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Society of Anglican Theologians
Society of Biblical Literature
American Academy of Religion
Evangelical Theological Society
Karl Barth Society of North America
Society for the Study of Theology (U.K.)
Canadian Evangelical Theological Association

Projects underway:

‘Marvelous Alteration to a Higher Estate’: A Triune Theology of Holiness and Sacraments. (Monograph)

The Eloquent Word: On the Character and the Practices of Scriptural Interpretation.(Monograph)

God Loves Metaphors. (Shorter Popular Level Book) Lexham Press.

Mere Anglicanism. One volume systematic theology. Lexham Press.

Book and article projects completed:

“The Unbearable Ambivalence of Film: With Consideration of Terrance Malick’s To the Wonder.” Modern Reformation, V. 33.1, January/February 2024, pp.46-55.

“Faith and Film: An Annotated Bibliography.” Modern Reformation, V. 33.1, January/February 2024, pp. 56-57.

“Kevin Vanhoozer: Da Hermenêutica Geral à Hermenêutica Geral Cristã e à abordagem canônico-linguística divina” Consilium Theologicum: A Revista Academica do Seminario Martin Bucer, 2022, V.4, pp. 7-34.

“What Evangelicals Can Learn from George Lindbeck” Christianity Today. (February, 2018) https://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2018/february-web-only/what-evangelicals-can-learn-from-lindbeck.html.

“The Ascension.” In The Evangelical Dictionary of Theology edited by Daniel J. Treier and Walter Elwell, Third Edition. Grand Rapids: Baker, 2017.

Faithful Interpretation: Writings from the Archives. A Two-Volume Collection of Republished and Unpublished Works and Letters of Hans Frei. Edited by Mark Bowald and Mike Higton. Eugene: Cascade, 2015-16.

Rendering the Word in Theological Hermeneutics: Mapping Divine and Human Agency. Second Revised Paperback Edition. Eugene: Lexham, 2015.

“We Have Never Been Secular: On the Porous Boundaries between Theology and the Political Administration of Religious Tolerance.” In Irreconcilable Differences? Fostering Dialogue among Philosophy, Theology, and Science, edited by Jason Robinson and David Peck, 117-34. Eugene: Pickwick, 2015.

“On (Still) Taking St. Paul Seriously: The Hermeneutical Function of Sin and Vice in Scriptural Interpretation.” In Revisioning, Renewing and Rediscovering the Triune Center: A Festschrift for Stanley Grenz, edited by Derek Tidball, Brian Harris and Jason Sexton, 258-80. Eugene: Cascade, 2014.

“A Generous Reformer: Kevin Vanhoozer’s Place in Evangelicalism.” Southeastern Theological Review 4, no. 1 (2013): 3-9.

“The Redemption of Interpretation.” The Other Journal.�� http://theotherjournal.com/2012/07/23/theredemptionofinterpretation/.

“The Character of Theological Interpretation of Scripture.” This article was the recipient of the Colin Gunton Prize from the Society for the Study of Theology (UK) and appeared in the International Journal of Systematic Theology, 12 no. 2 (2010): 162-83.

“Who’s Afraid of Theology? Theology as a Grammar of Christian Particularity.” In The Logic of Incarnation: A Critique of Postmodern Religion, edited by Neal DeRoo, 168-81. Eugene: Wipf & Stock, 2008.

Rendering the Word in Theological Hermeneutics: Mapping Divine and Human Agency. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2007.
“Rendering Mute the Word: Deistic Tendencies in Modern Evangelical Hermeneutics.”�� Westminster Theological Journal 69 (2007): 367-81.

“Objectivity” and “Grace” In the Dictionary for the Theological Interpretation of the Bible, edited by Kevin J. Vanhoozer, 268-70 and 544-45. Grand Rapids: Baker Academic, 2005.

“Finding Culture’s Pulse: The Importance of Film Study for Theology,” co-written with Fr. Adelmo Dunghe S.J. Journal of the Canadian Theological Society 21 no. 1.

