About Dr. Luke

Thomas Luke, Ph.D., is an American transformational theology scholar, theologian, researcher, professor of transformational theology emeritus (2003-2023), Nobel Peace Prize Nominee 2025, award-winning Christian academic author, anti-child sex trafficking activist, certified spiritual integration counselor, certified crisis response and trauma counselor, ordained Christian crisis response chaplain, talk show host, TV producer, and founding father of transformational theology. Wikitia listed Thomas Luke, Ph.D., as their Top 30 Influential Christian Scholars in 2023 and  World’s Top 30 Education Professionals for 2023

Biography

Transformational Theology is a profound counseling system his mentors taught him; spiritual integration counseling, also known as “soul surgery,” is a central tenet of transformational theology that facilitates recovery from and integration of traumatic experiences. Luke has dedicated his career to serving survivors affected by trauma as an ordained Christian crisis response chaplain. As an advocate for the abolition of human sex trafficking, he is ardently committed to defending the rights of women and children.[1]

Professor Thomas Luke has 20 years of combined research on Cambodia’s child sex trafficking epidemic. His research includes the spiritual approach to integrating survivors of sexual exploitation diagnosed with dissociative identity disorder; he wrote about this approach in his Ph.D. dissertation textbook, Transformational Theology, which earned him seven distinguished Christian textbook awards. Luke was granted three additional awards for making The President’s Honor Roll for maintaining a 4.0 GPA and graduated valedictorian of his 2023 class with a summa cum laude distinction at Chaplains College School of Graduate Studies.

Experience
Education

Experience

Professor of Transformational Theology Emeritus
(2003-2023)

The textbook, Transformational Theology, was inspired by the orphans of Siem Reap, whom the author encountered during a journey from Thailand to Cambodia in 2003. When Reverend Dr. Thomas Luke witnessed the poverty, hunger, and lack of protection of these children exploited through human sex trafficking, it left a lasting impact on him, prompting him to dedicate twenty years to researching and addressing healing for the most severely traumatized of them.

Asking Jesus how he could help these unprotected and sexually exploited orphans of Siem Reap, Rev. Dr. Luke responded by attending graduate school and writing textbooks about how to restore and integrate the most severe cases of childhood sexual trauma. Professor Luke wrote the first edition of The Least of These as a capstone project for his MA in Theological Studies. The second edition of The Least of These, published in 2024, was updated with Dr. Luke’s most current credentials and ministry contact information and includes illustrations and graphics not published in the 2020 text-only edition. Dr. Luke also added artwork and letters sent by the children to the preface. The Least of These is often cited by academics earning either a master’s or doctorate that requires a written capstone research paper, thesis, or dissertation for graduation.

Dr. Luke’s next textbook, Transformational Theology, was originally written as an extensive dissertation for Professor Thomas Luke’s PhD in transformational theology. Transformational Theology discusses how dissociative identity disorder is the most severe, misdiagnosed, and rare form of childhood trauma, affecting approximately 1.5% of the global population. Professor Luke’s academic literature aims to provide vulnerable children and adults hope, healing, and integration through Jesus Christ. Dr. Luke’s treatise can be summed up in Psalm 82:3-4, which states, “Defend the weak and the fatherless; uphold the cause of the poor and the oppressed. Rescue the weak and the needy; deliver them from the hand of the wicked.”

Dr. Thomas Luke is the recipient of the Distinguished Research Professor Award, which requires at least two published textbooks accompanied by curricula for at least one textbook. The award also requires no less than fourteen years of research, while Thomas Luke, Ph.D. has 20 years of combined research (2003-2023) within the same discipline. Thomas Luke, Ph.D., currently retains the title of professor of transformational theology emeritus (2003-2023) at Chaplains College School of Graduate Studies.

Christian Crisis Response Chaplain

Rev. Dr. Thomas Luke is Christian crisis response chaplain ordained by Chaplains International, Inc.[3] Rev. Dr. Thomas Luke was educated and trained to provide compassionate spiritual care to survivors of mass shootings, terrorist attacks, catastrophic disasters, and other high-trauma tragedies that can lead to post-traumatic stress disorder. He utilizes the profound counseling system his mentors taught him; spiritual integration counseling, also known as “soul surgery,” is a central tenet of transformational theology that facilitates recovery from and integration of traumatic experiences. As his specialty, he counsels the traumatized by taking the spiritual approach to integrating survivors of sexual exploitation diagnosed with dissociative identity disorder.

Corporate Chaplain

Rev. Dr. Thomas Luke is an ordained Christian chaplain who serves the local and international business community as a corporate chaplain. He hires independent contractors from third-world countries who worked for The Rev Luke Show remotely as well as staff for the editing, illustrations, and graphic designs for his textbook, Transformational Theology. Hiring these contractors and helping them to succeed is just one of the ways that he shows them the love of Father God.

