Parush R Parushev is native of Sofia, Bulgaria. He is an ordained Baptist minister. He is an Honorary Senior Research Fellow and Doctoral supervisor in Theology at the International Baptist Theological Study Centre and Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. He supervises doctoral students at LST and OCMS, UK, and at the Acadia Divinity College, Canada. He is also an adjunct senior lecturer of the Faculty of Theology, Sofia University. He is the Associated Director for Academic Development of the Scholars Programme of the Langham Partners. Parush teaches theology, philosophy and ethics. As a scientist and theologian, he has held a number of full-time academic positions and has been a visiting and adjunct professor at several universities and colleges in Europe and the US.     

Parush’s research interests and supervision work are in the broad field of applied theology, including theological education, Christian ethics, convictional theology and character formation, mission as witness and ecumenical theology. He is an author, co-author and editor of more than twenty books and has published a good number of academic works in science and theology. 

• “Protestantism in Eastern Europe to the Present Day” (with Toivo Pilli). In Alister E. McGrath and Darren C. Marks, eds., The Blackwell’s Companion to Protestantism. Oxford: Blackwell Publishing Ltd., 2004, 155-60 
• Ethical Thinking at the Crossroads of European Reasoning. Eds. Parush R. Parushev, Ovidiu Creangă, Brian Brock. In IBTS Occasional Publications Series. Volume 7. Prague: IBTS Publ. 2007 
• Christianity in Europe: The way we are now. In the Crowther Centre Monographs Series. Vol. 9. Oxford: Church Missionary Society, 2009 
• “Baptistic Convictional Hermeneutics”. In Helen Dare and Simon Woodman, eds., The Plainly Revealed Word of God? Baptist Hermeneutics in Theory and Practice. Macon: Mercer University Press, 2011, 172-190 
• “Convictional Perspectivism: A Constructive Proposal for a Theological Response to Postmodern Conditions”. In John Currie and Cathy Ross, eds., Mission in Context: Explorations inspired by Andrew Kirk. Farnham: Ashgate, 2012, 111-124 
• Faces of Hatred: Contemporary Antisemitism in its Historical Context (with Zbyněk Tarant et al.). Plzeň, CZ: Západočeská univerzita v Plzní Czech Republic, 2012 
• “Theological Education and the Academia: A Convictional Theological Perspective on Evangelical Learning”. In Ábrahám Kovács and Zoltán Schwáb (eds.), In Academia for the Church: Eastern and Central European Theological Perspectives Carlisle: Langham Monographs, 2014, 135-151 
• The Ways of Orthodox Theology in the West in the Twentieth Century (with Ivana Noble, Kateřina Bauerová, Tim Noble). Foreword by Prof. John Behr. Yonkers: St Vladimir’s Seminary Press, 2015 
• Wrestling with the Mind of the Fathers in (Post-)modern Orthodox Theology (with Ivana Noble, Kateřina Bauerová, Tim Noble). Introduction, Prof. John Behr.. Crestwood: St Vladimir’s Seminary Press, 2015  
• “Peacemaking as content and process: Reflections on the How? and What? of Pacem in Terris” (with Kalina Peycheva). In Kiril P. Kartaloff, ed., The Quest for Peace Celebrating Pacem in Terris and its Legacy, Sixty Years Later, Series CULTURA Studium, vol. 350: Sezione Pontificia. Roma: Studium Edizioni, 2024, pp. 41-58.