The Theology Department seeks to lead students, colleagues, Dordt College, 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 2018
Bearing Witness in a TLDR World: A Review of "Disruptive Witness", Justin Bailey
Reading in Context: Zacchaeus and the Economics of Salvation, Benjamin J. Lappenga
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
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
Faith and Allegiance, Benjamin J. Lappenga
Hearing God's Voice, Benjamin J. Lappenga
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
John the Baptist and Advent, Aaron Baart
Lent: Behold, the Man!, Benjamin J. Lappenga
Liberia: One Year Later, Aaron Baart
“Like a Girl”: Why our Words Matter, Jason Lief
Mediating the Sacred: Popular Culture as Liturgical Icon in a Secular Age, Jason Lief
My Service Conversion, Aaron Baart
Poetic Youth Ministry: Learning to Love Young People by Letting Them Go, Jason Lief
Proliferation of Life, Aaron Baart
Responsible Ones: Young People, Faith, and Letting Go, Jason Lief
Revisiting the Merits of a Contested Discipline: Reflections on the Study of Old Testament Theology, Benjamin J. Lappenga
"Speak, Hannah, and Do Not be Silent": Pseudo-Philo's Deconstruction of Violence in Liber Antiquitatum Biblicarum 50-51, Benjamin J. Lappenga
Wasting My Vote: Why I am an "Independent", Jason Lief
Why Christians Don't Read the Bible, Aaron Baart
Young People and Faith: Encountering God "In All Things", Jason Lief
Submissions from 2014
Christ-Centered Sermons: Models of Redemptive Preaching (Book Review), Mark Verbruggen
Feeling Minnesota: The Art of Not Winning, Jason Lief
Reformed Theology as Worldview Theology: The Public Nature of the Gospel and Spirituality, Jay Shim
Faculty Work from 2013
Some Kind of Monstrosity: What Youth Ministry Can Learn from Heavy Metal, Jason Lief
Vivid: Deepening Your Colors, Sydney J. Hielema and Aaron Baart
Submissions from 2012
Pedagogy of Promise: The Eschatological Task of Christian Education, Jason Lief
Proclaiming Christian Education: Let Children Come to Me, Jay Shim
Two Kingdoms Perspective and Theological Method: Why I Still Disagree with David Van Drunen, Jason Lief
Submissions from 2011
Invitation to World Missions: A Trinitarian Missiology for the Twenty-First Century (Book Review), Wayne A. Kobes
Reformed Hermeneutic: An Outline, Thomas R. Wolthuis
Submissions from 2010
Christian Practices as Counter Discourses: Foucault, Barth, and the Discourse of Higher Education, Jason Lief
Living at the Crossroads: An Introduction to Christian Worldview (Book Review), Wayne A. Kobes
Submissions from 2009
Is Neo-Calvinism Calvinist? A Neo-Calvinist Engagement of Calvin's "Two Kingdoms" Doctrine, Jason Lief
State of the University: Academic Knowledges and the Kowledge of God (Book Review), Jason Lief
Submissions from 2008
Submissions from 2007
Praying at Burger King (Book Review), Jason Lief
Submissions from 2006
Conceiving the Christian College (Book Review), Thomas R. Wolthuis
Every Tribe, Language, People, and Nation, Syd Hielema
Paul: In Fresh Perspective (Book Review), Thomas R. Wolthuis
Books from 2004
Witness, Syd Hielema and Norm Matheis
Worldview: The History of a Concept (Book Review), Tim McConnel
Submissions from 2003
Calvin for Armchair Theologians (Book Review), Tim McConnel
Submissions from 2002
Common Grace or Antithesis? Towards a Consistent Understanding of Kuyper's "Sphere Sovereignty", Tim McConnel
Growing in the Life of Faith, Education and Christian Practices (Book Review), Syd Hielema
Submissions from 2001
Describing the Elephant: Christianity in a Media-Driven Culture, Syd Hielema
Improvising Inside the Whole Story, Syd Hielema
Submissions from 1999
After Heaven, Spirituality in America Since the 1950s (Book Review), Syd Hielema
Heaven... It's Not the End of the World (Book Review), Thomas G. Soerens
Perfection of Misunderstandings: John's Role as Author in the Book of Revelation, Syd Hielema
Faculty Work from 1998
Contemporary Worship Music: A Biblical Defence (Book Review), Syd Hielema
Submissions from 1996
Scripture and Theology: Doctrinal Facts, a Community's Narrative, or a Redemptive-Historical Fabric, Michael Williams
Touch Me and Believe: Spiritual Resurrection Redefined, Michael Williams
Submissions from 1995
Homosexuality and the Body of Christ: An Opportunity for Reflection, Michael Williams
Identity Myth and Christian Anti-Semitism, Michael Williams
Liberating Message: A Christian Worldview for Africa (Book Review), Michael W. Goheen
Risen Indeed: Making Sense of the Resurrection (Book Review), Michael Williams
Submissions from 1994
Christian Perspectives on Being Human: A Multidisciplinary Approach to Integration (Book Review), Michael Williams
Christian Theology: An Introduction (Book Review), Michael Williams