2024������������������������������ Christ Church Westshore, Avon Lake, Ohio. “The Gospel and Human Identity.” An invited plenary address given to the annual Synod meetings of the Anglican Diocese of the Great Lakes (ACNA) (October 25)

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2022������������������������������ Denver, CO. “‘Marvelous Alteration to a Higher Estate’: On Holiness in��a Receptionist Sacramentology.” Invited paper to the annual meetings of the Anglican Society of Theologians, connected to the meetings of the SBL/AAR. (November 16)

2019������������������������������ San Diego, CA. “Confronted by the Light of the Gospel: John Webster’s Theology of Liturgy with Special Attention to the Eucharist.” Invited paper to the Anglican Theology Section of the Evangelical Theological Society. (November 21)

2018������������������������������ St. James Church, Paris, Canada. “On the Practices of Ministry after Secularism,” Invited presentation to Clericus for the Deanery of Brant and the Diocese of Huron, Anglican Church of Canada. (November 6)

2017������������������������������ Indiana Wesleyan University.�� The State of the Evangelical Mind. Invited Conference Session Host. (September 21-23)

2017������������������������������ Providence, Rhode Island.�� “Figural Reading and the Relationship of Divine and Human Agency” Given as an invited panellist for a Book Review session at the annual meetings of the Evangelical Theological Society on Ephraim Radner’s Time and the Word. Eerdmans. ��(November 15)

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2016������������������������������ Wycliffe College.�� “John Webster and Doing Theology after Postliberalism.” Invited speaker at memorial event for John Webster at Wycliffe College. (November 2)

2015������������������������������ Atlanta, Georgia.�� Invited panellist for a book review session at the annual meetings of the Evangelical Theological Society.�� On Scott Swain and Michael Allen’s Reformed Catholicity (Baker Academic, 2015). (November 16)

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2013������������������������������ Toronto, Canada.�� Invited guest on the Drew Marshall radio show.�� A roundtable discussion about recent controversies including those surrounding funding for international aid and debates over the existence of hell. (October 19)

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2012������������������������������ Milwaukee, Wisconsin.�� Invited panellist for a book review session on Kevin Hector’s Theology Without Metaphysics (Cambridge University Press, 2011); Invited moderator, Panel Review Session on Michael Horton’s The Christian Faith (Zondervan, 2010) at the Annual Meetings of the Evangelical Philosophical and Theological Societies. (November 17-18)

2012������������������������������ Wilfred Laurier University, Waterloo, Canada. ��“Postsecularism, Politics and Religion: Implications for Canadian Evangelicals,” given at the annual national Canadian Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences. (May 26)

2012������������������������������ University of Aberdeen, King’s College. Invited Seminar and Lecture: “Trinitarian Hermeneutical Pressures: Reconsidering the Rule of Faith.” (March 11-12)

2012������������������������������ St. Andrews University, St. Mary’s College. Invited Lecture: “Divine Rhetoric: On the Practices of Scriptural Hermeneutics.” (March 9)

2012������������������������������ University of Durham, St. John’s College. Invited Lecture: “On the Character and Virtues of Scriptural Interpretation.” (March 6)

2012������������������������������ University of Cambridge, Centre for Advanced Religious and Theological Studies. Invited Lecture: “We Have Never Been Secular: Postsecularism and the Politics of Scriptural Hermeneutics.” (March 5)

2012������������������������������ Wabash College. Invited Lecture: “After Secularism: On the Relationship of Theology to the Public Administration of Religious Practices.” (January 23)

2011������������������������������ San Francisco, California.�� Moderator and Chair, Panel Session on Kevin Vanhoozer: Remythologizing Theology.�� Method and Theology Section, Evangelical Theological Society. (November 18)

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2011������������������������������ Church of the Redeemer, Toronto, Canada. Invited Panellist: Seeing in the Dark: Faith, Film and the Toronto International Film Festival. Sponsored by Trinity College and Imago. (September 14)

2011������������������������������ Trinity College, Toronto, Canada. Invited Guest Lecturer for the course: Film, Culture and Prophecy. “On the Value and Relationship of Film for Theology.” (September 11)

