Jason Sexton

"A dynamic young scholar." -- Kevin Starr, University of Southern California

"Jason has hit upon a particular moment in which the type of interdisciplinary inquiry that includes theology is becoming recognized as an important approach to understanding culture."  -- Richard Flory, USC Center for Religion and Civic Culture

"Dr. Sexton's impressive array of interdisciplinary scholarly publications mark him out as one of the leading penal anthropologists in California." -- Robert Chao-Romero, UCLA Department of Chicano Studies

"California+religion is about the most hopeful suite of short essays I've read in a long time." -- Steve Katz, Publisher, Mother Jones, tweet on "Getting Religion," Winter 2015 issue of Boom: A Journal of California, ed. by Jason Sexton

Book Authored

"Original and innovative, making a contribution to our understanding of Grenz as a theologian, and to American Evangelicalism." -- Alister McGrath, Oxford University

"Makes a substantial contribution to assessment of Grenz’s thought, as well as to a wider account of evangelical theology of the Trinity in the later twentieth century." -- Paul S. Fiddes, Oxford University

"Jason Sexton's patient attention to the Trinitarian theology of Stanley Grenz offers many rewards." -- Mark A. Noll, University of Notre Dame

"The study is intriguing and bridges a gap in the investigation of the evolution of Grenz’s thought." -- Journal of Reformed Theology

Books Edited

This volume of exceptional essays helps explain Starr's California vision, both in its secular and Catholic manifestations. – Nelson Lichtenstein, author of A Fabulous Failure: The Clinton Presidency and the Transformation of American Capitalism

This edited collection is a gem, helping us to better understand the theological vision in Starr’s magisterial historiography of the most religiously diverse state in the Union. – Amir Hussain, Chair and Professor of Theological Studies, Loyola Marymount University; President, American Academy of Religion

Kevin Starr was California’s greatest historian. This book is a fantastic addition to his multivolume history of our great state. – Arnold Schwarzenegger, 38th Governor of California

This timely, perceptive book looks at a great historian and thinker whose roots are so deeply Californian that everything he wrote was imbued with layers of history for which he was one of the best librarians and contemplative authors. California is its own complicated world, and from the foreword by Dr. Anthea Hartig to the voice of Mike Davis, Kevin Starr's own long history is examined with care and precision and the knowledge of immense change in our universe. – Susan Straight, Author of Mecca and In the Country of Women

"Until now, theologians have characteristically been lagging behind colleagues in other disciplines in their engagement with this emerging research field [of California studies]. However, Sanders, Sexton and contributors adopt a stance that is both constructive and critical. While recognising that theology, being rooted in scripture and doctrine, cannot be derived directly from culture, they engage a range of cultural forms to produce theological insights inspired by the specific context of
the Golden State." -- Ecclesiology

"Providential thinking clearly shapes ideas about California. Does the opposite also take place? Does California shape religion and theology too? Is there perhaps a unique California theology, call it Californianity? In a state where religious adherence is increasing rather than declining--unlike the rest of the country--these questions have an unexpected purchase. And the theologians and scholars in this volume, following Josiah Royce's call for a 'higher provincialism,' bring welcome new light to the connections between place and faith." -- Jon Christensen, UCLA Institute for Environmental Sustainability

"The shared hope of the contributors to this volume is that theology will be viewed as a lived practice of understanding oneself and one’s world in light of a conception of an incarnate, personal, and relational God. ... Sexton and Weston appreciate that our theological commitments should motivate a lived missional practice, which in turn should cause us to interrogate our latent theological assumptions." -- The Immanent Frame, Social Science Research Council

"The End of Theology not only overcomes the chasm between theology and mission or missiology but also revitalizes the theological and dogmatic tradition from a missiological perspective.... The voices in this book facilitate such a discussion in unanticipated and invigorating ways even as they empower theologically robust Christian witness in a complex 21st century." -- Amos Yong

"The essays in Revisioning, Renewing Rediscovering the Triune Center do much more than honor the achievements of Stanley Grenz. They display the crossroads present in contemporary evangelical theology as its travels into the twenty-first century. Following an introductory chapter providing an invaluable and indispensable intellectual biography of the path Grenz's theology took, the essays are written by internationally known theologians, taking on the core of the issues in Grenz's theology through their discussions of the Trinity, community, and eschatology. The essays also attend to theology's relation to culture and show the nature of theology's roots in Scripture and tradition, creatively illumining and even going beyond Grenz's work. As such, they offer diverse displays of the multiple issues within evangelical theology today."
--Francis Schussler Fiorenza, Harvard University

This book articulates various evangelical views regarding the church's mission and provides a healthy, vigorous, and gracious debate on this controversial topic. In a helpful Counterpoints format, this volume demonstrates the unique theological frameworks, doctrinal convictions, and missiological conclusions that inform and distinguish the views on what the church is to be and do both in and for its very life as well as in and for the life of the world.

Throughout the twentieth century, Britain produced some of the most prominent evangelical theologians in both church and academic circles. This survey and introduction, edited by Thomas Noble and Jason Sexton, presents twelve of these theologians, exploring what made their work so influential and their continued relevance for today.

As well as surveying each’s work, British Evangelical Theologians of the Twentieth Century considers what is meant by calling these theologians 'evangelical' Christians – taking into account their understanding of biblical authority, standing in the Reformation tradition and treatment of Scripture as well as their approaches to biblical criticism and liberal theology. As a result, it is ideal for students looking to deeper their understanding of British evangelical Christianity as a whole, as well as increasing their knowledge of the individual figures.

Boom: A Journal of California issues edited