Dr. Paul Louis Metzger is the Director of the Center for the Theology of Cultural Engagement. He is the author of The Word of Christ and the World of Culture: Sacred and Secular through the Theology of Karl Barth (Eerdmans, 2003); editor of Trinitarian Soundings in Systematic Theology (T&T Clark International, 2005); author of Consuming Jesus: Beyond Race and Class Divisions in a Consumer Church (Eerdmans, 2007); and co-author of Exploring Ecclesiology: An Evangelical and Ecumenical Introduction (Brazos, 2009; co-authored with Dr. Brad Harper).  Dr. Metzger is co-editing A World for All? Global Civil Society in Political Theory and Trinitarian Theology with Drs. Peter J. Casarella and William F. Storrar (Eerdmans, forthcoming), and serves as the executive editor of a forthcoming multi-volume series on the Scriptures for InterVarsity Press, for which he is writing the volume on John’s Gospel.  Dr. Metzger is Professor of Christian Theology and Theology of Culture at Multnomah Biblical Seminary of Multnomah University, and serves as the Founder and Director of the seminary’s Institute for the Theology of Culture: New Wine, New Wineskins and editor of its journal, Cultural Encounters: A Journal for the Theology of Culture.  Dr. Metzger is a member of the Center of Theological Inquiry, Princeton, New Jersey, and has developed a strategic ministry partnership with Dr. John M. Perkins titled, “Drum Majors for Love, Truth and Justice.”

Books written by Dr. Metzger:

The Word of Christ and the World of Culture: Sacred and Secular Through the Theology of Karl Barth

Trinitarian Soundings in Systematic Theology – Paperback

Trinitarian Soundings in Systematic Theology – Hardback

Consuming Jesus: Beyond Race and Class Divisions in a Consumer Church

Exploring Ecclesiology: An Evangelical and Ecumenical Introduction