Meet Our Faculty

Office Location

IT Department
Jordan Building

(912) 583-3129

msteinmetz@bpc.edu

Dr. Michael Steinmetz

Assistant Vice President for Information Technology

Assistant Professor of Christian Studies

Division of Christian Studies and Humanities

Education

PhD, New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary, 2020
ThM, New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary, 2017
MATh, New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary, 2015
BA, Louisiana College, 2008

Biography

I was born in Shreveport, LA. During my undergraduate years, I served as a youth ministry intern at First Baptist Church Pineville, LA. Before working on my master’s degree, I taught high school Spanish, and I spent a year in Spain teaching English. I married my wife Kimberly in 2008, and we spent the last few years living in New Orleans while I worked on my master’s and PhD. I was licensed to the Gospel ministry by Woodridge Baptist Church in Shreveport, LA in 2018. I have came to BPC during the Summer of 2020.

I play guitar and bass, love loud music and I used to have a green mohawk.
I am fluent in Spanish.
My wife and I are obsessed with the show Survivor.
I love a good board game.
I am a New Orleans Saints fan. WHO DAT

Research Interests

Søren Kierkegaard
The doctrine of sin
The doctrine of humanity
Theological method
Ephesians
Genesis
Social setting of the New/Old Testament

Professional Organizations/Memberships

Evangelical Theological Society
Society of Biblical Literature
Søren Kierkegaard Society

Favorite Classes Taught at BPC

CHR 100 – Introduction to Biblical Worldview
CHR 101 – Introduction to Old Testament
CHR 210 – History of Christian Thought

"Therefore humble yourselves under the mighty hand of God, that He may exalt you at the proper time, casting all your anxiety on Him, because He cares for you. Be of sober [spirit], be on the alert. Your adversary, the devil, prowls around like a roaring lion, seeking someone to devour. But resist him, firm in [your] faith, knowing that the same experiences of suffering are being accomplished by your brethren who are in the world. After you have suffered for a little while, the God of all grace, who called you to His eternal glory in Christ, will Himself perfect, confirm, strengthen [and] establish you. To Him [be] dominion forever and ever. Amen."

"Therefore, since we have a great high priest who has passed through the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold fast our confession. For we do not have a high priest who cannot sympathize with our weaknesses, but One who has been tempted in all things as [we are, yet] without sin. Therefore let us draw near with confidence to the throne of grace, so that we may receive mercy and find grace to help in time of need."

"The LORD is my shepherd, I shall not want. He makes me lie down in green pastures; He leads me beside quiet waters. He restores my soul; He guides me in the paths of righteousness For His name's sake. Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I fear no evil, for You are with me; Your rod and Your staff, they comfort me. You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies; You have anointed my head with oil; My cup overflows. Surely goodness and lovingkindness will follow me all the days of my life, And I will dwell in the house of the LORD forever".

Scholarly Work & Publications

Books

The Severed Self: The Doctrine of Sin in the Works of Søren Kierkegaard, De Gruyter Press, 2021

Articles/Chapters

“The Life of Spirit: The Self and Sanctification in Søren Kierkegaard’s The Sickness unto Death,” Heythrop Journal, vol. 64, January 2023; (http://doi.org/10.1111/heyj.14164)

“Kierkegaard’s Concept of Repetition: Seeking Transcendence in a Secular Age,” Secularism and the Pursuit of Transcendence Conference, in peer-review

“Purposeful Digression: Ephesians 3:1-13 as Hermeneutical Key to the Book of Ephesians,” Evangelical Quarterly, in peer-review

“Why We Sing on Sunday: What Kierkegaard’s Aesthete Teaches the Church about Worship,” Kerygma und Dogma, in peer-review

Reviews

Book Review of Controverting Kierkegaard by K. E. Løgstrup, Journal for Baptist Theology and Ministry, Fall 2023, Vol. 20, No. 2.

Book Review of Kierkegaard: A Christian Missionary to Christians by Mark A. Tietjen, Journal for Baptist Theology and Ministry, Spring 2017, Vol. 14, no. 1, 122-124.

PAPERS AND PRESENTATIONS

Presenter (forthcoming), “A Trichotomy of Existence: Søren Kierkegaard’s Theological Anthropology”

Evangelical Theological Society Annual Meeting, November 2023

Plenary Speaker, “Why Do We Sing?”

Worship Conference at First Baptist Church, Vidalia, GA, January 2023

Presenter, “A Holy Army: The Armor of God as a Unifying Call to Corporate Solidarity and Holiness”

Evangelical Theological Society Annual Meeting, November 2022

Presenter, “Rhetorical Digression: Ephesians 3:1-13 as Hermeneutical Key to the Book of Ephesians”, Evangelical Theological Society Annual Meeting, November 2020

Presenter, “The Imago Dei in the Secular Age: Charles Taylor’s Relational Anthropology”

Evangelical Theological Society Annual Meeting, November 2019

Presenter, “A Faithless Encounter of the Knight of Faith: Abram, Sarai, and Pharaoh”

Evangelical Theological Society Southwest Regional Meeting, March 2019

Presenter, “The Practical Pneumatology of Søren Kierkegaard”

Evangelical Theological Society Annual Meeting, November 2018

Presenter, “Culture Clash: Conflict in Ephesus”

Student Theological Fellowship, New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary, February 2018

Presenter, “Kierkegaard and Apologetics”

Defend The Faith Conference, New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary, January 2016

Presenter, “‘Moderate View’ from Four Views on Eternal Security”

Student Theological Fellowship, New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary, September 2015

Seminar Paper, “The Problem of Canon: Kierkegaard, Lessing, and a Potential Solution”

NTGK9404 The Canon of the New Testament, New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary, December 2018

Seminar Paper, “Methodological Research Paper: William Barrett’s Death of the Soul and Spiritual Theology with Continual Reference to Søren Kierkegaard”

THEO9419 Keepers of the Springs: The Devotional Classics and the Heritage of Christian Spirituality, New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary, March 2018.

Seminar Paper, “Barth’s The Epistle to the Romans and Theological Interpretation of Scripture”

THEO9408 Theological Interpretation of Scripture, New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary,

May 2016

Seminar Paper, “Far Yet Near: Infinite Qualitative Difference”

THEO9401 The Doctrine of God, New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary, May 2016