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Dr. Glenn Butner Jr.

Associate Professor of Theology

Dr. Glenn Butner Jr.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.

Degrees

  • BA (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill)
  • MDiv (Duke Divinity School)
  • PhD (Marquette University)

Featured Publications

     

Select List of Publications

  • Virtue. In Pillars of Dogmatics series. (B&H Academic, forthcoming)
  • Christological Dogmatics. (Baker Academic, forthcoming)
  • Work Out Your Salvation: Moral Formation in the Marketplace. Minneapolis, MN: Fortress Press, 2024.
  • “A Dogmatic Response to Eternal Functional Subordination.” In The Doctrine of the Trinity: Retrieving Nicene Orthodoxy for Today. Edited by Matthew Barrett. Downers Grove, IL: IVP Academic, 2024.
  • Jesus the Refugee: Ancient Injustice and Modern Solidarity. Minneapolis, MN: Fortress Press, 2023. Reviewed in Reading Religion, The Englewood Review of Books, and Word & Way.
  • Trinitarian Dogmatics: Exploring the Grammar of the Christian Doctrine of God. (Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Academic, 2022). Award of Merit, Theology (Academic) in Christianity Today’s 2023 Book Awards.
  • The Son Who Learned Obedience: A Theological Case Against the Eternal Submission of the Son. (Eugene, OR: Pickwick, 2018).

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