Professor of Historical Theology
PhD in Theology (Yale University)
BA (Dartmouth College), MDiv (Yale Divinity School)
Areas of Expertise - Ecclesiology: Ecclesial decision-making, politics and ecumenism
- Scriptural hermeneutics and the theological categories of “time” and “history”
- The character of early modern Christian self-identity
- Pneumatology
- Contemporary Christian social experience
- Theological Interpretation of Scripture
Select Publications Books:
- A Profound Ignorance: Modern Pneumatology and its Anti-Modern Redemption (2019)
- Chasing the Shadow: The World and Its Times: An Introduction to Natural Theology, Vol. 2 ( 2018)
- Church (2017)
- Church, Society, and the Christian Common Good: Essays in Conversation with Philip Turner (editor, 2017)
- A Time to Keep: Theology, Mortality, and the Shape of a Human Life (2016)
- Time and the Word: The Figural Reading of Scripture (2016)
- Reclaiming Faith: Essays on Orthodoxy in the Episcopal Church and the Baltimore Declaration (1993)
- Inhabiting Unity: Theological Perspectives on the Proposed Lutheran-Episcopal Concordat (1995)
- The Rule of Faith: Scripture, Canon, and Creed in a Critical Age (1998)
- The End of the Church: A Pneumatology of Christian Division in the West (1999)
- Spirit and Nature: The Saint Medard Miracles in 18th-century Jansenism (2002)
- Hope among the Fragments: The Broken Church and its Engagement of Scripture (2004)
- The Fate of Communion: The Agony of Anglicanism and the Future of a Global Church (2006)
- Leviticus (2007)
- The World in the Shadow of God: An Introduction to Christian Natural Theology (2010)
- A Brutal Unity: The Spiritual Politics of the Christian Church (2012)
Some recent articles:
- “Scripture on the Edge of God” (2018)
- "Christian MIssion and the Lambeth Conference", in Paul Avis and Benjamin Guyer (eds), The Lambeth Conference: History, Theology, Polity and Purpose (Bloomsbury, 2017)
- "The Anglican Communion and Anglicanism", in Jeremy Morris (ed.), The Oxford History of Anglicanism, Vol. IV (Oxford University Preses, 2017)
- “Anglican-Catholic relations 50 years after Unitatis Redintegratio,” The International Journal for the Study of the Christian Church 14:4 (2014)
- “The Holy Spirit and Unity: Getting Out of the Way of Christ,” International Journal of Systematic Theology 16:2 (2014)
- “Lectionary and the Figural Meaning of the Scriptures,” Liturgy: A Journal of the Liturgical Conference 29:4 (2014)
- “Anglicanism on its knees” (2014)
- “Praying with those who pray” (2013)
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