51福利社

W. Travis McMaken

Butler Bible Endowed Professor of Religion
Associate Dean, College of Arts and Humanities

McCluer Hall 112
(636) 627-2507
[email protected]

Biographical Information

Dr. McMaken is the Butler Bible Endowed professor of religion and associate dean of College of Arts and Humanities at 51福利社. His writing engages primarily with 20th-century theology (esp. Protestant theology, with specialization in Karl Barth, Helmut Gollwitzer, and T. F. Torrance) while working constructively on the subjects of sacramentology, ecclesiology, and political theology.

Courses Taught

Dr. McMaken has taught the following courses:

• Star Wars and Religion
• World Religions
• Jesus
• Christianity & Politics
• The Story of Christianity
• Religions of China
• Christian Theology
• Protestant and Catholic Reformations
• Interdisciplinary Research
• Love & Sex (Interdisciplinary seminar)
• Drugs & Medicine (Interdisciplinary seminar)
• Thor & Friends (First-year seminar)

Publications

• 鈥淏arth on Baptism,鈥� in George Hunsinger and Keith L. Johnson (eds.), Wiley Blackwell Companion to Karl Barth (Wiley Blackwell, forthcoming).
• Ashley Cocksworth and W. Travis McMaken (eds.), Karl Barth: Spiritual Writings, Classics of Western Spirituality (Mahwah, NJ: Paulist Press, under contract).
• W. Travis McMaken, Our God Loves Justice: An Introduction to Helmut Gollwitzer (Minneapolis, MN: Fortress Press, 2017).
• W. Travis McMaken and David W. Congdon (eds.), Karl Barth in Conversation (Eugene, OR: Pickwick Publications, 2014).
• W. Travis McMaken, The Sign of the Gospel: Toward an Evangelical Doctrine of Infant Baptism after Karl Barth (Minneapolis, MN: Fortress Press, 2013).
•  鈥淏aptism,鈥� in Adam J. Johnson (ed.), T & T Clark Companion to the Atonement (New York: Bloomsbury T&T Clark, 2017), 393鈥�97.
• 鈥淎ctualism, Dualism, and Onto-Relations: Interrogating Torrance鈥檚 Criticism of Barth鈥檚 Doctrine of Baptism,鈥� Participatio 6 (2016): 1鈥�31.
• 鈥溾�楽halom, Shalom, Shalom Israel!鈥� Jews and Judaism in Helmut Gollwitzer鈥檚 Life and Theology,鈥� Studies in Christian-Jewish Relations 10.1 (2015): 1鈥�22.
• 鈥淒efinitive, Defective, or Deft? Reassessing Barth鈥檚 Doctrine of Baptism in CD 滨痴/4,鈥� International Journal of Systematic Theology 17.1 (2015): 89鈥�114.