Assoc. Prof. Peter Kline

Academic Dean, St Francis College | Lecturer in Systematic Theology

PhD (Vanderbilt University), MDiv (Princeton Theological Seminary), MTh (University of Edinburgh), BA (Wheaton College)

Profile

Peter Kline is Academic Dean and Lecturer in Systematic Theology. He represents St Francis College to the Charles Sturt University of Theology. Peter completed his PhD in 2016. Before joining St Francis College as a lecturer, he taught theology at Vanderbilt University and Fuller Theological Seminary. 

When not teaching, studying and writing, Peter enjoys painting, yoga, baseball and time at home with his wife, Janice, his son, Leo, and his stepchildren Jesse and Penelope.

Publications

Scholarly Monograph

Passion for Nothing: Kierkegaard’s Apophatic Theology. Minneapolis: Fortress Press, September 2017.

Journal Articles

“God is Blackness: Mysticism of the Unowned Earth,” Abolition: A Journal of Radical Theory and Practice, 2022.

“Blurred Theology: On the Colour Black,” St Marks Review, 2019 (249), p. 115-127.

“Imaging Nothing: Kierkegaard and the Imago Dei,” Anglican Theological Review, vol. 100 no. 4, Fall 2018

“Absolute Action: Divine Hiddenness in Kierkegaard’s Fear and Trembling,” Modern Theology, vol. 28 no. 3, July 2012.

“Participation in God and the Nature of Christian Community: Robert Jenson and Eberhard Jüngel,” International Journal of Systematic Theology, vol. 13 no. 1, January 2011.

Book Chapters

“Christ without the Phallus,” in Speaking of Christa, SCM, 2022.

“Against Innocence: Feminism and Original Sin,” Interstices & Fractures: (Re)Visions of Feminist Theologies, Decolonizing Theology Series, Lexington Fortress Press, eds. Stephen Burns and Rebekah Pryor, 2021.

“Becoming Flesh,” Afterlives: Jesus in a Global Perspective, The Westar Studies Series, ed. Gregory Jenks, Wipf & Stock, 2021.

“Infinite Reduplication: Kierkegaard’s Negative Concept of God,” in Contemporary Debates in Negative Theology and Philosophy, eds. Nahum Brown and J. Aaron Simmons. Palgrave-MacMillan, 2017

“’You Wonder Where The Spirit Went’: Barth and Jenson on the Hiddenness of God,” in Barth in Conversation, Eugene, OR: Wipf & Stock, 2014.

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