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Professor
Brian Brock
Born
Brian Reid Brock

Baytown, Texas, US
NationalityAmerican/British
Occupation(s)Professor, Theologian
TitleProfessor of Moral and Practical Theology
Academic background
EducationMA, DipTH, BA, DPhil
Alma materColorado Christian University
Loma Linda University
University of Oxford
King's College London
Academic work
DisciplineTheology
InstitutionsUniversity of Erlangen–Nuremberg
Duke Divinity School
Theological University of the Reformed Churches
University of Aberdeen
Main interestsDisability Theology, Systematic Theology, and Theological Ethics

Brian Brock (born 1970) is an American theologian. He holds a Personal Chair in Christian Ethics at the School of Divinity, History, and Philosophy, University of Aberdeen.[1]

Early life and education

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Brock was born and raised in Baytown, Texas, where he was educated at Robert E. Lee High School. Before training as a theologian, he worked as an investigative reporter and editorialist from 1997 to 1999 for the Baytown Sun.[2]

Brock studied biology at Colorado Christian University before taking a Masters in Biomedical and Clinical Ethics at Loma Linda University. In 1997, he moved to the United Kingdom, where he studied theology at the University of Oxford, before completing his doctoral studies in Christian Ethics in 2003 at King's College London, working under Michael Banner and Colin Gunton.[3]

Academic career

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Brock conducted postdoctoral studies (2003-2004) at the Friedrich Alexander University of Erlangen–Nuremberg under Hans G. Ulrich. In October 2004, he was appointed as a lecturer in Practical and Moral Theology at the University of Aberdeen. He was elevated to a Personal Chair in 2018. He has been a visiting scholar at Duke Divinity School (2008-2009) and the University of the Reformed Church in Kampen in 2014.

Brock is a member of the University of Aberdeen's Centre for Spirituality, Health and Disability[4] and a founding member of the Centre for the Study of Autism and Christian Community Friendship.[5] He is also a founding member of the new University of Aberdeen Friendship House initiative.[6]

Brock plays an active role in teaching undergraduates at the University of Aberdeen, leading postgraduate seminars, and has successfully supervised thirty doctoral candidates, many of whom have published their doctoral theses as books, including Andrew Draper,[7] Scott Prather,[8] Tyler Atkinson,[9] Michael Laffin,[10] Benjamin Wall,[11] Amy J. Erickson,[12] Andrew Errington,[13] Steven Schafer,[14] Kevin Hargaden,[15] Jacob Marques Rollison,[16] Timothy Shaun Price,[17] Daniel Patterson,[18] Ross Halbach,[19] Allen Calhoun,[20] Michael Morelli,[21] and Emily Beth Hill.[22] In 2022, the Aberdeen University Students' Association (AUSA) named him Best Postgraduate Research Supervisor.[23]

Professional activities

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Since 2016, Brock has been Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Disability and Religion.[24] Along with Susan Parsons, he is the founding editor of the academic monograph series, "T&T Clark Enquiries in Theological Ethics".[25] Since 2012 he has served on the Theological Commission of the Diocese of Aberdeen and Orkney, Scottish Episcopal Church.[26]

He is most notable for his contribution to the emerging field of disability theology, but has written widely in moral theology.[27] In 2018, he was awarded "Alumnus of the Year" by Loma Linda University,[28] being described as "a maker of social change who betters understanding of the Christian tradition."[29] He is regularly invited to offer plenary addresses at conferences relating to questions around disability and religion, or Christian Ethics more broadly construed.[30][31][32][33] He delivered the 2024 Annual Jesuit Centre for Faith and Justice lecture in Dublin, Ireland.[34]

Publications

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Brock's first monograph, Singing the Ethos of God: On the Place of Christian Ethics in Scripture was published in 2007.[35] It was the subject of a special review edition of the journal European Journal of Theology in 2009.[36] He is also the author of Christian Ethics in a Technological Age (2010)[37] and Captive to Christ, Open to the World: On Doing Christian Ethics in Public (2014),[38] which was discussed on the prominent evangelical podcast Mars Hill.[39] Along with Stanley Hauerwas, he wrote Beginnings: Interrogating Hauerwas(2016),[40] which was the subject of a special symposium hosted by the School of Theology, Philosophy, and Music at Dublin City University.[41] His Disability in the Christian Tradition: A Reader,[42] which he prepared with John Swinton was the subject of a special edition of the Journal of Religion, Disability & Health.[43] The project he has been working on for over a decade, a theological account of disability, was published in 2019 as Wondrously Wounded: Theology, Disability, and the Body of Christ.[44]

