Brite Divinity School | Tim Hessel-Robinson - Assistant Professor of Spiritual Disciplines and Resources

tim.robinson@tcu.edu
817.257.7598

TCU Box 298130
2855 South University
Office 19
Fort Worth, TX 76129

Tim Hessel-Robinson joined the Brite faculty in the fall of 2006 after completing a Ph.D. at the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley, CA. He teaches courses in Christian spirituality and worship, bringing to the classroom a deep desire to integrate the experiential, intellectual, and ethical dimensions of Christian faith and the practice of ministry. His scholarly interests include the history of Christian spirituality, especially within the Reformed tradition, sacramental and liturgical theology, and ecological spiritualities. He is an active member of the Society for the Study of Christian Spirituality, the American Academy of Religion, the College Theology Society, and the North American Academy of Liturgy. He is currently co-convener of the spirituality section at the CTS. Ordained in the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) for 17 years, he served as pastor or associate pastor at Disciples of Christ congregations in the Kentucky, Northern California, Virginia and the Greater Kansas City regions prior to his arrival at Brite. Dr. Hessel-Robinson is married to the Rev. Beth Hessel-Robinson, a Presbyterian pastor in the D/FW area, and they are the parents of two young children.

Graduate Theological Union, Ph.D., 2006
Emmanuel School of Religion, M.Div., 1993
Seminary Consortium for Urban Pastoral Education, Certificate, 1990
Milligan College, B.A., 1987

Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)

Be My Only Well Beloved: Exegesis and Spirituality in Edward Taylor’s Eucharistic
Poetry (Lewiston, NY: Edwin Mellen, 2010)

Spirit and Nature: Christian Spirituality in an Ecological Age, edited with Ray Maria
McNamara (Eugene, OR: Pickwick Press, 2010)

“Jonathan Edwards: Treatise on Religious Affections,” in Christian Spirituality:
The Classics. Edited by Arthur Holder (London and New York: Routledge, 2009)

“Using the Song of Songs in Creation Healing Liturgy,” Call to Worship 43:4 (Fall 2009)

“Erotic Mysticism in Puritan Eucharistic Spirituality,” Studies in Spirituality
19 (Fall 2009)

“The Reception of Calvin’s Theology of the Lord’s Supper, 1800 to the Present” in Calvin’s Theology and Its Reception: Disputes, Developments, and New Possibilities, Edited by I. John Hesselink and J. Todd Billings (Louisville: Westminster/John Knox Press, 2010)

Dr. Hessel-Robinson is currently editing a collection of essays on the ecological dimensions of Christian spirituality. He is also working on book integrating liturgical theology and ecotheologies.

Steven Chase, The Tree of Life: Models of Christian Prayer;

Andrea Bieler and Luise Schottroff, The Eucharist: Bodies, Bread, Resurrection

Shusaku Endo, Silence