Email: [email protected]
First Year at Gordon-Conwell: 2024
Expertise: Dogmatic Theology and Social Ethics
Biography:
Dr. Glenn Butner comes to Gordon-Conwell after serving for eight years on the theology and ministry faculty of Sterling College in Kansas, where he also directed the honors program. Dr. Butner’s research and writing is focused on dogmatic theology and social ethics. His dogmatic writings, including Trinitarian Dogmatics and Christological Dogmatics (forthcoming), draw from a wide range of Christian traditions throughout history and across the globe with analyses rooted in the inerrant text of Scripture. In his social ethics writings, like Jesus the Refugee and Work Out Your Salvation, he seeks a nuanced analysis informed by detailed recognition of the social, legal, and economic contexts within which moral decision making occurs.
Dr. Butner was raised in North Carolina, where he met his wife Lydia, with whom he now has three children: Elias, Ezra, and Sophia. He has served in prison chaplaincy, as a board member for the Kefa Project—a joint Rwandan-American missions and development—and in refugee ministry. When not reading theology, he enjoys running, cooking (and eating), board games, or playing with his kids.