Bethlehem College and Seminary is pleased to announce Mark Dickson, Th.M. ’19, will assume the post of Assistant Professor of Philosophy and Theology in August 2026.
“I am delighted to welcome back Mark Dickson to Bethlehem College and Seminary to join our exceptional faculty,” said President Brian J. Tabb. “Mark is a gifted teacher, a promising scholar, a committed churchman, and a godly Christian husband and father. He is a distinguished graduate of our school and has excelled in multiple graduate programs at leading universities. Mark is now well-positioned to teach and mentor our students while continuing his important research on a philosophy of truth,” Tabb added.
Dickson is a graduate of Liberty University (B.A. ’13), Bethlehem Theological Seminary (M.Div. ’17, Th.M. ’19), the University of Wisconsin (M.A. ’21), and the University of Connecticut (M.A. ’24). His Bethlehem Th.M. thesis supervised by Professor Walter Schultz examined “Philosophy before the Greeks for Philosophy Today.”
He is currently a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Connecticut and is completing a dissertation on “Truth as Trustworthiness: A Contemporized Hebraic Approach as a Theory of Truth’s Nature and Virtue,” under the supervision of Professor Michael P. Lynch. He has had previous teaching experience at Bethlehem College and the University of Connecticut, and also served for a season as an interim pastor at a church in Minnesota.
“I am grateful and excited to join the faculty at Bethlehem College and Seminary,” Dickson stated. “As an alumnus who also previously taught in a visiting role, it is a joy and privilege to return and contribute to the mission of the school and community God used to shape me,” he added.
Mark is married to Shannon, and they are the parents of five children.