The Theology Department seeks to lead students, colleagues, Dordt University, and the Christian community, both locally and globally, into more faithful service to the Triune God and his mission through deepening knowledge of God's scriptural revelation, of the church's response to this revelation, and the church's participation in God's mission of the restoration of all creation.
Faculty Work from 2022
Clarifying, Complicating, and Challenging Kuyper: A Review of Calvinism for a Secular Age, Justin Ariel Bailey
Clear Eyes, Full Hearts: A Review of Calvinism for a Secular Age, Gayle E. Doornbos
Deep Faith: A Review of Early North African Christianity, David Moser
Fashion Theology (Book Review), Justin Bailey
The Power of the Points: A Review of Making Faith Magnetic, Justin Bailey
Faculty Work from 2021
An Unlikely Story: A Review of Reformed Public Theology, Justin Bailey
Apologetics Can Flourish After RZIM. But Only With ‘Lowercase Leaders’ and the Local Church, Justin Bailey
"Better Than We Found It": A Review of Struggling with Evangelicalism, Justin Bailey
Character, Charisma, Hope, and Healing: Reflections on The Rise and Fall of Mars Hill, Gayle Doornbos
Discerning Doubt: A Review of After Doubt, Justin Bailey
Faithfully Reading Scripture with Kids, Rebekah Earnshaw
Fruit in Keeping with Repentance: A Review of Reparations, Justin Bailey
Gained in Translation: A Review of the First Nations Version, Justin Bailey
In All Things - The Podcast, Andreas Center and Justin Bailey
Is Our World Less Religious Than Ever?, Justin Bailey
Looking for “Deep Rest”: Confronting the Idolatry of Personal Success, Justin Bailey
On Insiders and Outsiders, Justin Bailey
The Academy and Aesthetics: A Review of Reformed Public Theology, Gayle E. Doornbos
The Gift of the Artist: A Review of Art and Faith, Justin Bailey
Theological Truths that Divide Us and Engaging in Disagreement Well, David Westfall
Twin Poles: A Review of Bavinck, David Westfall
When Our Best Words Fail, Justin Bailey
Faculty Work from 2020
"Are You for Us or for Our Enemies?" Making Decisions Among Contested Meanings, Justin Bailey
Creator and Creation According to Calvin on Genesis, Rebekah Earnshaw
Deep Focus and Cinematic Faith: An Extended Review, Justin Bailey
Eulogy for Dr. John Henry Kok - July 5, 2020, Aaron Baart
Exercising Hope: A Review of Reading While Black, Justin Bailey
Exercising the Imagination: Why We Need Imaginative Apologetics, Justin Bailey
God's Sabbath with Creation: Vocations Fulfilled, the Glory Unveiled (Book Review), Justin Bailey
How Can the Church Today Uplift the Family Without Worshipping It?, Aaron Baart
Keep the Hope Alive: A Review of Imagining Theology, Justin Bailey
Rachel's Tears and the Joy of Christmas - Matthew 2:13-23, David Westfall
Recipes, Imagination, and Scripture: A Review of Romans Disarmed, David Westfall
reimagining apologetics, Justin Bailey
Shows that Shape Us: Asking the Right Questions, Justin Bailey
Shows that Shape Us: The Office, Justin Bailey
Supreme Court Decisions in Review (Part 1), Donald Roth
The Death of Kobe Bryant: Fallen Icons and Heart of Popular Culture, Justin Bailey
The Wisdom of Weakness: The Coronavirus and the Cross, Justin Bailey
Western Society and Cultural Elites: A Review of Return of the Strong Gods, David Westfall
When Words Are Weapons: Inside a Crisis of Faith, Justin Bailey
Faculty Work from 2019
Beyond Hero Stories, Justin Bailey
Faith Lived Out in Love for Community: A Review of In Search of Common Good, Justin Bailey
None But Not Yet Done: Review of The Twentysomething Soul, Justin Bailey
