Education, Degrees
- 2018: Ph.D. in Systematic Theology and Divinity, University of Aberdeen, Scotland
- 2014: M.A. in Theology and Religion, United Theological Seminary, New Brighton, MN, USA
- 1993: Ph.D. in Biochemistry and Cell Biology, Rutgers University, Newark, NJ, USA
- 1991: M.Sc. in Biochemistry, Rutgers University, Newark, NJ, USA
- 1988: B.A. in Biology, Rutgers University, Newark, NJ, USA
Academic Positions and Teaching Experience
- 2025-present: Guest Professor in Historical Theology, ETF Leuven
- 2024-2025: Visiting Professor, Fairfield University, Fairfield, CT, USA
- 2023-2024: Visiting Fellow, Yale Divinity School, New Haven, CT, USA
- 2002-2024: Full-Professor, University of Northwestern, St Paul, MN, USA
- 2009: Fullbright Scholar, University of Tokyo, Japan
- 2001-2002: Visiting Professor, Tufts University, Medford, MA, USA
- 1996-2000: Assistant Professor, Boston University, Boston, MA, USA
- 1996: Visiting Scientist and Professor, University of Nice, France
- 1993-1996: Post-doctoral fellow, Harvard University Medical School, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Department of Pathology, Boston, MA, USA
Selected Bibliography
Books
- A Great and Remarkable Analogy: The Onto-Typology of Jonathan Edwards. New Directions in Edwards Studies 5. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2020.
- A Trinitarian Theology of Nature. Foreword by Alister E. McGrath. Princeton Theological Seminary Monograph Series. Eugene, OR: Wipf & Stock, 2020.
Journal Articles and Book Chapters
- “A Living Spring Perpetually Springing: Jonathan Edwards’ Natural Imagery, Onto-Types and the Rise of Ecotheology.” Jonathan Edwards Studies 13, no. 1 (2023): 1–23.
- “An Ecospirituality of Nature’s Beauty: A Hopeful Conversation in the Current Climate Crisis.” HTS Teologiese Studies / Theological Studies 79, no. 2 (2023): 1–10.
- “Jonathan Edwards’ Use of Natural Typology in Communicating Divine Excellencies.” In Regeneration, Revival and Creation: Religious Experience and the Purposes of God in the Thought of Jonathan Edwards, edited by Chris Chun and Kyle Strobel, 202–21. Eugene, OR: Pickwick, 2020.
- With Walter J. Schultz. “Divine Compositionalism as Occasionalism.” In Occasionalism Revisited: New Essays from the Islamic and Western Philosophical Traditions, edited by Nazif Muhtaroglu, 175–93. Abu Dhabi: Kalam, 2018.
- “A Biotheology of God’s Divine Action in the Present Global Ecological Precipice.” HTS Teologiese Studies / Theological Studies 78, no. 2 (2022): 1–9.
- With Walter J. Schultz. “The Solubility of Salt: A Theistic Account.” Theology and Science 16 (2018): 107–125.
- With Walter J. Schultz. “Causality, Dispositions and a New Occasionalism.” Zygon 52, no. 4 (2017): 962–83.
- “Toward a Theology of Nature.” The Congregationalist 167, no. 4 (2015): 8–13.
- With Walter J. Schultz. “Divine Compositionalism: A Form of Occasionalism or a Preferable Alternative View of Divine Action?” Theology and Science 12, no. 3 (2014): 216–35.
- With Walter J. Schultz. “The Structures of the Actual World.” In Proceedings of the Association of Christians in the Mathematical Sciences 2013, 168–186, 2013.