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Kyle Strobel

Associate Professor of Spiritual Theology

DepartmentsInstitute for Spiritual Formation
Talbot School of Theology
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Phones(562) 903-4888 (Institute for Spiritual Formation)
(562) 903-4814 (Talbot School of Theology)

Documents

CV Document (PDF)

Degrees

  • Ph.D., University of Aberdeen
  • M.A., Talbot School of Theology (N.T.)
  • M.A., Talbot School of Theology (Philosophy)
  • B.A., Judson University

Biography

Kyle Strobel (Ph.D. University of Aberdeen) is a systematic theologian who teaches spiritual theology for Talbot’s Institute for Spiritual Formation and Spiritual Formation Focus programs. His areas of interest include systematic theology, Jonathan Edwards, spiritual formation and prayer. He writes both popular and academic books and articles, and is on the preaching team at Redeemer Church, La Mirada.

Affiliations

  • Evangelical Theological Society
  • American Academy of Religion

Publications

Books Written

  • Sanctification co-authored with Kent Eilers (Baker Academic, forthcoming).
  • When God Seems Distant: Surprising Ways God Deepens Our Faith and Draws Us Near with John Coe (Baker Books, forthcoming).
  • Where Prayer Becomes Real: How Honesty with God Transforms Your Soul, co-authored with John Coe (Baker Books, 2021)
  • Jonathan Edwards: An Introduction to His Thought, co-authored with Oliver Crisp (Eerdmans Publishing, 2018)
  • The Way of the Dragon or the Way of the Lamb: Searching for Jesus' Path of Power in a Church that Has Abandoned It co-authored with Jamin Goggin (Thomas Nelson, 2017).
  • Beloved Dust: Drawing Close to God by Discovering the Truth About Yourself co-authored with Jamin Goggin (Nashville: Thomas Nelson, 2014).
  • Formed for the Glory of God: Learning from the Spiritual Practices of Jonathan Edwards (IVP, 2013).
  • Jonathan Edwards’s Theology: A Reinterpretation (T&T Clark, 2013).
  • Metamorpha: Jesus as a Way of Life (Baker Books, 2007).

Books Edited

  • Virtue Ethics, Grace, and a Protestant Doctrine of Infusion edited with Lucy Peppiatt (Routledge, forthcoming).
  • Jonathan Edwards and Reformed Dogmatics edited with Christina Larsen and Phillip Hussey (Lexham Press, forthcoming).
  • Reformed Dogmatics in Dialogue: The Theology of Karl Barth and Jonathan Edwards co-edited with Uche Anizor (Lexham Press, 2022).
  • Regeneration, Revival, & Creation: Religious Experience and the Purposes of God in the Thought of Jonathan Edwards with Chris Chun (Pickwick Publications, 2020).
  • Embracing Contemplation: Reclaiming a Christian Spiritual Practice co-edited with John Coe (IVP Academic, 2019).
  • Jonathan Edwards: Spiritual Writings Classics of Western Spirituality Series edited with Ken Minkema and Adriaan Neele (Paulist Press, 2019).
  • The Ecumenical Edwards: Jonathan Edwards and the Theologians (Ashgate Publishing, 2015).
  • Sanctified in Grace: A Theology of the Christian Life co-edited with Kent Eilers (T&T Clark, 2014).
  • Reading the Christian Spiritual Classics: A Guide for Evangelicals co-edited with Jamin Goggin (IVP Academic, 2013).
  • Charity and Its Fruits: Living in the Love of God, edited and introduced by Kyle Strobel (Crossway, 2012).

