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CURRICULUM VITAE

Geoffrey Holsclaw
Affiliate Professor of Theology
Northern Seminary
Associate Professor at Vineyard North, Grand Rapids

Fields of Interest

• Theological Anthropology
• Neuroscience and Spiritual Formation
• Systematic Theology
• Political Philosophy

Education

• Ph.D., Marquette University, Religious Studies (Theology and Society), 2013.
• M.Div., Trinity Evangelical Divinity School, Theology, 2003.
• B.A., University of California, Santa Cruz, Philosophy, 1999.

Northern Seminary, Lombard, IL, 2012-
Affiliate Professor of Theology (2013-)

• Christian Theology I (4x) (masters level course taught live and online)
• Christian Theology II (3x) (masters level course taught live and online)
• Discerning the Triune God (2x) (masters level course taught live and online)
• Theology of Church and Culture (12x) (masters level course taught live & online)
• Biblical/Theological Foundations of Ministry (5x) (doctoral level course)
• Thesis Design (3x) (doctoral level course)

Adjunct Professor of Theology (2012)

• DM 7045 “Biblical/Theological Foundation of Ministry” (x2)

Publications

Books

Does God Really Like Me? Discovering the God Who Wants to Be With Us with Cynthia Holsclaw (Downers Grove: IVP, 2020).

Transcending Subjects: Augustine, Hegel, and Theology (Challenges in Contemporary Theology) (Oxford: Blackwell, 2016).

Prodigal Christianity: Ten Signposts into the Missional Frontier with David E. Fitch (San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2013).

Articles/Chapters

• “Mission Amid Empire: Why Political Formation and Mission are not Mutually Exclusive,” Missiology: An International Review, with David E. Fitch (Volume 41, Issue 4). (link)
• “At a Distance to the State: Hobbes and Badiou on Politics,” Telos: Journal of Politics, Philosophy, Critical Theory, Culture, and the Arts 160 (Fall 2012): 99-119. (link)
• “Christ in Circulation: The Eucharistic Exchange and Money,” Journal for Cultural and Religious Theory vol. 11 no. 2 (Spring 2011): 199-215. (link)
• “Martyrdom as Exteriority: Politics after Bare Life,” with D. Stephen Long, in Witness of the Body: The Past, Present and Future of Christian Martyrdom, eds. Michael L. Budde and Karen Scott (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2011).
• “Christ and Capital: Money Changers and the Lord’s Table,” The Other Journal 17 (2010). (link)
• “Discerning Fidelity: Badiou Between Faith and Reason,” New Blackfriars 91 (2010): 229-241. (link)
• “Subjects between Death and Resurrection: Žižek, Badiou, and St. Paul” in Paul, Philosophy, and the Theopolitical Vision: Critical Engagements with Agamben, Badiou, Žižek, and Others (Theopolitical Visions Series), ed. Douglas Harink (Eugene, OR: Cascade, 2010). (link)

Book Reviews

• John Atherton’s “Transfiguring Capitalism: An Inquiry into Religion and Global  Change,” Evangelical Review of Society and Politics, 3, no. 1 (March, 2009).
• Philip Goodchild’s “Theology of Money,” Evangelical Review of Society and Politics, 2, no. 2 (October 2008).

Other Publications

“Stuck in a Spiritual Rut? Neuroscience Might Have the Answer” Christianity Today, July 17, 2020. 

“Joy, The Overlooked Aspect of the Cross” Christianity Today, April 17, 2019.

“Does God Have to Love Me?” Christianity Today, Feb. 14, 2017.

“A Pastor to evangelical Trump voters.” Op-ed in The Washington Post, November 18^th, 2016.

Conference Papers

Academic Papers

• “Against ‘Political’ Theology,” panel presentation at the Political Theologies Seminar at Marquette University, September, 15^th, 2011.
• “The Trinitarian Foundation for Mission Amid Empire; or Why Political Formation and Mission are not mutually exclusive,” with David Fitch, at Empire, Church, Missio Dei, Wesleyan Theological Society Meeting, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, TX, March 4, 2011.
• “Scripture After Hermeneutics and Historicism: On Canonical, Sacramental, and Ecclesial Practices,” presented at The Future of Scripture, Wesleyan Theological Society Meeting, Azusa Pacific University, March 5, 2010.
• “Christ in Circulation: The Eucharistic Exchange and Money,” presented at Gift and Economy: Ethics, Hospitality and the Market, Wesleyan Philosophical Society, Azusa Pacific University, March 4, 2010.
• “Among Other Bodies: On an Augustinian Eucharistic Politic,” presented at the Marquette University/Loyola University Chicago Graduate Student Theological Colloquium, Feb. 20th, 2010.
• “Can Hermeneutics Overcome Historicism? The Ethics of Textual and Sacramental Practices,” presented at The Ethics of Interpretation: From Ancient to Postmodern Times, by the Seminar on Phenomenology and Hermeneutics, Marquette University, May 14th, 2009.
• “Hegel, Augustine, and the Limits of Sittlichkeit,” presented at the 2009 Symposium on Religion and Politics, Calvin College, April 24th, 2009.
• “Discerning Fidelity: Alain Badiou Between Faith and Reason,” presented at the Midwest AAR Regional meeting, April 4th, 2009.
• “Subjects between Death and Resurrection: Žižek, Badiou, and St. Paul,” presented at Saint Paul’s Journeys Into Philosophy, University of British Columbia, June 5th, 2008.
• “At a Distance to the State: Radical Democracy and Religion,” presented at the Fourth Biennial Symposium on Religion and Politics, Calvin College, April 26th, 2008.

Popular Presentations

• “Worship, Liturgy, Mission, ” Ecclesial National Gathering, Focused Session, Washington, D.C., Feb. 17th, 2010.
• “The Death of Leadership: Christ, Co-Leading, and Missional Living,” Verge, Los Angeles, Nov. 14th, 2009.
• “The Generative Tensions of Co-Leadership,” Seeding Missional Communities, Chicago, Jan. 5th, 2007.
• “Repentance as Resistance: The Politics of Sacrifice,” 2006 Emergent Theological Conference, Workshop Presentation, Yale Divinity School, February 8th, 2006.
• “Evangelism, Ekklesia, and the Emerging Church,” Ekklesia Project Conference, Workshop Presentation, DePaul University, July 19th, 2004.