Kyle Strobel

Kyle Strobel is a professor of spiritual theology and formation at Talbot School of Theology, Biola University and is an emerging voice among evangelicals on spiritual formation, discipleship, and theology. Kyle speaks regularly and has written for Pastors.com, Relevant magazine (and Relevant Magazine.com), ChurchLeader.com, and DeeperStory.com. Kyle helped start Metamorpha Ministries.

Academically, Kyle regularly teaches courses on theology and evangelical spirituality for seminary students, and lectures and writes broadly in these areas. Kyle is an expert on the theology of Jonathan Edwards, having writing the book Jonathan Edwards’s Theology: A Reinterpretation, and having published articles on Edwards’s understanding of beauty, justification by faith, the beatific vision, and salvation broadly. Kyle also edits academic books, having edited Sanctified by Grace: A Theology of the Christian Life (co-edited with Kent Eilers), Reading Spiritual Classics: A Guide for Evangelicals (co-edited with Jamin Goggin), and Charity and Its Fruits: Living in the Light of God’s Love.

Affiliations Faculty, Student
Position Associate Professor of Spiritual Theology
Degree M.A. New Testament ('05)
Degree M.A. Philosophy of Religion and Ethics ('02)

Author's books

Beloved Dust: Drawing Close to God by Discovering the Truth About Yourself

Does the fact that you were “formed from dust” make you insignificant? Not according to God’s Word, which calls you “beloved”! Drawing deeply from Scripture and their own experiences, Goggin and Stroble lead you on a journey toward communion with Jesus. Learn why empty self-help strategies and resolutions will always fail you—but Christ will not.

Beloved Dust: Drawing Close to God by Discovering the Truth About Yourself – eBook

Does the fact that you were “formed from dust” make you insignificant? Not according to God’s Word, which calls you “beloved”! Drawing deeply from Scripture and their own experiences, Goggin and Stroble lead you on a journey toward communion with Jesus. Learn why empty self-help strategies and resolutions will always fail you—but Christ will not.

Charity and Its Fruits: Living in the Light of God’s Love

Jonathan Edwards took great pains to illustrate how love must be lived out and exercised in one’s life when he exposited I Corinthians 13. Thus Edwards scholar Kyle Strobel has gone to great lengths to help readers understand this classic work of biblical spirituality. This edition of Charity and Its Fruits: Living in Light of God’s Love is an updated, unabridged, and enlightening version of Jonathan Edwards’s Charity and Its Fruits-the perfect blend of doctrine and application on the all-important topic, Christian love.

Embracing Contemplation: Reclaiming a Christian Spiritual Practice

What does a Christian life lived “by the Spirit” look like? Bringing together scholars and practitioners of spiritual formation from across the Protestant spectrum, this volume offers a distinctly evangelical consideration of the benefits of contemplation. The contributors draw on historical examples from the church-including John Calvin, Richard Baxter, Jonathan Edwards, and John Wesley-to consider how contemplative prayer can shape Christian living today. The result is a robust guide to embracing contemplation that will help Christians as they seek to keep in step with the Spirit.

Embracing Contemplation: Reclaiming a Christian Spiritual Practice – eBook

What does a Christian life lived “by the Spirit” look like? Bringing together scholars and practitioners of spiritual formation from across the Protestant spectrum, this volume offers a distinctly evangelical consideration of the benefits of contemplation. The contributors draw on historical examples from the church-including John Calvin, Richard Baxter, Jonathan Edwards, and John Wesley-to consider how contemplative prayer can shape Christian living today. The result is a robust guide to embracing contemplation that will help Christians as they seek to keep in step with the Spirit.

Formed for the Glory of God: Learning from the Spiritual Practices of Jonathan Edwards

Jesus enjoined us to focus our hearts and minds on God before all else. This is, of course, not a small task. How can this be done? To whom do we turn for help? Kyle Strobel, author of Formed for the Glory of God, argues that “Wisdom tells us to sit at the feet of our elders rather than latest ministry fad”. And is there a better elder to guide us than Jonathan Edwards?

Formed for the Glory of God: Learning from the Spiritual Practices of Jonathan Edwards – eBook

Jesus enjoined us to focus our hearts and minds on God before all else. This is, of course, not a small task. How can this be done? To whom do we turn for help? Kyle Strobel, author of Formed for the Glory of God, argues that “Wisdom tells us to sit at the feet of our elders rather than latest ministry fad”. And is there a better elder to guide us than Jonathan Edwards?

Reading the Christian Spiritual Classics: A Guide for Evangelicals – eBook

Ever since Richard Foster wrote Celebration of Discipline in 1978, evangelicals have hungered for a deeper and more historic spirituality. Many have come to discover the wealth of spiritual insight available in the Desert Fathers, the medieval mystics, German Pietism and other traditions. While these classics have been a source of life-changing renewal for many, still others are wary of these texts and the foreign theological traditions from which they come. The essays in this volume provide a guide for evangelicals to read the Christian spiritual classics.

Reformed Dogmatics in Dialogue: The Theology of Karl Barth and Jonathan Edwards

Two Reformed giants in conversation. Edited by Uche Anizor and Kyle C. Strobel, Reformed Dogmatics in Dialogue engages Edwards and Barth for constructive dogmatics. Each chapter brings these theologians into conversation on classic theological categories, such as the doctrine of God, atonement, and ecclesiology, as well as topics of particular interest to both, such as aesthetics and philosophy.

Regeneration, Revival, and Creation

Jonathan Edwards (1703-58) is considered one of the greatest theologians and philosophers of evangelicalism, who also served as a pastor, missionary, and revival leader. By underscoring Regeneration, Revival, and Creation in Edwards’s thought, this volume uniquely captures the need to delve into Edwards’s theological and philosophical rationale for the revivals, alongside key questions concerning the historical context and Edwards’s standing in his own tradition.

The Way of the Dragon or the Way of the Lamb: Searching for Jesus’ Path of Power in a Church that Has Abandoned It – eBook

In The Way of the Dragon or the Way of the Lamb, Goggin and Strobel paint a richly biblical vision of power through weakness. This revised and updated edition features a brand-new chapter for those who’ve been impacted by toxic and abusive power. Join the authors on a journey to gather wis­dom from great sages of the faith such as J. I. Packer, Dallas Willard, Marva Dawn, John Perkins, James Houston, and Eugene Peterson. Listen in on their conversations to rediscover the wisdom of the cross and the power that truly sets us free.

Way of the Dragon or the Way of the Lamb: Searching for Jesus’ Path of Power in a Church that Has Abandoned It

Join Goggin and Strobel on a global adventure! Eavesdrop as they talk with J.I. Packer, Dallas Willard, Marva Dawn, Eugene Peterson, and others about celebrity pastors who implode under the spotlight, churches that build a brand but lose their purpose, the temptations of power, and Jesus’ seemingly contradictory idea of strength through weakness.