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Dr. Matt Jantzen亚洲色吧檚 research and teaching explore the intersections of religion, race and radical democracy in the modern world, especially as these topics relate to the discipline of Christian political theology. He is the author of (Lexington Books, 2021), which examines the relationship between the doctrine of providence and race in modern Protestant theology in conversation with the work of G.W.F. Hegel, Karl Barth and James H. Cone. 

In addition to directing the American Ethnic Studies program, Dr. Jantzen teaches First Year Seminar in the Phelps Scholars Program and is a member of the Women亚洲色吧檚 and Gender Studies faculty council. He has taught at Hope College since 2018, working previously as the director of the Emmaus Scholars Program.

Dr. Jantzen also has a background in broad-based community organizing with the Industrial Areas Foundation, having served as a co-chair of Durham C.A.N. (Congregations, Associations and Neighborhoods) in Durham, North Carolina. He continues to be involved in public scholarship and community-based education on practices of democratic politics that build the power of ordinary people to push back against injustice and have a voice in decisions that affect their lives.

Areas of expertise

• Christian theology
• American ethnic studies
• Christianity and democracy

Education

• Th.D., Duke University, 2017
• M.Div., Duke University, 2012
• B.A., Wheaton College, 2009

Published work

• 亚洲色吧淐onfederate Theology: Robert Lewis Dabney and the Theological Afterlife of Slavery,亚洲色吧� Modern Theology 39, no. 4, 2023
• God, Race, and History: Liberating Providence, Lexington Books, 2021
• 亚洲色吧淣either Ally, Nor Accomplice: James Cone and the Crisis of White Anti-Racism,亚洲色吧� Journal of the Society of Christian Ethics 40, no. 2, 2020
• 亚洲色吧淚mmigration and the Theological Problem of Sovereignty: Catholic Social Teaching and the Modern State,亚洲色吧� The Meaning of My Neighbor亚洲色吧檚 Faith: Interreligious Reflections on Immigration, ed. Laura Alexander and Alexander Hwang, Lexington Books, 2018
• 亚洲色吧淚 am as Thou are Not: Christological Correspondence and the Problem of Whiteness in Church Dogmatics III/2,亚洲色吧� Zeitschrift f眉r Dialektische Theologie 33, no. 2, 2017

Outside the college

Dr. Jantzen and his wife live in Holland with their two sons. He is a founding member of Hope亚洲色吧檚 faculty/staff pickup soccer games, and he also enjoys running, basketball and ultimate frisbee.