Book Chapter

  • “The Spousal Meaning of Love,” in Engaging Catholic Doctrine: Essays in Honor of Matthew Levering, edited by Robert Barron, Scott W. Hahn, and James Merrick (Emmaus Academic, 2023), 353-373.
  • “Knowing as you are Known: Prayer in the Presence of God,” in Analyzing Prayer: Theological and Philosophical Essays, edited by Oliver D. Crisp, James M. Arcadi and Jordan Wessling (Oxford University Press, 2022), 166-182.
  • “God” in Reformed Dogmatics in Dialogue: The Theology of Karl Barth and Jonathan Edwards edited by Uche Anizor and Kyle Strobel (Lexham Press, 2022), 9-26.
  • “Humanity” in Reformed Dogmatics in Dialogue: The Theology of Karl Barth and Jonathan Edwards edited by Uche Anizor and Kyle Strobel (Lexham Press, 2022), 181-200.
  • “The Nature of God and the Trinity” in The Oxford Handbook to Jonathan Edwards edited by Jan Stieverman and Doug Sweeney (Oxford, 2021), 118-134.
  • “Jonathan Edwards’ A Treatise Concerning Religious Affections” in The Oxford Handbook to Reformed Theology edited by R. Michael Allen and Scott Swain (Oxford, 2020), 295-311.
  • “Barth and Edwards” in The Wiley-Blackwell Companion to Karl Barth eds. George Hunsinger and Keith L. Johnson (Wiley-Blackwell, 2020), 495-506.
  • “Contemplation by Son and Spirit: Reforming the Ascent of the Soul to God,” in Embracing Contemplation: Reclaiming a Christian Spiritual Practice (IVP Academic, 2019), 166-184.
  • “Being Seen and Being Known: Jonathan Edwards’s Theological Anthropology” in The Global Edwards ed. Rhys Bezzant (Wiph & Stock, 2017), 158-178.
  • “Atoning Wisdom: The Wisdom of God in the Way of Salvation” in Locating Atonement: Explorations in Constructive Dogmatics ed. co-author Adam Johnson, Oliver Crisp and Fred Sanders, (Zondervan, 2015), 89-100.
  • “The Beauty of Christ in the Theology of Jonathan Edwards and Hans Urs von Balthasar,” in The Ecumenical Edwards: Jonathan Edwards and the Theologians ed. Kyle Strobel (Ashgate Publishing, forthcoming).
  • “Theology in the Gaze of the Father: Retrieving Jonathan Edwards’s Trinitarian Aesthetics” in Advancing Trinitarian Theology: Explorations in Constructive Dogmatics ed. Oliver Crisp and Fred Sanders (Zondervan, 2014).
  • “Introduction: The Christian Life in Dogmatic Key” co-authored with Kent Eilers in Sanctified in Grace: A Theology of the Christian Life (T&T Clark, 2014).
  • “By Word and Spirit: Jonathan Edwards on Redemption, Justification, and Regeneration,” in Jonathan Edwards and Justification ed. Josh Moody (Crossway, 2012), 45-69.
  • "Jonathan Edwards's Reformed Doctrine of the Beatific Vision," in Jonathan Edwards and Scotland ed. Ken Minkema, Adriaan Neale and Kelly van Andel (Dunedin Academic Press, 2011), 171-188.

Articles

  • “Jonathan Edwards’s Affective Anthropology” in Journal of Spiritual Formation and Soul Care 16:1 (May 2023), 31–49.
  • “‘As in a Mirror’: Jonathan Edwards, Self-Love and Enlarging to Receive Another” in International Journal of Systematic Theology 25:2 (April 2023), 249-266.
  • “Gratitude to God: Jonathan Edwards and the Opening of the Self” in Scientia et Fides 9:2 (2021), 115-131.
  • “Christian Life,” and “Doctrine of Simplicity” in A Jonathan Edwards Encyclopedia ed. Harry Stout (Eerdmans, 2017), 87-89, 153-155.
  • “Jonathan Edwards’s Reformed Doctrine of Theosis,” in Harvard Theological Review 109:3 (July 2016): 371-399.
  • “A Spiritual Sight of Love: Constructing a Doctrine of the Beatific Vision” for UnionTheology.Org.
  • “‘In Your Light they Shall See Light’: A Theological Prolegomena for Contemplation” in Journal of Spiritual Formation and Soul Care (Spring 2014): 85-106.
  • “Jonathan Edwards and the Polemics of Theosis,” in Harvard Theological Review 105:3 (July 2012): 259-279.

