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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

What is the human being?

“What this inability to answer definitively the question about what we are shows us is that the humanity of human beings is our exposure to ourselves and to the world as an unfinishable task. Human being is the search for the meaning of our being, a search that we will never exhaust,” says Dr Peter Kline from St Francis College

What does 'hermeneutics' mean and why do I need to know about it?

Hear Dr Peter Kline unpack ‘hermeneutics’, and discuss how meaning is generated in the space between a text and the reader in the context of the Bible, in this ‘Exploring the Bible’ online short course video, produced by St Francis College. The course features 38 short videos under six themes, with reflection/discussion questions for groups or individuals

"But sight is not sovereign. The world’s coming to appearance is never fully comprehended. No one could ever say comprehensively what a sunset means, or what the face of a child means, or what the colour blue means" (Peter Kline)

Painting’s blessing: a mysticism of sight

“When I paint, I never think of it as representing the content of my faith, even when I’m painting something religious…painting is for me an act of faith, a way of staying faithful, perhaps to God, or to the open wonder of existence,” says Dr Peter Kline from St Francis College in our ‘How my art intersects with my faith’ series

What is your favourite Bible story?

Find out the favourite Bible stories of The Rev’d Gillian Moses, Dr Peter Kline and Bishop Jeremy Greaves in this ‘Exploring the Bible’ online short course video, produced by St Francis College. The course features 38 short videos under six themes, with reflection/discussion questions for groups or individuals

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”

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