Rev. Kent D. Eilers
I am Assistant Professor of Theology at Huntington University (PhD, University of Aberdeen). My doctoral research was on Wolfhart Pannenberg’s doctrine of reconciliation, but I am interested as well these days in the theology of the Christian life, trends in N. American evangelical theology, the interrelationship between conceptual and aesthetic theology, and Dostoevsky’s fiction.
‘We are not…simply agents; we are not just the authors of our biography. We are also those who are acted upon; we are also a text written by the hand of another.’ – Eberhard Jüngel
I am a PhD candidate at King’s College, University of Aberdeen, writing on Jonathan Edward’s Trinitarian Theology of Redemption. Prior to coming here I spent much of my time studying philosophy, New Testament, and Spiritual Formation at Talbot School of Theology. During my time there I had the opportunity to focus on spirituality and its relationship to the Christian life and church which led to the writing of Metamorpha: Jesus as a Way of Life and the co-launching of Metamorpha.com, an online community for Christian spiritual formation. I also blog at MetamorphaBlog.com, which is a group blog discussing the issues related to spiritual formation. My research interests revolve around spirituality and theology, method, Jonathan Edwards studies, trinitarian theology and christology.
“That the zeal for God’s honor is also a dangerous passion, that the Christian must bring with him the courage to swim against the tide instead of with it… accept a good deal of loneliness, will perhaps be nowhere so clear and palpable as in the church, where he would so much like things to be different. Yet he cannot and he will not refuse to take this risk and pay this price… he belongs where the reformation of the church is underway or will again be underway.” – Karl Barth