Ezigbo, Victor I.

Victor Ezigbo
College: Wycliffe College
Degrees: PhD (Edinburgh)
Email: victor.ezigbo@wycliffe.utoronto.ca
Phone: 416-946-3533
Teaching Category:
Regular Tenure Stream
Appointment Status:
Basic Degree
GCTS Full
Research Interests:
Systematic / Philosophical / Contextual Theology
Ecumenism / World Christianity / Comparative / Interfaith

Bio

Doctorate of Theology, University of Edinburgh; Masters of Theology, University of Edinburgh; Masters of Arts, Wheaton College; Bachelor of Arts, ECWA Theological Seminary in Igbaja

Rev. Dr. Victor I. Ezigbo is the College’s first Professor of World Christianity and Intercultural Ministry, a post he took up on January 1, 2025. Dr Ezigbo has also been granted full graduate status by the Toronto School of Theology which means that he will be able to supervise PhD students. 

Dr. Ezigbo comes to Wycliffe from Bethel University in St. Paul, Minnesota, where he has been Professor of Theology since 2008. After receiving his BA from ECWA Theological Seminary in Igbaja, Nigeria, he studied at Wheaton College and received his MA in 2002. In 2005, he obtained an MTh at the University of Edinburgh, and was awarded a PhD from there in 2008. In 2014, he was Research Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities at the University of Edinburgh, and in 2022, he was Visiting Research Fellow at Yale Divinity School.

His wife is a nurse and they have two children.

  • Specializations

    • World Christianity
    • Contextual Theology
    • African Christianity
    • African Theologies (Christology in particular)

    General Areas of Interest:

    • Liberation Theologies (e.g., Latin American liberation Theology, Dalit theology, and Black theology)
    • Postcolonial Discourse
    • Systematic Theology (Christology in particular)

  • Publications

    Books:

    Chapters and Articles in Books:

    • Diane B. Stinton and Victor I. Ezigbo, “Jesus of Africa,” in The New Cambridge Companion to Jesus, edited by Markus Bockmuehl (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2025), pp. 346-362.
    • Victor I. Ezigbo, “Easter as Divine Summons: A Theological Reflection.” In Science and Religion: Perspectives Across Disciplines, edited by Claudia May and Channon Visscher, 261-274 (New York: Lexington Books, 2023).
    • Victor I. Ezigbo, “Speaking about the Unspeakable: Conversing with Barth and Ejizu on Mediated Divine Action.” In Karl Barth and Comparative Theology, edited by Martha Moore-Kish and Christians Collins Winn, 211-227 (New York: Fordham University Press, 2019).
    • Victor I. Ezigbo, “African Christian or Christian Africa? Identity Relations in African Christianity.” In Sources of the Christian Self: A Cultural History of Christian Identity, edited by James M. Houston and Jens Zimmermann, 664-682 (Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 2018).
    • Victor I. Ezigbo, “Contextual Theology: God in Human Context.” In Five Views on Theological Method, edited by Steve Studebaker, 93-115 (Downers Grove, IL: IVP, 2018).
    • Victor I. Ezigbo, “Jesus as God’s Communicative and Hermeneutical Act: African Christians on the Person and Significance of Jesus Christ.” In Jesus without Borders: Christology in the Majority World, edited by Gene L. Green, Stephen T. Purdue, K.K. Yeo, 37–58 (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2014).
    • Victor I. Ezigbo, “Converting the Colonialist Christ: Toward an African Postcolonial Christology.” In Evangelical Postcolonial Conversations: Global Awakenings in Theology and Praxis, edited by Kay Higuera Smith, Jayachitra Lalitha, and L. Daniel Hawk, 88–101 (Downers Grove, IL: IVP, 2014).
    • Victor I. Ezigbo, “Religion and Divine Presence: Appropriating Christianity from within African Indigenous Religions’ Perspective.” In African Traditions in the Study of Religion in Africa, edited by Afe Adogame, Ezra Chitando and Bolaji Bateye, 187–203 (Surrey: Ashgate, 2012).
    • Victor I. Ezigbo, “Anonymous Pietists: Pietistic Consciousness in the Indigenous Gold Coast (Ghana) in the Pre–Basel Mission Era.” In The Pietist Impulse in Christianity, edited by Christian T. Collins Winn, Christopher Gerz, and G. W. Carlson, 307316 (Eugene: OR: Pickwick, 2011).
    • Victor I. Ezigbo, “African Indigenous Spirituality.” In Dictionary of Christian Spirituality, edited by Glen Scorgie, et al, 252–254 (Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan, 2011).
    • Victor I. Ezigbo, “Harris, William Wade (prophet).” In Dictionary of Christian Spirituality, edited by Glen Scorgie, et al, 252–254 (Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan, 2011).

    Articles in Academic Journals:

    • Victor I. Ezigbo, “Violent Christians, the Nigerian Public Square, and the Utility of Jesus’ Forgiveness Sayings for Tackling Religious Violence,” International Journal of Public Theology 12, no 2 (2018): 236-259.
    • Victor I. Ezigbo, “Imagining Mutual Christian Theological Identity: From Apologia to Dialogic Theologizing,” Journal of Ecumenical Studies 50, no. 3 (2015): 452–472.
    • Ezigbo, Victor. “Theology after Ebola? Human Life and Social Responsibility.” Syndicate: A New Forum for Theology 2, Issue 1 (2015): 9–17
    • Victor I. Ezigbo, “Rhetoric of God’s Empowerment in Nigerian Christianity: Its Import for Christian Identity and Social Responsibility,” Journal of Third World Studies 32, no. 1 (2015): 199-220.
    • Victor I. Ezigbo, “Theology after Ebola? Human Life and Social Responsibility,” Syndicate: A New Forum for Theology 2, Issue 1 (2015): 9–17.
    • Victor I. Ezigbo, “Rethinking the Sources of African Theology,” Journal of Theology for Southern Africa 132 (2008): 53–70.

    Articles in Non-academic Journals:

    • Victor I. Ezigbo, “Christ in You, the Hope of Glory,” Doxa Magazine (2022): 15-18.