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Emmanuel College

Assistant Professor of Practical Theology and Spiritual Care

BA&Sc, McMaster University, 1997
MDiv, Princeton Theological Seminary, 2001
Registered psychotherapist, CRPO, 2017
PhD, University of St. Michael’s College, 2019

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Teaching & Research Interests

Glenn McCullough joined the faculty of Emmanuel College in 2021, and he is currently serving in a joint appointment with Knox College. An ordained minister in the Presbyterian Church in Canada and a practicing psychotherapist, Glenn is the author of Jacob Boehme and the Spiritual Roots of Psychotherapy: Dreams, Ecstasy, and Wisdom (Brill, 2025). His research and teaching explore spiritual care and spiritually integrated psychotherapy from an interdisciplinary perspective. Specific topics of interest include: the historical, philosophical, and spiritual underpinnings of various psychotherapeutic modalities; sleep, dreams, and dream interpretation in various cultural and religious contexts; developmental psychology in spiritual perspective; biblical, theological, and interfaith traditions of Sophia; Christian and comparative mysticism; and theory and method in theology and religious studies.

Selected Publications

  • 2025: Jacob Boehme and the Spiritual Roots of Psychotherapy: Dreams, Ecstasy and Wisdom. Studies in Theology and Religion Vol. 35. Leiden: Brill.
  • 2025: “The Inner Mission: Trauma, Extraversion, and Missiology.” In Do No Harm: A Festschrift in Honor of Charles Fensham. Edited by Ernest van Eck and George Hunsberger. Pickwick Publications. 40 pages.
  • 2024: With Henry Shiu. “Dreaming Buddha: Dream Interpretation in Buddhism and Contemporary Psychotherapy.” Canadian Journal of Buddhist Studies 19: 70-111.
  • 2023: “Northrop Frye, C.G. Jung, and the Grand Scheme of Things: Mapping the Psycho-Mythical Cosmos.” The Journal of Religion 103(2): 145-186.
  • 2023: “Anton Boisen Reconsidered: Psychiatric Survivor and Mad Prophet.” Journal of Religion and Health 62(1): 228-254.
  • 2002: “Heidegger, Augustine, and Poiēsis: Renewing the Technological Mind.” Theology Today 59(1): 21-38.

Currently Teaching:

  • EMP 2535: Human Growth and Development Across the Lifespan
  • KNP 1512: Foundations in Counselling and Spiritual Care Practice
  • EMP 3538: Dreams: Psychospiritual Therapy and the Language of the Soul
  • KNP 3521: Psychotherapeutic Theories for Spiritual Care and Counselling