Peter Nyende (PhD, University of Edinburgh) is an Associate Professor in Biblical Studies at the School of Divinity of Uganda Christian University. He is also a priest and a Canon in the Anglican Church and a commissioned evangelist with the Church Army Society of Africa. His area of interest in scholarship is Biblical theology. He is widely published and has a number of articles in leading biblical journals, with the most recent, by Langham Publishing titled “The Restoration of God’s Dwelling and Kingdom” ( a 300-page volume). The other recent biblical theology article by Prof. Nyende is titled “YHWH, His Son, and His Spirit: A Biblical Theology of God.”, published in 2020 in the African Journal of Evangelical Theology, Vol 39.1: 1-20.
Nyende was born just over fifty years ago in Kenya which is where he grew up and was educated before moving to the UK for postgraduate studies. He is married to Josephine, and together they have two children – Brodie and Arabel.
Nyende was ordained as an Anglican priest in the Anglican Church of Kenya in 1998 and collated a Canon of St. Luke’s Cathedral of Butere Diocese of the Anglican Church of Kenya in 2013.
Central to my pedagogy are students. What they need to learn, know, and achieve, and how they are to do so, is what informs and drives my teaching. For this reason, too, my classes are characterized by illustrations, discussions, and applications of class content that are drawn from the students’ contexts and experiences.
As for research, it is clear to me that research in the context of theological education must be based on prominent issues facing churches in Africa. In this way, theological research is not simply about career advancement and scholarly prestige, but one that helps pastors in African churches face their challenges and faithfully fulfil their ministries. Moreover, theological educators who conduct such theological research build expertise that enables them to deliver quality and highly relevant theological studies to the students they teach.
My research interests currently lie in whole-readings of the Bible, i.e., biblical theology, focussed on critical topics and issues for the Churches in Africa. I have already written and published a couple of biblical theology articles. But I have also embarked on a rigorous 4 volume biblical theology research project thus: