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KELTON
COBB
Professor of
Theology and Ethics and Seminary Academic Advisor
B.A. (George Fox College)
M.Div.
(Princeton Theological Seminary);
Ph.D. (University of Iowa)
Specialization:
Systematic Theology, Theology of Culture, Theological Ethics
Contact
Info:
Center for Faith in Practice
77 Sherman Street
Hartford, CT 06105 USA
Telephone: 860/509-9513
Fax: 860/509-9509
Email: kcobb@hartsem.edu |
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Bio.
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Curriculum Vitae |
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Bio
and Interests
Kelton Cobb joined the faculty of Hartford Seminary in 1995, and teaches courses in theology and ethics. He has a keen interest in the overlap of these two disciplines, understanding that a theology gives rise to moral actions, and that moral actions assume a theology.
He has done work in the areas of systematic theology, environmental ethics, comparative ethics, public theology, theology and anthropology, and theology of popular culture.
He is a member of the United Church of Christ. He grew up in Denver, Colorado, and is married to Heidi Gehman, also an ethicist, and has two sons, Henry and William—named after their grandfathers, not the princes of England.
His current interest is in examining how it is that western Christianity has learned to be moral. Over the centuries, Christians have stumbled into multiple moral transgressions on vast scales (e.g., Imperialism, Crusades, Inquisitions, slavery, anti-Semitism), but at some point has concluded that these actions were immoral. How is it that Christianity has come to its senses and slowly developed a conscience that recognizes these as transgressions that ought to be quarantined and marked: “Do not pass this way again”?
Online
Articles
The Doctrine of Providence
The Muhammad Cartoons
Blood Sacrifice and Redemptive Violence
Violent Faith
Chapter seven from the book September 11: Religious Perspectives on the Causes and Consequences (2002)
Table Blessings
Christian Century, March 5, 1986
Books
The Blackwell Guide to Theology and Popular Culture
Published in December 2005 by Blackwell Publishing
Recent and
recommended reading:
Mark Heim, Saved from Sacrifice: A Theology of the Cross (2006)
Rodney Stark, One True God: Historical Consequences of Monotheism (2001)
Andrew Delbanco, The
Real American Dream: A Meditation on Hope (1999)
Nick Hornby, How
to Be Good (2001)
Charles Marsh, God’s
Long Summer: Stories of Faith and Civil Rights (1997)
James Morrow, The
Eternal Footman (1999)
Marilynne
Robinson, The Death of Adam (1998)
Mary Doria
Russell, The Sparrow (1997)
Recommended
links:
For ecumenical
resources:
http://www.churchworldservice.org
http://beliefnet.com
http://landoverbaptist.org/
http://www.jesuit.ie/prayer/
For theological
resources:
http://www.users.csbsju.edu/~eknuth/itr/syst/index.html
http://www.iclnet.org/pub/resources/christian-books.html
http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/jod/augustine.html
For ethics:
http://www.uchicago.edu/divinity/family
http://www.gwu.edu/~ccps/
http://www.osjspm.org/cst/doclist.htm
http://www.georgetown.edu/ethics/jre
For popular
culture:
http://www.viewaskew.com
http://www.generationjones.com
http://www.thefilmforum.com
http://www.textweek.com/movies/themeindex.htm
For resources
in teaching:
http://www.wabashcenter.wabash.edu
Courses
Taught
