New Creation Conversations Episode 046 - Dr. Brent Peterson on the Church, Sacraments, Grace for the Victimized, and Being Created to Worship

Welcome to episode forty-six of New Creation Conversations. In today’s conversation I am joined by my longtime friend and colleague both at NNU and at Nampa College Church, Dr. Brent Peterson. Brent is the Professor of Theology and Dean of the College of Theology and Christian Ministries at Northwest Nazarene University. He also serves as the Pastor of Liturgical and Spiritual Formation at College Church. Brent is an alum of NNU. He has a Master of Divinity Degree from Nazarene Seminary and a Ph.D. in Liturgical Studies from Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary. Brent is in his fourteenth year of teaching at NNU and his sixth year as dean.

In our conversation Brent and I talk about his book Created to Worship: God’s Invitation to Become Fully Human(published by the Foundry). We also discuss three of his forthcoming projects. One is a book he has co-authored with our colleague Dr. Diane Leclerc, entitled The Backside of the Cross. The others are two works that are part of the Wesleyan Theology Series: the first on The Church and another on The Sacraments. Brent and I have known each other since we were kids growing up in the same church in Seattle and I continue to learn so much from him about the formative nature of worship and the way our theology is not just learned in our heads but developed in us through our bodies.