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