Dr. Allison came to Southern in 2003 from Western Seminary in Portland, Oregon, where he had taught theology and church history for nine years. He has also served as adjunct faculty at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School, Deerfield, IL; Elgin Community College, Elgin, IL; Judson College, Elgin, IL; Institute of Biblical Studies, Western Europe and the United States; and the Resurgence Training Center (Mars Hill Church/Acts 29).

Dr. Allison has 18 years of ministry experience as a staff member of Campus Crusade, where he worked in campus ministry as well as a missionary to Italy and Switzerland. He also co-pastored a church in Lugano, Switzerland.

He is author of Getting Deep: Understand What You Believe About God and Why; Jesusology: Understand What You Believe About Jesus and Why; A Theology for Christian Education (with James Estep and Michael Anthony); “The Bible in Christianity: Roman Catholicism,” in the ESV Study Bible; and he has five articles in The Evangelical Dictionary of World Missions. He is currently the book review editor for theological, historical, and philosophical studies, Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society, a position in which he has served for over ten years.

Dr. Allison is a member of the Evangelical Theological Society in which he serves as secretary and on the editorial committee and regularly presents papers at its national meetings.