Academic Dean and Lecturer, St Francis College, Milton

Dr Peter Kline

About Dr Peter -

Dr Peter Kline is the Academic Dean and Lecturer in Systematic Theology at St Francis College, Milton. He has a Master of Divinity from Princeton Theological Seminary and a PhD in Theological Studies from Vanderbilt University, with a special interest in negative theology.

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Articles by Dr Peter

Sunday Devotion: 18 August 2019, Tenth Sunday after Pentecost

No peace

Dietrich Bonhoeffer: faith as unsovereign attention

Dr Peter Kline reflects on the legacy of theologian and anti-Nazi dissident, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, whose anniversary of death is marked on 9 April and who spent time in a Black church in New York City: “What Bonhoeffer found in the Black church was a faith in which Jesus, and therefore God, is Black…It is to say that God is to be found in solidarity with Black lives in their fight against white supremacy”

Former St Francis College theology students (L-R): Quin Humphreys (current student), Rosemary Gardiner (former student), Elizabeth McConnell (current student) and Peter Jeffery (former student)

Silences that undo us: what is theology for?

“The constant danger and temptation internal to theology is idolatry, creating God in our own image, using God to secure a world (or a church, or a self) that conforms to our desires to be in the right, to have a purchase on the good, the true, and the beautiful,” reflects the Academic Dean at St Francis College Dr Peter Kline