Other books include Disability: Living into the Diversity of Christ's Body (2021)[45] and the two-volume Scriptural commentary on 1 Corinthians, co-written with Bernd Wannenwetsch entitled The Malady of the Christian Body[46] and The Therapy of the Christian Body.[47] He has edited or co-edited a number of essay collections, including Theology, Disability and Sport: Social Justice Perspectives,[48] A Graceful Embrace: Theological Reflections on Adopting Children,[49] The Freedom of a Christian Ethicist,[50] Evoking Lament: A Systematic Theological Enquiry[51] and Theology, Disability and the New Genetics: Why Science Needs the Church.[52] He also edited the first full-length English-language work by prominent German theologian Hans G. Ulrich, Transfigured Not Conformed: Christian Ethics in a Hermeneutic Key.[53]

He is the author of over twenty essays in journals including the International Journal of Systematic Theology,[54] Studies in Christian Ethics,[55] and Surveillance & Society.[56]

References

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  1. ^ University of Aberdeen (School of Divinity, History and Philosophy). Faculty profile: Professor Brian Brock. Retrieved 11 February 2019.
  2. ^ University of Texas Archive of Baytown Sun Archive of Baytown Sun, 5 August 1999. Retrieved 11 February 2019.
  3. ^ EThOS Archive "A theological examination of contemporary deliberation about the development of new technologies, with reference to M. Heidegger, M. Foucault, and G. Grant : discovering our dwelling". Retrieved 11 February 2019.
  4. ^ "Members of the Centre for Spirituality, Health and Disability" "Members". Retrieved 11 February 2019.
  5. ^ "Centre for the Study of Autism and Christian Community Friendship" "Personnel". Retrieved 11 February 2019.
  6. ^ "Friendship House Coffee Break" [1]. Retrieved 11 February 2019.
  7. ^ "A Theology of Race and Place, Wipf and Stock Publishers". Retrieved 3 September 2020.
  8. ^ "Christ, Power and Mammon: Karl Barth and John Howard Yoder in Dialogue". Retrieved 3 September 2020.
  9. ^ "Singing at the Winepress: Ecclesiastes and the Ethics of Work". Retrieved 3 September 2020.
  10. ^ "The Promise of Martin Luther's Political Theology: Freeing Luther from the Modern Political Narrative". Retrieved 3 September 2020.
  11. ^ "Welcome as a Way of Life, Wipf and Stock Publishers". Retrieved 3 September 2020.
  12. ^ "Ephraim Radner, Hosean Wilderness, and the Church in the Post-Christendom West: A Dialogue on the Shape of Waiting". Ephraim Radner, Hosean Wilderness, and the Church in the Post-Christendom West. Brill. 23 March 2020. ISBN 9789004420212. Retrieved 3 September 2020.
  13. ^ "Every Good Path: Wisdom and Practical Reason in Christian Ethics and the Book of Proverbs". Retrieved 3 September 2020.
  14. ^ "Marriage, Sex, and Procreation". Wipf and Stock Publishers. Retrieved 30 May 2022.
  15. ^ "Theological Ethics in a Neoliberal Age, Wipf and Stock Publishers". Retrieved 3 September 2020.
  16. ^ A New Reading of Jacques Ellul. Retrieved 3 September 2020.
  17. ^ Price, Timothy Shaun (December 2018). Pedagogy as Theological Praxis. Paternoster. ISBN 9781788930604. Retrieved 3 September 2020.
  18. ^ "Selected Publications". Retrieved 3 September 2020.
  19. ^ "Bonhoeffer and the Racialized Church". Retrieved 3 September 2020.
  20. ^ "Tax Law, Religion, and Justice: An Exploration of Theological Reflections on Taxation". Retrieved 21 April 2021.
