John McKinley

John McKinley is most interested in the theological questions that touch on personal engagement with God. Some current research interests are the temptation of Jesus, theology of gender, and Martin Luther's theology of the cross. John McKinley has also worked in youth ministry and urban ministry, and he is currently a member of Granada Heights Friends Church in La Mirada. He regularly teaches undergraduate theology courses: Theology I (God, Jesus Christ, Humanity, Sin), Theology II (the Holy Spirit, Salvation, the Church, the Last Things), Martin Luther's theology, and the Human Body in Christian Perspective (an integration seminar considering science and theology on the topics of ethnicity, fashion, sport, food, medical technology, gender, sexuality, suffering, rest, sleep, and work).

Affiliation Faculty, Student
Position Associate Professor of Theology
Degree M.A., Talbot School of Theology
Degree M.Div., Talbot School of Theology

Author's books

Tempted for Us: Theological Models and the Practical Relevance of Christ’s Impeccability and Temptation

McKinley explores and evaluates several models that have been developed of Christ’s impeccability and temptation. His pneumatological account maintains that Jesus was truly tempted in ways that are closely relevant to the temptations common to us. Thus Jesus provides true help as the credible example to follow and truly sympathetic ally in the fight against sin.