2011������������������������������ York University, York, U.K. “On Metaphors and Scripture: Reading Scripture as Divine Rhetoric,” at the annual meetings of the Society for the Study of Theology. (April 12-14)

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2010������������������������������ Redeemer University College, Ancaster, Ontario. Public Lecture and Faculty Colloquium: “The Waning of Secularism and the Waxing of Hermeneutics.” (December 3)

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2010������������������������������ Atlanta, Georgia. Society of Biblical Literature: “Narrative Christology and the Interpretation of Scripture: The Hermeneutical Gravity of the Lordship of Christ in the Speeches of Acts.” Theology and Christian Scripture Section.�� (November 23)

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2010������������������������������ Atlanta, Georgia. Moderator, Method and Theology Section: “On Plurality of Truth; Responses to John Franke’s Manifold Witness” at the national meetings of the Evangelical Theological Society. (November 18)

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2009������������������������������ Ancaster, Ontario. Invited panellist for the national meetings of the Evangelical Fellowship of Canada: “Emerging Paradigms in Church and Mission.”

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2009������������������������������ New Orleans, Louisiana. “The Trinitarian Character of Theological Interpretation of Scripture,” at the national meetings of the Evangelical Theological Society. (November 24)

2009������������������������������ Lindsay, Ontario, Canada. “The Growth and Influence of Emergent Calvinism.”�� Public lecture. (October 31)

2008������������������������������ Providence, Rhode Island. “Reading in the Trinity: Lessons for Hermeneutics from Augustine’s Tractates on the Gospel of John” presented to the national meetings of the Evangelical Theological Society. (November 21)

2008������������������������������ Tyndale Seminary, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. “Reading in the Trinity: Divine Agency in Augustine’s Hermeneutics with Attention to His Tractates on the Gospel of John.” Paper given at the conference: The Holy Trinity in Holy Scripture. (May 30)

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2007������������������������������ San Diego, California. “Dramatis Personae: The Ecclesial Dimension of Theological Hermeneutics,” at the �� �� �� �� national annual meetings of the Evangelical Theological��Society. (November 16)

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2007 ���������������������������� Brock University, St. Catherine’s, Ontario, Canada. “Who’s Afraid of Theology? A Conversation with James K.A. Smith on Theology as the Grammar of Religious Particularity”: Invited speaker to a conference sponsored by the Brock University Philosophy Department. (March 23)

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��2006 �������������������������� Washington D.C. “Rendering Mute the Word: On Deistic Tendencies in Modern Evangelical Hermeneutics.” Invited paper given to the national meetings of the Evangelical Theological Society. (November 16)

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2006 ���������������������������� St. Andrews University, Scotland. “Hebrews and the Heavenly Session of Christ: Hermeneutical and Doctrinal Reflections.” A paper presented at The Epistle to the Hebrews and Christian Theology; a conference hosted and sponsored by St. Mary’s College, University of St. Andrews. (July 20)

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2005������������������������������ Redeemer University, Ancaster, Ontario, Canada. “The Missional Mandate: The Church in the World.” Public Lecture. (November 1)

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2005������������������������������ Wycliffe College, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. “Response to Joseph Mangina: “Karl Barth: Theologian of Christian Witness.” Invited presentation given to a Toronto meeting of the Karl Barth Society.�� (October 28)

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2005������������������������������ Redeemer University, Ancaster, Ontario, Canada. “Postliberal Theology: Its Roots and Contemporary Relevance.” Public Lecture. (April 14)

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2004������������������������������ Bethel Seminary, San Diego, California. Forum on Christian Life and Ethics: War. Invited panel speaker. (March 19)

2003������������������������������ St. Andrews University. Invited Delegate to Out of Egypt: Biblical Theology and Biblical Interpretation: the sixth annual Scripture and Hermeneutics Seminar, St. Andrews University, Scotland.�� Invitation only consultation sponsored by the Scripture and Hermeneutics Project at the University of Gloucestershire, England. (August 28-30)

2002������������������������������ The Institute for Christian Studies, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Faith Behind the Screens: The Role of Beliefs in the World of Film, Invited symposium panel speaker: The Ruth Memorial Series on the Arts & Culture. (May 3-4)

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