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Center for Faith in
Practice
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CURRICULUM
VITAE
KELTON COBB
Hartford
Seminary
77 Sherman Street
Hartford, CT 06105
(860) 509-9513
kcobb@hartsem.edu
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ACADEMIC
TRAINING:
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University
of Iowa
1986-1994
Ph.D.
Iowa
City, Iowa
Theology and Ethics
DISSERTATION
TITLE: Theology of
Culture: Reflections
on the Ethics of
Troeltsch, Tillich, and Ricoeur.
Advisors:
David Klemm & William Schweiker
Princeton
Theological Seminary
1983-1985
M.Div.
Princeton,
New Jersey
George
Fox College
1977-1981
B.A.
Newberg,
Oregon Major: Religion
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TEACHING
AND
RESEARCH
EXPERIENCE:
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Core
Faculty in
Theology and Ethics,
Hartford Seminary, Hartford, CT, since 1995.
Visiting
Assistant Professor of Religion
(half-time), Wesleyan University, 2002-03.
Senior
Fellow
at The Center for the Advanced Study of Religion, Divinity School,
University of Chicago, Winter-Spring 1998.
Adjunct
Instructor,
Theology
Department, St. Joseph's University,
Philadelphia, 1991-92.
Teaching
Assistant, School
of Religion, University of Iowa, Fall semesters 1987-91.
Research
Assistant,
for David Klemm and William Schweiker, School of
Religion, University of Iowa, 1986-1987.
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AWARDS
AND
GRANTS:
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Louisville
Institute Summer Grant,
for book research, 2002.
Templeton
Foundation Freedom Project Grant,
awarded for development of a new course, “Theology, Civil
Society, and Global Ethics,” 2000-2001.
Wabash
Center Workshop on Teaching and Learning, selected
as a fellow and grant recipient, 1999-2000.
Outstanding
Teaching Assistant Award,
Council on Teaching, University of Iowa, 1989.
University‑wide award, nominated by students, endorsed by
faculty.
Jagow
Prize in Homiletics and Speech,
Princeton Seminary, 1985.
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CERTIFICATION:
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Certified
to teach History
of Religions as a secondary area of competency, approved
by the Graduate Committee, University of Iowa, on the basis of
coursework and faculty recommendation, 1989.
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PROFESSIONAL
INVOLVEMENT:
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Associate
Editor,
Conversations in Religion and Theology, since 2002.
Member,
American Academy of
Religion, since 1988.
Member,
Society of Christian
Ethics, since 1992.
Member,
North American Paul
Tillich Society, since 1993.
Member,
New Haven Theological
Discussion Group, since 1997.
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PUBLICATIONS:
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Book: The Blackwell Guide to Theology and Popular Culture, Blackwell Publishing, 2005.
Chapter: "Introduction," in Studying the “Other,” Understanding the “Self”: Scripture, Reason and the Contemporary Islam-West Encounter, Palgrave (forthcoming, 2007), eds. Basit Koshul and Steven Kepnes.
Chapter: "Violent
Faith," in September
11 2001: A Historical, Theological, and Social Critique,
Oneworld Publications (2002), eds. Ian Markham and I. Abu-Rabi'.
Chapter: "Revelation, the Disciplines of Reason, and Truth in the Works
of Bediuzzaman Said Nursi and Paul Tillich," in Islam on the Crossroads: On the Life and Thought of Bediuzzaman Said
Nursi, SUNY
Press (2003), ed. I. Abu-Rabi'.
Article: “The Muhammad Cartoons,” in Conversations in Religion and Theology (Spring 2006).
Article: “Blood Sacrifice and Redemptive Violence,” in Conversations in Religion and Theology (Fall 2004).
Article: “Accounting for the Many Masks of God,” in New Zion’s Herald (Sept/Oct. 2005).
Article:
“Elves, Leprechauns, and the Jealousy of God,” in New
Zion’s Herald (Sept/Oct. 2003).
Article: "Have
Communitarians Been Duped?" in The Responsive Community 11/4
(Fall 2001).
Article: "Ernst Troeltsch
and Vaclav Havel on the Ethical Promise of
Historical Failure," in Journal of Religious
Ethics (Spring 1994).
Article: "Reconsidering the Status of Popular Culture in Tillich's
Theology of Culture" in Journal of the American Academy
of Religion LXIII/1 (1995).
Article: "Table
Blessings," in The Christian Century (5 March 1986).
Encyclopedia Article: “Paul Tillich” in Roy Domenico & Mark Hanley, eds., Encyclopedia of Modern Christian Politics, Greenwood Publishing, 2005.
Encyclopedia Article: “Ernst Troeltsch” in Roy Domenico & Mark Hanley, eds., Encyclopedia of Modern Christian Politics, Greenwood Publishing, 2005.
Encyclopedia Article: “Ethics” in Wade Clark Roof, ed., Contemporary
American Religion. Macmillan,
2000.
Book Review of David Chidester’s Authentic Fakes: Religion and American Popular Culture, in Reviews in Religion and Theology (September 2006).
Book Review of Eugene McCarraher’s Christian Critics: Religion and the Impasse in Modern American Social Thought, in Conversations in Religion and Theology (May 2003).
Book Review of Constance Benson’s God & Caesar: Troeltsch's Social
Teaching as Legitimation, in Journal of Religion
(July 2001).
Book Review of Ronald H. Stone’s The Ultimate Imperative: An Interpretation
of Christian Ethics, in Journal of Religion (April
2001).
Book Review of Gilbert C. Meilaender’s Working: Its Meaning and Limits,
in Religious Studies Review (2001).
Book Review of Garth L. Hallett’s Priorities in Christian Ethics, in Journal
of Religion (October 2000).
Book Review of John C. Cooper’s The “Spiritual Presence” in the Theology
of Paul Tillich: Tillich’s Use of St. Paul, in Journal
of Religion (October 1999)
Book Review of Richard K. Fenn’s The Persistence of Purgatory, in Journal
of Religion (January 1999).
Book Review of Anthony C. Thiselton’s Interpreting God and the Postmodern
Self, in Journal of Religion (April 1998).
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PRESENTATIONS:
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Lectureship: “The Aesthetics of the Printed Page: Mechanical Reproduction and the Protestant Reformation” (An illustrated lecture given in connection with an exhibit of Reformation manuscripts at Trinity College, April 2006).
Presentation: “Ethics and the Sovereignty of God in the Writings of H. Richard Niebuhr and Bediuzzaman Said Nursi,” with Heidi Gehman (Risale-i Nur Institute, Istanbul, Turkey, March 2006).
Presentation: “The Slumbering Doctrine of Providence” (Public Lecture at Hartford Seminary, October 2005).
Presentation:
“God Plots and the Moral Life” (Conference of the
International Society for Religion, Literature and Culture,
York, England, September 2002).
Presentation: "Good
and Evil: The Ethics of Christianity" (Luce Forum Lecture,
Hartford Seminary, February 2002).
Presentation: “Revelation and the
Disciplines of Reason in the Works of Said Nursi and Paul
Tillich" (International Symposium of the Islamic Foundation
for Science and Culture, Istanbul, Turkey, September 2000).
Presentation: “Theological Ethics
and the Beleaguered Concept of the Cultural Spheres” (Society
of Christian Ethics, 1996 annual meeting).
Presentation: "Enlarging the
Stock of Sources in Tillich's Theology of
Culture" (North American Paul Tillich Society, 1992
annual meeting).
Presentation:
"Ernst Troeltsch and the Ethical Promise of Historical
Failure" (Ethics Section, 1992 AAR annual meeting).
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