Biographical Details

For a full CV, please email me: rneal@andersonuniversity.edu

Qualifications

• 2001-06 PhD, Systematic Theology, University of Edinburgh, Scotland
• 2000-01 MTh, Systematic Theology, University of Edinburgh, Scotland
• 1996-99 MDivBL, Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, Fort Worth, Texas
• 1992-96 BA, Political Science, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas

Appointments

• 2005-present Assistant Professor of Religion, Anderson University, SC
• 2004-05 Adjunct Faculty of Religion, Wayland Baptist University, Lubbock campus
• 2000-04 Graduate Teaching Assistant, University of Edinburgh
• 1998-99 Graduate Teaching & Research Assistant, Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary
  

Scholarship

Publications

• Theology as Hope: On the Ground and the Implications of Jürgen Moltmann’s Doctrine of Hope. Princeton Theological Monograph Series, forthcoming.
• "Minority Report: Reconsidering Moltmann's Turn to a Theology of the Cross," in The International Journal of Systematic Theology, forthcoming.
• "J. Moltmann," in Encyclopedia of Theologians, edited by Ian Markham and David Law. Oxford: Blackwell, forthcoming. Commissioned article (6,000-7,000 words).
• "Devil"; "Good Friday"; "Monophysitism" in Encyclopedia of Christian Civilization, 3 vols., edited by George T. Kurian. Oxford: Blackwell, forthcoming.
• "John Knox"; "Jürgen Moltmann"; "Wolfhart Pannenberg" in Encyclopedia of Christian Literature, edited by George T. Kurian and James D. Smith, III. Peabody, MA: Hendrickson, forthcoming.
• "Dietrich Bonhoeffer"; "N.T. Wright" in Encyclopedia of Christian Literature, edited by George T. Kurian and James D. Smith, III. Peabody, MA: Hendrickson, forthcoming. (Co-author: Brett C. Patterson)

Presentations

• (Forthcoming July 2008) "Separate but Equal? Ordination, Theology, and Hermeneutics," delivered at the 2008 Society of Biblical Literature International Annual Congress, Auckland, New Zealand
• "The Priesthood of Every Believer, but the Ordination a Few: Issues in Ecclesiology and Identity," delivered at the 2008 College Theology Society-National Association of Baptist Professors of Religion (at-large) Annual Meeting, Salve Regina University, Newport, RI
• "Finding Nemo, Finding Relevance: Teaching Parables to Millennials," delivered at the 2007 Society of Biblical Literature (SBL) Annual Meeting, San Diego, CA
• "Piety and Polity: Political Theology and Voting Patterns in Recent Presidential Elections," delivered at the 2007 American Academy of Religion / Society of Biblical Theology (AAR/SBL) Southeastern Regional Meeting, Nashville, TN
• "Hope Become Wise: Moltmann's Developing Doctrine of Hope," delivered at the 2004 Scottish Universities' Theology and Religious Studies Annual Conference, University of Glasgow, Scotland
• "Moltmann and the Bible: Issues in Eschatology and Exegesis," delivered at the 2004 Society for the Study of Theology Annual Conference, St. Luke's College, University of Exeter, England
• "Exegesis and ελπις: Theologically Interpreting the Bible," delivered in 2004 at the New College Systematic Theology Forum, University of Edinburgh, Scotland
• "Resourcing Hope: Reassessing Moltmann's Methodology in the Early Trilogy," delivered at the 2003 Scottish Universities' Theology and Religious Studies Annual Conference, King's College, University of Aberdeen, Scotland
• "Moltmann's Turn to a Theology of the Cross: Reconsidering the Consensus Judgment," delivered at the 2003 Society for the Study of Theology Annual Conference, University of Newcastle, England

Book Reviews

• Split: Class and Cultural Divides in American Politics, by Mark D. Brewer and Jeffrey M. Stoneclash. Washington, DC: CQ Press, 2007. Political Studies Review vol. 6.1 (2008) p. 93.
• Three-part Review of recent Pauline literature. Perspectives in Religious Studies vol. 34.1 (2007) pp. 107-111.
  1. Romans in Full Circle: A History of Interpretation, by Mark Reasoner. Louisville KY: Westminster John Knox, 2005
  2. Conversion of the Imagination: Paul as Interpreter of Israel’s Scripture, by Richard B. Hays. Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 2005
  3. A Feminist Introduction to Paul, by Sandra Hack Polaski. St.Louis, MO: Chalice, 2005.
• The Word Made Flesh: A History of Christian Thought, by Margaret R. Miles. Oxford: Blackwell, 2005. Reviews in Religion and Theology vol. 12.3 (June 2005).
• Theological Aesthetics: A Reader, by Gesa Elsbeth Thiessen, ed. London: SCM Press, 2004. Reviews in Religion and Theology vol. 12.3 (June 2005).
• In the End – the Beginning: The Life of Hope, by Jürgen Moltmann. Philadelphia: Fortress, 2004. Reviews in Religion and Theology vol. 12.2 (April 2005).