CCU Spotlights
Dr. Aaron Smith
Assistant Professor of Theology
School of Theology
- Ph.D. Systematic Theology (Marquette University)
- M.Div. (Bethel Seminary-San Diego)
- B.A. (California State University-San Diego)
Other Experience:
- Dissertation Fellowship, Marquette University, 2006-2007
- Stipendienprogramm, Johannes a Lasco Bibliothek, Emden, Germany, 2006-2007
- Full Teaching Assistantship, Marquette University, 2004-2006
- One-half Teaching Assistantship, Marquette University, 2003-2004
- Teaching Assistantship, Bethel Seminary, San Diego, 2001-2003
- Eta Beta Rho (Hebrew Honor Society), 2002-2003
- Zondervan Publishing "Greek Award", 2001
Professional Accomplishments:
Professional Development and Conference Participation:
- "Christocentric versus Theocentric Theological Methods in the Secular Age: The Significance of Karl Barth for Contemporary Evangelical Higher Education;" Secularization and Revival: The Fate of Religion in Modern Intellectual History, Third Annual Baylor Symposium on Faith and Culture, Waco, Texas, October 2009
- "Currents of Justification: Calvin's Theology in, with, and under the Registers of the Geneva Consistory 1542-1544;" Sixteenth Century Society and Conference, Atlanta, Georgia, October 2005
- "The Expressive-Constitutive Word: Karl Barth, Charles Taylor, and the Nature of Language;" American Academy of Religion Upper-Midwest Regional Conference, St. Paul, Minnesota, April 2005
Published Articles and Book Chapters:
- "God's Self-Specification: His Being is His Electing," Scottish Journal of Theology 62:1 (2009): 1-25
- "Karl Barth," in Dictionary of Christian Spirituality, ed. Glen G. Scorgie (Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 2010)
- "Knowledge of God," in Dictionary of Christian Spirituality, ed. Glen G. Scorgie (Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 2010)
- "God Is As He Wants to Be: Letting God be God in the Relationship between Will and Being," in Trinity and Election in Contemporary Theology, ed. Michael Dempsey (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, forthcoming)
Translations:
- Peter Opitz, "Calvin as Bible Translator from the Model of the Hebrew Psalter," in Herman J. Selderhuis, ed., Calvinus sacrorum literarum interpres: Papers of the International Congress on Calvin Research 2006 (Gottingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2008)