Jason Sexton

Journal Articles

“Reconceiving Christianity and the Modern Prison: On Evangelicalism’s Eugenic Logic and Mass Incarceration,” Journal of Law and Religion (Cambridge) 39/2 (May 2024): forthcoming: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4545231.

“Seeking Common Ground Between Theology and Sustainability Science for Just Transitions,” co-authored with Stephanie Pincetl, Zygon: Journal of Religion and Science (Wiley) 57/4 (December 2022): https://doi.org/10.1111/zygo.12856

“Ten Tips to De-Carcerate Your Theology, Ethics, or Religion Classroom,” co-authored with Sarah Jobe, Nathaniel Grimes, Vincent Lloyd, Kathryn Getek Soltis & Mary Beth Yount, Political Theology (Taylor & Francis) (2022). https://doi.org/10.1080/1462317X.2022.2079238

“The Critical Study of Religion and Division in the Age of Covid-19,” International Journal of Public Theology (Brill) 15/2 (2021): 157-176. https://doi.org/10.1163/15697320-12341652

“Experiencing Justice from the Inside Out: Theological Considerations about the Church’s Role in Justice, Healing, and Forgiveness,” Religions special issue, “Carceral Intersections: Christianity and the Crisis of Mass Incarceration,” ed. Douglas Campbell 10/2 (2019): 108. https://doi.org/10.3390/rel10020108

“Constructing a Christian theology for the pluralistic world,” Theology (Sage) 122/1 (2019): 43-46. https://doi.org/10.1177/0040571X18805912

“Redeemed on the Inside: Radical Accounts of Ecclesia Incarcerate,” Ecclesial Practices: Journal of Ecclesiology and Ethnography (Brill) 5/2 (December 2018): 172-90. https://doi.org/10.1163/22144471-00502005

“Confessional Theology in Public Places,” International Journal of Public Theology (Brill) 10/2 (March/April 2016): 234-48. https://doi.org/10.1163/15697320-12341444

“Greystone Chapel: Finding freedom inside Folsom Prison’s walls,” Boom: A Journal of California (UC Press): 6/2 (Summer 2016): 104-110 [after becoming Editor]. https://doi.org/10.1525/boom.2016.6.2.104

“Jesus on LSD: When Religion Met California Blotter,” Boom: A Journal of California (UC Press): 5/4 (December 2015): 78-84 [before becoming Editor]. https://doi.org/10.1525/boom.2015.5.4.78

“Missional Theology’s Missing Ingredient: The Necessity of Systematic Theology for Today’s Mission,” Mission Studies (Brill) 32/3 (2015): 384-97. https://doi.org/10.1163/15733831-12341416

“Toward a Theology of California’s Ecclesia Incarcerate,” Theology (Sage Press) 118.2 (Mar/Apr 2015): 83-91. https://doi.org/10.1177/0040571X14559159  

“Reading the Parables Theologically to Read them Missionally: A Missional Reading of the Early Galilean Parables in Luke’s Gospel,” Currents in Theology and Mission 40/3 (June 2013): 165-78.

“Beyond Social Trinitarianism: The Baptist, Trinitarian Innovation of Stanley J. Grenz,” Baptist Quarterly (Taylor & Francis) 44 (October 2012): 473-86.

“The State of the Evangelical Trinitarian Resurgence,” Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society 54/4 (December 2011): 787-805.

“A Match Made in Munich: The Origin of Grenz’s Trinitarian Theology,” American Theological Inquiry 4/1 (January 2011): 23-46.       

“The Imago Dei Once Again: Stanley Grenz’s Journey Toward a Theological Interpretation of Genesis 1:26-27,” Journal of Theological Interpretation (Eisenbrauns) 4/2 (Fall 2010): 187-206.

“Stanley Grenz’s Ecclesiology: Telic and Trinitarian,” Pacific Journal of Baptist Research 6/1 (April 2010): 20-43.

“Stanley Grenz’s Relatedness and Relevancy to British Evangelicalism,” Scottish Bulletin of Evangelical Theology 28/1 (Spring 2010): 62-79.

