Angela Dienhart Hancock

Assistant Professor of Homiletics and Worship
Year Started at PTS: 2012

Contact Info

ahancock@pts.edu
412-924-1451

Education

• Ph.D., Princeton Theological Seminary / Homiletics, 2011
• M.Div., Princeton Theological Seminary, 1996 
• B.M., Indiana University, Bloomington / Music, 1988

Bio

The Rev. Dr. Angela Dienhart Hancock serves as assistant professor of homiletics and worship. Before coming to Pittsburgh Seminary, Hancock taught at Princeton Theological Seminary, The Lutheran Theological Seminary at Philadelphia, and the Lutheran Seminary at Gettysburg. She is an ordained Minister of Word and Sacrament in the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) and has served as pastor to churches in Pennsylvania, Kentucky, and Tennessee. Hancock earned her bachelor’s in music from Indiana University, Bloomington and M.Div. and Ph.D. from Princeton Theological Seminary, where she won prizes in preaching and church music. Her dissertation, to be published by Eerdmans, is a contextual interpretation of Swiss theologian Karl Barth’s “emergency” venture into the field of practical theology at the University of Bonn in the early 1930s, based on unpublished archival material. Hancock’s next project extends her work on Karl Barth and preaching to the North American context, tentatively titled, “Preaching in Tongues: Postliberalism and the Rhetoric of the North American Pulpit.” Her scholarly interests include systematic theology, homiletics, liturgical theology, rhetoric, performance theory, history, and philosophical hermeneutics. Hancock continues to preach, teach, and lead worship in a variety of ecclesiastical settings. She is married to PC (USA) pastor Trent Hancock, and is mother of two.

Church Associations

Ordination: PC(USA), 1996 as Minister of Word and Sacrament

Professional Competencies

Areas of Expertise

• Systematic Theology
• Homiletics
• Liturgical Theology
• Rhetoric
• Performance Theory
• History
• Philosophical Hermeneutics 

Awards/Fellowships/Distinctions

• 2007: The Samuel Robinson Prize, Princeton Theological Seminary
• 2003-2007: Doctoral Fellowship, Princeton Theological Seminary
• 1998: First Place, the Pulpit Digest Preaching Awards
• 1996: The Mary Long Greir-Hugh Davies Prize in Preaching, Princeton Theological Seminary
• 1996: The David Allan Weadon Prize in Sacred Music, Princeton Theological Seminary

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