Resources from Gerald Hiestand
Books
forthcoming
The Doctrine of Justification
Zondervan, 2015
The Pastor Theologian: Resurrecting an Ancient Vision
Pastoral ministry today is often ruled by an emphasis on short-sighted goals, pragmatic results, and shallow thinking. Unfortunately, those in the academy tend to have the opposite problem, failing to connect theological study to the pressing issues facing the church today. Contemporary evangelicalism has lost sight of…
Crossway, 2012
Sex, Dating, and Relationships
A Fresh Approach
Considering the sex-crazed, hook-up based culture we live in―not to mention the ever-climbing divorce rate―it’s clear that we need a better understanding of sex, dating, and relationships. Pastors Gerald Hiestand and Jay Thomas give us a paradigm-shifting view of purity and relationships―a view that accounts for the biblical evidence and…
Edited Works
IVP Academic, 2019
Tending Soul, Mind, and Body
The Art and Science of Spiritual Formation (Center for Pastors Theologian Series)
Co-edited with Todd Wilson
Throughout his ministry, Jesus consistently demonstrated his concern and love for the whole person: soul, mind, and body. That task is carried forward today by pastors and church leaders, who are called to care for people in the midst of individual circumstances as well as seismic cultural shifts. How might that calling be informed by recent developments in psychology?
IVP Academic, 2018
Creation and Doxology
The Beginning and End of God's Good World (Center for Pastors Theologian Series)
Co-edited with Todd Wilson
The doctrine of creation is crucial to the Christian faith, but it has often been maligned, misinterpreted, or ignored. Some, such as pagan philosophers and Gnostics, have tended to denigrate the goodness of the material world. More recently, new questions have emerged regarding human origins in light of the Darwinian account of evolution…
IVP Academic, 2017
Beauty, Order, and Mystery
A Christian Vision of Human Sexuality (Center for Pastor Theologians Series)
Co-edited with Todd Wilson
Humans are sexual creatures. Our sexuality can be a beautiful and mysterious expression of what it means to be human. But it can also become distorted and sinful. Perhaps no issue is as urgent for the church today, or confronts it with as many questions, as human sexuality: What does it mean to fulfill God’s will through our sexuality?…
IVP Academic, 2016
Becoming a Pastor Theologian
New Possibilities for Church Leadership (Center for Pastor Theologians Series)
Co-edited with Todd Wilson
The roles of pastor and theologian have gone their separate ways. Throughout much of the church's history, these two roles have been deeply intertwined, but in our contemporary setting, a troubling bifurcation between them has developed. The result has been a theologically weakened church and an ecclesially weakened theology…
2014-Present
The Bulletin of Ecclesial Theology
Vols. 1.1-8.2
General Editor
The roles of pastor and theologian have gone their separate ways. Throughout much of the church's history, these two roles have been deeply intertwined, but in our contemporary setting, a troubling bifurcation between them has developed. The result has been a theologically weakened church and an ecclesially weakened theology…
Articles & Chapter Contributions
Bulletin of Ecclesial Theology
Volume 6.2, 2019
The Irenaeus Option
How Irenaeus Does (and Does Not) Reduce the Tension between Christian Theology and Evolutionary Science,”
Bulletin of Ecclesial Theology
Vol 6.1, 2019
‘And Behold It Was Very Good’
St. Irenaeus’ Doctrine of Creation
Bulletin of Ecclesial Theology
Vol. 5.1, 2018
And Exploration of Irenaeus’ Anthropology in Light of the Darwinian Account of Pre-Fall Death
A More Modest Adam
Cascade, 2018
What Saint Paul Would Say about “Making Out”
in Venus and Virtue: Celebrating Sex and Seeking Sanctification
Eds. Jerry Walls, David Bagget, and Jeremy Neal
IVP Academic, 2018
Irenaeus, the Devil, and the Goodness of Creation
in Creation and Doxology: The Beginning and End of God’s Good World
Eds. Gerald Hiestand and Todd Wilson
IVP Academic, 2017
“Put Pain Like That Beyond My Power”: A Christocentric Theodicy with Respect to the Inequality of Male and Female Power
in Beauty, Order and Mystery: A Christian Vision of Human Sexuality
Eds. Gerald Hiestand and Todd Wilson
Bulletin of Ecclesial Theology
Vol. 4.1, June 2017
The Bishop, Beelzebub, and the Blessing of Materiality
How Irenaeus’ Account of the Devil Reshapes the Christian Narrative in a Pro-Terrestrial Direction
IVP Academic, 2016
The Pastor Theologian as Ecclesial Theologian
in Becoming a Pastor Theologian: New Possibilities for Church Leadership
Eds. Gerald Hiestand and Todd Wilson
Journal of Markets & Morality
Vol. 18, No. 2 (Fall 2015), 419-27
Theological Vocation and the Church
Bulletin of Ecclesial Theology
Vol. 1.1, June 2014
A Biblical-Theological Approach to Premarital Sexual Ethics
Or, What St. Paul would Say about Making Out
Expository Times
Vol. 124, no. 6, March 2013, 261-71
A Taxonomy of the Pastor-Theologian
Why PhD Students Should Consider the Pastorate as the Context for Their Theological Scholarship
The Evangelical Quarterly
Vol. 84.1, 2012
How Athanasius Overcomes the Under-Realized Eschatology of Evangelicalism
Not Just Forgiven
Reformation 21
n. p., 2009
Ecclesial Theology and Academic Theology
Why We Need More of the Former
The Westminster Theological Journal
Vol. 70, no. 2, 2008, 355-69
Pastor-Scholar to Professor-Scholar
Exploring the Theological Disconnect Between the Academy and the Local Church
Trinity Journal
Vol. 28 NS, No. 1, 2007, 115-139
Augustine and the Justification Debates
Appropriating Augustine’s Doctrine of Culpability
Book Reviews
Bulletin of Ecclesial Theology
Vol 5.2, 2018
The Selfish Gene
Richard Dawkins
Bulletin of Ecclesial Theology
Vol. 3.1, 2016
The End of the Affair
Graham Greene
Themelios
Vol. 36.2, 2011
The Missional Church and Leadership Formation
Helping Congregations Develop Leadership Capacity
Ed. Craig Van Gelder
2010
How I Changed My Mind About Women in Leadership
Compelling Stories from Prominent Evangelicals
Ed. Alan F. Johnson
2012
The Great Tradition of Christian Thinking
A Student’s Guide
David S. Dockery and Timothy George