Parush Parushev

Dr. Parush Parushev is Director of Applied Theology at the International Baptist Theological Seminary, Prague, since August 2000, and an ordained Baptist minister who has served Bulgarian, American and Russian Baptist churches in different pastoral and teaching ministries.

Dr. Parushev was born in Sofia, Bulgaria, and grew up in an atheistic family that had strong affinities with Communist ideals and practice. His ideological beliefs were challenged by the witness of believers’ communities in Poland, the Netherlands and Bulgaria. He and his wife Nina committed their lives to Christ in the Baptist Church in Sofia in 1990.

Parush has more than twenty years of teaching and scientific research experience that includes key academic positions with the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences and Sofia University. He is a member of several national and international academic societies and a recipient of national and international grants and awards. The results of his academic work have been published in six monographs, more then one hundred scientific publications and eighteen patents. He has done an extensive editorial work as well. He has taught science at all levels. As a permanent and visiting faculty professional he did academic work with various Bulgarian and foreign universities. He has mentored Doctoral and Master’s dissertations.

Parush has been involved in the re-establishing of the Baptist higher theological education in Bulgaria, suspended after 1944. In 1991 the Baptist Union appointed him bi-vocationally as a director of the Bulgarian Baptist Theological Institute (BBTI). After short term theological training in Sofia and at IBTS, Ruschlikon, Nina and Parush followed God’s call into full-time service of God’s people. Parush earned an M.Div. from the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, Kentucky and later a Ph.D. from Fuller Theological Seminary, Pasadena, California. In 1996 Parush was re-installed as a faculty member of the BBTI. He is an adjunct professor of theology and biblical studies at California Christian College in Fresno, California. He has taught different undergraduate courses in Christian Ethics, Applied Theology and Biblical Studies and has published theological works.

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