  21. ^ Theology, Ethics, and Technology in the Work of Jacques Ellul and Paul Virilio: A Nascent Theological Tradition.
  22. ^ Marketing and Christian Proclamation in Theological Perspective.
  23. ^ "Results 2022 | Students | The University of Aberdeen". www.abdn.ac.uk. Retrieved 30 May 2022.
  24. ^ "Journal of Disability and Religion". Journal of Disability and Religion. Retrieved 12 February 2019.
  25. ^ "T&T Clark Enquiries in Theological Ethics". Retrieved 12 February 2019..
  26. ^ "Faith and Order Board". Retrieved 12 February 2019.
  27. ^ "Alumni of the year award for pioneer of disability theology". Retrieved 12 February 2019.
  28. ^ Prof.Brian.Brock.LLU.Alumnist.Year.2018.HD.mp4, retrieved 26 February 2019
  29. ^ "Schools of Religion, Behavioral Health together graduate 113 healers of communities, families and minds". 11 June 2018. Retrieved 12 February 2019.
  30. ^ "Disabilities Ministries: Charting a Course for a Flourishing Community (February 21, 2015)". Retrieved 12 February 2019.
  31. ^ "The 2017 Summer Institute on Theology and Disability: A Place for Learning, Formation, and Celebration". Retrieved 12 February 2019.
  32. ^ "Able Theology at Fuller Theological Seminary (September 28, 2017)". Retrieved 12 February 2019.
  33. ^ "Truett Seminary Presents T.B. Maston Lecture on "One Christian Ethic? Sabbath as the Diversity of Christian Vocation" (10 November 2017)". 10 November 2017. Retrieved 12 February 2019.
  34. ^ "JCFJ's Annual Lecture 2024- 'Enabling Death? Euthanasia from a disability perspective'". YouTube. 7 May 2024. Retrieved 15 May 2024.
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  36. ^ "European Journal of Theology Volume 18, Number 2, 2009". Retrieved 12 February 2019.
  37. ^ amazon.co.uk. ASIN 0802865178.
  38. ^ amazon.co.uk. ASIN 1625640188.
  39. ^ "Mars Hill Audio Journal Volume 133". Retrieved 12 February 2019.
  40. ^ amazon.co.uk. ASIN 0567683834.
  41. ^ "Symposium: Interrogating Stanley Hauerwas". Retrieved 12 February 2019.
  42. ^ amazon.co.uk. ASIN 9780802866028.
  43. ^ "Journal of Religion, Disability & Health Volume 17, Issue 3, 2013: Disability in the Christian Tradition". Taylor & Francis. Retrieved 12 February 2019.
  44. ^ "Wondrously Wounded - Baylor University Press". Retrieved 3 September 2020.
  45. ^ "Disability | Baker Publishing Group". www.bakerpublishinggroup.com. Retrieved 30 May 2022.
  46. ^ amazon.co.uk. ASIN 1498234186.
  47. ^ amazon.co.uk. ASIN 149823352X.
  48. ^ amazon.co.uk. ASIN 0815378971.
  49. ^ amazon.co.uk. ASIN 9004352899.
  50. ^ amazon.co.uk. ASIN 0567683648.
  51. ^ amazon.co.uk. ASIN 0567033902.
  52. ^ amazon.co.uk. ASIN 0567045587.
  53. ^ bloomsbury.com. "Transfigured not Conformed". Bloomsbury. Retrieved 30 May 2022.
  54. ^ Brock, Brian (2016). "On Becoming Creatures: Being Called to Presence in a Distracted World". International Journal of Systematic Theology. 18 (4): 432–452. doi:10.1111/ijst.12147. hdl:2164/11195.
  55. ^ Brock, Brian (2015). "Globalisation, Eden and the Myth of Original Markets". Studies in Christian Ethics. 28 (4): 402–418. doi:10.1177/0953946814565980. hdl:2164/5991. S2CID 146858485.
  56. ^ Brock, Brian (2018). "Seeing through the Data Shadow: Communing with the Saints in a Surveillance Society". Surveillance & Society. 16 (4): 533–545. doi:10.24908/ss.v16i4.8085.
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