United Theological Collage

Ben Myers completed a PhD at James Cook University on seventeenth-century theology and literature. Before coming to UTC, he was a research fellow in intellectual history at the University of Queensland. His teaching and research focus mainly on systematic theology and modern theology, but he also has wide interests in literature, political thought, cyberspace, and contemporary culture. He is a member of the Center of Theological Inquiry in Princeton, and an Honorary Research Advisor to the University of Queensland’s Centre for the History of European Discourses. His current research includes a study of Karl Barth’s theology and a book on the secularisation of politics. Ben also discusses theology, books, music and culture on his daily theology blog, Faith and Theology.

Research interests

Systematic and contemporary theology; John Milton; Karl Barth; Dietrich Bonhoeffer; Rowan Williams; political theology; secularisation; history of political thought; history of Reformed theology; theology and contemporary culture

• Publications

   

  Books 

  The Theology of Rowan Williams: A Critical Introduction. London: T&T Clark, forthcoming.

   

  Milton's Theology of Freedom. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 2006. xiv + 210 pp.

   

  Journal articles and chapters 

  “Karl Barth and Contemporary Paganism: Toward a Theology without Nature”, forthcoming in Princeton Seminary Bulletin

   

  "Theology 2.0: Blogging as Theological Discourse," forthcoming in Cultural Encounters 6:1 (2010)

   

  “Election, Trinity and the History of Jesus: Reading Barth with Rowan Williams,” forthcoming in Trinitarian Theology after Barth (Eugene, OR: Pickwick), ed. Myk Habets
  
  “‘Through him all things were made’: Creation, Redemption, Election,” forthcoming in Abraham Kuyper's Legacy for Contemporary Ecotheology: An Inter-Continental Dialogue, ed. Ernst Conradie (Leiden: Brill)
  
  “Justice, Law, Forgiveness: A Response to Heather Thomson’s The Things That Make for Peace,” forthcoming in St Mark’s Review
  
  “The Impossibility of the Secular: Double Prevenience in Karl Barth's Ethics of Reconciliation,” forthcoming in Scottish Bulletin of Evangelical Theology
  
  “Disruptive History: Rowan Williams on Heresy and Orthodoxy,” in On Rowan Williams: Critical Essays, ed. Matheson Russell (Eugene, OR: Cascade, 2009), 47-67
  
  “From Faithfulness to Faith in the Theology of Karl Barth,” in The Faith of Jesus Christ: Exegetical, Biblical and Theological Studies, ed. Michael F. Bird and Preston M. Sprinkle (Carlisle: Paternoster, 2009), 291-308
  
  “Milton and the Theology of Secular Politics,” The Turnbull Library Record 41 (2008), 37-49
  
  “‘Following the Way Which Is Called Heresy’: Milton and the Heretical Imperative,” Journal of the History of Ideas 69:3 (2008), 375-93
  
  “Faith as Self-Understanding: Towards a Post-Barthian Appreciation of Rudolf Bultmann,” International Journal of Systematic Theology 10:1 (2008), 21-35
  
  (with Ross H. McKenzie) “Dialectical Critical Realism in Science and Theology: Quantum Physics and Karl Barth,” Science and Christian Belief 20:1 (2008), 49-66
  
  “The Stratification of Knowledge in the Thought of T. F. Torrance,” Scottish Journal of Theology 61:1 (2008), 1-15
  
  “Karl Barth as Historian: Historical Method in the Göttingen Lectures on Calvin, Zwingli and Schleiermacher,” Zeitschrift für dialektische Theologie 23:1 (2007), 96-109
  
  “The Difference Totality Makes: Reconsidering Pannenberg’s Eschatological Ontology,” Neue Zeitschrift für systematische Theologie und Religionsphilosophie 49:2 (2007), 141-55
  
  “Alister McGrath’s Scientific Theology,” in The Order of Things: Explorations in Scientific Theology, edited by Alister E. McGrath (Oxford: Blackwell, 2006), 1-20
  
  “Predestination and Freedom in Milton’s Paradise Lost,” Scottish Journal of Theology 59:1 (2006), 64-80
  
  “Prevenient Grace and Conversion in Paradise Lost,” Milton Quarterly 40:1 (2006), 22-39
  
  “Alister McGrath’s Scientific Theology,” Reformed Theological Review 64:1 (2005), 15-34
  
  “Milton’s Paradise Lost, Book 11,” The Explicator 64:1 (2005), 14-17

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