Stephen Finlan

Stephen Finlan has a Ph.D. in Pauline Theology from University of Durham (U.K.) and taught Theology for fourteen years at Fordham, Drew, and other Universities. His eleven books include the new The Drama of Job: Burning Questions and Incomplete Answers (2025), Salvation Not Purchased (2020), the highly acclaimed Problems with Atonement (2005), Bullying in the Churches (2015), and The Family Metaphor in Jesus’ Teaching (2013). He also co-edited the groundbreaking Theôsis: Deification in Christian Theology (2006). He is the pastor at The First Church (UCC), West Bridgewater, MA.