Phelan, Jay

John E. Phelan, Jr. is Senior Professor of Theological Studies at North Park Theological Seminary where he previously served as President and Dean for 14 years.

A Pietist’s Bookshelf: Responding to the "New Atheists" (Fall/Winter 2010)

In the years following the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center in New York City, a number of books attacking religion in general and Christianity in particular became extremely popular. These works, in John Lennonesque fashion, encouraged us to imagine a world without the quarrelsome religions and their attending violence and bloodshed. Writers like Christopher Hitchens, Sam Harris and Richard Dawkins poured scorn on people of faith and their absurd beliefs.

The Scandinavian Detective and the Dissolution of a World (Spring/Summer 2011)

Jay Phelan examines the social criticism found in Scandinavian crime fiction.


Pietisten Home About Pietisten Membership Email Newsletter Issues Columns Authors Contact Us Search Pietisten	Phelan, Jay John E. Phelan, Jr. is Senior Professor of Theological Studies at North Park Theological Seminary where he previously served as President and Dean for 14 years. A Pietist’s Bookshelf: Responding to the "New Atheists" (Fall/Winter 2010) In the years following the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center in New York City, a number of books attacking religion in general and Christianity in particular became extremely popular. These works, in John Lennonesque fashion, encouraged us to imagine a world without the quarrelsome religions and their attending violence and bloodshed. Writers like Christopher Hitchens, Sam Harris and Richard Dawkins poured scorn on people of faith and their absurd beliefs. The Scandinavian Detective and the Dissolution of a World (Spring/Summer 2011) Jay Phelan examines the social criticism found in Scandinavian crime fiction.