“How Far Beyond Chicago? Assessing Recent Attempts to Reframe the Inerrancy Debate,” Themelios 34/1 (April 2009): 26-49.

Chapters in Collections

“Coda: looking back to look forwards – on the past, present, and future of British evangelical theology,” in British Evangelical Theologians of the Twentieth Century: An Enduring Legacy, edited by T. A. Noble and Jason S. Sexton (London: Apollos, 2022), 260-66.

“Borders and Barriers: Citizenship in California,” in Los Angeles as a Global Crossroads: Migration, Transnationalism, and Faith, edited by Kirsteen Kim and Alexia Salvatierra (Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2021).

“Everything is Everything: Reevaluating Veli-Matti Kärkkäinen’s ‘Theology of Everything’ and Social Location,” in The Dialogic Evangelical Theology of Veli-Matti Kärkkäinen: Exploring the Work of God in a Diverse Church and a Pluralistic World, edited by Patrick Oden, Peter Heltzel, and Amos Yong (Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2021), 229-238.

“Recalibrating a Church for Mission,” in Four Views on the Church’s Mission, ed. Jason S. Sexton (Grand Rapids: Zondervan/Harper Collins, 2017), 194-200.

“Recalibrating the Church’s Mission,” in Four Views on the Church’s Mission, ed. Jason S. Sexton (Grand Rapids: Zondervan/Harper Collins, 2017), 7-16.

“Ending Mass Incarceration in California: What Comes Next?” with Eve Bachrach, Boom: A Journal of California (UC Press): 6/2 (Summer 2016): 4-7 [after becoming Editor].

“A Confessing Evangelical Theology for Dynamic Public Spaces,” in The End of Theology: Shaping Theology for the Sake of Mission (Fortress Press, 2016), 171-90.

“Public Theology: The Spirit Sent to Bring Good News,” in Third Article Theology: A Pneumatological Dogmatics, ed. Myk Habets (Fortress Press, 2016), 423-42.

“Can Theology Engage with California’s Culture?” in Theology and California: Theological Refractions on California’s Culture, ed. Fred Sanders and Jason S. Sexton (New York: Routledge, 2014), 35-67.

“Re-focusing the Incarcerated Redeemed within Society’s Prisons,” Syndicate 2/1 (Jan/Feb 2015): 30-36 [review essay] and “Clarifying church life: local and incarcerate.”

“Stanley J. Grenz: A Theological Biography,” co-authored with Brian Harris and Jay Smith in Revisioning, Renewing, and Rediscovering the Triune Center, ed. Derek Tidball, Brian Harris, and Jason S. Sexton (Cascade, 2014), 3-27.

“A Confessing Trinitarian Theology for Today’s Mission,” in Advancing Trinitarian Theology: Essays in Constructive Dogmatics, ed. Oliver Crisp and Fred Sanders (Zondervan, 2014), 171-89.

Reviews

Review of Ruth Wilson Gilmore, Abolition Geography: Essays Towards Liberation, in Political Theology (Taylor & Francis) (2023).

Review of Joshua Dubler and Vincent Lloyd, Break Every Yoke: Religion, Justice, and the Abolition of Prisons, in Punishment and Society (Sage) (2022).

Review of K. R. Kerley, Religious Faith in Correctional Contexts, in The Howard Journal of Criminal Justice (Wiley) 54/4 (September 2015): 409-10.

Review of Amy Levad, Redeeming a Prison Society, in “A Prison Society Redeemed?” Syndicate: A New Forum for Theology 2/1 (Jan/Feb 2015): 30-36.

Review of Tom Greggs, ed., New Perspectives for Evangelical Theology: Engaging with God, Scripture, and the World, International Journal of Systematic Theology (Wiley) 15/2 (April 2013): 227-30.

Review of Gerald McDermott, ed. The Oxford Handbook of Evangelical Theology in Journal of Theological Studies (OUP) 63/1 (April 2012): 396-99.

Review of Luke Bretherton, Christianity and Contemporary Politics in European Journal of Theology 20/2 (May 2011): 167-70.

Review of Stephen R. Holmes, ed., Public Theology in Cultural Engagement in Theology in Scotland 16/1 (Spring 2009): 114-17.