Maxine Hancock
Professor Emerita, Interdisciplinary Studies and Spiritual Theology
BEd, MA, PhD (University of Alberta); DHum (Honorary, Trinity Western University)
Maxine Hancock was Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies and Spiritual Theology at Regent College from 1998 to 2007, after which time she became Professor Emerita of Interdisciplinary Studies and Spiritual Theology.
Dr. Hancock is an author, speaker, and broadcaster. Her many books and articles have gained a wide audience and won awards from the Canada Council, the Canadian Church Press, and the Evangelical Press Association (US). Her publications include academic work on seventeenth-century narrative prose, as well as a collection of short essays, Gold from the Fire: Postcards from a Prairie Pilgrimage. Some of her earlier publications combine life experience and theological reflection, including Living on Less and Liking It More; Re-evaluating Your Commitments; and Love Knows No Difference: Learning to Give and Receive. She has been honoured with the Word Guild’s Leslie K. Tarr Award (1990) for her contribution to Christian writing in Canada, and the Leading Women’s Award in Communications and Media (2004) for her leadership in communicating the Christian faith in Canada.
Dr. Hancock is an author, speaker, and broadcaster. Her many books and articles have gained a wide audience and won awards from the Canada Council, the Canadian Church Press, and the Evangelical Press Association (US). Her publications include academic work on seventeenth-century narrative prose, as well as a collection of short essays, Gold from the Fire: Postcards from a Prairie Pilgrimage. Some of her earlier publications combine life experience and theological reflection, including Living on Less and Liking It More; Re-evaluating Your Commitments; and Love Knows No Difference: Learning to Give and Receive. She has been honoured with the Word Guild’s Leslie K. Tarr Award (1990) for her contribution to Christian writing in Canada, and the Leading Women’s Award in Communications and Media (2004) for her leadership in communicating the Christian faith in Canada.
Areas of expertise
Late Renaissance Non-Dramatic LiteratureSeventeenth-Century Devotional Poetry
Spiritual Pilgrimage
Media & Publications
- Landscape and Community – Article
- Maxine Hancock on the Word Guild Awards – Blog
- Gold from the Fire: Postcards from a Prairie Pilgrimage – Book Publication
- Love Knows No Difference: Learning to Give and Receive – Book Publication
- Re-evaluating Your Commitments – Book Publication
- Living on Less and Liking it More – Book Publication