Kevin Reimer

Our 6th known Northgate Alum with a PhD (others being Amato, Scholz, Rascher, Mock, and Deutscher)...

A cognitive developmental psychologist, Kevin Scott Reimer serves as an associate professor of psychology at Azusa Pacific University and a research professor of cognitive developmental psychology in the Graduate School of Psychology at Fuller Theological Seminary. He is an ordained minister in the Presbyterian Church (USA) and currently acts as a parish associate at the Sierra Vista Presbyterian Church in Oakhurst, California. Dr. Reimer was graduated from the University of California at Davis, earned a M.Div. at Regent College in Vancouver, Canada, and took a Ph.D. in human development/family studies with highest honors in Fuller’s Graduate School of Psychology in 2001. He completed a post doctoral fellowship at the University of British Columbia during which he studied the moral personality—looking especially at the altruism of L’Arche assistants working with the developmentally disabled, and he also has held a John Templeton Oxford Seminars on Science and Christianity award for work at Oxford University where he conducted research on virtue in moral functioning with an emphasis on social cognition. After beginning his teaching career as an assistant professor of marriage and family studies at the Mennonite Brethren Biblical Seminary in Fresno, California, Dr. Reimer joined the Fuller psychology faculty in 2003 and was appointed to his current position at Azusa Pacific the next year. He has received research support from the United States Department of Justice, the Metanexus Institute as administrator of a grant from the John Templeton Foundation, the Fetzer Institute, the Institute for Research on Unlimited Love, and Azusa Pacific University. Guest editor of a special issue of the Journal of Psychology and Christianity, he has contributed a number of articles to academic journals and chapters to volumes of collected works. His first book (with Jack Balswick and Pamela King), The Reciprocating Self: Human Development in a Theological Perspective, was published by Intervarsity Press in 2005. He is currently working on a new book, entitled A Peaceable Therapeutic, for Brazos Press, as well as one on altruistic love in L’Arche communities.