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| Jeffrey W. Barbeau
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Associate Professor of Theology
On faculty since 2008
Office: BGC 282
Phone: 630-752-5920
Jeffrey.Barbeau@wheaton.edu
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Ph.D. Marquette University, 2002 (Religious Studies/Historical Theology)
M.A. Marquette University, 1998 (Theology)
M.A. Old Dominion University, 1996 (English Literature)
B.A. Oral Roberts University, 1995 (Theological and Historical Studies)
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Professional and Personal Interests
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There is small chance of Truth at the goal where there is not a childlike Humility at the Starting-post" (S. T. Coleridge, Aids to Reflection, Aph Sp Rel B, V).
The study of theology and history encourages each of us to humbly reconnect to the diverse and imaginative beauty of the Christian faith. At its best, a liberal arts education allows students to see the full range of ideas across the disciplines and, moving one step further, helps us to conceptualize the interrelated nature of all ideas. The Christian liberal arts curriculum opposes an atomizing isolation of disciplines and embraces the need for the holistic integration of knowledge.
My work as a teacher and researcher develops from this conceptual, interdisciplinary base. Over the years, I have had the privilege to teach courses in systematic theology, all eras of church history, philosophy, popular culture, and even English literature/composition. My research and writing complements this wide teaching background. While I was a Visiting Fellow of the University of Cambridge in 2002-2003, I had the opportunity to collaborate on and eventually develop the first collection of scholarly papers on the newly-published Opus Maximum of S. T. Coleridge (1772-1834). I recently published the first full analysis of Coleridge’s late commentaries on the Bible and theology of divine revelation. Currently, I am at work on several exciting new projects, including a global intellectual history of Wesleyan pneumatologies as well as a systematic study of the unpublished theological writings of Sara Coleridge (1802-1852).
I am an occasional golfer, an avid Green Bay Packer fan, and, above all, the proud father of four beautiful children—Elizabeth, Rebekah, Benjamin, and Samuel.
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- Historical Theology
- Pneumatology
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- American Academy of Religion
- American Society of Church History
- Friends of Coleridge
- Historical Society of the United Methodist Church
- Venerable John Henry Newman Association
- Wesleyan Theological Society
- Wordsworth-Coleridge Association
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- Wesleyan theology and history
- British and American Romanticism
- Doctrine of the Holy Spirit
- Doctrine of the Church
- Literature and Theology
- Modern theology and philosophy
- Theology in America
- Cultural analysis
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“Asbury, Francis”; “Bushnell, Horace”; “ Coleridge, Samuel Taylor”; “Mott, John R.”; “Newman, John Henry”; “Taylor, Jeremy”; “Wesley, Charles”; “Wesley, John,” in The Encyclopedia of Christian Literature, eds. George Thomas Kurian and James D. Smith III ( Peabody, Mass.: Hendrickson). Forthcoming.
Coleridge, the Bible, and Religion . Nineteenth-Century Major Lives and Letters. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008.
Editor. Coleridge’s Assertion of Religion: Essays on the Opus Maximum. Studies in Philosophical Theology, no. 33. Louvain: Peeters Press, 2006.
“The Quest for Truth: An Introduction to Coleridge’s Lifelong Dream” (pp. 1–32) and “Science and the Depersonalization of the Divine: Pantheism, Unitarianism, and the Limits of Natural Theology” (pp. 163–85) in Coleridge’s Assertion of Religion.
“Sara Coleridge the Victorian Theologian: Between Newman’s Tractarianism and Wesley’s Methodism,” The Coleridge Bulletin: The Journal of the Friends of Coleridge n.s. 28 (2006): 29–36.
“Coleridge and the ‘Master-Key’ of Biblical Interpretation,” Heythrop Journal: A Quarterly Review of Philosophy and Theology 45 (2004): 1–21.
“Newman and the Interpretation of Inspired Scripture,” Theological Studies 63 (2002): 53–67.
“Scripture and Tradition at the Council of Trent: Reapplying the ‘Conciliar Hermeneutic,’” Annuarium Historiae Conciliorum 33 (2001): 127–46.
“Coleridge, Samuel Taylor,” in Biographical Dictionary of Christian Theologians, eds. Patrick W. Carey and Joseph Lienhard ( Westport: Greenwood, 2000; pbk. 2002), 130–31.
“The Development of Coleridge’s Notion of Human Freedom: The Translation and Re-Formation of German Idealism in England,” Journal of Religion 80 (2000): 576–94.
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