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Resume - Lawrence S. Kuenning

Objective

Interested in part-time teaching work at the college level in religious studies, computer programming, or Koine Greek, located in the Philadelphia area.

Education

Ph.D.

Westminster Theological Seminary (Philadelphia, PA), 2000, in Historical and Theological Studies. Dissertation: "The Bunyan-Burrough Debate of 1656-57 Analyzed Using a Computer Hypertext." (The dissertation abstract, and the hypertext created for the dissertation research, are online at this site.)

M.A.R.

Westminster Theological Seminary (Philadelphia, PA), 1990, in Theological Studies.

B.A.

Manchester College (North Manchester, IN), 1969; double major in Mathematics and Philosophy with a minor in Peace Studies.

Languages

Natural languages:

Greek (Koine/Biblical), Hebrew (Biblical), Latin, German: read fluently. Aramaic (Biblical), French: read at beginning level.

Computer languages:

C, C++, Java, HTML, Pascal, UNIX shell scripting, etc.

Publications

• "'Miserable Comforters': Their Effect on Early Quaker Thought and Experience." Quaker Religious Thought no. 76, Oct. 1992, 45-59. Also online at this site.
• See also various other writings online at this site.

Employment History

Teaching experience:

• Taught Java programming as adjunct professor at Philadelphia University of the Sciences, spring semester 2001 and spring semester 2002.
• Taught C++ (1 module, 4 times) and C/Unix (2 modules, once) at Computer Learning Center, (Plymouth Meeting, PA), April to November 1997 and June 1998 (2 months full time, 7 months part time). Left to devote more time to dissertation research.
• Individual tutoring in New Testament Greek for Westminster Seminary students.

Self-employment:

• Wrote Windows-based file conversion utilities in C++ for Westminster Seminary Campus Bookstore, 1993-2000.
• Participated in a group project to write a Hebrew and Greek typing add-on in C for Windows word processors (1993-1995).
• Other self-employment includes appliance repair (1979-1983) and typing student term papers (1974 intermittently to present).

Not-for-pay work:

• Created (1997) and maintain a mailing list management program (similar to listserv or majordomo) for several personally-hosted e-mail discussion groups. Topics include Quaker history and the reprinting of out-of-print Quaker texts or converting them to electronic format.
• Created (2000) and maintain Quaker Heritage Press website. My work for this site includes HTML versions of historic Quaker texts, and a CGI-based file management utility (not publicly accessible) which enables a colleague to maintain a sub-site without having the main site's FTP password.

References

Available on request.