RESEARCH
My focus is helping the church better spread the Good News, but that stands behind an expansive set of research foci. My ever expanding interests include historical and modern theology, metaphysics, epistemology, modernity and secularity, Anglicanism, the history and sociology of evangelicalism, Methodism, pedagogy, and linguistics.
THE BOOK
The Evangelical Party and Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s Return to the Church of England has the illustrious distinction of being the longest title in Routledge’s Studies in Romanticism Series, for whatever that’s worth. I argue that while Samuel Taylor Coleridge may not have become a full-blown evangelical, his return to the Church of England was highly influenced by evangelicals. He developed a very evangelically inflected style of Christian orthodoxy and maintained a number of relationships with evangelicals. I think this book should be helpful to anyone interested in Coleridge, evangelicalism, Romanticism, eighteenth- or nineteenth-century intellectual history, or Anglicanism or Methodism.
CURRENT PROJECTS
BOOK OF HOMILIES
IN MODERN ENGLISH
The Book of Homilies was written in the mid-sixteenth century to help form the people according to the principles of the English Reformation. The language is beautiful, but sadly somewhat inaccessible. I want to put this work in contemporary American English to make it more widely accessible. I even hope some people may read the homilies as homilies once more!
GESCHICHTE
DES PIETISMUS
The four volume Geschichte des Pietismus (History of Pietism) is considered the most authoritative overview of the origins and history of Pietism. It is also only in German. I want to make this incredible resource more widely available to an English-speaking audience, especially since much of the material is only or best made available in these four books.
HISTORY OF THEOLOGY
WITHOUT ANY GAPS
Right now there is an excellent podcast called “The History of Philosophy without any Gaps” which attempts to go through, well, the history of western philosophy without leaving anything out. I want to do the same thing for Christian theology, starting with the religion of ancient Israel and going up until the present. Look for this, hopefully through Earth & Altar sometime in 2021.