About
I am Assistant Professor of Theology at MidAmerica Nazarene University. I recently completed a PhD in Christian Theology at the University of Cambridge. My thesis, which explores the relationship between the doctrines of divine simplicity and the Trinity, with special attention to the revisionary metaphysics of Robert W Jenson, has been published with de Gruyter (2021).
I am interested in Christian and Platonic metaphysics, particularly in participation and the analogia entis. I am also interested in theological aesthetics, the theology of Hans Urs von Balthasar, the theology of sanctification, and theological epistemology. Education
University of Cambridge, Cambridge, England — 2016-2021
Doctor of Philosophy (candidate) in Christian Theology
Nazarene Theological Seminary, Kansas City, Missouri — 2012-2014
Master of Arts in Theological Studies, summa cum laude
Southern Nazarene University, Bethany, Oklahoma — 2006-2012
Bachelor of Arts in Theology and Ministry Publications
Divine Simplicity and the Triune Identity: A Critical Dialogue with the Theological Metaphysics of Robert W. Jenson. Theologische Bibliothek Töpelmann. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 2021.
(with Jacob Lett) “‘Christ Who is Our Peace’: Ephesians 2 and a Theological Ontology of Place,” Journal of Theological Interpretation, (accepted; forthcoming).
“Holiness in Excess: Between Holiness and Metaphysics in the Wake of Rowan Williams,” Heythrop Journal 62, no. 5 (September 2021): 916–27. Open access: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/heyj.13594
“Divine Simplicity and Scripture: A Theological Reading of Exodus 3:14,” Scottish Journal of Theology 73, no. 4 (November 2020): 295–306. Open access: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0036930620000629
“Holy Eating: A Meditation on the Sanctification of the Body,” Didache: Faithful Teaching 19, no. 1 (Winter 2020).
“Jesus, Trinity, and Creation: Divine Simplicity, the ‘Real’ Relation, and Trinitarian Economy in Dialogue with Robert Jenson,” Pro Ecclesia 28, no. 3 (August 2019): 233–52.
“Reading Art and Hearing God: Learning to Read Creation,” Princeton Theological Review 21, no. 2 (Spring 2018): 51–59.
“The Ontic Significance of God’s Eschatological Word: Robert Jenson’s Potential
Via Media between Impartation and Imputation,”
Wesleyan Theological Journal (accepted; forthcoming).
“Baptism and Beatitude: Taking Time and Partaking of the Eternal,”
Didache: Faithful Teaching 16:3 (2017).
“The Trinity, Social Justice, and the
Missio Dei: A Trinitarian Construal of Agency, Treating Social Justice as Paradigmatic of Christian Action,”
Didache: Faithful Teaching 13:1 (2013).
Projects
Current project: “Divine Simplicity and the Mirror of Knowledge: Affirmation of Simplicity as Spiritual Formation” Memberships
academia.edu
American Academy of Religion
Society for the Study of Religion
Wesleyan Theological Society
