Community Member Jordan Hillebert

Jordan Hillebert

The Rev. Dr. Jordan Hillebert was born and raised in the States, completed a PhD in Scotland (University of St. Andrews), and is Director of Formation and Tutor of Theology at St. Padarn’s Institute (Cardiff, Wales), where he oversees the training and formation of candidates for ministry in the Church in Wales. He lectures and supervises postgraduate students in theology and ethics at Cardiff University, and his research interests lie broadly in the areas of systematic theology and modern Christian thought. He is the editor and a contributing author to the T&T Clark Companion to Henri de Lubac, and his next book, Henri de Lubac and the Drama of Human Existence, is forthcoming with University of Notre Dame Press.

Jordan lives in Cardiff with his wife, Krisi, his daughter, Keira, and their ill-behaved beagle. He is acclimating well to British pubs but still mourns the loss of Southern cuisine.

On Doubt and Belief

By Jordan Hillebert The Church is not always great at dealing with doubt. We tend to swing between two extremes. On the one hand, there are some in the Church who are threatened by the slightest whiff of ... Read More...

A Deadly Kind of Calling

By Jordan Hillebert Augustine wept at his ordination. He had arrived in the ancient seaport of Hippo, in part, to avoid becoming a priest. The Catholic Church in North Africa was at that time a relatively... Read More...

Inhabiting a Strange New World

How might we make use of spiritual exegesis and the “fourfold sense” in our proclamation of the Bible’s strange new world?

Interpreting a Strange New World

Rather than acting as a signpost to the strange new world of Scripture, the sermon all-too-often obstructs our view of the Bible’s terrain. We have lost sight of the strange; our pews remain fixed in the familiar.

Keep Christianity Weird

Love Makes No Sense is in many ways a panegyric to the oddity of Christian faith and practice.

Proclaiming a Strange New World

Barth asked: What sort of country is spread before our eyes when we throw the Bible open?

Use, Enjoyment, and the Order of Things

The recognition that God is the supreme object of our enjoyment fills us with wonder at creation’s transparency to the love and goodness of God.

An apology for theology

God is not to be used; God alone is to be enjoyed. Theology is the stubborn pursuit of this enjoyment.