Professor Philip G. Ziegler

Essays and Articles

  • ‘Barth and Some Recent Apocalyptic Theology’, in Karl Barth and Apocalyptic, edited by Georg Pfleiderer (Zurich: TVZ, 2026), in press.
  • ‘Hoping Against Hope’: God’s Politics and Ours at the Turning of the Ages’, Zeitschrift für dialektische Theologie, 83 (2026), in press for 2026.
  • ‘The Theology of the Confessing Church’, The Oxford History of Modern German Theology, edited by David Lincicum, Judith Wolfe, and Johannes Zachhuber, volume 3 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2026), forthcoming.
  • ‘Christ’s Decent into Hell’, in Reading the Life of Christ Theologically: A Chalcedonian Commentary, edited by Kevin Vanhoozer and Mark McDowell (Grand Rapids: Baker Academic, 2026), forthcoming.
  • ‘Lord Gifford’s Lectures and the Critique of Religion—The Case of Arend Theodoor van Leeuwen’, in The Gifford Lectures: Advancing Natural Theology, edited by Christopher R. Brewer and Garrick Allen (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2026), 186-198.
  • ‘The Price of Christian Messianism’ in The Messianic Imagination: Christian Ethics, Literature, and Political Theology, edited by Maxwell Kennel, Joseph Wiebe, Grant Poettcker and Paul Doerksen (Eugene, OR: Wipf & Stock, 2025), 37-49.
  • ‘Analogia Liberationis—Divine and Human Freedom in Bonhoeffer’s Theology’ in On the Road to Freedom: Dietrich Bonhoeffer and Edith Stein, edited by Joel Burnell and Piotr Lorek (Carlisle: Langham Publishing, 2025), 91-101.
  • ‘Loyalty to the Confessing Church: Dietrich Bonhoeffer and Paul L. Lehmann, New York, Summer 1939’, Touchstone 43:1 (2025), 16-26.
  • ‘The Quality of the Christian Life and Theology: Some Remarks about Freedom’ in Piotr J. Małysz and R. David Nelson eds., The Freedom of Christian Theology: New Studies in Dialogue with Eberhard Jüngel (Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2025), 227-242.
  • ‘Western Europe’, in The Modern Theologians, 4th edition, edited by Rachael Muers and Ashley Cocksworth with David Ford (Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2024), pp. 125-139.
  • ‘“To Carry on in this Chalcedonian Sense”—The Christology of The Letters and Papers from Prison’, in Bonhoeffer and Christology: Revisiting Chalcedon, edited by Matthias Grebe, Nadine Hamilton, and Christian Schlenker (London: T&T Clark/Bloomsbury, 2023), pp. 55-74.
  • ‘Christ’s Agony and Faith’s Wakefulness: Reflections on a Remark of Pascal,’ Toronto Journal of Theology 38:2 (2022), pp. 134-141. https://doi.org/10.3138/tjt-2022-0022
  • ‘Kornelis H. Miskotte’s Biblical ABCs: A Theological Provocation’, Journal of Reformed Theology 16:4 (2022), pp. 326-347. Online open access here.
  • ‘On the Present Possibility of Sola Scriptura‘, International Journal of Systematic Theology 24:2 (2022), pp. 569-587. Online open access here.
  • ‘How it Ends: Brief Remarks on Reading 2 Thessalonians 2:1-12’, Pro Ecclesia 31:1 (2022), pp. 41-48. Online open access here.
  • ‘The First and Final “No”: The Finality of the Gospel and the Old Enemy’, in The Finality of the Gospel: Karl Barth and the Tasks of Eschatology, edited by Kaitlyn Dugan and Philip G. Ziegler, Studies in Reformed Theology (Leiden: Brill, 2022), pp. 193-213.
  • ‘Ethics and the Catastrophe of Grace: Faith’s Obedience in the Ruins of Religion’, in Karl Barth’s Epistle to the Romans – Retrospect and Prospect, edited by Christophe Chalamet, Andreas Dettwiler and Sarah Stewart-Kroeker.  Theologische Bibliothek Töpelmann (Berlin: de Gruyter, 2022), pp. 335-347.
  • ‘Parabolic Life – Toward an Ethics of God’s Apocalypse’, Studies in Christian Ethics 34:4 (2021), 426-438. Online open access here.
  • ‘”Peace Through the Cross”: The Salvation of Jews and Gentiles’, Journal of Reformed Theology 14:3 (2020), pp. 229-245.
  • ‘Reformed Ethics’, in The Oxford Handbook of Reformed Theology, edited by Michael Allen and Scott R. Swain (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020), pp. 577-591.
  • ‘The Theological Self in Kierkegaard’s Sickness unto Death.’ Participatio Supplemental Volume 5, Søren Kierkegaard as a Christian, Incarnational Theologian (2019), pp. 128-143.
  • ‘“While We Were Yet Enemies”—Some Particularly Protestant Reflections on Grace’, Journal of Reformed Theology 14:1-2 (2020), pp. 35-51. https://doi.org/10.1163/15697312-bja10003
  • ‘The Devil’s Work—Divine Providence and its Antithesis’, in Divine Action and Providence, edited by F. Sanders and O. Crisp (Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 2019), pp. 173-186.
  • ‘“Tempted for Our Sake”—Bonhoeffer on Christ’s Temptation’, in Polyphonie der Theologie: Verantwortung und Widerstand in Kirche und Politik, edited by Matthias Grebe (Stuttgart: Kohlhammer, 2019), 259-276.
  • ‘Order, Spheres and Mandates—Barth and Bonhoeffer as Cartographers of Christian Freedom and Responsibility’, Zeitschrift für Dialektische Theologie, 69:1 (May 2019), pp. 31-50.
  • ‘The Christian Life: A Humble Striving Born of Gratitude’, in The T&T Clark Handbook of the Theology of Kierkegaard, edited by A. Edwards and D. Gouwens (London: T&T Clark/Bloomsbury, 2019), pp. 391-402.
  •  ‘Those He also Glorified’—Reformed perspectives on human nature and destiny’, Studies in Christian Ethics 32:2 (2019), pp. 165-176.
  • ‘Insomnolent Anathemas—E.M. Cioran’s Unbelieving Gift to Theology’, Theology Today 75:3 (October 2018), pp. 391-98.
  • ‘Graciously Commanded—Dietrich Bonhoeffer and Karl Barth on the Decalogue’, Scottish Journal of Theology 71:2 (May 2018), pp. 127-141.
  • ‘“Bound Over To Satan’s Tyranny”—Sin and Satan in Contemporary Reformed Hamartiology’, Theology Today 75:1 (April 2018), pp. 89-100.
  • ‘Toward an Evangelical Ars Morendi’, in Practicing with Paul, edited by Presian R. Burroughs (Eugene, OR: Wipf & Stock, 2018), pp. 231-244.
  • ‘Getting the Reformation in America—The Making of Paul L. Lehmann as  Public Theologian’, Studies in Christian Ethics 31:1 (February 2018), 79-107.
  • ‘To Pray, To Testify, and To Revolt’—Karl Barth’s The Christian Life’, in Karl Barth, The Christian Life. Cornerstones of Theology (London: T&T Clark/Bloomsbury, 2017), 1-16.
  • ‘Veniat Regnum Tuum! Christology, Eschatology and the Christian Life’, in Game Over? Reconsidering Eschatology, edited by Christophe Chalamet et al. Theologische Bibliothek Töpelmann (Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 2017), 407-423.
  • ‘A Very Short Theology of Reconciliation’, Touchstone 34:3 (2016), 7-13.
  • ‘The Enmity of Death and Judgment Unto Life’, in Eternal God, Eternal Life: Theological Investigations into the Concept of Immortality, edited by Philip G. Ziegler (London: T&T Clark/Bloomsbury, 2016), pp. 131-148.
  • ‘God, Christ, and Church in the DDR—Wolf Krötke as an Interpreter of Bonhoeffer’s Theology’, in Engaging Bonhoeffer: The Influence and Impact of Bonhoeffer’s Life and Thought, edited by Matthew Kirkpatrick (Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2016), 201-220.
  • ‘Some Remarks on Apocalyptic in Modern Christian Theology’, in Paul and the Apocalyptic Imagination, edited by B. Blackwell, J. Maston and J. Goodrich (Minneapolis: Fortress Press, forthcoming 2016), 199-216.
  • ‘”Completely within God’s Doing”: Soteriology as Metaethics in the Theology of Dietrich Bonhoeffer’, in Christ, Church, and World: New Studies in Bonhoeffer’s Theology and Ethics, edited by M. Mawson and P. Ziegler (London: T&T Clark/ Bloomsbury, 2016), 101-117.
  • ‘The Adventitious Origins of the Calvinist Moral Subject’, Studies in Christian Ethics, 28:2 (May 2015), pp. 213-223. doi:10.1177/0953946815570598
  • ‘The Historical Jesus and Christology from Strauss to Kaesemann’, The Oxford Handbook of Christology, edited by F.A. Murphy (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015), pp. 328-344.
  • ‘The Humanity of Divinity’, Union Seminary Quarterly Review, 65:1&2 (2014), pp. 171-180.
  • ‘Nisi per Spiritum Sanctum—The Holy Spirit and the Confession of Faith’, Journal of Reformed Theology, 8:4 (2014), pp. 247-56. doi:10.1163/15697312-00804002
  • ‘Transcendence in the Midst of Life?’, a review essay of Ward Balanton, A Materialism for the Masses: Saint Paul and the Philosophy of Undying Life (Columbia University Press, 2014),  Syndicate 1:4 (2014), pp. 52-57 and Syndicate online.
  • ‘Foreword’, in Eberhard Jüngel, Christ, Justice and Peace: Toward a Theology of the State (London: T&T Clark/Bloombury, 2014).
  • ‘Some Remarks on Christian Freedom’, in Indicative of Grace – Imperative of Freedom. Essays in honour of Eberhard Jüngel in his 80th Year, edited by R. David Nelson (London: T&T Clark/Bloomsbury, 2014), pp. 255-266.
  • ‘Discipleship’, in Sanctified by Grace: A Theology of the Christian Life, edited by Kent Eilers and Kyle Strobel (London: T&T Clark/ Continuum, 2014), pp. 173-186.
  • ‘Witness to Christ’s Dominion: the political service of the Church’, Theology 116:5 (2013), pp. 323-331. doi: 10.1177/0040571X13493582
  • ‘Love is a Sovereign Thing: The Witness of Romans 8:31-39 and the Royal Office of Jesus Christ’, in  Apocalyptic Paul:  Cosmos and Anthropos in Romans 5-8, edited by B. Gaventa (Waco, TX: Baylor University Press, 2013), pp. 111-130.
  • ‘Dietrich Bonhoeffer—Theologian of the Word of God’, in Bonhoeffer, Christ and Culture, edited by K. Johnson & T. Larsen (Downers Grove, IN: IVP Academic, 2013), pp. 17-38.
  • ‘Christ For Us Today: Promeity in the Christologies of Bonhoeffer and Kierkegaard’, International Journal of Systematic Theology, 15:1 (2013), pp. 25-41. doi:10.1111/j.1468-2400.2012.00656.x
  • ‘“Christ Must Reign”: Ernst Kaesemann and Soteriology in an Apocalyptic Key’, Apocalyptic and the Future of Theology, edited by D. Harink and J. Davis (Eugene, OR: Cascade Books, 2012), pp. 202-220
  • ‘Christ’s Lordship and Politics: Visser ‘t Hooft and Bonhoeffer’, in Bonhoeffer, Religion and Politics, International Bonhoeffer Interpretations 4, Hrsg. von C. Tietz and J. Zimmerman (Berlin: Peter Lang, 2012), pp. 55-80.
  • ‘Eschatological Dogmatics: To What End?’, in Eschatologie-Eschatology, hrsg. von H.-J. Eckstein et. al., WUNT (Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2011), pp. 348-359.
  • ‘The Fate of Natural Law at the Turning of the Ages’, Theology Today (67:4) January 2011, pp. 419-429. doi:10.1177/004057361106700404
  • ‘Review Essay—Christopher Morse, The Difference Heaven Makes (Continuum, 2010)’ Word & World 31:1 (Jan 2011), pp. 75-83.
  • ‘”Not to Abolish, but to Fulfil”—The Person of the Preacher and the Claim of the Sermon,’ Studies in Christian Ethics 22:3 (2009), 275-289. doi:10.1177/0953946809106233
  • ‘Secularity and Eschatology in Bonhoeffer’s Late Work,’ in Dietrich Bonhoeffers Theologie heute Ein Weg zwischen Fundamentalismus und Säkularismus?, edited by J. De Gruchy, S. Plant and C. Tietz (Guetersloh: Guetersloher Verlaghaus, 2009), pp. 124-138.
  • ‘The Uses of Providence in Public Theology,’ in The Doctrine of Providence, edited by Philip G. Ziegler and Francesca Murphy (London: T&T Clark/Continuum, 2009), 307-325.
  • ‘Creation, Redemption and Law—Toward a Protestant Perspective on the Question of Human Law’ in Explorations in Christian Theology and Ethics: Essays in Conversation with Paul L. Lehmann, eds. P. Ziegler and M. Bartel (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2009), pp. 63-78.
  • ‘‘Voices in the Night’—Human Solidarity and Eschatological Hope,‘ in Who Am I? Bonhoeffer’s Theology Through His Poetry, ed. B. Wannenwetsch (London: T&T Clark/Continuum, 2009), p. 115-146.
  • ‘Taken Out of Context–Freedom and Concreteness in the Theology of Wolf Krötke,’ Communio Viatorum, I/2008, pp. 74-92.
  • ‘Stumbling Upon Peter? The Question of the Church in Ecumenical Dialogue,’ in Ecumenism Today, ed. F.A. Murphy, C. Asprey and E.E. Puosi (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2008), pp. 17-28.
  • ‘Dietrich Bonhoeffer—An Ethics of God’s Apocalypse?’ Modern Theology 23:4 (October 2007), pp. 579-594. doi:10.1111/j.1468-0025.2007.00410.x
  • ‘Barth’s Criticisms of Kierkegaard—A Striking Out at Phantoms?’ International Journal of Systematic Theology 9:4 (October 2007), pp. 434-451. doi:10.1111/j.1468-2400.2007.00266.x
  • ‘A Christian Context for Conscience? Reading Kierkegaard’s Works of Love Beyond Hegel’s Critique of Conscience’, European Journal of Theology 15:1 (2007), pp. 25-36.
  • ”To Honour God’s “Good Violence”—Some Notes and Queries Relating to Hans Boersma’s Violence, Hospitality and the Cross,’ Canadian Evangelical Review 30-31 (Fall 2005-Spring 2006), pp. 106-113.
  • ‘Christian Theology and Democratic Politics in Conversation with Jeffrey Stout,’ Theology Today 63:2 (July 2006), pp. 227-234. doi:10.1177/004057360606300210
  • ‘Justification and Justice-The Promising Problematique of Protestant Ethics in the Work of Paul L. Lehmann,’ Berliner Theologische Zeitschift , 2004/1, pp. 140-153.  Also published in , Justification: What’s at Stake in the Current Debates, eds. M. Husbands and D. Treier (Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, 2004), pp. 118-133.
  • ‘God and Some Recent Public Theologies,’ International Journal of Systematic Theology, 4:2 (2002), pp. 137-155. doi:10.1111/1463-1652.00077
  • ‘Doing Conscience Over: The Reformulation of the Doctrine of Conscience in Karl Barth and Paul Lehmann,’ Toronto Journal of Theology 14:2 (1998), pp. 213-238.