Brent Hege is Instructor of Philosophy and Religion in the Department of Philosophy and Religion at Butler University. He earned his PhD in theology with distinction at Union Theological Seminary in Richmond, VA, in 2007 and has taught theology and religion at Union and Butler. His research and teaching interests include the history of Christian thought from the Protestant Reformations to the present, constructive theology, theological methods, liberal theology, process-relational theologies, liberation theologies, theodicy, progressive Christianity, and theology and literature. His dissertation, published as Faith at the Intersection of History and Experience: The Theology of Georg Wobbermin, was awarded the 2010 John Templeton Award for Theological Promise by the Forschungszentrum Internationale und Interdisziplinäre Theologie at the University of Heidelberg, Germany.
Articles
'Zurück zu Schleiermacher! und von Schleiermacher aus vorwärts!’ Georg Wobbermin and the Legacy of Schleiermacher in Weimar Liberal Protestantism, Zeitschrift für Neure Theologiegeschicte/Journal for the History of Modern Theology (2012)
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Political Theology in a Postsecularist Key, Radical Philosophy Review (2011)
A review of Clayton Crockett, Radical Political Theology: Religion and Politics after Liberalism. Insurrections: Critical...
The Online Theology Classroom: Strategies for Engaging a Community of Distance Learners in a Hybrid Model of Online Education, Teaching Theology and Religion (2011)
One factor contributing to success in online education is the creation of a safe and...
A Reforming Tradition Struggles with Change: The Evangelical Lutheran Church in America’s Historic Vote on LGBT Ordination, One Year Later, Religion Dispatches (2010)
For progressives in the ELCA, the wider Christian church and society at large, the vote...
The Online Theology Classroom: Strategies for Engaging a Community of Distance Learners in a Hybrid Model of Online Education, Teaching Theology and Religion (2010)
The key to success in online education is the creation and sustenance of a safe...
Books
Faith at the Intersection of History and Experience: The Theology of Georg Wobbermin, Scholarship and professional work from the Liberal Arts and Sciences (2009)
Faith at the Intersection of History and Experience is the first study in English of...
Reviews
Review of "Take My Hand: A Theological Memoir", Seminary Ridge Review (2012)
A review of "Take My Hand: A Theological Memoir" by Andrew Taylor-Troutman.
Review of "The Church Event: Call and Challenge of a Church Protestant", Interpretation: A Journal of Bible and Theology (2012)
A review of "The Church Event: Call and Challenge of a Church Protestant" by Vitor...
Review of "What’s Wrong with Sin? Sin in Individual and Social Perspective from Schleiermacher to Theologies of Liberation", Interpretation: A Journal of Bible and Theology (2012)
A review of "What’s Wrong with Sin? Sin in Individual and Social Perspective from Schleiermacher...
Review of "An Introduction to Christian Theology", Interpretation: A Journal of Bible and Theology (2012)
A review of "An Introduction to Christian Theology" by Richard J. Plantinga, Thomas R. Thompson,...
Review of "Thinking with the Church: Essays in Historical Theology", Interpretation: A Journal of Bible and Theology (2011)
A review of "Thinking with the Church: Essays in Historical Theology" by B. A. Gerrish.
Presentations
The Suffering of God? The Divine Love and the Problem of Suffering in Classical and Process-Relational Theisms., 2010 John Templeton Laureates Colloquium (2010)
Not quite twenty-five years ago, theologian Ronald Goetz surveyed the landscape of late twentieth-century theology...