Pagans, Puritans, and Putting Christ Back in Christmas, Justin Bailey
Putting Grace Back in the Doctrines: A Review of Humble Calvinism, Justin Bailey
Strengths and Shadows: Using the Enneagram in the Classroom, Justin Bailey
The Logic of Limitations: A Review of The Common Rule, Justin Bailey
Faculty Work from 2018
Advent Love: The Advent of #MeToo, Aaron Baart
Bearing Witness in a TLDR World: A Review of "Disruptive Witness", Justin Bailey
Belief in a Disenchanted World: A Review of "George MacDonald in the Age of Miracles", Justin Bailey
Reading in Context: Zacchaeus and the Economics of Salvation, Benjamin J. Lappenga
Resisting the Devil’s Instruments: Early Modern Resistance Theory for Late Modern Times, David Henreckson
Surviving Secular Apocalypse: A "How-To" Book for the End of the World, Justin Bailey
The Fruitless Search for the Theory of Everything, Rebekah Earnshaw
The Lost World of the Israelite Conquest (Book Review), Justin Bailey
The Theodramatic Imagination: Spirit and Imagination in the Work of Kevin Vanhoozer, Justin Bailey
Why They're Leaving and Why It Matters: Gen Z's Mass Exodus from Church, Aaron Baart
Faculty Work from 2017
Culture as Divine Gift: The Future of In All Things, David Henreckson
Err on the Side of Action, Aaron Baart
선교지 기독교 대학의 코어 커리큘럼 작성 / Establishing Core Curriculum at Christian Colleges in the Mission Fields, Jay Shim
Faith and Allegiance, Benjamin J. Lappenga
Hearing God's Voice, Benjamin J. Lappenga
In Search of Stronger Spells, Justin Bailey
McSupper or Lord's Supper?, Mark Verbruggen
Millennials and the Reformation, Aaron Baart
Not Trained by Angels, David Henreckson
Prophet of Consumerism, Aaron Baart
The Ease and Speed of Judgment, Aaron Baart
Faculty Work from 2016
Being Grateful for My "Stupid Little Life": Why We Need Movies, Jason Lief
Call to Gladness, Aaron Baart
Dear Christians in America, Aaron Baart
Easter Morning and New Realities: To Be Made Alive Together With, Aaron Baart
Gift of Rest, Aaron Baart
How Do I Know What To Do With My Life?, Mark Verbruggen
Pastoral Reflections on the Election Cycle, Mark Verbruggen
Paul's Language of Zēlos: Monosemy and the Rhetoric of Identity and Practice, Benjamin J. Lappenga
Reclaiming a Biblical View for Agriculture, Wayne A. Kobes
Sanctified by God's Word: Towards a Websterian Ontology of Scripture and Church, Benjamin J. Lappenga
Voluntourism, Aaron Baart
What Role Do Bible Scholars Play in Your Bible Reading?, Benjamin J. Lappenga
Faculty Work from 2015
Accessible Lust, Aaron Baart
Answering Your Question: Creeds and Confessions, Wayne A. Kobes
Answering Your Question: The Bible and Traditional Beliefs, Benjamin J. Lappenga
Bible Stories No One Talks About, Mark Verbruggen
Christ, Consumerism, and Christmas, Aaron Baart
Christmas Confession, Aaron Baart
Church and Homosexuality, Aaron Baart
Citation of Psalm 69:9 in John 2:17 as a Double Entendre, Benjamin J. Lappenga
Community-Edifying 'World-Construction' in Paul and 1 Clement as a Resource for Theological Deliberations about Human Origins, Benjamin J. Lappenga
Cultivating a Biblical Imagination, Jason Lief
Cultivating a Religionless Social Imaginary: Youth Ministry in a Secular Age, Jason Lief
Easter: She Called Him "Rabboni", Aaron Baart
Experiencing God's Presence in the Life of Academia, Benjamin J. Lappenga
How Can We Become Biblically Literate?, Jay Shim
How Should We Read the Bible?, Benjamin J. Lappenga
Impatient Waiting, Benjamin J. Lappenga
“I Myself am an Israelite”: Revisiting Paul’s Use of Ζῆλος in Romans 9-11, Benjamin J. Lappenga
James 3:13-4:10 and the Language of Envy in Proverbs 3:21-35, Benjamin J. Lappenga