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 2020
"Are You for Us or for Our Enemies?" Making Decisions Among Contested Meanings, Justin Bailey
God's Sabbath with Creation: Vocations Fulfilled, the Glory Unveiled (Book Review), Justin Bailey
Keeping 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
Shows that Shape Us: Asking the Right Questions, Justin Bailey
Shows that Shape Us: The Office, Justin Bailey
The Death of Kobe Bryant: Fallen Icons and Heart of Popular Culture, Justin Bailey
Western Society and Cultural Elites: A Review of Return of the Strong Gods, David Westfall
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
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
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