Presentations

  • “Love Made Manifest: Jonathan Edwards’s Spirit-Christology.” Paper presented at the first biennial Pacific Systematic Theology Colloquium at Gateway Seminary (Ontario, CA): February, 2024.
  • Invited Response Paper for The Martin Institute Christian Formation Workshop: “A Crisis Among Us: The Problem of Christian Immaturity.” Hosted by the Martin Institute for Christianity and Culture at Westmont College (Santa Barbara, CA): May 2024.
  • “Increasing in Holiness? Jonathan Edwards and the Formation of Virtue.” Paper presented at the 73 nd Annual Meeting of the Evangelical Theological Society (Denver): November, 2022.
  • “Holiness, Love, and the Ethics of Infusion: Holiness in Charity and Its Fruits.” Paper presented at the 73 nd Annual Meeting of the Evangelical Theological Society (Denver): November, 2022.
  • “Personhood and Perichoresis: Jonathan Edwards and the Relational Trinity.” Paper presented at the 72 nd Annual Meeting of the Evangelical Theological Society (Dallas): November, 2021.
  • “Scripture, the Beatific Vision, and Reading in the Spirit.” Paper presented at the 70th Annual Meeting of the Evangelical Theological Society (San Diego): November, 2019.
  • “Jonathan Edwards, the Visual, and the Nature of the Self.” Paper presented at the 70th Annual Meeting of the Evangelical Theological Society (San Diego): November, 2019.
  • “Jonathan Edwards and the Spirit: Infusion and Formation.” Paper presented at the 70th Annual Meeting of the Evangelical Theological Society (San Antonio): November, 2018.
  • “Jonathan Edwards’s Spiritual Theology.” Paper presented at the 68 th Annual Meeting of the Evangelical Theological Society (San Antonio): November, 2016.
  • “Jonathan Edwards on Prayer.” Paper presented at the Pastors Colloquium on Prayer, Fuller Theological Seminary (Pasadena): May, 2016.
  • “The Beauty of the Triune God: A Retrieval.” Paper presented at the 2nd Annual Los Angeles Theology Conference: Advancing Trinitarian Theology (Fuller Theological Seminary, Pasadena): January, 2014.
  • “Reforming Silent Prayer." Paper presented at the 65th Annual Meeting of the Evangelical Theological Society (Baltimore): November, 2013.
  • “The Ground and Possibility of Contemplation.” Paper presented at the 64th Annual Meeting of the Evangelical Theological Society (Milwaukee): November, 2012.
  • “An Evangelical Spirituality of Theosis." Paper presented at the 63rd Annual Meeting of the Evangelical Theological Society (San Francisco): November, 2011.
  • "A Happifying Sight: Jonathan Edwards and the Beatific." Paper presented at the Jonathan Edwards and Scotland Conference (Glasgow): March, 2009.

Books

The Way of the Dragon or the Way of the Lamb: Searching for Jesus' Path of Power in a Church that Has Abandoned ItThe Way of the Dragon or the Way of the Lamb: Searching for Jesus' Path of Power in a Church that Has Abandoned It
Beloved Dust: Drawing Close to God by Discovering the Truth About YourselfBeloved Dust: Drawing Close to God by Discovering the Truth About Yourself
Formed for the Glory of God: Learning from the Spiritual Practices of Jonathan EdwardsFormed for the Glory of God: Learning from the Spiritual Practices of Jonathan Edwards
Reading the Christian Spiritual Classics: A Guide for EvangelicalsReading the Christian Spiritual Classics: A Guide for Evangelicals
Where Prayer Becomes RealWhere Prayer Becomes Real
Embracing Contemplation: Reclaiming a Christian Spiritual PracticeEmbracing Contemplation: Reclaiming a Christian Spiritual Practice

Areas of Expertise for Media Interviews

  • Anthropology
  • Bible
  • Character Development
  • Christian Thought
  • Church
  • Church History
  • Discipleship
  • Doctrine
  • Faith
  • God
  • Hermeneutics
  • Holy Spirit
  • Jesus
  • Pop Culture & Christianity
  • Salvation
  • Spirituality
  • Spiritual Formation
  • Theology
  • Trinity
  • Jonathan Edwards
  • Puritan Spirituality
  • Evangelical Spirituality
  • Contemplation
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