Rate My Professor Justus Hunter

Justus H. Hunter is Professor of Church History and Director of the Doctor of Theology Program at United Theological Seminary, where he has served since joining as Assistant Professor of Church History in 2015. He holds a Ph.D. in Religious Studies from Southern Methodist University (2015), an M.A. in Theological Studies from the University of Dayton (2011), an M.Div. from Asbury Theological Seminary (2009), and a B.A. from Asbury College (2004). Hunter teaches courses in church history and theology and serves as an internal faculty trustee on the seminary's Board of Trustees. His academic career emphasizes historical theology, with contributions to understanding doctrinal developments in the Christian tradition.

Hunter's research interests center on medieval theology, scholasticism, the doctrine of God, Christology, pneumatology, and soteriology. He is the author of If Adam Had Not Sinned: The Reason for the Incarnation from Anselm to Scotus (Catholic University of America Press, 2020), based on his doctoral dissertation, and co-author with Philip Tallon of The Absolute Basics of the Wesleyan Way (Seedbed, 2020). His peer-reviewed articles have appeared in journals including The Thomist, Nova et Vetera, The Saint Anselm Journal, Wesleyan Theological Journal, and Ecclesiology, addressing topics such as Methodist ecclesiology and the motive of the Incarnation. Hunter has also contributed chapters to T&T Clark Companion to Reformation Theology (Bloomsbury, 2012) and The Encyclopedia of Christianity in the United States (Rowman & Littlefield). In popular media, his writing features in The Living Church, Church Life Journal, Sapientia, Inside Higher Ed, Seedbed, and Good News Magazine. As co-mentor for the Doctor of Ministry focus group "Living the Historic Faith: Christian Wisdom for Today’s Church," he draws on apostolic witness, the Rule of Faith, ecumenical councils, and historic Christianity to inform contemporary doctrine, preaching, prayer, and catechesis.