Brent A. R. Hege

Brent Hege is Center for Faith and Vocation Scholar in Residence and Senior Lecturer of Religion in the Department of Philosophy, Religion, and Classics at Butler University. He earned his PhD in theology with distinction at Union Theological Seminary in Richmond, VA, in 2007 and has taught theology and religion at Union and Butler. His research and teaching interests include the history of Christian thought, contemporary Christian thought, theological methods, God, evil and suffering, comparative religion and comparative theology, liberation theologies, radical theology, philosophy of religion, religious pluralism and interreligious dialogue, ecotheology, and Lutheranism.

His dissertation, published as Faith at the Intersection of History and Experience: The Theology of Georg Wobbermin, was awarded the 2010 John Templeton Award for Theological Promise by the Forschungszentrum Internationale und Interdisziplinäre Theologie at the University of Heidelberg, Germany. In 2017 he received the Outstanding Faculty Award for Excellence in Teaching from Butler's College of Liberal Arts and Sciences.