David W Congdon


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  • Lecturer
  • Liberal Arts and Sciences, Religious Studies

Contact Info

Bailey Hall, Room 303J
1440 Jayhawk Blvd.
Lawrence, KS 66045

Education

Ph.D. in Systematic Theology, Princeton Theological Seminary, 2014
summa cum laude
M.DIV., Princeton Theological Seminary, 2008
B.A. in English Literature, Wheaton College, 2004, Illinois
summa cum laude

Selected Publications

In process
Eschatological Mystical Liberalism: A New Interpretation of Dialectical Theology. Approved by Baylor University Press.
 
Forthcoming
Who Is a True Christian? Contesting Religious Identity in American Culture. Cambridge University Press.
 
2024
Eschatological Mystical Liberalism: A New Interpretation of Dialectical Theology.Approved by Baylor University Press.
 
2016
The God Who Saves: A Dogmatic Sketch. Cascade Books.
 

Awards & Honors

2025
Finalist for the 26th Susanne M. Glasscock Book Prize, Melbern G. Glasscock Center for Humanities Research. Awarded to Who Is a True Christian? Contesting Religious Identity in American Culture.
 
2018
Rudolf Bultmann Prize in Hermeneutics. Awarded to The Mission of Demythologizing: Rudolf Bultmann’s Dialectical Theology (Fortress, 2015) by the Rudolf Bultmann Institute for Hermeneutics at the Philipps University of Marburg.
 
2008
Edward A. Dowey, Jr. Award for Excellence in Reformation Theology, Princeton Theological Seminary
 
2008
John Finley McLaren Award in Biblical Theology, Princeton Theological Seminary
 
2007
Benjamin Stanton Prize in Old Testament, Princeton Theological Seminary
 
2004
James Jameson Essay Contest, 2nd place, Wheaton College
 
2003
James Jameson Essay Contest, 1st place, Wheaton College
 

Memberships

American Academy of Religion
American Society of Missiology
Association of University Presses
International Bonhoeffer Society
Karl Barth Society of North America
Society for Dialectical Theology
Westar Institute Fellow