Stephen Mark Heim
S. Mark Heim is the Samuel Abbot Professor of Christian Theology at Andover Newton Seminary at Yale Divinity School. He is a graduate of Amherst College, Andover Newton Theological School and the Boston College—Andover Newton Theological School joint doctoral program in systematic theology. He has written extensively on issues of religious pluralism, atonement, and Christian ecumenism. His books include Salvations: Truth and Difference in Theology; The Depth of the Riches: A Trinitarian Theology of Religious Ends (Theological Booksellers Theologos award for best academic book 2001); Saved from Sacrifice: A Theology of the Cross; Crucified Wisdom: Christ and the Bodhisattva in Theological Reflection (winner of Frederick Streng award in Buddhist-Christian studies 2019), and, most recently, Monotheism and Forgiveness. He is currently working on a co-authored project on theology and medicine, scheduled for publication in 2025. He also edited several volumes, including Faith to Creed: Ecumenical Perspectives on the Affirmation of the Apostolic Faith in the Fourth Century and Grounds for Understanding: Ecumenical Resources for Responses to Religious Pluralism. He received a Henry Luce III Fellowship in Theology (2009-2010) and a Pew Evangelical Scholars’ Research Fellowship (1997-98). He is a member of the American Theological Society. He served as co-chair of the comparative theology group in the American Academy of Religion. His teaching in the area of science and religion received several national awards, including a Templeton Foundation award in 1998 for one of the twelve outstanding courses in this area. He was recently the primary investigator on a grant from the American Academy for the Advancement of Science devoted to integrating science into the theological curriculum. Along with a colleague from the Yale Medical School, Dr. Benjamin Doolittle, he teaches an interdisciplinary course on theology and medicine. An ordained American Baptist minister, he has represented his denomination on the Faith and Order Commissions of the National Council and World Council of Churches. He has served on numerous ecumenical commissions and study groups, including the Christian—Muslim relations committee of the National Council of Churches. His teaching and research interests include comparative theology, theologies of religious pluralism, science and theology, Christology and atonement, and ecumenical ecclesiology.
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Books
- Monotheism and Forgiveness (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022) Elements Monotheism Series, Chad Meister and Paul K. Moser eds.
- Crucified Wisdom: Christ and the Bodhisattva in Theological Reflection (New York: Fordham University Press, 2019)
- Saved from Sacrifice: A Theology of the Cross (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2006)
- The Depth of the Riches: A Trinitarian Theology of Religious Ends (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2001)
- Grounds for Understanding: Ecumenical Resources for Responses to Religious Diversity, editor (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1998)
- Salvations: Truth and Difference in Religion (Maryknoll: Orbis Books, 1995)
- Faith to Creed: Ecumenical Perspectives on the Affirmation of the Apostolic Faith in the Fourth Century, editor (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1991)
- Spirit of Truth: Ecumenical Perspectives on the Holy Spirit, editor with Fr. Theodore Stylianopolos (Brookline: Holy Cross Press, 1986)
- Is Christ the Only Way? (Philadelphia: Judson Press, 1985)
