EDUCATION:
  • Doctor of Theology in Historical Systematic Theology (Asia Baptist Graduate Theological Seminary)
  • M.A. in History (Ethnohistory and Local History)  University of the Philippines, Baguio-Ongoing
  • AB English  (University of Baguio)
  • Master of Divinity (Philippine Baptist Theological Seminary)​
  • Bachelor of Theology (Philippine Baptist Theological Seminary) 
  • Hotel and Restaurant Services (Baguio City School of Arts and Trades)
Dr. Francis Jr. S.  Samdao is happily married to Shilo Rose Tacay-Samdao.
He is currently a Senior Lecturer of Theology and Church History at the Philippine Baptist Theological Seminary. He serves as the Officer-in-Charge (office of the Associate Dean) of ABGTS-Philippines. 

He is the Assistant Editor of the World Evangelical Alliance's theological journal, Evangelical Review of Theology, and Editorial Assistant of the Philippine Journal of Religious Studies. 
His research interests include Karl Barth, Indigenous Theology, and Ethnohistory.
PUBLICATIONS:
Book Chapter
  • “From Pagan Priestesses to Protestant Pastors: Roles of Women in Early Baptist Missions in the Western Visayas, Philippines, 1900-1925,” in Baptist and Gender: Papers for the Ninth International Conference on Baptist Studies, ed. Melody Maxwell and T. Laine Scales (Macon, GA: Mercer University Press, 2023), 299-309.
Journal Articles
  • “On Karl Barth and Asians: Actualism and Contextual Theologies,”  Asia Journal of Theology 38, no. 2 (October 2024): 170-190. ​Forthcoming
  • “Establishing ‘Mordor’ in God’s Creation: Natural Disasters, Barth’s ‘Lordless Powers,’ and Filipino Indigenous Beliefs,” Philippine Journal of Religious Studies 4, (2024): 43-58.
  • “Opening the Scrolls: Understanding the ‘Cries’ of Federico G. Villanueva,” Evangelical Review of Theology 48, no. 2 (May 2024): 167-176.
  • “Spirituality and Personhood: Homo Liturgicus and Pagkatao in Conversation,” Asia Journal of Theology 37, 2 (October 2023): 147-164.
  • “On the Idea of Contextualization: Cultural Sensitivity and Catholic Sensibility,” Evangelical Review of Theology 46, 1 (February 2022): 51-61.
  • “What Has Cordilleran Spirituality to Do with Evangelicals?” Asia Journal of Theology 35, 2 (October 2021): 238-255.
  • “A Baptist Quadrilateral? A Filipino Outsider’s Perspective on Baptist Identity,” Evangelical Review of Theology 45, 1 (February 2021): 41-53.
Book Reviews
  • Review of Jukka Helle, Towards a Truly Catholic and a Truly Asian Church: The Asian Wayfaring Theology of the Federation of Asian Bishops’ Conferences (FABC) 1970-2020 (Brill, 2022) for the Evangelical Review of Theology 47, no. 3 (August 2023): 285-287.
  • Review of Lorenzo Bautista, Aldrin Peñamora, and Federico Villanueva, Faith and Bayan: Evangelical Christian Engagement in the Philippine Context (Langham, 2022) for the Asia Journal of Theology 37, no. 1 (April 2023): 136-139.
  • Review of Justin Ariel Bailey, Interpreting Your World: Five Lenses for Engaging Theology and Culture (Baker Academic, 2022) for the Anglican Theological Review 105, issue 3 (August 2023): 362-264.
  • Review of James Edwards, Christ is Time: The Gospel according to Karl Barth (and the Red Hot Chili Peppers) (Cascade, 2022) for Themelios 48, issue 1 (April 2023): 227-228.
  • Review of Markus Höfner, Theo-Politics? Conversing with Barth in Western and Asian Contexts (Fortress Academic, 2022) for the Evangelical Review of Theology 47, no. 1 (February 2023): 88-90.
  • Review of James K. A. Smith, On the Road with Saint Augustine: A Real-World Spirituality for Restless Hearts (Brazos Press, 2019) for the Evangelical Review of Theology 46, no. 4 (November 2022): 374-376.
  • Review of Stanley Hauerwas, Fully Alive: The Apocalyptic Humanism of Karl Barth (University of Virginia Press, 2022) for Asia Journal of Theology 36, issue 2 (October 2022): 212-216.
  • Review of James K. A. Smith, The Nicene Option: An Incarnational Phenomenology (Baylor University Press, 2021) for Themelios 47, issue 2 (August 2022): 420-422.
  • Review of Louis Markos, From Plato to Christ: How Platonic Thought Shaped the Christian Faith (IVP, 2021) for the Evangelical Review of Theology 46, no. 3 (August 2022): 284-285.
  • Review of Ike Miller, Seeing by the Light: Illumination in Augustine's and Barth's Readings of John (IVP, 2020) for Southeastern Theological Review 13, no. 1 (Spring 2022): 125-126.
  • Review of Oliver D. Crisp, God, Creation, and Salvation: Studies in Reformed Theology (T&T Clark, 2020) for Southeastern Theological Review 12, no. 2 (Fall 2021): 114-116.
  • Review of David W. Bebbington, Baptist through the Centuries: A History of a Global People (Baylor University Press, 2018) for Evangelical Quarterly: An International Review of Bible and Theology  92, no. 2 (2021): 186-187.
  • Review of Eamon Duffy, A People’s Tragedy: Studies in Reformation (Bloomsbury Continuum, 2020) for the Evangelical Review of Theology 45, no. 3 (August 2021): 286-287.
  • Review of David Hunsicker, The Making of Stanley Hauerwas: Bridging Barth and Postliberalism (IVP Academic, 2019) for the Evangelical Review of Theology 45, no. 2 (May 2021): 188-189.
  • Review of Samantha L. Miller, Chrysostom’s Devil: Demons, the Will and Virtue in Patristic Soteriology (IVP Academic, 2020) for the Asia Journal of Theology 35, issue 1 (April 2021): 124-125.