Talk Show Host

From 2021-2022, Luke was the talk show host and TV producer of The Rev Luke Show, which aired during prime time every Friday at 8:00 pm EST. The show was also available via video on demand from the NOW Television Network, a Christian broadcasting network based in the United States. In 2021, The NOW Television Network broadcast: The Rev Luke Show pilot: “The Least of These”

TV Producer

A Christian television producer is responsible to make sure the guests being interviewed have a godliness that either surpasses or equals their gifting, while never choosing gifting over godliness. It is also the responsibility of the producer to only have guests on the show that are submitted to spiritual authority (Hebrews 13:17, Ephesian 5:22-23) A producer coordinates and supervises all aspects of a production, from the creative to the administrative.
TV producers also make the financial decisions and handle contracts, talent and bargaining agreements, and other administrative details. While producers get to be in on the fun of planning and executing a production, they also deal with troubles during production and keep everything within budget.

Education

B.A. in Theater

Columbia College
Class of 1997

M.A. in Theological Studies

Trinity Evangelical Divinity School
School Class of 2020

Jeff Rice, M.Div., LMHC
Mentor
Spiritual Approach-Dissociative Identity Disorder Integration
2019-2021

Ph.D. in Transformational Theology

Chaplains College School of Graduate Studies
Accelerated Ph.D. Program
The President’s Honor Roll
Valedictorian
Summa cum laude
Class of 2023

Dr. Norman Wise
Mentor and Theological Practicum Supervisor
Spiritual Approach-Dissociative Identity Disorder Integration
2021-2023

Certified Spiritual Integration Counselor

THE SPIRITUAL APPROACH TO INTEGRATING SURVIVORS OF SEXUAL EXPLOITATION DIAGNOSED WITH DISSOCIATIVE IDENTITY DISORDER

Chaplains College School of Graduate Studies

Certified Crisis Response and Trauma Counselor

Chaplains College School of Graduate Studies

Publications

Award-Winning Christian Academic Author

M.A. capstone textbook, The Least of These by Thomas Luke.[3]
Ph.D. dissertation textbook, Transformational Theology by Dr. Thomas Luke.

Memberships

Textbook and Academic Authors Association

Nobel Peace Prize Nominee 2025

Letter of Nomination

Awards & Distinctions

⦁ Thomas Luke made The President’s Honor Roll for maintaining a 4.0 GPA and graduated Valedictorian of his 2023 class with a Summa cum laude distinction at Chaplains College School of Graduate Studies.

⦁ Thomas Luke had the highest GPA and graduated valedictorian of his 2023 class with a summa cum laude distinction at Chaplains College School of Graduate Studies.

⦁ Thomas Luke is the recipient of the Founding Father of Transformational Theology Award granted by the Board of Regents at Chaplains College School of Graduate Studies on June 15, 2023.

⦁ Thomas Luke is the recipient of the Distinguished Research Professor Award, which requires at least two published textbooks accompanied by curricula for at least one textbook. The award also requires no less than fourteen years of research, while Dr. Luke has 20 years of combined research within the same discipline.

⦁ Luke’s Ph.D. dissertation textbook, Transformational Theology, earned him the Theologian’s Dissertation Book Award. The award is Chaplains College School of Graduate Studies’ most distinguished textbook award. This award is granted for the best theological dissertation textbook for a Ph.D. This award is granted to a published theologian who is a scholar in a discipline that requires original research that has made a significant contribution to the field of theology.

⦁ Luke is the recipient of the Curriculum Award for writing an exemplary 20-lesson curriculum within his Ph.D. dissertation textbook, Transformational Theology.

⦁ Luke is the recipient of the Chaplain of Mercy Literary Award for his missiology research about Cambodia’s child trafficking epidemic. Luke thoroughly mapped out the various stages of rehabilitating these children after they are rescued.

⦁ Luke received the Academic Illustration Award for his Ph.D. dissertation textbook, Transformational Theology. Luke’s illustrations successfully illuminated the text of his book manuscript.

⦁ Luke is the recipient of the Theological Practicum Award because all three survivors he counseled were healed from post-traumatic stress disorder, and two of the survivors were integrated after suffering from dissociative identity disorder within 90 days of implementation. Dr. Luke’s profoundly healing spiritual integration counseling system is a central tenet of transformational theology that facilitates recovery and integration of traumatic experiences. Luke claims that he doesn’t heal anyone and that only the Spirit of Jesus (Philippians 1:19) healed the afflicted during his theological practicum. Luke states that his contribution was learning the spiritual integration counseling system from his mentors and transferring it to academia.

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