, 2025.
  6. “Contextual and Comparative Reading on Augustine: Three Sermons on the Holy Maccabean Martyrs (300, 301, 301A): What was at Stake?” Annual Meeting of the North American Patristics Society (NAPS), Chicago, IL, May 24, 2025.
  7. “Augustine’s Confessions and the Digital Self: Disordered Loves and Algorithmic Identity,” Christian Formation amid Emerging Technologies Symposium, McMaster Divinity College, Hamilton, ON, May 8, 2025.
  8. “How Many of Jesus’ Disciples Are Good, and How Many Are Bad? Augustine’s Rhetorical Use of the Twelve,” Annual Meeting of Society of Biblical Literature (SBL), San Diego, CA, November 23, 2024.
  9. “Dashing Little Ones of Babylon against the Rock? Augustine’s Christological-Ecclesial Interpretation of the Horrifying Verses of Psalm 137:8–9,” in “History of Biblical Interpretation” panel of the Institute for Biblical Research (IBR) in the Annual Meeting of Society of Biblical Literature (SBL), San Diego, CA, November 23, 2024.
  10. “Church Unity: Bottom-Up (Augustine) and Top-Down Interpretations (Calvin) of 1 Cor 10:16-17,” Annual Meeting of the Evangelical Theological Society (ETS), San Diego, CA, November 20, 2024. 

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