Jon Coutts Tutor in Theology and Ethics Trinity College Bristol Commons username: @joncoutts Twitter handle: JonRCoutts thissideofsunday.blogspot.co.uk Following 4 members View ProfileActivitySites 0Following 4Followers 4Groups 2ForumsDocs Academic InterestsCoen BrothersCormac McCarthyDietrich BonhoeferDisability TheologyEcclesiologyForgivenessG.K. ChestertonGender and SexualityKarl BarthLiterature and filmpastoral theologyRace and TheologyReconciliationTruth and reconciliation Commons GroupsHCBonhoeffer StudiesTheology Recent Commons Activity joined the group Bonhoeffer Studies joined the group Theology Education PhD in Systematic Theology, Aberdeen University (Scotland), 2013. MA in Theology, Briercrest Seminary (Caronport, SK), 2008. Ordained, C&MA in Canada (Selkirk, MB), 2006. Bachelor of Theology, Canadian Bible College (Regina, SK), 2001. Blog Posts PublicationsBooks or Chapters A Shared Mercy: Karl Barth on Forgiveness and the Church, IVP Academic, 2016 [link]. “No Country for Old Man: Barth calls the Coen Brothers,” in Barth in Conversation, Wipf & Stock, 2014 [blog link]. Select Essays “Relative Grit: Masculinity in Flux on Film,” in Cultural Encounters 9.1 (June 2013) [link]. “Karl Barth, GK Chesterton, and the Basis of Christian Knowledge,” in The Chesterton Review 39:1-2 (June 2013). “This Side of Sunday: Theological Fiction in Light of GK Chesterton’s The Man Who Was Thursday,” in Scottish Bulletin of Evangelical Theology (Autumn, 2011). “Once for All and New Every Morning: Forgiveness in the Theology of Miroslav Volf and Karl Barth,” in the Oxford Research Archive (April, 2011). “How to Be Sliced by a Sword: A Personal Encounter with G.K. Chesterton’s Apologetic,” in St. Austin’s Review (July/August, 2009). “A Theological Approach to Pastoral Leadership Today,” in Ministry Magazine: An International Journal for Pastors (November 2008) [link]. Peer Review “James Calvin Davis’s Forbearance,” for International Journal for Public Theology 12.1 (2018). “John Flett’s The Witness of God,” in Ecclesiology: The Journal for Ministry, Mission and Unity 10.1 (Spring, 2014). “Alister McGrath’s The Open Secret,” in Canadian Evangelical Review (Spring, 2010). Projects Church Leadership, SCM, forthcoming 2019. Marks of a Church, Grove Book, forthcoming 2019. “Hail, Caesar! A Jesus Film for Cultured Disbelievers”, a paper from the Society for the Study of Theology (SST) conference in 2018. “Weighing the Burdens of Peace: Cormac McCarthy’s The Sunset Limited and Bonhoeffer’s prison fiction,” a paper from SST 2017. “Which is my Neighbour? Bonhoeffer and the Tension of Mandates,” a paper from the Theological Ethics seminar at Aberdeen University, April 2017. “The Prince of Peace Smokes a Peace Pipe: A Church Response to the Challenge of Canada’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission,” a paper from the International Conference on Political Theology in Belgrade, Serbia, November, 2015. Memberships Editorial Board, Grove Books Pastoral Series, 2016- Society for the Study of Theology (UK), 2011-2012, 2015- American Academy of Religion (USA), 2011-2013, 2017 Parochial Church Council, St. Mary Magdalene Church (CofE), 2016-
